Word: trahan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British) drew royal smiles. Blackfaces Alexander & Mose (British) caused Lady May Cambridge to titter. Xylophonist Teddie Brown (U. S.) realized his ambition of some years to play at a "command performance" and thus swell his British gate. But with a gobbet of chewing gum, Broadway's robustious Al Trahan stopped the show, rocked the Palladium with mighty mirth and convulsed the Royal Party...
...Trahan's act (he was lately in The Second Little Show) consists in messing with a huge wad of chewing gum while he plays the piano and is mauled by Miss Eukona Cameron when she is not singing. Last week Miss Cameron did not tear off quite so many of Mr. Trahan's outer clothes as usual. But the chewing gum oozed and blobbered from Mr. Trahan's lips, was stuck under the piano, retrieved, chewed, stuck again, smeared on the piano keys, frantically stretched in all directions, finally gathered together for the supreme effort of mirth...
...King-Emperor said afterward: "That man, Al Trahan, the American comedian, made me laugh very much...
...same ilk as Garrick Gaieties, its chorus girls are sprightly if individualistic, the young men of the ensemble appear at home in tailcoats. Principals and choristers trip through some graceful routines. In the matter of humor, however, The Second Little Show is regrettably wanting. Chief funnyman is Al Trahan, longtime vaudevillian, whose comic antics on the piano, accompanied by a buxom blonde with whom he wrestles from time to time, are stretched out overlong...