Showing posts with label vaudeville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vaudeville. Show all posts
Sep 15, 2011

W.C. Fields Juggles

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W.C. Fields performs one of his best routines, 1934.
Aug 10, 2011

Princess Rajah Dance

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According to vaudeville historians Joe Laurie, Jr. and Douglas Gilbert, Princess Rajah started as a "cooch" (an early form o...
Mar 2, 2011

Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters

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(NYTBR) ... Not since the heavenly dressing crew worked its miracle in “Cabin in the Sky” has anyone labored as hard to rehabilitate Waters’...
Sep 29, 2009

Le cochon danseur - el cerdo bailarín - dancing pig

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"Les prouesses d'un cochon danseur habillé en petite fille. Corto francés de 1907, producido por Pathé, donde se aprecian las habil...
Apr 24, 2009

Hersheypark

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(Wikipedia) - In 1903, Milton S. Hershey, founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company, surveyed a site along Spring Creek that would be suitabl...
Mar 1, 2009

Recalling When Entertainment Joined Education: “Chautauqua!”

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(NYTimes) - ... Chautauqua was one of the great American popular educational movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Starting m...
Feb 7, 2009

Eubie Blake

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(Wikipedia) - James Hubert Blake (February 7, 1887 – February 12, 1983) was a composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular ...
Nov 23, 2008

Father of the ‘Follies’

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(NYTBR) - A century is a mere blink in the history of mankind, but it’s a long time in the history of show business. Just about a hundred ye...
Apr 4, 2008

Songs of the 60's: Dunbar's Maryland Singers

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Redpath Chautauqua Collection, Library of Congress