Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would please keep his mouth shut about it." It would be more to the point if Author Grouse (It Seems Like Yesterday, Mr. Currier & Mr. Ives) and Funnyman Ford should defy their audiences to detect the slightest bit of sanity in the antics of their comedian-Joseph Lytell ("Joe") Cook. Mr. Cook is Broadway Joe, beloved hansom cab driver and a horse's best friend, a devotion which ultimately elects him Mayor of New York. His first appearance is made in front of Rector's. The painted backdrop does not look much like the facade of Rector...
Just before Mr. Cook has to escape his political enemies by a wild ride atop two white horses galloping thunderously on a treadmill, the perennial Cook machine is somehow interpolated into the mad proceedings. This year the machine is billed as "The Fuller Construction Company's Recording Orchestra." Wearing the bemedaled and lengthy bandmaster's coat which was seen in Fine & Dandy, Comedian Cook picks up his fiddle & bow. The bow has an inflated bladder tied to one end. Mr. Cook plays a few bars, then slaps an attendant across the back of the neck with the bladder...
...Cook is not insane. People who have known him for years will tell you so. He was born Lopez, orphaned young, raised by relatives in Evansville, Ind. He still talks a lot about Evansville. In his current offering he fondly remembers an uncle who did not pour his maple syrup on pancakes, but cut the cakes up, poured them on the maple syrup. He has trouped with medicine shows, carnivals, burlesque shows and in vaudeville. He considers his first professional engagement the act which he did with his late brother Leo in 1907. He was 17. The act was called...
...Absolutely levelheaded; a great businessman," is what his friends call him. His estate at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. is named "Sleepless Hollow." His motorboat, which is very fast and makes terrifying turns when the owner is at the wheel, is called "The Four Hawaiians," but Mr. Cook has not mentioned the celebrated and inimitable Hawaiians on the stage since the Massie Case (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931 et seq.}. Majordomo at Lake Hopatcong is Ellis Rowlands, a Welsh ex-actor still shaken by his experience in the Black Watch during the War. It is Rowlands, wearing footman's livery...
...felt successful enough to seek his fortune in the wilds of Manhattan's Greenwich Village. He became Max Eastman's assistant editor on the Masses, was a member of the committee that started the bohemian revels in Webster Hall, wrote plays for his friend George Cram ("Jig") Cook's Provincetown Players. In 1917, with the rest of the Masses board, he was tried for conspiracy; the jury disagreed. Next year, having changed his mind about Germany, Dell allowed himself to be drafted and sent to camp at Spartanburg, but since he was still under indictment under...