Word: comedian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Winifred Emery, 62, actress-wife of Cyril Maude, smart British comedian; at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, after a long illness. Sir William S. Gilbert, collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in light opera, sacrificed his life in 1911, when 75 years old, in rescuing her from drowning in a lake on his estate at Harrow. Mr. Maude's most recent U.S. engagement was in Aren...
Colorful ranch scene, with Lupino Lane, English comedian, blown through the stage floor and doing some eccentric comedy with Tom ]Lewis, in shooting raiment from off a girl...
Married. John D. Dool (Johnny Dooley, famed comedian in Keep Kool), 37, to Maria I. Fruscella (Constance Madison, once of the Follies chorus), 25; at Newark. Comedian Frank Tinney was best man. Married twice before, Mr. Dooley has been paying his first wife alimony for 13 years...
...Harry Lauder, famed Scotch comedian: "Despatches stated that I aspire to become Member of the British Parliament. Said I: 'I have several times been asked to become a candidate, but while I have a strong desire to enter Parliament, I have not had the freedom necessary to devote to the duties. But when I have completed my farewell tour next Autumn I shall, in all probability, stand for election ... if the opportunity presents itself...
...commonplace Ford truck, and not, like Scaramouche, in a gaily painted wagon. So much, in these experiments, depends on the method of approach, that the loss in travelling time would be more than offset by the resultant gain in advertising, which could be achieved by having the comedian, in blackface, clashing cymbals from the roof of a purple-and-yellow moving van; as the caravan wound at an impressive pace through the countryside. Still, one can't have everything. For the present, Maine and New Hampshire will have to be content with the Ford truck and the famous Dramatic Club...