Blythe Quake
LaVern La Rue and the Holiday Revue
Flickr Advent group: www.flickr.com/groups/2770282@N23/pool/
During the Jazz Age:
LaVern: "Some of the shows I did back in the '20s could get a bit silly. This is a picture of an act where I was supposed to be able to look into the Christmas ornament and tell the future and contact people 'on the other side.' I had to take questions from the audience--except the audience wasn't supposed to know that people were hired to be the ones whose questions I answered."
"After a few shows, we scrapped it. I was no fortune-teller or a Houdini and one time, I just broke out laughing at the question a man asked about his 'dead' wife--who, in fact, was a dancer in the show. If you're telepathic, you probably don't start laughing uncontrollably at what you're sensing. Anyway, I said either we make that segment a comedy skit or we drop it. So that was the end of that!"
LaVern La Rue and the Holiday Revue
Flickr Advent group: www.flickr.com/groups/2770282@N23/pool/
During the Jazz Age:
LaVern: "Some of the shows I did back in the '20s could get a bit silly. This is a picture of an act where I was supposed to be able to look into the Christmas ornament and tell the future and contact people 'on the other side.' I had to take questions from the audience--except the audience wasn't supposed to know that people were hired to be the ones whose questions I answered."
"After a few shows, we scrapped it. I was no fortune-teller or a Houdini and one time, I just broke out laughing at the question a man asked about his 'dead' wife--who, in fact, was a dancer in the show. If you're telepathic, you probably don't start laughing uncontrollably at what you're sensing. Anyway, I said either we make that segment a comedy skit or we drop it. So that was the end of that!"