Ted Lewis was my grandmother's first cousin. My grandmother lived with his family for a few years when she was was a child. I see many similarities between Ted and my grandmother. She loved to recite poetry with the same flair that Ted has when he speaks on stage.
I want to cry when I hear that! Tears of happiness. I love your family. I grew up on Ted Lewis records it’s one of my earliest toddler memories. It helped me go through illness and survive as a teenager
A brief excerpt of a more energetic version of this act appears about ten minutes into the 1934 film Evelyn Prentice, uncredited even on IMDb, but Wikipedia attributes it to the Nicholas Brothers 😀
I have been to the Ted Lewis Museum many times during the Pumpkin Festival that is held the third Wed.- Sat.in October in Circleville, Ohio. Everyone should check Both out. Well worth your time.
Steven Meyer I went there when I was on a road trip to visit a friend down south. A smiling, unshaven college student with messed up hair at 11am on a weekday. The tour guide probably thought I was insane.
After he saw the film, Ted disparagingly came up with a subtitle for "Here Comes the Band": "There Goes Lewis" They really marginalized him in the production.
