Friday, April 25, 2014
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]ﾃつ 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 onﾃつ…
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ﾃつGoin’ to Town.ﾃつ Goin’ to Townﾃつwasﾃつ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ﾃつNiblo’s Garden.ﾃつ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ﾃつ(1914-1977). This is a man to be celebrated. I be…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:16AM[SHARE]ﾃつ Today is the anniversary of the release date of the still-popular Keystone comedy shortﾃつLove,ﾃつLoot and Crashﾃつ(1915). People like to check this one out for two reasons. (A) It i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:29AM[SHARE]ﾃつ The only cooking show I ever cared a fig about was something I knew asﾃつ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
ﾃつ Hervﾃｩ 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ﾃつHervﾃｩ ﾃつ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ﾃつThe Butcher Boyﾃつ(1917). This unremarkable little short is nowadays somewhat unduly enshrin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:54AM[SHARE]ﾃつ 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ﾃつThe Mishaps of Musty Suffer.ﾃつ “Musty Suffer” was a screen character developed by vaudeville comedian Harry…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:18AM[SHARE]ﾃつ Today is the anniversary of the release date of the great Wheeler and Woolsey comedyﾃつSo This is Africaﾃつ(1933), directed by Eddie Cline, written by Norman Krasna. Esther Muir plays…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:31AM[SHARE]ﾃつ Today is the anniversary of the release date of the hilarious Laurel and Hardy comedyﾃつMe and My Palﾃつ(1933).ﾃつ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ﾃつThe Pharmacistﾃつ(1933), directed by Arthur Ripley.ﾃつ This short, one of a handful Fields made for Mack …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:26AM[SHARE]ﾃつ Today is the anniversary of the release date of the silent Laurel and Hardy shortﾃつYou’re Darn Tootin’ﾃつ(1928), directed by Edgar Kennedy.ﾃつ The “tootin’&#…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:03AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Buster Keaton featureﾃつSherlock Jr.ﾃつ(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]ﾃつ Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Hal Roach featureﾃつZenobiaﾃつ(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
ﾃつ Today is the anniversary of the release date of one of the funniest comedies of all time, the silent Laurel and Hardy shortﾃつBig Businessﾃつ(1929). In Big Business ﾃつthe pair are a…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:44AM[SHARE] Today is the anniversary of the release date ofﾃつHarold Lloyd’sﾃつhilarious 1924 classicﾃつGirl Shy.ﾃつ In my opinion,ﾃつGirl Shyﾃつhasﾃつone of the bestﾃつclimaxes ofﾃ…
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…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:29AM[SHARE]ﾃつ Today is the birthday of Sidney Lanfield (1898-1972). Lanfield was a jazz musician and comedian in vaudeville before being hired as a gag writer for silent comedies by the Fox Film Corp…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:04AM[SHARE]ﾃつ Today marks the 100 anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin comedy Twenty Minutes of Love.ﾃつThis one is notable for being the first movie Charlie had a hand in directin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:31AM[SHARE]Friday, April 18, 2014
ﾃつ Today is the anniversary of the release date of Buster Keaton’sﾃつThe High Signﾃつ(1921). TechnicallyﾃつThe High Signﾃつwas Keaton’s first solo film, but he was dissatis…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:32AM[SHARE]ﾃつ Today is the 100th anniversary of the release date of the Keystone comedyﾃつMabel at the Wheel. There are all sorts of reasons this film is noteworthy. * This is one of the early films…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 17, 2014
ﾃつ Today is the birthday of Fay Tincher (1884-1983). One of the many high points of Steve Massa’s recent bookﾃつLame Brains and Lunatics is an entire chapter on this star, and she r…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2014
ﾃつ Today is the anniversary of the release date of Laurel and Hardy’sﾃつThe Music Boxﾃつ(1932), considered by many to be the greatest comedy of all time. Its virtues are strictly f…
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