Word: comedian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gets his living so-one B. Pollock of London; he is the last. Yet there still remain here and there a few people who cherish the toys. Ellen Terry, actress, possesses a little theatre and a collection of the plays from which its scenes derive; Charles Spencer Chaplin, cinema comedian, lightens with one his melancholy hours; G. K. Chesterton, paradoxhund, is said to play with one while thinking out his articles. Many are preserved in Jacobean farmhouses, in Tudor mansions, in dour Scotch castles, in London palaces...
...accounted as funny is about the most serious business in the world", said Mr. Fred Stone, famous comedian now starring in "Stepping Stones" at the Colonial Theatre at a luncheon in his honor at the Union yesterday, which 200 people attended...
Fred Stone, the well known comedian who is now acting at the Colonial Theatre in "Stepping Stones" will be the guest of the Union at a luncheon to be given in the Living Room on Thursday, November 13. Mr. Stone will speak briefly following the luncheon. Fred Stone has been connected with the stage for 40 years, appearing in various roles during that time, but made his greatest success as a comedian. In "Stepping Stones" he plays the leading masculine part, and his daughter, Miss Dorothy Stone, carries the chief feminine role...
Died. Lew Dockstader (George Alfred Clapp), 68, blackface comedian; in Manhattan, from a bone tumor on his leg resulting from a fall. On the vaudeville stage for over 50 years, Mr. Dockstader's most famed performance was an act in which he appeared, with burnt cork on his face, accoutred in every detail, even to teeth, as President Roosevelt in Rough Rider's costume. His mere entrance brought a roar of laughter...
...commit critical suicide, be it noted that they continue in I'll Say She Is. Joe Cook and James Barton, further favorites of the erudite commentators, are with us in the Vanities and The Passing Show. W. C. Fields, last year's most ribald recruit for the comedian championship, returns later in a show of his own writing, The Old Army Game. Most everyone knows that Will Rogers is in the Follies...