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Charlotte Greenwood: The Life and Career of the Comic Star of Vaudeville, Radio and Film by Grant Hayter-Menzies, 2007-04-18
Jack Benny: Comedian, Vaudeville, Radio programming, Comic timing, Situation comedy, Zeppo Marx, Mary Livingstone, Irving Thalberg, Orpheum Theatre (Los ... California), The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle: A History of Performances by Hollywood Notables by Eric L. Flom, 2009-04-13

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The Colgate Comedy Hour
Featuring the top names in vaudeville, theater, radio and film, this live Sunday evening series was the first starring vehicle for many notable performers
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/colgatecomed/colgatecomed.htm

Extractions: U.S. Variety Show For approximately five-and-a-half seasons, NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour presented big budget musical variety television as head-to-head competition for Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town on CBS. Featuring the top names in vaudeville, theater, radio and film, this live Sunday evening series was the first starring vehicle for many notable performers turning to television. Reflecting format variations by host, the Colgate Comedy Hour initially offered musical comedy, burlesque sketches, opera and/or night club comedy revues. In his autobiography, Take My Life , comedian Eddie Cantor recalled proposing to NBC that he was prepared to host a television show but only once every four weeks in rotation with other comics. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet picked up the tab for three of the four weeks and the Colgate Comedy Hour was born with Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and Fred Allen as hosts. The fourth show of the month was sponsored originally by Frigidaire and appeared for a short time under the title
Allen, Fred
Allen came to radio from vaudeville where he performed as a juggler. He first appeared on the Colgate Comedy Theater, where he attempted to bring to TV
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/A/htmlA/allenfred/allenfred.htm

Extractions: ALLEN, FRED U.S. Comedian Fred Allen hated television. Allen was a radio comedian for nearly two decades who, as early as 1936, had a weekly radio audience of about 20 million. When he visited The Jack Benny Show to continue their long running comedy feud, they had the largest audience in the history of radio, only to be later outdone by President Franklin Roosevelt during a Fireside Chat . The writer Herman Wouk said that Allen was the best comic writer in radio. His humor was literate, urbane, intelligent, and contemporary. Allen came to radio from vaudeville where he performed as a juggler. He was primarily self-educated and was extraordinarily well read. Allen began his network radio career in 1932 after working vaudeville and Broadway with such comedy icons as Al Jolson, Ed Wynn, George Jessel, and Jack Benny. This was a time when the United States was in a deep economic depression, and radio in its infancy. In his autobiography Treadmill To Oblivion , Allen wrote that he thought radio should provide complete stories, series of episodes, and comedy situations instead of monotonous unrelated jokes then popular on vaudeville. With this idea in hand, he began his first radio program on NBC called
Show Listings
The Brick Theater presents a monthly live radio series. The Story Pirates use puppets, music, and a highenergy vaudeville style to bring these stories
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/listingl.htm

Extractions: · connecting real audiences to real theatre in a virtual world · Show Listings THEATRE Cabaret at The Cave, 31-11 Broadway, Astoria OPENED February 20, 2005 PERFORMANCES Tue at 8:30pm TICKETS PRODUCING COMPANY Astoria Performing Arts Center This is Astoria's first cabaret/piano bar room. It's co-presented by Astoria Center for the Performing Arts and restauranteur Charlie Kourakos. Performances are every Tuesday night from 8:30pm until midnight. Headliners will perform at 8:30pm; after which the room converts to open mic with live accompanist. A free buffet is offered for the first hour of open mic, and a full dinner menu is available all evening. THEATRE Peoples Improv OPENED April 1, 2005 PERFORMANCES Fri at 11pm TICKETS CAST Baby D, Babsy, Dave Furfero, Bob Acevedo, Ernie Privetera, Diana Depasquale, Ali Maher, Dave Adams, Steve Weiner, JB Rote This is an erotic improv comedy. Inspired by audience suggestions which are gathered during a pre-show salon, the cast of Foreplay improvises uninhibitedly around the hot topic of human sexuality. Scenes are played in and around a bed, a monologue stand, and two microphones, which are used for audio scenes performed in total darkness. Complimentary wine and desserts are served.
Minnesota Public Radio's Fitzgerald Theater
Minnesota Public radio purchased the theater in 1980 and restored it in 1986 for the played host to Broadway musicals, vaudeville shows, film festivals,
http://fitzgeraldtheater.publicradio.org/

Extractions: Built in 1910, the Fitzgerald Theater is Saint Paul's oldest surviving theater space. Originally named the Sam S. Shubert Theater, it was one of four memorial theaters erected by entertainment-industry leaders Lee and J. J. Shubert after the death of their brother Sam. In 1933, it became a movie house screening foreign films and was thus christened the World Theater. Minnesota Public Radio purchased the theater in 1980 and restored it in 1986 for the live radio program A Prairie Home Companion View a slideshow of the theater. Robert Altman and a host of big Hollywood names have set up shop in the Fitz to make a film loosely based on A Prairie Home Companion. Principal photography began on June 29, and is expected to continue through July 28. Garrison Keillor has written the screenplay, and will co-star with Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Lindsay Lohan, John C. Reilly, Kevin Kline, Woody Harrelson, Maya Rudolph and Tommy Lee Jones.
Minnesota Public Radio's Fitzgerald Theater: About The Theater: History
Minnesota Public radio purchased the theater in 1980 and restored it in 1986 to Broadway musicals, vaudeville shows, film festivals, corporate events,
http://fitzgeraldtheater.publicradio.org/about/history.php

Extractions: Built in 1910 as a Shubert theater, the Fitzgerald Theater is Saint Paul's oldest surviving theater space. One of four special memorial theaters erected by entertainment-industry magnates Lee and J. J. Shubert after the death of their brother Sam, this was to be a particularly elegant building, patterned after the renowned Maxine Elliot Theater in New York. When the Fitzgerald first opened, as the Sam S. Shubert Theater, it was hailed as one of the most beautiful theaters of its day. It was constructed of concrete and steel with a sandstone facade, complete with 16 dressing rooms, a stage that could be raised or lowered by two feet, a built in vacuum-cleaning system and nearly 2,000 electric lights. In 1933, it became a movie house that showed foreign films and was thus christened the World Theater.
Ragtime Vaudeville Show
The focal point of vaudeville its home base was the Palace theater in the heart of The Palace opened in 1913 and with the advent of radio and talking
http://bestwebs.com/vaudeville/index.shtml

Extractions: PLEASE TAKE YOUR SEATS! The focal point of vaudeville - its home base was the Palace theater in the heart of New York's theater district, at Broadway and 47 th Street. It was every actor's ambition to play the Palace in New York. Monday afternoon was the first show and the house would be filled with performers from all around town. They'd come in for the matinee. And all the Broadway talent scouts and agents would come down to see the show, because how you went over determined what your future bookings would be. Being a hit at the Palace was just thrilling!
Nashville Scene
In addition to bringing touring musical and theater artists to town, vaudeville, then radio and TV, and after that municipal auditoriums and convention
http://www.nashvillescene.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?story=Back_Issues:2003:Septemb
Thanks For The Memory
In 1937, when Hope had three radio series as well as musical theater In radio, a year s vaudeville material might be fodder for one week s broadcast.
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0006/hope.html

Extractions: New Bob Hope Gallery Opens at Library BY SAM BRYLAWSKI The Bob Hope Gallery of American Entertainment in the Thomas Jefferson Building is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. View the exhibition online On May 9 the Bob Hope Gallery of American Entertainment opened in the Library's Jefferson Building with a visit by Mr. Hope and his family. The gallery, a permanent showcase, will feature exhibitions focusing on various aspects of Mr. Hope's career. The inaugural exhibition, "Bob Hope and American Variety," is a celebration of vaudeville and Mr. Hope's contributions to variety entertainment in America. The exhibition draws on the newly acquired Bob Hope Collection and additional materials from the Library's holdings. Vaudeville was Bob Hope's training ground, and it made him one of the most popular entertainers of the 20th century. There, he honed his abilities as an actor, comic monologist, dancer, singer, sketch comedian and master of ceremonies. In the 1920s, Mr. Hope toured the United States as a vaudevillian, performing in hundreds of theaters, small and large. His talents and ambitions made him one of the great stars of the variety stage.
Radio: Bob Hope And American Variety (Library Of Congress)
The commercial sponsor of these vaudevillians radio programs, a vaudeville and motion picture theater chain, printed these pamphlets for free distribution
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bobhope/radio.html

Extractions: N early all of Bob Hope's sixty-year broadcasting career was in programs carried by the radio and television networks of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). When NBC was established in 1926 it was the first commercial broadcasting network in the world. In its early years, NBC operated two networks, the Red and the Blue. The Blue Network was sold in 1943 and became the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The NBC Collection at the Library of Congress, comprised of radio recordings, television kinescope motion pictures, scripts, press releases, and business papers, is the largest and most comprehensive broadcasting company archive collection in the United States. The collection documents the rise and development of both radio and televison entertainment. Bob Hope conquered the radio medium at nearly the same time as he found success in motion pictures. Hope was featured regularly in several radio series throughout the 1930s. His success in the film
The Dead Media Project:Working Notes:35.1
Dead medium radio Killed the vaudeville Star From ggg@well.com (Gary Gach) radio made everybody who owned one a theater manager.
http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/35/351.html

Extractions: (((bruces remarks: "Vaudeville" is dead but probably not a "medium," whereas radio is not only a living medium but showing a great deal of experimental vitality. If there's a "dead media" aspect to the compelling narrative that follows, it's the eerie practice of a theater full of vaudeville patrons sitting patiently in their seats to watch a radio. (((And who better to relate this chronicle of technological change than veteran American entertainer George Burns, star of vaudeville, radio, movies, and television.))) :From George Burns' memoirs: "The only problem was that just as we were becoming stars, vaudeville was dying. No one could pin the rap on us, though. Everybody believes it was the movies that killed vaudeville. That's not true. Movies, vaudeville, burlesque, the local stock companies == all survived together. "It's impossible to explain the impact that radio had on the world to anyone who didn't live through that time. Before radio, people had to wait for the newspaper to learn what was happening in the world. Before radio, the only way to see a performer was to see a performer. And maybe most important, before radio there was no such thing as a commercial.
UGA Research Magazine :: Spring 2004
David Saltz is building a 19th century vaudeville theater on the University of Georgia Before movies and radio took over mass entertainment, vaudeville
http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/researchnews/spring2004/vaudeville.htm

Extractions: Search : Virtual Vaudeville by Muriel Pritchett EMAIL THIS PRINTABLE VERSION David Saltz is building a 19th century Using motion capture technology and high-end animation software, theater scholars, performers, and computer specialists are creating an online "Virtual Vaudeville" that replicates well-known performances in an elegant, 3-D theater patterened after New York's Union Square Theater. A group of expert theater historians, performers, designers and computer specialists from UGA and other colleges across the United States have joined Saltz in the effort to bring the project to reality. Two acts are already well under way: Sandow the Magnificent, a strongman who became famous in the late 19th century and was managed by Flo Ziegfeld, and the ethnic humorist Frank Bush. Two other acts will feature Maggie Cline, an Irish comic singer, and the Four Cohans, a famous family of actors. His research took him to restored 19th century theaters like the Southern Theater in Columbus, Ohio, the New Victory, the oldest operational theater in New York, and the Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn, a carefully preserved 1890s building. Saltz then turned his notes and detailed photos over to Vincent Argentina, a computer specialist in the UGA drama department who, as if by magic, turned them into a realistic 3-D theater.
Milton Berle
Through the 1920s, Berle moved up through the vaudeville circuit, radio (selection). Texaco Star Theater, 19391948; The Milton Berle Show, 1939;
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Berle.html

Extractions: By B.R. Smith Milton Berle's career is one of the longest and most varied in show business, spanning silent film, vaudeville, radio, motion pictures, and television. He started in show business at the age of five, appearing as a child in The Perils of Pauline and Tillie's Punctured Romance . Through the 1920s, Berle moved up through the vaudeville circuit, finding his niche in the role of a brash comic known for stealing the material of fellow comedians. He also became a popular master of ceremonies in vaudeville, achieving top billing in the largest cities and theaters. During the 1930s, Berle appeared in a variety of Hollywood films and further polished his comedy routines in night clubs and on radio. Berle is best known for his role as host of Texaco Star Theater , television's most popular program during its early years. The show had begun on the ABC radio network in the spring of 1948, and Berle took part in a televi-sion test version for Texaco and NBC in June of that year. He was selected as host, and the first East Coast broadcast of the TV series began in Septem-ber. Within two months, Berle became television's first super-star, with the highest ratings ever attained and was soon referred to as "Mr. Television," "Mr. Tuesday Night," and "Uncle Miltie." Restau-rants, theaters, and nightclubs adjusted their schedules so patrons would not miss Berle's program at 8:00 P.M. on Tuesday nights. Berle is said to have stimu-lated television sales and audience size in the same way
American Masters . Vaudeville | PBS
From the local smalltown stage to New Yorks Palace Theater, vaudeville was With the advent of the radio, however, America found a free and easy way to
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/vaudeville.html

Extractions: -James Cagney A t the turn of the century in America, the Wright Brothers made their first successful flight, Jack London wrote Call of the Wild Vaudevillians on the end of Vaudeville. Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin , incorporated the animated physical comedy of the vaudeville stage. Many of the big names in vaudeville went on to be movie and TV stars, such as Will Rogers Late Night with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live continue the traditions of popular variety entertainment.
JCCC Turns On The Air Waves For "Radio Gals"
23, in The theatre of the Carlsen Center on the JCCC campus. Hazel received the 100watt Western Electric radio transmitter as a retirement gift and now
http://web.jccc.net/academic/cip/Press/releases03/radiogirls.htm

Extractions: Story by Peggy Graham JCCC Turns on the Air Waves for Radio Gals OVERLAND PARK, Kan. In the heyday of radio and bathtub gin, retired music teacher Hazel C. Hunt took to the airwaves with WGAL. The result is the zany musical Radio Gals , which will be presented by the Johnson County Community College Department of Theatre at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 20-22, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23, in The Theatre of the Carlsen Center on the JCCC campus. Hazel received the 100-watt Western Electric radio transmitter as a retirement gift and now airs a daily show from her parlor in Cedar Rapids, Ark. Hazel and her Hazelnuts, a talented if wacky quintet of singers/ musicians she is proud to claim as former students, set hearts thumping and toes tapping with songs, chit-chat and an occasional plug for Horehound Compounds, a rejuvenating tonic that owes its kick to the still out back. All this merriment is threatened when the radio commissioner arrives to shut Hazel down for using unauthorized airwaves wave jumping. The plot is the perfect vehicle for 21 original songs written by Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick, who also created Pump Boys and Dinettes . Director of the show is Brad Zimmerman, executive director of Chestnut Fine Arts Center, Olathe, and founder of the Dickens Carolers.
Playbill Listing Detail: Lazer Vaudeville @ Lamb's Theatre (Mainstage)
Lazer vaudeville to Close at Lamb s Theater Aug. 21 A modern vaudeville show featuring juggling, lasers, magic, classic screwball comedy and technology.
http://www.playbill.com/events/event_detail/7286.html

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CLASSICAL Archives -- April 2004 (#31)
The theater included not only stage, but also vaudeville, burlesque, radio, vaudeville numbers, songs written directly for radio and records.
http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0404&L=classical&F=&S=&P=3100
Jack Benny OTR MP3 List
His work spans the 20th century, from vaudeville to radio and movies to TV. Lux radio Theater 380926 Seven Keys To Baldpate Lux radio Theater 461216
http://www.otrcat.com/jackbenny.htm

Extractions: Comedy Jack Benny is one of the great American comedians. His work spans the 20th century, from vaudeville to radio and movies to TV. In vaudeville, he delivered the snappy comebacks and one liners with intelligence and wit, but it was only with the continuing development of his personal trait comedy that he really became the Jack Benny we all know so well. "Who else could play for four decades the part of a vain, miserly, argumentative skinflint, and emerge a national treasure?The secret of his success was deceptively simple: he was a man of great heart." That's John Dunning's assessment from "
Francis Langford OTR MP3 List
After a couple years, her reputations in vaudeville and on the radio collided, and, like a beautiful Phoenix, Frances Langford\Lux radio Theater\
http://www.otrcat.com/francislangford.htm

Extractions: ABOUT THE RADIO SHOW: (1914 - Present) Frances Langford, born Frances Newbern Langford on April 4, 1914 in Lakeland, Florida, started out just like every other famous singer of the time, being a Vaudevillian. As a child, Langford had a knack for the stage, mainly geared towards Operatic singing. Langford's proficiency as an operatic soprano would have earned her a successful career in that field, but a throat operation in her teenage years shattered her aspirations of ever being under the limelight of Broadway Opera. Frances recovery from her surgery found her in the beginning again, trying to work with a new voice. Given that most singers adapt to the change in their voices at a young age, Frances worked tirelessly to find her perfect tone, just like Frank Sinatra did when he was told that his natural singing voice was just too plain! After many personal singing lessons, and years of building a reputation as a sexy, but easy-going lounge singer at a quasi-famous nightclub in Florida, Frances was ready for Hollywood, or rather, was Hollywood ready for Frances! While singing at a local Tampa Bay radio station in 1931
DBM Theatre NetSearch: Popular Entertainment Arts By Donn B. Murphy
This site is maintained by Donn B. Murphy, Ph.D. Professor of theatre Emeritus vaudeville (See also subtopics below) - American Variety Stage - 1870
http://www.georgetown.edu/murphy/netsearch/popent.html

Extractions: ANIMATES ANIMATRONICS LASERS , WATER BURLESQUE History Exotic World Burlesque Museum - California "Gypsy" - Broadway Musical Pre-sexual Colville Burlesque Company Program - 1880's ... Photographs of Raoul Gradvohl CIRCUS Barnum Barnum, Caroline C. [P.T.'s daughter] - Brief Bio Barnum Freaks - Web-page with links Big Apple Circus - founded 1977 Circus Tihany Spectacular ... - Czechoslovakia COMMEDIA DELL ARTE Website ENGLISH PANTOMIME Chaplins Pantomimes FEMALE IMPERSONATIONS A Benefit Performance reported by the Daily Aztec Bourbon Street (New Orleans Mardi Gras) Awards Cammie Dietrich, impersonator ... Freaks - very disturbing photos/drawings GENERAL RESOURCES ON POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT A Bibliography GLAMORIZING THE FEMALE FORM 6,000 French Music Hall Costume Sketches at the University of Georgia Folies Bergere in Arlesienne Folies Bergere ... Horror in Theatre - Link page Book of Job, The Institute of Outdoor Drama Lost Colony, The - Manteo, NC - Website Lost Colony - ... etc. IMPROVISATION Screaming Puppets, Laurel, MD
Theatre/Drama - Imagination - Themepark
Sample some of the following activities to learn more about theatre. Travel back in time to a vaudeville show. Find out about the history of vaudeville,
http://www.uen.org/themepark/imagination/theatre.shtml

Extractions: Folk and Fairy Tales ... Web Design Theatre/Drama Greek theatre, Roman spectacles, medieval miracle plays, Chinese opera, Elizabethan comedies and dramas and historical plays, Japanese Kabukitheatrical entertainment and art has been around for centuries. It is a product of imagination. Sample some of the following activities to learn more about theatre. Places To Go People To See Things To Do Teacher Resources ... Bibliography Places To Go The following are places to go (some real and some virtual) to find out about theatre. The ELAC Guide to Ancient Greek Theatre

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