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The Vaudeville Years – 1911 to 1932 Revision Date: May 17, 2020 Garth Johnson Jack Benny Day By Day: The Quick Reference Calendar Volume One: The Vaudeville Years – 1911 to 1932 Salisbury and Benny From Grand Opera To Ragtime Season One (1911) In this section I try to answer some of the “origin story” questions, but unfortunately the answers remain a mystery including - Leaving Waukegan - First Show - The Kublik Conflict Salisbury and Benny From Grand Opera to Ragtime Cora Folsom Salisbury and Benny Kubelsky were working in the orchestra pit of the Barrison Theater, in Waukegan, Illinois when it was sold and closed in 1911. Barrison Theater and Carnegie Library, Waukegan Illinois [“Waukegan” (Arcadia Publishing 2000 ISBN 9780738508368) Waukegan Historical Society] The Marx Brothers had just played the town with their act “Fun In Hi-Skool” in July and their mother/manager Mini had suggested Benny go on the road with them, but his parents said he could not. At seventeen, he was too young and impressionable for the travelling lifestyle. Cora, needing work to take care of her ailing mother, and seeing the potential in the young violinist, managed to persuade Benny’s parents a few weeks later that she would look out for him, and being the same age as the Kubelsky’s they relented. So it was with tears, reservations and anticipation about the future that seventeen year old Benny Kubelsky left Waukegan and began his career in show business. The acts first stop, according to Benny, was Gary Indiana and he relates the story of leaving Waukegan for that first time in Irving Fein’s book, “Jack Benny an Intimate Biography.” That may be what Benny recalls as the first show away from home, but a bill and notice for August 19, 1911 in the Racine Daily Journal, Racine Wisconsin, advertising “Salisbury and Kribelsky” appearing at the Racine Theater is currently the earliest documented appearance of the act. From Racine, they next went to Kenosha Wisconsin to open the regular season at the Bijou, August 28. Now billed as “Salisbury and Benny” they received an extensive write-up about the act in the Kenosha News. In many accounts about his early vaudeville years, Benny tells how it was a dispute about his billing as Benny Kubelsky and its similarity to Jan Kubelik, a violinist from Czechoslovakia, fourteen years his senior and already a well known violinist and recording artist of international repute, that made him change his stage name for the first time to avoid legal difficulties. The notice in the Kenosha News gives a glimpse into what the act was playing which included Cora’s compositions of “Lemons and Limes” and “Ghost Dance” as well as “Grand Opera” and Rag-time selections. After about two months on the road, the act is beginning to get noticed and an advertisement by Cora’s music publisher, “Will Rossiter”, appears in the trade magazine “Variety.” November 4,1911 Variety Magazine, Page 28 The advertisement and a succession of good reviews in the newspapers probably got the team their November booking in Storm Lake Iowa, an anecdote about this event can be found Fein’s book and tells of a novice theater manager and a venue that is not yet complete. In 1957, in a television episode of The Jack Benny Program with Bob Hope as his guest, Benny does a sketch where he mentions playing Storm Lake. This resulted in many telegrams being sent to him at CBS by Storm Lake residents to which Benny wrote a personal response to the Mayor was printed in the Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune of March 14, 1957. 1911-01-00 - mag - variety - 021-1911-01.pdf 1911-01-02 - vau - s01 01a.jpg 1911-01-07 - cms - calendar - born - butterfly mcqueen January - nm0574335.html 1911-01-07 - mag - variety - vol xxi - no 05 - pg 20 - end of waukegan theater war.jpg Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1911-01-08 - cms - calendar - born - gypsy rose lee - nm0497346.html 1911-01-09 - vau - s01 02a.jpg 1911-01-16 - vau - s01 03a - usa - wisconsin - oshkosh - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 cora salisbury.jpg 1911-01-18 - cms - calendar - born - danny kaye - nm0001414.html 1911-01-21 - nws - oshkosh daily northwestern - pg 03 - merger of waukegan vaudeville houses.jpg 1911-01-23 - vau - s01 04a.jpg 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1911-01-27 - cms - calendar - born - benay venuta - nm0893463.html 1911-01-30 - vau - s01 05a.jpg 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1911 1911-02-00 - 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