In the 1980s I kept hearing a lot about a highly-regarded physical comedy act by the clown Flip, a member of the New England troupe, Loco-Motion Vaudeville. Loco-Motion had impressed everyone mightily at the annual convention of the International Jugglers Association (IJA), winning Bronze in 1979. They later moved their operation to Key West, and Flip ended up resettling in Australia, and I never saw the act.

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