This is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media in February 2013. Today is the birthday of Phyllis Allen (1861-1938). A vaudeville headliner on the Keith-Orpheum circuit, she worked for [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:11AM on November 25, 2012