11,726 stories by "Trav S.D."
 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of my theatre company Mountebanks. Throughout the year, I’ll be unleashing several activities to celebrate the theme of theatrical …
Filed under: PLUGS, Silent Film Tagged: San Francisco, The Great Nickelodeon Show, Vogue Theatre
March 27, 7pm & March 28, 11pm HERE Arts Center, 145 Sixth Avenue Money Lab: An Economic Vaudeville  This Friday and Saturday, Trav S.D. plays P.T. Barnum in The Art of Money Getti…
2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of my theatre company Mountebanks. Throughout the year, I’ll be unleashing several activities to celebrate the theme of theatrical charl…
2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of my theatre company Mountebanks. Throughout the year, I’ll be unleashing several activities to celebrate the theme of theatrical charl…
Today is the birthday of Sam Hardy (1883-1935). Like many a Broadway show, he was born in New Haven. At the age of 21, he was cast in his first Broadway show, the melodrama The Fortunes o…
Tomorrow on Turner Classic Movies, four westerns of the 50s through the 70s, with a comedy western as appetizer (Warning: we often include spoilers!): 10:30am (EST) Carry on Cowboy (19…
Originally posted on BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD:Victoria and Albert Museum, Portrait of Ernest Thesiger by Alexander Christie ?
Today on Turner Classic Movies at 1:15pm (EST) the one and only 42nd Street (1933). A good definition of a classic film is one that you keep coming back to for inspiration and replenis…
2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of my theatre company Mountebanks. Throughout the year, I’ll be unleashing several activities to celebrate the theme of theatrical charl…
Filed under: Burlesk, PLUGS, Singers Tagged: burlesque, Metropolitan Room, Sultry Songbirds
Today is the birthday of Eleanor Luicime “Betty” Compson (1897-1974). Since she appeared in so many silent comedies, I was tempted to place her in our “Stars of Slapstick&#…
2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of my theatre company Mountebanks. Throughout the year, I’ll be unleashing several activities to celebrate the theme of theatrical charl…
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the release date of Charlie Chaplin’s comedy short In the Park (1915). This is one of Chaplin’s early films for Essanay Studios, and to…
And now…for my next trick! The last twelvemonth was such a chain of large projects (4 of them) that there has been scant time for what you might call the NYC alt-performer’s DAIL…
2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of my theatre company Mountebanks. Throughout the year, I’ll be unleashing several activities to celebrate the theme of theatrical charl…
Tonight (tomorrow, really) at 1:45am (EST) on Turner Classic Movies, for St. Patrick’s Day, Ryan’s Daughter (1970).  It will be preceded by a featurette about the film whic…
Tonight (tomorrow, really) on Turner Classic Movies at 1:00 am (EST): Billy Rose’s Jumbo Sizewise, the stage original of Billy Rose’s Jumbo was the most colossal show i…
Today marks the anniversary of the release date of the Keystone comedy His Favorite Pastime, starring Charlie Chaplin and directed by George Nichols. The title is intended to be ironic ̵…
Tonight at 7pm at New York’s Film Forum, two early silent films by  W.C. Fields. The meat of the evening is Fields’ first silent feature Sally of the Sawdust (192…
Today at 8pm (EST) on Turner Classic Movies:Â The Oklahoma Kid, directed by Lloyd Bacon. This is a western only Warner Brothers would (or could) make, starring as it does Jimmy Cagney and …
Today is the 100th anniversary of the release date of That Little Band of Gold (1915), directed by Fatty Arbuckle, and starring Arbuckle, Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling. This little movi…
Tomorrow morning at 7:15 am (EST) on Turner Classic Movies: the hilarious Joe E. Brown comedy, Fireman, Save My Child (1932). Prior to his film career, in his down time between vaudevi…
Tonight at 10pm (EST) on Turner Classic Movies, the pivotal late western, Ride the High Country (1962).  Warning: I always include spoilers! I use the word “pivotal”…
Filed under: Contemporary Variety Tagged: Coba Club, Force Majeur, Tanya Solomon, variety, vaudeville
