Extras
Chapter eight fun facts
The Mills Brothers – an American jazz and pop vocal quartet who recorded “I’ll Be Around” in 1943.
White Castle – an American hamburger fast-food chain.
Jerry Lewis – an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker dubbed “The King of Comedy.”
Nancy Reagan – First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. She fought recreational drug use through her “Just Say No” campaign.
Inositol – a simple carbohydrate referred to as vitamin B8.
WD-40 – the trademark name of a lubricant and penetrating oil.
Pierre Bernard (a.k.a. the Great Oom) – a pioneering American yogi, mystic, and businessman with a reputation as a con man and philanderer.
Carl Gustav – refers to Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who founded analytical psychology.
Claire Waldorf – a famously lesbian singer who performed in Berlin during the 1920s.
Blanche Devries – the first influential female yoga teacher in America and wife of Pierre Bernard.
Hansi Sturm – a drag queen from pre-WWII Berlin’s Eldorado Club.
Baberina-Cabaret – a part of the Kakadu Bar in pre-WWII Berlin offering a nightly program featuring an eccentric dancer, a sketch artist, a comic monologist, a female dance duo, and an acrobat.
turret lathe – a form of metalworking machine used for repetitive production of duplicate parts.
USO (United Service Organizations, Inc.) – a nonprofit organization established in 1941 to bring programs, services, and live entertainment to United States troops and their families.
The Catskills – an area in the southeastern portion of New York State with resorts providing summer work for comedians and other entertainers in the mid-twentieth century.