You MUST See "Bound By Flesh" by Trav S.d.

Everyone within the sound of my voice: you MUST see Leslie Zemeckis’s wonderful, definitive new film about the Hilton Sisters. As the Mad Marchioness said last night, Zemeckis is reall…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:54am on July 2, 2014☆⚑

The Canadians of Vaudeville by Trav S.d.

Got the idea for this post just under the wire: Today is Canada Day! So here’s a little shout out for all the vaudevillians and other performers from Canada we have written about on Tr…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:31pm on July 1, 2014☆⚑

Midnight on TCM: A Woman of Paris by Trav S.d.

Tonight at midnight on TCM, Charlie Chaplin’s 1923 melodrama masterpiece A Woman of Paris. (He wanted us to call him “Charles” at this stage. You’ll never find a g…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:21pm on June 29, 2014☆⚑

Raymond Griffith and Betty Compson in "Paths to Paradise" by Trav S.d.

  Today is the anniversary of the release of the Paramount Raymond Griffith-Betty Compson comedy Paths to Paradise (1925) In this sparkling feature, Griffith and Compson play a pair of…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:15am on June 29, 2014☆⚑

Laurel and Hardy in "Men O' War" by Trav S.d.

Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy comedy Men O’War (1929). In this, one of their first sound shorts, the boy are a couple of sailors on shore l…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:27am on June 29, 2014☆⚑

Roscoe Arbuckle in "Fatty's Plucky Pup" 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…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 9:03am on June 28, 2014☆⚑

New Hilton Sisters Documentary Opens Tonight! by Trav S.d.

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…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 1:48pm on June 27, 2014☆⚑

Summer Circus Cabaret Tonight! by Trav S.d.

Filed under: BROOKLYN, Circus, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Big Sky Works, Summer Circus Cabaret

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 1:30pm on June 27, 2014☆⚑

Hot Jazz on a Tall Ship: Tomorrow by Trav S.d.

Filed under: Contemporary Variety, Dixieland & Early Jazz, Music, PLUGS Tagged: Clipper City, Hot Jazz, Hot Mess, Jessy Carolina, Tall Ship

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 1:13pm on June 27, 2014☆⚑

Champagne Riot Tonight by Trav S.d.

Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Champagne Riot, Dandy Wellington, Gelber and Manning, Julie Atlas Muz, Tango House

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:23pm on June 27, 2014☆⚑

Burlesque-a-Pades at Coney Island Tonight! by Trav S.d.

Filed under: BROOKLYN, Burlesk, Coney Island, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Burlesque at the Beach, Burlesque-a-Pades, Coney Island USA, Pontani Sisters

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:55am on June 27, 2014☆⚑

Stars of Slapstick #188: Alberta Vaughn by Trav S.d.

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…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 8:55am on June 27, 2014☆⚑

Molly Pope Tonight at 42 West by Trav S.d.

Filed under: Contemporary Variety, Music, PLUGS, Singers, Singing Comediennes Tagged: 42 West, Molly Pope

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:50am on June 26, 2014☆⚑

Soiree Noir Tonight by Trav S.d.

Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: burlesque, Calamity Chang, Gin MInsky, Soiree

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:40am on June 26, 2014☆⚑

Charlie Chaplin in "The Gold Rush" by Trav S.d.

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…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 9:55am on June 26, 2014☆⚑

Hall of Hams #77: Jeanne Eagels by Trav S.d.

  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…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 8:19am on June 26, 2014☆⚑

Arbuckle, Keaton and St. John in "The Rough House" by Trav S.d.

 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…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:23am on June 25, 2014☆⚑

Arbuckle and St. John in "The Waiters' Ball" by Trav S.d.

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…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:03am on June 25, 2014☆⚑

Mystique Boutique at the Red Room by Trav S.d.

Filed under: Contemporary Variety, Illusionists, PLUGS, Vaudeville etc. Tagged: magic, mind reading, Mystique Boutique, Red Room

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 8:48am on June 25, 2014☆⚑

R.I.P. Eli Wallach by Trav S.d.

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…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 7:54am on June 25, 2014☆⚑

Laurel and Hardy in "County Hospital" by Trav S.d.

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 “…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 6:49am on June 25, 2014☆⚑

Stars of Vaudeville #871: Peter Lind Hayes by Trav S.d.

  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 …

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 6:34am on June 25, 2014☆⚑

Douglas Fairbanks in "Wild and Woolly" by Trav S.d.

  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…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 8:41am on June 24, 2014☆⚑

A Dash Through the Clouds: An Early Aviation Comedy by Trav S.d.

  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…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 8:18am on June 24, 2014☆⚑

Laurel and Hardy in "Going Bye-Bye" by Trav S.d.

  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…

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 5:18am on June 23, 2014☆⚑