Saturday, April 26, 2014
Today is the birthday of the popular American comedienne Carol Burnett (b. 1934). I was chiefly a fan of her variety show (1967-1977) during its last leg, when she was truly the reigning …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:40AM[SHARE]Filed under: EXHIBITIONS & LECTURES, LEGIT, EXPERIMENTAL & MUSICAL THEATRE Tagged: Erte, mark York, Stephan, Ziegfeld Society
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:38AM[SHARE] Today is the birthday of Dorothy Sebastian (1903-1957). Originally a Broadway chorus girl and pal of Louise Brooks, Sebastian was in the 1924 edition of George White’s Scandals…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:13AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of the great silent comedian Eric Campbell (1879-1917). This is one of those ones where I’m going, “I haven’t done a post on him yet?  How is th…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:14AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy short Below Zero (1930), directed by James Parrott with George Stevens as DP. In this comedy, the pair are a couple…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:26AM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2014
A good time was had by all at last night’s program at the Society of Illustrators entitled From the Borscht Belt to Seinfeld: The Evolution of Jewish American Comedy. It was …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:15PM[SHARE]Filed under: Music Tagged: Calamity Chang, Champagn Riot, Dandy Wellington, Gin MInsky
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:27AM[SHARE]Filed under: Dime Museum and Side Show, EXHIBITIONS & LECTURES, Human Anomalies, PLUGS Tagged: Coney Island USA, Congress of Curious People, Morbid Anatomy
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:59AM[SHARE]Â Today is the birthday of Eugene Patton (b. 1932) better known to the world at large as “Gene, Gene, the Dancing machine”. Gene was a brief phenomenon of the late 1970s onÂ…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:43AM[SHARE]Filed under: Indie Theatre, PLUGS Tagged: Wonderful Wizard of Oz Re-Imagined
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:40AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of Mae West’s 1935 comedy Goin’ to Town. Goin’ to Town was Mae's first post-code feature, and it’s kind of a…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:25AM[SHARE]Sorry for that tiny photo — writers leave behind much smaller graphic footprints than do performers. Today is the birthday of Edgar Allan Woolf (1888-1943). Woolf was one of the best k…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:06AM[SHARE]Readers of this blog (indeed, any source on 19th century entertainment) will often come upon the name of the famous venue Niblo’s Garden. Some of the folks I’ve written abo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2014
Today marks the centennial birthday of the colossal, the stupendous, the unspeakably great low-budget cinematic impresario William Castle (1914-1977). This is a man to be celebrated. I be…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:16AM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date of the still-popular Keystone comedy short Love, Loot and Crash (1915). People like to check this one out for two reasons. (A) It i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:29AM[SHARE] The only cooking show I ever cared a fig about was something I knew as The Cookin’ Cajun, a local New Orleans show (I think) that was broadcast nationally during the cable tv e…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2014
 Hervé Birthday? Happy Hervday? At any rate, as if to either reaffirm or retract our last post (I can’t decide which) we write now to celebrate the late Hervé  Villechaize …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:05AM[SHARE]I and progeny had a great time over Easter weekend, with a day trip down to Philadelphia and a pilgrimage to a place I’d long wanted to visit, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:21AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle short The Butcher Boy (1917). This unremarkable little short is nowadays somewhat unduly enshrin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:54AM[SHARE]Â Today is the birthday of Lee Tung Foo (1875-1966). Born in California, Lee was a Chinese American singer in vaudeville from the mid 1890s through around 1890. Lee was formally trained, …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Huzzah! Today is the release date of the landmark new DVD release The Mishaps of Musty Suffer. “Musty Suffer” was a screen character developed by vaudeville comedian Harry…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:18AM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date of the great Wheeler and Woolsey comedy So This is Africa (1933), directed by Eddie Cline, written by Norman Krasna. Esther Muir plays…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:31AM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date of the hilarious Laurel and Hardy comedy Me and My Pal (1933). Hardy is a rich young executive who has worked his way all the way t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:02AM[SHARE]Monday, April 21, 2014
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the hilarious W.C. Fields short The Pharmacist (1933), directed by Arthur Ripley. This short, one of a handful Fields made for Mack …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:26AM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date of the silent Laurel and Hardy short You’re Darn Tootin’ (1928), directed by Edgar Kennedy. The “tootin’&#…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:03AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Buster Keaton feature Sherlock Jr. (1924). While it didn’t do so well at the box office in its own time, Sherlock Jr. is today…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:51AM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Hal Roach feature Zenobia (1939). This is an interesting movie for all sorts of reasons. One is that it is a very late Oliver H…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:10AM[SHARE]Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Baleful Burlesque, Edward Gorey, Parkside Lounge
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 20, 2014
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of one of the funniest comedies of all time, the silent Laurel and Hardy short Big Business (1929). In Big Business  the pair are a…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:44AM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date of Harold Lloyd’s hilarious 1924 classic Girl Shy. In my opinion, Girl Shy has one of the best climaxes of…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:34AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of motion picture pioneer Sigmund Lubin (Siegmund Lubszynski, 1851-1923). originally an optometrist, he invented his own version of the movie camera/ projector apparatu…
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