Career Peg Leg Bates
peg leg bates backstage after performing @ denver md marathon, december, 1954
at 20, bates dancing on broadway. in 1940s, @ paradise club in atlantic city, new jersey, bates jet plane finale, in leaped on stage, landed on wooden leg, , executed series of backward hops accompanied trumpet blasts band, saw leg puncture wooden stage floor. took half hour pull him out. after that, stage floor reinforced metal sheeting. bates performed on ed sullivan show 22 times, , had 2 command performances before king & queen of england in 1936 , again in 1938. during uso hospital tour, partnered vaudeville tap dancer dixie roberts, said danced better 1 leg else two. part of first louis armstrong tour of britain in mid 1950s.
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