Today is the birthday of Joe Penner (more on Mr. Penner here). Here’s Joe in the 1939 racetrack comedy The Day the Bookies Wept: To find out more about the history of vaudeville, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever nutty books are [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:04AM on November 11, 2011