Today is the birthday of George Mann (1905-1977) of the vaudeville comedic dance team of Barto and Mann. He and Dewy Barto (b. Stewart Swoyer, 1896-1973) were each performing seperate solo dance acts with Fanchon and Marco shows when they were cast to play Mutt and Jeff in a specialty dance number in 1926 (Barto was 4’11″; Mann [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:49AM on December 2, 2012