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Frick and Frack

Posted by Frick and Frack on June 06, 2000

In Reply to: Origin of Kangaroo Court and Frick and Frack posted by Andrea Field on June 06, 2000

Frick and Frack were a famous duo of Swiss comedy ice skaters, whose stage names these were. They came to public fame in the later years of a series of skating spectaculars called Ice Follies, promoted by Eddie Shipstad and his brother Roy, which began in 1936 and ran for almost 50 years.

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