Show I f MIXED MD WIT ITALIANS I Ben Welch Tells TeUs Ho HoW y He Ho Prepared His Vaudeville Sketch From the standpoint of the impersonator imper imper- one typo is very Cry much like liko another another an an- other but lUt I believe c I am nun tho the anI only Hebrew Hebrew He lie- brew comedian successfully impersonating impersonate ing an nn Italian sas sa's says Ben Welch Velch whoso whose monologue ue in the character of the east cast side Jew is one of the features ft the bill at the theater this thus week After having regaled his au audience with I various Hebraic twists twits of the En English lish language and a choice recital of a oer o'er true tales talC's in th the Hebrew dialect Mr I Welch concludes es his number by a quick change into the character of an Italian Ital I ian inn street peddler probably n as surprising surprise surprising jn ing a 1 change as ts lg those who know thC their r vaudeville ever cr saw in a vau vaudeville eville 4 turn turn The Tho idea was my mr own it took mc me five thc to master it I said sail Mr W Welch Even en at the bc beginning of my study half of the thc come comedians ians were presenting Hebrew character studies more or less faithful to the original and Ind I thought that the wise man would look ook for or something oT new I was stan stand standing standing ing on a side street just off ofT Broadway ono one ulay when a fruit cart with an w Italian Ital inn ian inn in it came alon along and along and and I ba had the i idea ca I I stopped decorating Broadway with my two forty new styles of fan fancy C clothes and moved to Mulberry street find and went to work Mulberry street is iS a nice place on a 11 hot bot summer afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon for one who bo doesn't docan t mind the tho weather or his surroundings but I stuck by bJ it and every cry summer for the tho four following years found me m mixing xin with tho the agos until I had their dialect where I couldn't couldn t for forget et it Then I tried it on tho the public an and they thou thought ht so sowell sowell well of it I have been doin doing it ever I since 7 7 |