11,841 stories by "Trav S.D."
Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, Music, PLUGS, Singers Tagged: Apotheke, Broadway Brassy, Maine Attraction
Becca Bernard, clown musician extraordinaire, whom four or five of you may remember from Dead End Dummy last fall, wants you to know about her Singing Telegram service, in anticipation…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the silent Stan Laurel solo comedy short Hustling for Health (1919). Laurel (playing a very clownish character) is about to go on vacati…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Wheeler and Woolsey movie Hips, Hips, Hooray (1934). In this musical comedy (co-written by Kalmar and Ruby) the boys become salesmen…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harry Langdon short Boobs in the Wood (1925), written by Arthur Ripley and directed by Harry Edwards. The setting is the Great N…
Today marks the centennial anniversary of the release date of Charlie Chaplin’s first film for Essanay Studios, His New Job. Having started out in films at Mack Sennett’s K…
Today is the anniversary of the 1922 murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor (see last year’s blog post on this subject here). The last thing the world needed was another…
 Today is the 100th anniversary of the release date of the Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle comedy Fatty’s New Role. This is an interesting film for seeming so much like a …
Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: burlesque, Francine the Lucid Dream, Joe's Pub, Pink Room Burlesque, Twin Peaks Pageant
Well, this weekend is Super Bowl Sunday, an annual event I typically don’t acknowledge in any way, even by NOT acknowledging it. But it did seem like the perfect time to launch a small…
Filed under: Contemporary Variety, Indie Theatre, Magicians/ Mind Readers/ Quick Change, PLUGS Tagged: Gathering the Magic, Nelson Lugo, solo show, Tank Theater
Filed under: BROOKLYN, Burlesk, Coney Island, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: 11th Anniversary, Badass Burlesque, Coney Island USA, Velocity Chyaldd
As we’ve already noted, today is the birthday of W.C. Fields! For my full biographical article on Fields go here, and for my entire W.C. Fields section on Travalanche (35 posts to date…
Today is the birthday of W.C. Fields! For my full biographical article on Fields go here, and for my entire W.C. Fields section on Travalanche (35 posts to date) go here. Fields conquere…
Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Excelsior Burlesque, Ruby Solitaire
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle comedy Brewster’s Millions (1921). Most contemporary people know only the 1985 remake star…
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Keystone comedy Mabel, Fatty and the Law, a.k.a Fatty’s Spooing Days, starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle.Ã…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the silent Laurel and Hardy short Liberty (1929), directed by Leo McCarey. This is one of the team’s most finely crafted films. The b…
Today marks the anniversary pf the release date of the Mack Swain comedy A Movie Star (1916). Swain (often billed as “Ambrose”) was a very funny, capable comedian, but this…
By now the world has heard the news, but I was at the theatre last night and at rehearsal this morning so this is the first moment I’ve had to blog about the fact that the great Joe Fr…
Tonight at 8pm Turner Classic Movies will be showing the Burt Lancaster vanity project Trapeze (1956). Why do I call it a vanity project? Well, it was produced by Lancaster’s produc…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Eddie Cantor comedy Strike Me Pink (1936), directed by Norman Taurog. The early 30s magic is waning by the time Cantor made this pictu…
Tomorrow morning at 6am (EST) Turner Classic Movies will be showing the 1940 “Eastern Western” chestnut Northwest Passage, directed by King Vidor. Based on (part of) a popula…
 Today is the anniversary of the release date of the the hilarious Laurel and Hardy comedy short Helpmates (1932), directed by Paul Parrott. The plot of this one is deceptively sim…
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the release date of the Keystone comedy Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition, starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, and Mabel Normand.Ã…
