Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Joe Cook (born Lopez) was 8 he organized a circus parade of his contemporaries and in blue tights, playing a mandolin, led it down Maple Street in Evansville, Ind. riding on his stepfather's horse. Later he became assistant to the Great Doctor Dunbar, medical showman; still later he was a juggler, tumbler, musician, dancer, ventriloquist. After touring the U. S. in vaudeville acts he became a Manhattan headliner in the Vanities. In his house at Lake Hopatcong, N. J., resting on a silver standard, is a baseball which Babe Ruth has not autographed. On his private golf...
Rain or Shine (Columbia). For many years in vaudeville and musical shows Joe Cook has been putting over his personal kind of comedy. In this version of an old Broadway revue, now arranged without music to make the wisecracks come closer together, he gives his corn flakes and feed bill monolog, tells about his farm in Texas, introduces a new act about the escape of a gorilla. He is ably assisted and at times equaled by laconic Tom Howard and insanely grinning David Chasen. But the main amusement is by Cook and enough people like it to permit its classification...
...little shaver his mother died and soon afterward his father was gored to death by a steer. Orphan Will was taken over by a friend of his father, a Frenchman named Beaupré. From "Bopy" the boy learned all about how to live in the open: to hunt, trap, ride, cook. One morning, when Will was a boy in his 'teens, he woke to find the camp fire almost out, and no Bopy in sight. They were camped near a river, and in the river the boy found their battered bucket still kept afloat by the ice. That was the only...
...Coroner of Cook County...
...author of western novels; for $500,000; by Charles A. Maddux, oldtime frontiersman (no kin of President John L. Maddux of T. A. T.Maddux Air Lines). Charge: that much of Grey's The Thundering Herd (1925) was pirated from The Border and the Buffalo (1907) by John R. Cook, whose widow left rights to Maddux...