Friday, January 13, 2017
Opening today at Cinema Village in New York, the new documentary about our pal latter day big band leader and music preservationist Vince Giordano — There’s a Future in the Past.…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:33PM[SHARE]Tonight St. Anne’s Warehouse opens its new all-female production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest by The Donmar Warehouse. Not only that, but it’s Friday the 13th. A suitable t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 12, 2017
Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: burlesque, Kita St. Cyr, Society Nocturnus, The Delancey, Welcome to Underland
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2017
We were delighted to see, amongst all the Nat Hentoff tributes in this week’s Village Voice the above photograph, which depicts the late critic and columnist in his cluttered office, w…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:04PM[SHARE]Originally posted on GRAPHOMANIA: I’m in a state of some despair over the future, as are I think many people. Part of this is religious disillusionment and part of it is just the horri…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Filed under: PLUGS, SOCIAL EVENTS Tagged: benefit, Birdland, Broadway, gala, mark York, Ziegfeld Society
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:24AM[SHARE]Monday, January 9, 2017
For obvious reasons, we have been catching up with our Carrie Fisher-watching more expeditiously than we might otherwise have done. Over the past several days we looked at Postcards from the…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:33AM[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 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 8, 2017
Tomorrow, starting early in the day, TCM will feature a day long marathon of Red Skelton movies. Now, I know Red’s not every guzzler’s glass of gin, but he’s grown on me a …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:42PM[SHARE]Tonight at Midnight (Eastern), TCM will be showing their usual Sunday Silents. Tonight’s line-up includes three early films starring Wallace Beery:  The Keystone comedy Teddy at…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:36PM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the start of the 10-day Battle of New Orleans (1815). Â Technically, the battle occurred after the Treaty of Ghent had already concluded the War of 1812, so its…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:24AM[SHARE]Boy! How’s this for symbolic timing? The great journalist Nat Hentoff has passed away at age 91. We need as many men and women like we can get at the present moment; and yet I can well…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 7, 2017
Originally posted on Mary Miley's Roaring Twenties: Vaudeville’s heyday lasted from about 1890 to about 1930. During that time, an estimated 2 million people EACH DAY attended a v…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:06PM[SHARE]A problem of ethics, and by extension, a problem of justice and of politics: what do we (society) do about the quantifiably, measurably, observably amoral? Systems are crude; we can only dev…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:24AM[SHARE]The Revelers were a popular and influential vocal group of the Jazz Age. The act consisted of a vocal quartet plus a pianist. The quartet, originally known as The Shannon Four, began p…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:18AM[SHARE]Friday, January 6, 2017
Herr George Techow of Hamburg, Germany toured the Keith Circuit and circuses such as Hagenbeck-Wallace, with a collection of trained house cats who could walk on their front feet, jump throu…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:12AM[SHARE]Gae Foster (born 1903) was from Bunker Hill, California. By age 17 she was already dancing with Fanchon and Marco in vaudeville and presentation houses. By 1925 she was assisting Fanchon in …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:12AM[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 08:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2017
I’m informed that it’s National Bird Day, which raises the interesting question, “Is it National BIRD Day? Or NATIONAL BIRD Day?” i.e., a day to celebrate all of our …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 4, 2017
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 12:36PM[SHARE]Filed under: Comedy, Contemporary Variety, German, PLUGS, Singers, Singing Comediennes Tagged: burlesque, cabaret, Jenny Lee Mitchell, Mad Jenny, Slipper Room, Weimar
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 2017
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 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, January 2, 2017
Today is the birthday of Florence Lawrence (Florence Annie Bridgwood, 1890-1938). Today she is best remembered as “The First Movie Star”, both because of her success as “Th…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:12PM[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 09:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 1, 2017
Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: burlesque, Dirty Blues Burlesque, Hangover Edition, Sid Gold's request Room
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:54AM[SHARE]Happy New Year! Below, our annual pictorial recap of the year that was, here in Travyland. And boy would I like to turn the clock back a year! January: Was thrilled to be on the very first e…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 31, 2016
During this festival of renewal, from deep within a nation a city predicated on change, a post on the virtues of preservation. I read Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy a few years b…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:48AM[SHARE]In honor of the day, some favorite movies featuring New Year’s Eve scenes. This holiday is often used to mark extreme or catastrophic change in the life of the characters or their envi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:33AM[SHARE]Friday, December 30, 2016
This Sunday at 11am, as part of their Film Forum Jr Series, New York’s Film Forum will be showing the Buster Keaton feature Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928), co-directed by Chuck Reisne…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 29, 2016
This new series of posts came out of the stunning realization that I have family in all 50 U.S. states. My ancestors lived in 14 of them, all on the eastern seaboard or adjacent, and I have …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:06PM[SHARE]See this week’s Chelsea Now for my article on Theater for the New City’s community meeting this week in response to NYC’s announced Cultural Plan. It was interesting &#…
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