Ben Dova: The Vaudevillian Who Survived The Hindenburg
March 14 was the birthday of Joseph Anthony Spah (1905-86), professionally known as "Ben Dova". Spah was 17 when he immigrated to the U.S. from his native Alsace-Lorraine in 1922. A circus performer since childhood, he became a comic acrobat on the American vaudeville circuits. In his act he played a drunken swell who would […]