Joe Cook

b. Joseph Lopez, 29 March 1890, Evansville, Indiana, USA, d. 16 Might 1959, Clinton Hollow, NY, USA. Orphaned simply because a small kid Lopez had taken his adoptive parents’ name. He became a favorite vaudeville and circus action, singing, dance, playing several musical instruments and juggling, and was also an achieved acrobat. On Broadway, in 1923 and once again the following season he made an appearance in Earl Carroll Vanities. He continuing his vaudeville profession but was afterwards in Rainfall Or Stand out (1928), which acquired book by Adam Gleason and Maurice Marks, music by Milton Ager and Owen Murphy, lyrics by Jack port Yellen. Staged on the George M. Cohan Theater, the present went for 356 shows. In the function of Smiley Johnson, Make had an attribute with ‘Therefore Would I’. He reprised the function within the 1930 film edition of the display. He had taken the starring function of Joe Squibb in Great And Dandy (1930), performing ‘Giddyup Back again’ as well as the present’s title tune, constructed by Kay Swift and Paul Adam and performed being a duet with Alice Boulden who was simply Make’s second wife. Make produced an uncredited contribution towards the book, that was usually by David Ogden Stewart. The display went at Erlanger’s Theater for 255 shows. Make created and starred in Keep Your Horses (1933), with music and lyrics by Robert Russell Bennett, Robert A. Simon, Louis Alter, Arthur Swanstrom, Ben Oakland and Owen Murphy, and reserve by Russell Crouse and Corey Ford. The display ran for just 88 shows at the wintertime Garden Theater. Furthermore to his part as Broadway Joe, Make also regaled the target audience with a lot of his vaudeville routines. Billed mainly because Joe Make Jnr., he was in Broadway Sho-Window (1936), which shut after 12 times, despite being created and staged from the generally sure hands of Gus Edwards, who also published the music with lyrics by Eugene Conrad. Make is at the play, Off To Buffalo (1939), which shut after just seven performances. Within the 40s, Make appeared inside it Happens On Snow (1940), offered by Sonart Productions, Inc., an organization co-owned by Sonja Henie, that went at the guts Theater for 276 shows. Music because of this present was by Vernon Duke, Fred E. Ahlert and Peter De Rose, lyrics by Al Stillman. Make’s few film performances included Provide ’Im Surroundings, as himself, The Light Hope and Az Mahoney (all 1936), playing the name function in the last mentioned.