Word: musicomedian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leap to Broadway as the straw man in The Wizard of Oz (1903). Through such great hits as Victor Herbert's The Red Mill and Jerome Kern's Stepping Stones (in which his daughter Dorothy made her debut), Fred Stone became the nation's top musicomedian, later switched to straight plays and the cinema...
...scooted back to Kansas City for an open-air performance of the musicomedy Call Me Madam, in which Musicomedian Truman was to surprise everybody by taking the stage to play himself in the last act. Good trouper though he is, he never made it. During the first act, grimacing in pain from what he thought was acute indigestion, he left the theater. Twenty-seven hours later, his longtime personal physician, Dr. Wallace Graham, relieved Harry Truman of a red-hot appendix and a gangrenous gall bladder. Practically bouncing off the operating table, Truman, in "excellent" condition, was a good...
...Some things in France are not yet up to the old standards," Musicomedian Maurice Chevalier told the American Club of Paris, "but French love...