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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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

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“A Master Pantomimist”tlantic vessel. Traveling at an average speed of 23.06 knots (26.4 mph), she had crossed the ocean in five days. The ship’s record-breaking velocity caused Bill and Hattie to have a very uncomfortable crossing. Its high-powered twin-screw turbine engines produced such noisy vibrations in the passeng

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“My Art Never Satisfies Me”turned home. His perceptive eye observed that Fields had changed his appearance by toning down his grotesque makeup. He “was not like most of the tramp jugglers who took Harrigan for their model. His dress was neater and cleaner without being less funny? With the depression of the 1890s over, the tr

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“My Art Never Satisfies Me”turned home. His perceptive eye observed that Fields had changed his appearance by toning down his grotesque makeup. He “was not like most of the tramp jugglers who took Harrigan for their model. His dress was neater and cleaner without being less funny? With the depression of the 1890s over, the tr

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To the Antipodes to face an ocean voyage to Australia, which could last up to three weeks. Plus she was also exhausted from the fast-paced itinerary during the last two years. Her husband implored her to go, realizing that her charm and role as a foil was vital to his act. “There was still time to return to the hot

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The Trouper on the Flying Trapezend of the year, Bill wanted Hattie to remain with him. “Why not stay in London and have the baby, or in Germany?” he asked. But Hattie wanted the baby to be born on American soil for purposes of citizenship and better care. “No, I would rather go home to mother,” she said. Her mother, who lived in N

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The Ham Treeeran song-and-dance blackface team developed comic routines in which they performed caricatures that degraded African Americans through exaggerated dialect and stereotyped portrayals. Heath played the straight man, foil, and fool to McIntyre, the smart-alecky trickster who ridiculed and lampooned hi