Today is the birthday of Charles F. “Zit” Zittel (1877- 1943) Long forgotten today, during the vaudeville era, Zit was thought of as one of the principal competitors of Variety. Around 1907 Zit launched a vaudeville column in the New York Evening Telegram called “Hitting Headliners on the Head”, which later went over to the Evening Mail and then the New […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:37AM on January 29, 2016