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Frick and Frack

Posted by Bruce Kahl 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 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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