12,228 stories from Trav S.D.
January, 1922 marked the release of Buster Keaton’s silent comedy short The Paleface.  In this western parody Buster plays an innocent butterfly collector who accidentally…
New Year’s Eve — what a wonderful time of year! When we have all a rare chance to start out all over again with a clean slate…and then generally use the opportunity to comm…
Filed under: HOLIDAYS/ FESTIVALS/ MEMORIALS/ PARADES, PLUGS, SOCIAL EVENTS Tagged: Anna Copacabanna, New Year's Eve, Passenger Bar
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy silent comedy short The Battle of the Century (1927). In addition to being very funny in its own right, this film i…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the great Laurel and Hardy short Towed in a Hole (1932), directed by George Marshall. It starts out with the boys selling fish from …
Filed under: HOLIDAYS/ FESTIVALS/ MEMORIALS/ PARADES, Hollywood (History), PLUGS, SOCIAL EVENTS Tagged: Dances of Vice, Hollywood, New Year's Eve
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Douglas Fairbanks picture  A Modern Musketeer (1917), written and directed by Allan Dwan, based on "D’Artagnan of Kansas", …
2014 was a sad and violent year both at home and abroad, but we’ve already done more than our share of hollering about it from the seat of my rocking chair on my virtual front porch. I…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Eddie Cantor comedy Roman Scandals (1933), devised for him by George S. Kaufman and Robert E. Sherwood. The film is a very fu…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the 1933 Laurel and Hardy feature Sons of the Desert, directed by William Seiter. This remains one of the all-time favorite Laurel and …
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Laurel and Hardy comedy short We Faw Down (1928), directed by Leo McCarey. This wonderful little symphony of comic incident starts w…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harold Lloyd short From Hand to Mouth (1919). This is an interesting one. Much as Chaplin is sort of “doing Lloyd” in…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Douglas Fairbanks comedy When the Clouds Roll By (1919 ) , directed by Victor Fleming. Fairbanks plays a young Wall Street worker who i…
Tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 8pm (EST): Billy Rose’s Jumbo Sizewise, the stage original of Billy Rose’s Jumbo was the most colossal show in Broadway history. The…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Wheeler and Woolsey comedy Hook, Line and Sinker (1930), directed by Eddie Cline. Though the comedians are in fine form, the plot of this …
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harold Lloyd short Number, Please? (1920) While the climax to this short is one of the film’s best, the set-up is one of his m…
Today is the anniversary of the Syd Chaplin  comedy A Submarine Pirate (1915). A major hit in its day and still the best known comedy of its star Syd Chaplin (Charlie’s brother) …
Today is the anniversary of the Mack Sennett-produced comedy Flirty Four Flushers (1922), directed by Eddie Cline. The film is a remake of the 1910 Biograph comedy A Summer Tragedy,…
Tomorrow morning at 4:30 am (EST) Turner Classic Movies will be showing the Marx Brothers‘ At the Circus (1939). I think many of us have an unfortunate tendency to lump At the…
Today is the anniversary of the Harold Lloyd comedy A Sailor Made Man (1921). You see? They had Christmas releases even back then. At four reels, it was Lloyd’s longest comedy to…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Douglas Fairbanks film The Americano (1916), written by Anita Loos and John Emerson, directed by the latter and shot by Victor Fl…
My worship of Bob Hope grows apace. He has always been a divisive figure, even among families. He was my maternal grandfather’s favorite comedian; my father hated him (he always detest…
 Here’s a bit of undigested news hot off the presses…more to follow, but here’s the official announcement: Contact: Ron Lasko @ 212-505-1700 x. 11 La MaMa ETC in ass…
Today is the anniversary of the release of Paramount’s all-star 1933 version of Alice in Wonderland, directed by Norman McLeod. A.I.W. is one of those works of literature that ha…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Buster Keaton silent comedy short The Sacrecrow (1920, released the very same day as Neighbors). The Scarecrow is one of Ke…
