Ernest/Clarence was a few months shy of his sixteenth birthday, when he took the vaudeville plunge. Joined by pal Moses Horwitz, the future Moe Howard, he talked their way into male supporting roles in a water act called “Annette Kellerman’s Diving Girls.”The two friends soon found themselves out of work after one of the featured females broke her neck in a poorly timed dive. The N...
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