Introduction -- The fledgling years. Meet the Dukenfields -- Life with father -- The training ground. The tramp juggler -- Initiation rites -- The sly conjurer -- The big time -- "All the world's a stage". A master pantomimist -- My art never satisfies me -- To the antipodes -- The trouper on the flying trapeze -- The ham tree -- What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. -- The breakup -- The affair -- The labyrinth to the Ziegfeld Follies. The road to the Palace -- The second home -- "They had me sweating blood" -- Backstabbed -- Epilogue.
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Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
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