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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-He is mentioned as one of the famous British variety artists who performed as part of the opening programme for the new [[Empire Palace of Varieties]] in Johannesburg (formally opened on 1 December 1894). (Others included [[Marie Lloyd]] and [[Kate Harvey]].) He probably toured other major centres as well in this year.
+He is mentioned as one of the famous British variety artists who performed as part of the opening programme for the new [[Empire Palace of Varieties]] in Johannesburg (formally opened on 1 December 1894). (Others included [[Marie Lloyd]] and [[Kate Harvey]].) He probably toured more widely, performing at other major centres as well in this year.
 In 1903 Fields once more toured the [[vaudeville]] circuits in South Africa and Australia and, according to [[D.C. Boonzaier]] (1923), while in Cape Town he was also one of the solo participants in the ''[[Bloemfontein Flood Benefit]]'' (a matinee benefit performance for the sufferers in the disastrous flood in Bloemfontein), put on in the Cape Town [[Opera House]] on 28 January, 1904, by a company brought together for the purpose by [[Grant Fallowes]].

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	[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman\|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)		[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman\|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-Fields toured the [[vaudeville]] circuit in South Africa and Australia in 1903 and, according to [[D.C. Boonzaier]] (1923), while in Cape Town he was also one of the solo participants in the ''[[Bloemfontein Flood Benefit]]'' (a matinee benefit performance for the sufferers in the disastrous flood in Bloemfontein), put on in the Cape Town [[Opera House]] on 28 January, 1904, by a company brought together for the purpose by [[Grant Fallowes]].
+He is mentioned as one of the famous British variety artists who performed as part of the opening programme for the new [[Empire Palace of Varieties]] in Johannesburg (formally opened on 1 December 1894). (Others included [[Marie Lloyd]] and [[Kate Harvey]].) He probably toured other major centres as well in this year.
 Boonzaier is cited in [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p, 418) as referring to the performer in the latter event as "[[N.C. Fields]]", a performer he typifies as "the famous American grotesque juggler". This clearly seems to have been a misremembered recollection by the South African critic (or a typographical error on the part of Bosman's publishers).

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 Born William Claude Dukenfield in Darby, Pennsylvania, on 29 January, 1880. He had no formal schooling, but learnt to read and write, becoming a voracious reader.
-He taught himself juggling and began his career in show business in [[vaudeville]], calling himself as "The Eccentric Juggler" and achieving international success. He toured widely in North America and Europe over the years, often billed as  "the world's greatest juggler", and even toured Australia and South Africa in 1903. He continued touring in vaudeville until 1915, gradually incorporating comedy into his act, and in 1915 he began to appear on Broadway as well, ''inter alia'' as the featured comedian in the Ziegfeld Follies. He eventually had a starring role in the Broadway musical comedy ''Poppy'' (1923), and this set of his mercurial career as a prolific and highly regarded radio, TV and film comedian.
+He taught himself juggling and began his career in show business in [[vaudeville]], calling himself as "The Eccentric Juggler" and achieving international success. He toured widely in North America and Europe over the years, often billed as  "the world's greatest juggler", visiting Australia and South Africa on occasion as well. He continued touring in vaudeville until 1915, gradually incorporating comedy into his act, and in 1915 he began to appear on Broadway as well, ''inter alia'' as the featured comedian in the Ziegfeld Follies. He eventually had a starring role in the Broadway musical comedy ''Poppy'' (1923), and this set of his mercurial career as a prolific and highly regarded radio, TV and film comedian.
 Fields died on 25 December, 1946, in Pasadena, California.

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 Fields toured the [[vaudeville]] circuit in South Africa and Australia in 1903 and, according to [[D.C. Boonzaier]] (1923), while in Cape Town he was also one of the solo participants in the ''[[Bloemfontein Flood Benefit]]'' (a matinee benefit performance for the sufferers in the disastrous flood in Bloemfontein), put on in the Cape Town [[Opera House]] on 28 January, 1904, by a company brought together for the purpose by [[Grant Fallowes]].
-Boonzaier is cited in [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p, 418) as referring to the performer in the latter event as "[[N.C. Fields]]", a performer he typifies as "the famous American grotesque juggler". This clearly seems to have been a misremembered recollection by the South African critic (or a typographical error).
+Boonzaier is cited in [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p, 418) as referring to the performer in the latter event as "[[N.C. Fields]]", a performer he typifies as "the famous American grotesque juggler". This clearly seems to have been a misremembered recollection by the South African critic (or a typographical error on the part of Bosman's publishers).
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 == Biography ==
-Born William Claude Dukenfield in Darby, Pennsylvania, on 29 January, 1880,
+Born William Claude Dukenfield in Darby, Pennsylvania, on 29 January, 1880. He had no formal schooling, but learnt to read and write, becoming a voracious reader.
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==