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UPDATE: As the change is now in force for some users, I have switched the navigation to the simplified one for the new system. Please check Navigation in the Help section if you can't find things. I also initially made small adjustments to the front page layout, but have now reverted to the old look until all users are on the new system.

COUNTDOWN: Just a reminder for people still using Monaco that the final switch to the new skin is due on Nov. 3. After that, it will no longer be offered as an option. Sorry. Nothing to do with me.

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Jack Pleasants

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Born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1875, Jack Pleasants was an artist who was popular in Northern music halls in the early part of the twentieth century. Many of his recordings reveal that he was content to play the part of the 'Bashful Fool', an ingenue whose assumed lack of experience with women appeared to be merely a surface veneer. He played in the Prince's Theatre Bristol production of 'Aladdin' in the 1916 winter season (obviously too old by then to volunteer for wartime service). On another panto engagement in 1924, when he subbed for Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, it is said that Jack dropped dead on stage at only 49 years of age [1].

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