Who can forget Christmas, 1927? That was the year
Bettelhiem's Acrobatic Babies -- probably the most notorious little people act
in American vaudeville -- shot up the boarding house in Paducah. "I never
had trouble from Show People," said the landlady, Mrs. Emma Thrush,
"exception being Ernie Bettelhiem and his damned tumblers." She went
on to tell the local paper, "He wasn't good to 'em, that's true, so when
they got into my peach brandy, why, next thing you know, the boy's got my late
husband's deer riffle, and all Hell broke loose." The act broke up shortly thereafter.
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