Word: jugglers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Family Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., Mutual). Anatole France's Our Lady's Juggler, with John Charles Thomas...
...people of Paris," wrote François Rabelais in the 16th Century, "are so foolish by nature that a juggler, a pardon-peddler, a mule with bells . . . will gather a bigger crowd than a good evangelic preacher ever could." Four centuries later, between 1920 and 1935, Parisian jugglers and pardon-peddlers were gathering one of the biggest, strangest crowds in French history-a throng of U.S. expatriates, fleeing the New World of Harding, Coolidge, and their own disconsolate selves. Says Samuel Putnam, who went to Paris in 1926 to translate the works of Rabelais, and stayed seven years, writing sometimes...
...Cohen's Amateur Night circuit-50? a night. One night a noisy M.C. heckled him: "Where did you learn to juggle?" Allen tried his first onstage ad lib: "I took a correspondence course in baggage-smashing." Soon he got a chance to fill in for a professional juggler-at $2 a night. He took his first stage name: "Paul' Huckle-European Entertainer...
...wasn't long before Fred started thinking: "What the hell's a juggler? A pair of hands. And you never get anywhere working with your hands." Since people insisted on laughing at him, why not be a comic and get somewhere-maybe even as high as the Keith circuit? Fred changed his billing to "Freddie James -The World's Worst Juggler," and headed for New York. The next year was a time of flea bags, dime dinners and very little work. After that, he traveled-and gained comic breadth. On a tour of Australia he developed...
...Shuberts brought Allen to Broadway in The Passing Show of 1922. From then until 1928, Fred was never out of a Broadway show. But for all those years, convinced that the little juggler from Boston would never last in the big time, he never even unpacked his trunk. In 1928, feeling more secure, he married Portland, a chorine in George White's Scandals. In the next three years he had his biggest Broadway hits, The Little Show and Three's a Crowd. But in 1932, he found himself without a booking. Why not fool around with that...