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...Lahr & Mercedes." In the years after World War I-in which he served as a Navy enlisted man-all this paid off. He invented a noisy, red-nosed cop ("Go ahead and call the captain-he's drunker than I am") and hit big-time vaudeville in one jump. His first wife, a beautiful ex-burlesque soubrette named Mercedes Delpino, was his straight woman. LAHR AND MERCEDES, read big newspaper ads, A RIOT OF MIRTH AND IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY. He bought a Packard car and tailored suits, and dreamed of Broadway. "Bert," said the Broadway wise guys...
...seized, in plain view of all, with electric charges of wild vigor, wild friendliness and wild anxiety. He emitted a hoarse, gobbling cry. The audience, instantly enslaved, gave one seal-like bark of obedient laughter and then bathed him in 20 seconds of delighted applause. Oldtime Funnyman Bert Lahr (Hot-Cha!, George...
Quick Change Artist. The baseball bit is just the warmup for Lahr's night's work. In Two on the Aisle he has the support of a new Broadway sensation: a glittering, full-blown beauty named Dolores Gray, whose presence, style and big, happy voice make the revue's less-than-distinctive music sound far better than it is. Paris-born Ballerina Colette Marchand reveals one of the Continent's sexiest pairs of legs, sheathed in provocative black silk stockings. But it is bald, big-nosed, wild-eyed Bert Lahr who carries the show, provides...
Columbia comedians were forbidden, on pain of $10 fines, to use profanity. Lahr was also instructed in other taboos: it was considered offensive to refer either to rats or false teeth. The shows were, in effect, well-staged revues, and were often reviewed by critics. In this heady atmosphere Lahr felt a new need. Funnymen, like birds of passage, are best identified by their distinctive cries. He developed one which sounded as though he were being strangled to death: "Gung-gung-gung-gung-gung." And though he remained a loud, low comedian, he labored for the sympathy of the audience...
...fight racket which Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney had so magically inspired. They had some nice tunes by De Sylva, Brown and Henderson: You're the Cream in My Coffee, Don't Hold Everything. They had Betty Compton. They had Victor Moore. They had a part for Lahr - a punch-drunk fighter named Gink Schiner. What...