Titlebook: W. C. Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway; Becoming a Comedian Arthur Frank Wertheim Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division

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Introductionging an exhibition on its fourth floor gallery titled: “The Amazing Peregrinations and Pettifoggery of One William Claude Dukenfield, late of Philadelphia, Pa., familiarly known to Crowned Heads and Hoi Polloi alike as W. C. Fields.”

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Meet the Dukenfieldsin the borough of Darby. Located on the northeast corner of Main and Mill Streets in the town’s center, the Arlington House was an unpretentious inn, where Kate and her husband, Jim, worked. A hearty British immigrant nearly forty years of age, Jim tended bar for the inn’s guests, numerous horse tra

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The Tramp Jugglere Byrne Brothers. The show dazzled the audience with its acrobatic stunts, knockabout comedy, pantomime, and breathtaking stunts, including the explosion of a horse carriage. The spectacle caused the reviewer for the . to laud the performance: “The comedy, harmony and pantomimic and spectacular effe

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The Sly Conjurerast half of the nineteenth century, museums attracted millions of patrons daily in cities across the country, especially the working class because of its inexpensive admission. Besides displaying curios, stuffed animals, waxworks, menageries, and dioramas (illuminated panoramas), they had raised woo

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The Sly Conjurerast half of the nineteenth century, museums attracted millions of patrons daily in cities across the country, especially the working class because of its inexpensive admission. Besides displaying curios, stuffed animals, waxworks, menageries, and dioramas (illuminated panoramas), they had raised woo

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The Big Timerpheum was the most dominant big-time chain west of Chicago with five theaters stretching from Kansas City to the Pacific Coast. Its circuit assured performers multiple weeks on the road at its theaters and via an alliance with the Western Circuit of Vaudeville Theatres (WCVT), which operated venues