Stars of Vaudeville #359: Ben Welch
Ben Welch, brother of Joe Welch, had the same kind of “Hebe” act, only with a character less distinctly morose and pessimistic. Born around 1877 in New York’s Lower East Side, the son of German immigrants he, like his brother (and so many others) got a lot of mileage out of playing comical Jews, Germans [...]