Today is the birthday of Lillian Russell (full bio here). Here’s an extremely cool COLOR clip of her from 1913! She’s well past her prime but that hardly diminishes the other-worldly time travel effect. To find out more about the history of vaudeville, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:25AM on December 4, 2011