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Now that we've strayed down quite another avenue I'll put in my final two-penn'orth on the subject of the bard of Avon.
Those of you who may have seen the 1942 Hollywood film Playmates will know it's one of the last pictures made by John Barrymore. He died shortly thereafter from the effects of a barrage of ailments caused by his long standing addiction to beverages containing considerable amounts of alcohol. By this time his once phenomenal memory could no longer be relied upon. He had to read his lines from blackboards held up for him out of camera range---except for this one sequence. He's supposed to be teaching the American band leader, Kay Kyser---who had a southern drawl you could hack with a cleaver---to recite Shakespeare. To demonstrate he sits down and recites part of the soliloquy from Hamlet which begins, "To be or not to be . . . " As he recites, great tears well up in his eyes and roll down his cheeks. The scene concludes with a cut in which he jumps up from the chair and does a bit of spiel with Kyser. What actually happened was that when he came to the end of the recitation the film crew gave him a standing ovation.
It's a bit of cinematic magic.
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded by a sleep."
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Norette - you led us away from the point and I trust you feel suitably ashamed. To take us back to Big Hearted Arthur Askey is really quite the achievement. I thought I could lead a thread astray, but must yield to you: where next? Nat Jackley? Wheeler and Woolsey? Wilson, Kepell, and Betty? Lesley Sarony? Shean and Gallagher?
Ah, the variety acts of yesteryear! How they speak to us, even today! By the way, most of these are available on You Tube, to which I commend your attention - and seek to lead you, all unbidden, to Gus Ellen - (it's a great big shame, and if she belonged to me, I'd soon show 'er 'oos 'oo): dig in, gal - there's more there than you could imagine.
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Well, without wishing to prolong the little diversion we've taken, which means of course that I will, Nat Jackley was an eccentric dancer, as were Wilson Kepple and Betty; Wheeler and Woolsey were a US vaudeville act that made a few forgotten films; Shean and Gallagher were big names in their day - Al Shean (Schoenberg) being uncle to the Marx Brothers; Leslie Sarony (maybe Lesley, I forget) was a music hall star who lived long enough to play roles in television and a Monty Python film - the song "Wheezy Anna" will come tripping daintily back to your memory, I'm sure - and Gus Elen was the great "costermonger comedian", who recreated part of his act on film quite a while after his retirement - one of his many self-penned songs was "wiv a ladder and some glasses/you could see to 'Ackney Marshes/if it wasn't for the 'ouses in between".
Youtube is the place to go for many of these people, and I trust I have opened a window of remembrance, inspiration, and solid entertainment to all at PoL; please show your appreciation in the usual way, plus a slice of cake.
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by Robert Jones, Napa
