Word: vaudevillian
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...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). June Havoc, who ought to know, plays an ex-vaudevillian married to the owner of a mountain beanery, whose daughter is afraid to tell her that she has secretly married and wants out of show business...
...runs Singapore's Coconut Grove, an obscure and homey bar (no unescorted women allowed) next door to a Buddhist nunnery on Singapore's Cuppage Road. A guitar keeps the air moving. The drinks are on the level, and the talk is good, since Iowa-born, ex-Vaudevillian Bailey does most...
Died. Joe Cook, 69, zany vaudevillian who juggled six Indian clubs, devised complicated Seltzer-squirting, walnut-cracking machines, brought the house down by telling why he would not imitate four Ha| waiian ukulele players; in Clinton...
...Three Stooges were originally that-stooges to Vaudevillian Ted Healey, who formed the act in 1922. But by the time they began making movies in 1933, the wags were tailing the top dog. As a triple, the Stooges clowned their way through a seemingly endless series of quickie flickies-most of them on a par with the early Punchdrunk, which told of a waiter, a prizefighter at heart, who wrecked the joint every time he heard Pop Goes the Weasel...
...trio consisted of mug-faced Moe Howard, his egg-bald brother Curly, and tuber-nosed Larry Fine. When Curly fell ill in 1946, he was replaced by brother Shemp, who, after his death in 1955, was in turn replaced by Old Vaudevillian Joe DeRita. Today the trio's comedy is still at eye level-Moe poking his fingers straight at the cornea. But the kids' enthusiasm has opened up the clubs to the Stooges, and the kids to the clubs. Most of the spots played by the Stooges have afternoon shows for children; one club offered...