Word: gagman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Eddie Davis, 53, New York cab driver turned hack writer (his own joke), gagman for Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante. Bob Hope, co-author of brassy Broadway musicals (Ankles Aweigh, Follow the Girls); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Davis' career got up on two wheels when Eddie Cantor happened into his crouched-and-waiting cab in 1928. Davis worked some ten years for him, cracked: "Every year he raised my pay but no matter how much money he gave me I still wouldn't marry one of his daughters." Davis provided Jimmy Durante with...
...Comic Bob Hope, onstage at the St. Louis Municipal Opera in the Broadway role he created 25 years ago, seemed the same slat-nosed, perpetual lad with the innocent leer. Playing Huckleberry Haines, the matchmaking student bandleader of Alpha Beta Pi, in the Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach musical Roberta, Gagman Hope (aided by his writers) stuck to the creaky plot, but inserted his old vaudeville number Invitation to the Dance, convulsed the audience with typical, topical Hopela: "The President is getting off better drives -he has Sherman Adams' picture on the ball." For its 40th season, the famed...