Word: jessel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choir boy in a Manhattan Episcopal Church, quit when punished for puncturing the organ bellows with an alto's hatpin. He learned to tap dance. His mother persuaded her friend Ned Wayburn to get him a job in a Gus Edwards act (where famed Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Georgie. Price. Walter Winchell received their histrionic training). When Groucho was 14, he went to Denver to be boy soprano in a trio. Soon after he arrived his voice changed. He got a job driving a grocery wagon in Cripple Creek, Colo., saved enough for a ticket home...
Aboard on her maiden voyage last week was the Champlain's "Godmother," Mme Louis Germain-Martin, wife of the Finance Minister of France, also Norma Talmadge. her friend George Jessel and Tenor Charles Hackett. To meet the Champlain at Manhattan went Mayor of Quebec Lieut.-Colonel H. G. Lavigueur and a troupe of Canadian moppets, all claiming descent from 17th Century Samuel de Champlain, founder of Quebec and first governor of New France (now Canada...
...Jarrett, Britton, So. Dakota; E. A. Walker, Philadelphia, Penna.; Searle Scholarships: A. C. Keiser, Jr., Atlanta, Ga.; Pao Ho Wang, Peiping China; Storrow Scholarships: W. H. Lehmberg, Philadelphia, Pa.; Reuben Reiter, Boston, Mass.; S. W. Roland, Rockford, Illinois; J. R. Weske, Quincy, Mass.; J. J.-A. Jessel, Methuen, Mass.; T. A. Wheeler, West Somerville, Mass...
...Abrahamson, Brockton; W. E. Billings, Grand Rapids, Mich.; J. J--A. Jessel, Methuen; F. M. Mann, Lincoln; A. E. Ushakoff, New York City...
...Eagle." Meanwhile the Eagle's brood increased. Suckled in the stage wings, they have all become capable actors. Son Charles ran away from home and joined an English circus, a Russian ballet. He has played roles in Russian, Polish, French, German, English, Yiddish. Son Adolph managed George Jessel's Jazz Singer. Son Irving has appeared in minor Broadway parts, Son Jack in The Front Page. The youngest son, Luther, played this season in Street Scene and Red Rust. The only married daughter, Frances, was graduated from the American Academy of Arts, has toured with Resurrection and Eyes...