11,503 stories by "Trav S.D."
Born 100 years ago today: singer and radio/tv personality Eileen Barton (1924-2006) Barton was a second generation vaudevillian, reported to have joined her parents act at age 2 1/2. Her par…
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 pol…
November 23 was the birthday of the great clown Harpo Marx (1888-1964). Harpo's gotten a lot of coverage here in the past, in my main post on him, on a movie he made without his brothers, on…
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 pol…
Today would have been the 100th birthday of the great stage and screen actress Geraldine Page (1924-1987). This is the second of a projected trio of pieces I'm doing the mark the occasion. T…
From late 2018 through late 2019 I had the honor of performing in Jason Trachtenburg's Lee Harvey Oswald musical Me and Lee at a bevy of off-off locations throughout NYC, including Sidewalks…
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 pol…
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 pol…
Hungry I guess for any kind of positive story to tell, local press in New York is trumpeting the news that Fifth Avenue has now reached its bicentennial as one of the city's main thoroughfar…
Broadcast legend Larry King (Lawrence Zeiger, 1933-2021) passed away so recently that this post can almost serve as an obituary. We lost him during the Covid pandemic, though at age 87, as i…
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 pol…
How so major a show biz figure as Johnny Mercer (1909-1976) has escaped our attention here on Travalanche 'til now is a head-scratcher (I think it's because he was essentially a post-vaudevi…
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 pol…
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 pol…
Never having met the man, I have never been quite certain why the very idea of Lee Strasberg (1901-1982) has always filled me with knee jerk repulsion. One learns about him chiefly by readin…
Some brief acknowledgement this morning of the career of silent and early talking film actress Edna Muphy (1899-1974). This fetching colleen started her life in New York City. Work as a mode…
The title of this post is of course a play on The Howards of Virginia (1940) See how clever? They radiate about as much Americana as the fictional Virginians in that Cary Grant movie. Though…
I count it as a measure of how quickly show business will bury you that though I was born around the time Jack Lescoulie (1912-1987) was drifting out of network television, I never heard of …
I became (mildly) interested in George Petrie (1912-1997) after rewatching The Day After during the Covid lockdown. I needed something to cheer me up! And I was curious to see how it held up…
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 pol…
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 her mi…
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 pol…
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…
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 pol…
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. (1839-1937)…
