
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, July 19, 1990                   TAG: 9007190246
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: TORONTO                                LENGTH: Short

ONE OF COMIC PAIR, JOHNNY WAYNE, DIES IN CANADA AT 72 BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Johnny Wayne, one of the kings of comedy of Canadian radio and television as half of the Wayne and Shuster team, died Wednesday of cancer. He was 72.

Wayne and Frank Shuster had a long career as Canada's best-known cut-ups, starting with a Boy Scout fund-raising show they did on radio in 1930 and a touring army act during World War II on TV and in London and New York.

In 1950, Wayne and Shuster began appearing as guests on various American TV programs, including 67 performances on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Although their wide-ranging skits - an amiable mixture of slapstick, pantomime, sheer corn and sometimes ingenious twists on classic situations - did not always win critical acclaim, they remained popular.

They started their regular CBC-TV program in 1954. In 1985, Wayne and Shuster Comedy Specials began playing on television in 22 countries.

A CBC spokesman said the funeral was scheduled for Friday in Toronto.

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