PS: Frick and Frack
Posted by ESC on June 06, 2000
In Reply to: Frick and Frack posted by Bruce Kahl 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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And from my newly acquired Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions by Elizabeth Webber and Mike Feinsilber (Merriam-Webster, Springfield, Mo., 1999): Their real names were Werner Groebli (Frick) and Hans Mauch (Frack).