I'm not too old to remember Tommy Cooper, he had a hoarse voice, sounded a bit like Jimmy Durante.
Freemasons don't wear a fez, nor any other kind of headgear.
I cannot speak for US Lodges, you've evolved into something completely different anyway. Too much isolationism from the Old World and all that.
The photo shows a "Balilla", a young Italian Boy Scout from the Mussolini years. You can tell because the fez is black and sports a miniature roman fasces as a badge.
He appears to be riding a "mechanical horse" of sorts, odd contraption powered by a motorcycle engine which was expected to trot or gallop as you twisted the throttle.
Then again, why a Boy Scout and not a Cavalry Officer ? Expendable ?
PS Serowbot, where did you find the picture ?
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