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...injuste ("Let me hear that high note, maestro ! . . . What a note ! . . . A promissory note, if I ever heard one!'") And Jimmy is a past master of timing-that comedian's sine qua non. In the grand old days of the comedy team of (Lou) Clayton, (Eddie) Jackson and Durante, which broke up in 1931, Jimmy led them in a repertory of nightclub shenanigans (elaborately punctuated by a disreputable-looking jazz band) which spiraled into the highest humorous mathematics...
...could make "a million.'" On his own hook, Nolan rented a 20-by-70 ft. loft above a used-car salesroom on 58th Street, just east of Broadway. There the Club Durant was opened on the cold night of Jan. 22, 1923. Jackson was present. Clayton, a magnificent soft-shoe dancer, who had split with his partner (Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards), popped in later. He took a look around the Club Durant and bought a piece of it. Says Jimmy: "If I didn't open dat club, and become a boss, I wouldn't a stood...
...Clayton and Jackson joined in the fun, and the great team was in the making. One of their first and most obvious triple plays was the establishment of Durante's nose as a stage prop. Clayton, who always stood to his left, and Jackson, who strutted on the right, would grab at the nose or whack at it with their hats, as if it were something untamed and menacing. An early dialogue about the phenomenon...
Over in South Africa John Barkham and his daughter Jennifer Lynne paid their annual Christmas call at the farm of Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts. And out in the Pacific William Chickering reached Hawaii from Guadalcanal in time to have Christmas dinner with Bernard Clayton and go to a hula-hula lawn party...
Senator O'Mahoney asked the Senate Judiciary Committee a long list of pertinent questions about the Bailey-Van Nuys bill to exempt insurance from the Sherman and Clayton Acts. Instead of popping the bill through quickly and quietly, as had been expected-and as the House Committee had already done with an identical bill-the Senators hastily slapped it back on a subcommittee desk, and now called for a full-dress investigation. O'Mahoney's fight was bolstered by sensational feature stories in the Chicago Sun and New York City's leftish PM telling in great...