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...told me I ought to be on the stage. The bastards. I believed them." At 17, he broke into Sam 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...
...Benny, never too glib with an ad lib, has seldom had the last word. Fred is the deadliest remarksman in show business. Once Jack twitted Fred about some fictitious "signs they hold up on your program telling people when to laugh. We don't have them on our show." Fred retorted: "You must remember, Jack, we're dealing with a class of people who can read...
...conscious U.S. broadcasts was amazing-and somehow delightful. From the relaxed, indifferent air of audience and performers, it seemed as if a broadcast warm-up was in progress. But the Music Hall was on the air-an hour and a half of singing, acting and comedy, almost completely ad lib...
Groucho is first-rate. From his opening lines as a stowaway in a barrel in the hold of the ship, to his concluding monologue announcing a fight from the ceiling of a barn, he works furiously every minute. Most of his action is ad-lib, and his Perelmanesque lines are sharp. Commenting on a remark by someone, he says: "Gee, I wish I'd said that. Everyone's repeating it around the club these days...
...following fall, Al Jolson, between recorded songs in Warner's The Jazz Singer, did some ad-lib talking: "You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks. Listen to this." Audiences were enchanted. After Warner's 1928 Lights of New York, the first all-talking feature, more than a thousand movie theaters throughout the U.S. hastily wired for sound. So did every major Hollywood studio...