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Ernie Lotinga: Jested as "Josser" by Trav S.D.

T.S. Eliot was such a fan of British music hall comedian Ernest "Ernie" Lotinga (1875-1951) that he once wrote to Virginia Woolf, calling him " "the greatest living British histrionic artist, in the purest tradition of British obscenity." Born to well-off Jewish parents in Sunderland, England, Lotinga began his career in the 1880s and 1890s under […]

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:18AM on December 7, 2020

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