Friday, March 17, 2017
March 17 isn’t just St. Patrick’s Day; it also happens to be the birthday of Frank Buck (1884-1950). What an interesting American character! Born and raised in Texas, Buck sta…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Filed under: Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Bingo-a-Go-Go, Dandy Dillinger, DJ La Linda, Ethyl's
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:18PM[SHARE]This new series of posts came out of the realization that I have relatives and roots in all 50 U.S. states. My ancestors lived in 13 of them (all on the eastern seaboard or adjacent), and I …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 14, 2017
On March 14, 1913, New York’s Princess Theatre opened for business. Aside from a couple of exceptions (e.g., the Palace, Niblo’s Garden) we don’t typically write about spec…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:12AM[SHARE]Monday, March 13, 2017
We all associate Coney Island with summer (it’s a beach and amusement park after all), but it may be a lesser known fact that there’s stuff happening at Coney Island USA all thro…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:32PM[SHARE]Originally posted on Silent-ology: There is much to love about Georges Méliès. He was a technical wizard, a delightful performer, and an artist whose gorgeous work can still inspire awe. …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:18PM[SHARE]Today’s a good a day as any to tell you about Albert Carroll, an extraordinarily talented and well-known guy in his day to have become so obscure in ours. Carroll was a Broadway act…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 12, 2017
Filed under: Frenchy, PLUGS, Singers Tagged: cabaret, French, Gay Marshall, Gay's Paree, Pangea, singer
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:06PM[SHARE]Billie “Buckwheat” Thomas was born on this day in 1931. Thomas was all of three years old when he began to appear in Hal Roach’s Our Gang (Little Rascals)Â comedy shorts …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 11, 2017
Filed under: Broadway, PLUGS, Television Tagged: Alfred Molina, Broadway HD, BroadwayHD, Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey, streaming
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:32AM[SHARE]Filed under: Contemporary Variety, Magicians/ Mind Readers/ Quick Change Tagged: Cheating Death, magic, Nelson Lugo, The Tank
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:18AM[SHARE]Friday, March 10, 2017
Tomorrow, March 11, 2017 at 2:30pm, at Lincoln Center Library, the Silent Clowns Film Series will present the hilarious Raymond Griffith feature Hands Up! (1926). Griffith’s stoc…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 9, 2017
A few tidbits on Marie Wallace (1895-1961),whom I came across in Marjorie Farnsworth’s Ziegfeld Follies book. She was born in Massachusetts to parents who’d emigrated from Ire…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Today is the birthday of Louise Beavers (1902-1962). Originally from Cincinnati, Beavers moved to the Los Angeles area with her family at age 11. Her mother was a singing instructor. Through…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:18PM[SHARE]Someone to celebrate on International Women’s Day, my 6th cousin 3x removed Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847-1930)…not exactly a household name, which is the very point in tellin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:06PM[SHARE]Filed under: CULTURE & POLITICS, Protests, Women Tagged: protest, rally, Washington Square Park, Women's Strike
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Today is the anniversary of the attack by police thugs on protesters at the first march in Selma, Alabama in 1965. The town of Selma was founded by my 6th great uncle. I am related by marria…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:54PM[SHARE]The three words in the title of this post may SOUND like Speakeasy passwords, but they all came together in a semblance of sense yesterday. The fabled Algonquin Hotel acquired a couple of…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:36AM[SHARE]Monday, March 6, 2017
Today is the birthday of Guy Kibbee (1882-1956). Â Character actor Kibbee became a professional performer at age 13 in his native El Paso, wracking up nearly 35 years of stage experience o…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 5, 2017
I was so grateful Kelly “Killy” Dwyer flushed me out of my hiding place yesterday to come see the last performance of her work Not Show Business in the Frigid Festival at Under S…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:54PM[SHARE]Tonight on TCM at 10:15pm (EST): a wonderful, obscure oddity from 1973:Â The Last of Sheila. This all-star murder mystery was co-written by no less than Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:03PM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of stage and screen Sir Rex Harrison (Reginald Harrison, 1908-1990). It’s safe to say that Harrison was the first serious English actor with whom I had any …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:48PM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of the influential illustrator Howard Pyle (1853-1911). A mutual love of illustration was one of the first things that brought my wife and I together — our second…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 4, 2017
Today is the birthday of George Shelton (1884-1971), best remembered (when at all) as one of the panelists on the popular radio show It Pays to Be Ignorant. Born on New York’s Lo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:36AM[SHARE]This new series of posts came out of the realization that I have relatives and roots in all 50 U.S. states. My ancestors lived in 14 of them (all on the eastern seaboard or adjacent), and I …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:32AM[SHARE]Friday, March 3, 2017
Today is the birthday of dashing stage and screen actor Edmund Lowe (1890-1971). The son of a California judge, Lowe considered careers in the ministry and the law before his love of languag…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:18AM[SHARE]Filed under: BROOKLYN, Indie Theatre, PLUGS Tagged: Brick Theater, BROOKLYN, Greg Kotis, Lunchtime, Theater of the Apes
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:12AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of the pathbreaking Ruby Dandridge (Ruby Jean Butler, 1900-1987). Dandridge was one of the few “pushy stage mothers” of famous performing children to achiev…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:12AM[SHARE]This new series of posts came out of the realization that I have relatives and roots in all 50 U.S. states. My ancestors lived in 14 of them (all on the eastern seaboard or adjacent), and I …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 1, 2017
March is Women’s History Month. How I wish it could be an opportunity to celebrate America’s first female President this year, instead of bemoaning a President who represents the…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:03AM[SHARE]Filed under: Buster Keaton, Comedians, Comedy, Hollywood (History), Movies, PLUGS, Silent Film, Travel/ Tourism Tagged: Buster Keaton, Niles Essanay Film Museum, silent comedy
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