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April 7[edit]

William Refrigerator Perry[edit]

Please Add The AP News Story Of April 7th 2011 About The 10 Year Old Boy Cliff Forest. Who Took 8500.00 Out Of His Savings Account To Buy Perrys Super Bowl Ring And Gave It Back To Perry —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.243.1.129 (talk) 15:57, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You can do it too, you know. No one here is any more special than you regarding the right to make articles better. --Jayron32 16:09, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Please learn to use capitals properly before you do that, though. Not every word needs one. Britmax (talk) 16:30, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
What air head of a mother allows her son to use money earmarked for his college education to do such a thing?! Clarityfiend (talk) 19:53, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jerry Lewis[edit]

Is Jerry Lewis fluent in French?

Thanks, Wanderer57 (talk) 19:02, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not according to this BBC article, which says he doesn't speak French. (It's one of the referenced articles in our Jerry Lewis article.) Comet Tuttle (talk) 19:05, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. I continue to be amazed by the huge range of questions the Reference Desk is able to answer. Wanderer57 (talk) 20:11, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

burlesque theaters[edit]

--Sterlingboy (talk) 19:41, 7 April 2011 (UTC)I am told that the last active burlesque theater in America was the Folly Theater in Kansas City. It was a burlesque house from 1940 to 1974. Is this true?[reply]

As our burlesque article discusses (in the "American Burlesque" section), there has been a nostalgic minor revival of the form since the 1990s. Our Neo-Burlesque article is about recent burlesque theater. Comet Tuttle (talk) 21:36, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I have been to the Folly Theater and it is a remarkable little building with a very unique interior. While it is very much in operation today, it is a regular concert hall now. Kansan (talk) 02:33, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]