Monroe Silver: Most Popular of the "Cohens"
December 21 was the birthday of comic monologist, actor, and singer Monroe Silver (1875-1947). Silver made his fame primarily as a Jewish dialect comedian on record albums, adapting Joe Hayman’s 1913 “Cohen on the Telephone” routine with such great success that others, in turn, copied him. Silver’s version of “Cohen on the Telephone” came out […]