A comic actor who had for decades earned his living by being funny and who had always filled every hall in which he appeared to the very last seat suddenly became the long-expected sensation for a group of Bavarian excursionists who had come across him on the rocky ledge above the so-called Salzburg horse-pond. The actor stated, in front of the group of excursionists, that just as he was, in his lederhosen and with his Tyrolean hat on his head, he would throw himself off the ledge, at which the group of excursionists had as usual burst into loud laughter. But the actor is reported to have said that he was in earnest and to have immediately thrown himself off.