Word: joes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bogus lectures on anatomy are given by horn-spectacled Dr. Rockwell, who also plays a flageolet. The rest of the comedy has been long hallowed in burlesque halls-the mad bellows and sobs of Harry Welsh as a shouting waiter; the kicks which short, tough Joe Phillips aptly places on female targets...
Featured were oldtime Hippodrome names and numbers, including: Comedian De Wolf Hopper (appearing as wizard, interlocutor, Mephistopheles, Chinese Mage); Tramp-Comedian Joe Jackson and his disintegrating bicycle; ballets (Tiller, Rasch, Lenora) ; clowns, skaters, dogs, an elephant. Many of the tunes were written by Bandman Sousa, including the blaring, brassy march " 'Tis the Eagle...
Heavyweight champion of England and Mary's onetime sweetheart, Sailor Joe Mummery conceived a fondness for her boy, Otho, when Mary's husband died. He sent him "up to Oxford" to learn boxing and other sciences. There Otho, weak-kneed through love of his own sweetheart, one Margaret, failed to conquer Margaret's brother at fisticuffs, thus losing Joe's esteem and help...
...Joe back, Otho turns professional, fights for charity. Thereby he loses Margaret. She marries another. Sad, Otho forsakes England, Margaret and boxing, seeks forgetfulness with Joe in the Foreign Legion...
Died. Robert Henri, 64, of Manhattan, artist (La Neige, Spanish Gypsy, Willie Gee, Dutch Joe), teacher of Artists George Bellows and Rockwell Kent; in Manhattan...