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W.C. Fields (1880-1946)[1] was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer.
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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.
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 critic.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentine_dance
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 Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 418.
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