11,727 stories by "Trav S.D."
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Roscoe Arbuckle comedy Fatty’s Plucky Pup (1915). This was one in a series of comedies in which Arbuckle co-starre…
Very excited! Bound By Flesh, Leslie Zemeckis’s new doc about the conjoined Hilton Sisters opens in New York (IFC Center) and in LA today! It’s also available on demand, so…
Filed under: BROOKLYN, Circus, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Big Sky Works, Summer Circus Cabaret
Filed under: Contemporary Variety, Dixieland & Early Jazz, Music, PLUGS Tagged: Clipper City, Hot Jazz, Hot Mess, Jessy Carolina, Tall Ship
Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Champagne Riot, Dandy Wellington, Gelber and Manning, Julie Atlas Muz, Tango House
Filed under: BROOKLYN, Burlesk, Coney Island, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Burlesque at the Beach, Burlesque-a-Pades, Coney Island USA, Pontani Sisters
Today is the birthday of silent comedy hotsy totsy Alberta Vaughn (1904-1992). A native of Kentucky, she broke into film in 1921 in a Hal Roach short called Stop Kidding, then worked f…
Filed under: Contemporary Variety, Music, PLUGS, Singers, Singing Comediennes Tagged: 42 West, Molly Pope
Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: burlesque, Calamity Chang, Gin MInsky, Soiree
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin masterpiece The Gold Rush (1925). I first saw this film in a school assembly at around the time of its 50th anniversary.Â…
 Today is the birthday of Jeanne Eagels (Eugenia, Eagles, 1890-1929). Eagels legend today rests on her performance in the stage version of W. Somerset Maugham’s Rain (1922-26…
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Arbuckle, Keaton and St. John comedy The Rough House (1917). Arbuckle plays a gentleman named "Rough", who operates a rooming house wi…
Today is the anniversary of the Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle comedy The Waiters’ Ball (1916). This Keystone comedy is kind of a dry run for Arbuckle’s later movie…
Filed under: Contemporary Variety, Illusionists, PLUGS, Vaudeville etc. Tagged: magic, mind reading, Mystique Boutique, Red Room
By now you’ve gotten the word that Eli Wallach (1915-2014) has passed away. He was 98. This would make him about 17 when the Palace presented its last two-a-day. I am often given to sa…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the classic Laurel and Hardy comedy County Hospital (1932), directed by James Parrott. I think of this movie as the archetypical “…
Today is the birthday of actor/singer/performer Peter Lind Hayes (1915-1998). Hayes started out performing in the vaudeville act of his mother Grace Hayes (including the Palace in an …
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the perfect Douglas Fairbanks comedy Wild and Woolly (1917). This is one of Fairbanks’ Anita Loos-John Emerson vehicles. Doug…
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Mack Sennett film A Dash Through the Clouds (1912). Several different features make this short interesting (if not funny precis…
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of one of the all-time classic Laurel and Hardy shorts, Going Bye-Bye (1934). This is the one where Laurel and Hardy antagonize a mons…
Of all the great monsters of the imagination (demons, werewolves, vampires, etc) in the cinema witches have traditionally gotten the short end of the broomstick. They ought to be uncanny and…
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the early  Harry Langdon short comedy His New Mamma (1924), directed by Roy Del Ruth. This film is one of the handful Langdo…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the 1915 Charlie Chaplin comedy Work. This is an interesting example of Charlie the low comedian: in his early years there were many times…
Filed under: HOLIDAYS, FESTIVALS, MEMORIALS & PARADES, PLUGS Tagged: Coney Island, Mermaid Parade
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harold Lloyd comedy Professor Beware (1938). Much like the Marx Brothers, Harold Lloyd had several “last films”. Hi…
