Friday, November 15, 2024
Stage actress Bertha Galland (1876-1932) enjoyed a decade at the top during the first 10% of the 20th century, often spoken of in such terms as “the next Modjeska“. She left acting in he…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54AMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:42AMThursday, November 14, 2024
Martha Tilton (1915-2006) was a popular singer of the big band era who made her mark on record, radio, television, and film. Tilton was raised in Corpus Christi, Texas; Edna, Kansas; and fin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:12AMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:02AMWednesday, November 13, 2024
This is to be a post about the Rockefeller Family (and don’t worry, there are pop culture angles, which ought to be obvious.) It’s customary to pick up the narrative with John D. (1839-1…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:24PMThe narration from the opening credits in the first season of the sitcom The Odd Couple has provided the pretext for November 13 being an annual day to celebrate the show. The choice of date…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:24PMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:06AMTuesday, November 12, 2024
I’ve taken to embracing round anniversaries, so I considered pushing this post on Neil Young (b. 1945) off ’til next year. But who knows if any of us will be here then? And it happens to…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:54PMNovember 12 was the birthday of illustrator John R. Neill (1877-1943), primarily associated with L. Frank Baum’s Oz books. While W.W. Denslow had illustrated many of Baum’s earlier stori…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:42AMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:42AMMonday, November 11, 2024
Starting tooday (November 12, 2024), Torn Page is marking the upcoming centennial birthday of the late, great stage and screen actress Geraldine Page (1924-1987). They’ll be screening Page…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:06AMI was honored to give the opening speech on opening night of Glen Heroy’s Coney Island Clown Skool at CIUSA last night. Congratulations to him and to all concerned for getting this wonderf…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:06AMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:02AMSunday, November 10, 2024
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:02AMThe title of our post has to do less with the fact that it’s been a good quarter century since the peak of Sinbad (David Adkins, b. 1956) than that the comedian suffered a stroke in 2020 f…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:02AMWhat do you do when you’re inconveniently far from home and have a couple of hours to kill between appointments? I know I’m a dying breed, but I often deal with that predicament by ducki…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:42AMAn enthusiasm for 18th century painter, illustrator, and engraver William Hogarth (1697-1764) is one of the million ties that bind my wife and I together. Among other things, Hogarth was kno…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:42AMSaturday, November 9, 2024
How wonderful that Mabel Normand shares a birthday with Marie Dressler, Snub Pollard, and Ed Wynn! That’s an astrological club that kind of makes a little sense! Anyway, having done so man…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:24PMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:02AMIn 1924 a young man named Don Alvarado (José Ray Paige, 1904-1967) got his first minor role in the silent film Mademoiselle Midnight starring Mae Murray, married Ann Boyar, and became the …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:02AMToday is World Freedom Day, he said with a hollow laugh. As of November 5, the prospects for genuine individual liberty anywhere in the world seem very dim indeed, and likely will be until l…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:02AMFriday, November 8, 2024
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:31AMI’ve taken an unconscionably long time in generating a dedicated post on June Havoc ( Ellen Evangeline Hovick, 1912-2010). I’m sure it’s because she was mentioned in my post about her…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:31AMThursday, November 7, 2024
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54AMMan, am I grateful that today is the birthday of Alice Bag (Alicia “Alice” Armendariz, b. 1958). This is an especially good time to celebrate a radical Mexican punk woman, not that there…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54AMWednesday, November 6, 2024
Thanks, Eve Golden, for making me aware of Gordon Westcott (Myrthus Hansen Hickman, 1903-1935) about a year ago. Oh, I’d seen plenty of his movies, but I’d not noted the name. Essentiall…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:42AMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:42AMTuesday, November 5, 2024
November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:24AMThanks, Eve Golden, for passing along the intel about the passing of Jonathan Haze (Jack Schachter, 1929-2024). You may think there’s something kind of wrong about eulogizing him here toda…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:24AMMonday, November 4, 2024
How perfect that Walter Cronkite (1916-2009) shared a birthday with Will Rogers, for they were both among the most trusted, beloved and admired Americans of their day. Cronkite was the ancho…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:36PMNovember is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:48AM 
