Stars of Vaudeville #758: Gus Elen
Today is the birthday of Gus Elen (Ernest Augustus Elen, 1862-1940), one of the first of the so-called “coster comedians” of the English music hall. A cockney lad himself he had performed all sorts of manual labor in his youth, packed eggs, worked as a barman and a draper, while also singing in the streets […]