Reyes (who was to play a major role in the Big Show tours) Gordon promoted a 'Shakespeare in the Round' project, and then worked for a time with Royal American Shows, a large Tampa-based travelling carnival. However, other sources claim that Gordon was in fact born in 1917 in Coral Gables, Florida.Д«y the time Gordon graduated from college, he had already begun his involvement in show business, presenting a jazz concert in an ice rink in Muskegon, Michigan. There are also notable periods for which there is little or no information about his whereabouts and activities, such as his mysterious trip to America in 1957вЂ“58, including his alleged 'nervous breakdown' and extended hospitalisation in Hawaii, his movements and activities after final departure from Australia in 1962, and his death in London in 1963.ДЄccording to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Gordon was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1923, and educated at Highland Park High School, Highland Park, Michigan and at the University of Miami, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1944. Although both men wrote memoirs of their collaboration with Gordon, their accounts suggest that Gordon himself was the likely source of many of these contradictory tales, and that he may well have concocted these stories to cover his real activities - although of course his motive for doing so can never be known. The passing of time makes it increasingly difficult to verify or refute the various versions of his life and career, since many of his former close associates like his Australian colleagues Max Moore and Alan Heffernan are now deceased. Many parts of Gordon's life story remain sketchy or obscure, and there is much contradictory information about him. 2.12.2 Departure from Australia and death.2.10 Coccinelle at 'Lee's of Woollarah' nightclub.2.8 'Disappearance', 'breakdown' and return, 1958-59.2.1.2 Ella Fitzgerald/Buddy Rich/Artie Shaw tour, July 1954.

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