Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...place of his own he 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...
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...
...Jackson: "By the end of the year it will grow into a banana...
This inspired Jimmy to develop a highly philosophical scene which began with Jackson casually remarking that Jimmy was a blockhead. Jimmy at once protested, "You paid me a compliment when you said my head was made of wood," and launched into a lecture on the virtues of timber. As this reached religious heat, the other members of the team, thoroughly sold on wood, joined Durante in a search for samples. They proceeded to a methodical separation of the nightclub, snatched violins from the orchestra, went backstage and to the kitchen for mixing bowls and stepladders. Gradually they covered the dance...