American vaudeville’s second favorite Scotsman (after Sir Harry Lauder) was Will Fyffe (1885-1947). Fyffe was a second generation actor in stock companies who began acting with his dad at age 6. He broke into English music hall around 1916, and made numerous appearances at New York’s Palace Theatre in the late 1920s. His patented routine would be to start a [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:43AM on February 16, 2013