NameMax b’ Adolph Gaudsmith (Goudsmit, Goutsmit)
BirthDec 1887, D, Halberstadt
DeathUSA, ?
OccupationClown, Dresseur
Notes for Max b’ Adolph Gaudsmith (Goudsmit, Goutsmit)
also spelled “Gaudschmidt” and many other variations
1890 Amsterdam (BR): Jacob van Campenstraat 114, stated as “Max Goutsmit, b’, dec 1887 Halberstat”; coming from Bonn Germany.
IMDB: “The Gaudsmith Brothers were vaudevillians Max and Henry Gaudsmith, who did a poodle act”
Performances a.o:
1908 Cleveland, Hippodrome
1918-19 NewYork, Hippodrome Theatre Revue, Broadway
1929 New York Paramount Theatre, "Showland"
1930 Bristol, England, Hippodrome
1938 Nottingham, England, Empire Theatre
1938 London, England, Paladium
1948 etc Canada, National Exhibition
1948 Film "The Pirate" (Vicente Minelli, Gene Kelly) - scene cut out
1954-55 TV "Ed Sullivan Show"
1961 TV "Perry Como Show"