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the Traveler of April 7, 19 10 said, "Fields is back in town. The man with the funny legs and the accurate eye is doing his stunts amid uproarious delight at Keith's this week. What, child, you never heard of Fields? Can it be possible? Don't you recall the last time you saw him enter with that dilapidated overcoat and lay it carefully on the lounge, placing a few moth balls in the folds to keep it from harm, and proceed to do a hundred funny things with those three rubber balls?" Variety of that year had him listed once as "The International Eccentric Tramp Juggler, obtainable through the Buckner International Agency, Long Acre Building, New York." The next year, Variety had him billed, at his own request, as, simply, "The Originator." Throughout his career, Fields was never hampered by false modesty. He took another trip abroad, and Vanity Fair, on March 23, 1912, noted, "On the mammoth steamer Olympic, due this month, is W. G. Fields, the tramp juggler. Fields is returning to America after successful foreign engagements to fulfill contracts for his appearances over the Orpheum Circuit." It was soon apparent that his exposures to foreign culture had not slowed him up. The San Francisco Chronicle, on August 10, 19 12, said, "It isn't often one has a chance to enthuse, let alone rave, over a juggling act, but everybody's doing it. Yesterday afternoon's audience cheered W. G. Fields until the noise of their enthusiasm reached O'Farrell Street and caromed off the fence opposite." And in 19 14, in Chicago, the Herald observed that Fields had added, "of all things, shillelaghs," to his equipment. Rather than slowing him up, his foreign visits were having a profitable broadening effect. Among the brilliant qualities that Fields brought to his profession was a faultless memory. A long time before, in the shabby dressing room of an impecunious road company, he had confided his dream of success to a companionable, undernourished player. And to himself he had sworn a mighty, theatrical oath, a defiance,
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