Word: waukegan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born in Waukegan, Ill., Jack Benny spent his afternoons working in his father's haberdashery, his evenings learning to play the violin. He followed the well-scuffed path from amateur night to orchestra to vaudeville, with a patter & fiddle act. Dramatic Mirror of Nov. 12, 1921, said of him: "We would like more violin and less chatter." Benny ignored the warning, increased the chatter until he was playing comic roles in Shubert and Carroll shows on Broadway. One night Columnist Louis Sobol let him tell a few gags on his radio hour. Benny was a hit. His voice, grating...
...Lyon, a Waukegan, Ill. realtor, said he had used his spare time to band some 58,000 birds, had found that no species ever migrates due north or due south. Most fly from northeast to south-west and vice versa, rarely return by the route they go. Why, Realtor Lyon...
...even more bitter if the protector is a beauteous society woman who was once a famed public character. Irene Castle McLaughlin, whose zeal for animal welfare is now almost as famed as were her dancing and style-setting in pre-War days, found that out again in Waukegan, Ill. last week...
...Morton Grove farmer named William Schroeder was maltreating his hogs. On behalf of the Illinois Humane Society she inspected his farm several times, finally had him arrested. A police court fined him $10. He appealed, won a reversal in Cook County's Criminal Court. Last week in Waukegan he was suing Mrs. McLaughlin for $10,000 for false arrest, malicious prosecution...