Today is the birthday of Broadway star William Gaxton (full bio here). See him in action in this 1945 clip with Beatrice Kay: 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 sold.
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:18AM on December 2, 2011