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Fields’s insecurity ceased when his mentor, Bill Dailey, came to the rescue. Dailey contacted Tony Baker who managed the Casino Pavilion’s open-air theater at Plymouth Park, one of Philadelphia’s newest and most popular getaways. He convinced Baker to book Fields for a one-week engagement starting August 1.
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Notes
Robert Lewis Taylor, W. C. Fields, His Follies and Fortunes (New York: Doubleday, 1949), 37.
Irwin R. Glazer, “The Atlantic City Story,” Marquee, vol. 12, no. 142, 4–5.
Lorette, “W. C. Fields Gets Help from His Friends”; Bernard Sobel, Burleycue: An Underground History of Burlesque Days (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1931), 118.
Charles E. Funnell, By the Beautiful Sea, The Rise and High Times of That Great American Resort, Atlantic City (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), 83.
Irving Zeidman, The American Burlesque Show (New York: Hawthorne Books, 1967), 11; derived from Variety, December 11, 1909.
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Wertheim, A.F. (2014). Initiation Rites. In: W. C. Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137300676_5
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