[Caralsky’s Excerpts]

Three retired comedians from the "Golden Age" of "Show Business" in the US, recount to a young man - the successes, pitfalls, and lessons they achieved, endured, and learned during their respective professional heydays.

0:22Copy video clip URL The footage begins. 

0:26Copy video clip URL A “Black and White” photo of two sharply-dressed American celebrities circa the nineteen-forties or nineteen-fifties is shown.

0:37Copy video clip URL An old man is at a classic American restaurant, energetically telling a story. 

0:47Copy video clip URL Two more old men are shown at the able – most likely they’re all longtime friends. 

0:56Copy video clip URL Another one of the old men joins in the conversation – and it seems that they’re telling a story to a much younger man that’s seated with them. 

1:01Copy video clip URL One of the old men mentions the famous Hollywood actress, Greta Garbo. 

1:24Copy video clip URL One of the old men tells the young man about the the good aspects of aging. 

1:54Copy video clip URL One of the old men mentions the famous “Palace Theater”. 

2:00Copy video clip URL A “Black and White”, autographed photograph of a sharply-dressed and posing Willi Shore, is shown. 

3:21Copy video clip URL One of old men heckles a younger man in the background to accept his (the older man’s) autograph. 

4:06Copy video clip URL The young man at the table talks about the art of duo comedy – the “straight man” and the “funny man/comic”. 

4:19Copy video clip URL One of the old men discusses what it means to play the “straight man” in “show business” – drawing on his past professional experiences. 

6:36Copy video clip URL One of the old men talks about how they used to “finish” their standup comedy act. 

7:15Copy video clip URL The footage transitions to a deli and restaurant, with what sounds like instrumental, Central or Eastern European folk music playing. 

7:33Copy video clip URL The footage transitions back to the three old men and one young man at their table. 

9:16Copy video clip URL One of the old men talks about the night that he “quit show business” at the “Horizon Room” in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

9:46Copy video clip URL The old man states that he “quit show business” on a certain February Seventh, and that that day, the “worst blizzard they had in the history of the City of Pittsburgh” occurred. 

11:03Copy video clip URL The old man talks about how the act before him, were a duo comedy act called the “Chin Sisters”, performing a stereotypical Chinese dance act, with an equally stereotypical musical number. 

12:07Copy video clip URL One of the other old men talks about how when he felt “show business”, he opened up a female shoe store – before getting into the television commercial business. 

12:24Copy video clip URL One of the old men says that he misses the “nightclub and burlesque days”, “more than you’ll ver know”, when the young man at the table inquires. 

12:57Copy video clip URL The old men all begin to talk about the “great houses to play in Chicago” back in the day. 

14:54Copy video clip URL One of the old men talks about when he and James “Jimmy” Cagney, in their youth, worked as “Soda Jerks” at a “Soda Fountain” in Grand Central Station. 

16:08Copy video clip URL An antique partially color and partially “Black and White” advertisement for a comedy act by “Rudy Horn”, is shown. 

19:20Copy video clip URL One of the old men performs a magic trick at the table. 

25:52Copy video clip URL One of the old men explains why some people “make it big, and others don’t” in “show business”. 

27:18Copy video clip URL The footage ends.

 

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