Vaudeville

make periodic calls at a theatrical agency.” Chaplin was determined to become a actor and never lost sight of that even when life was rough. Chaplin’s first acting debut in Sherlock Holmes as “Billy” the page boy. He would then go on to work with a vaudeville group “Casey’s Court Circus” and then with the Fred Karno Pantomine Troupe in 1908, where he toured in America for a while. While in America, he would capture the attention of Mark Sennett and join the Essanay Company. There, he would make…

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Biography Josephine Baker was known for being a world-renowned performer, WWII spy, and street activist. She was born on June 3rd, 1906, in St. Louis Missouri. Her mother, Carrie McDonald, had a job as a washerwoman. Her father, Eddie Carson, was a vaudeville drummer. At the time, there weren't any good jobs for women, so her mother took the job she could get. In her childhood, she grew up and lived in her birthplace in St. Louis, Missouri. One of her interests as a child was how she had the…

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The Upperclassman Life Junior year, It’s like your 14th birthday, you’re one year older, but you’re still a grumpy teenager. That’s how I felt about my junior year, I still had so much schooling ahead of me, classes were starting to become a serious challenge, and sometimes I truly wished that I was in college. Well okay, junior year wasn’t all terrible, it did come with a few highlights. I attended my first prom, became a part of fifth quarter committee, received my first main role in our…

not sure I even want my thirteen year old to see it yet. However, at the time, all the blatant sexuality and extremely adult situations, pretty much went over my head. The scene where a young Joe Giddeon (Bob Fosse's alter ego) tap dances on a vaudeville stage after being accosted backstage by the strippers who also worked in the club, always confused me. Even when the camera pans down to his crotch and a very evident stain appears on his white pants, I just didn't get it. All I saw was the…

Up until that time comedy was the restrictive space of the theater. The inadvertent granddad of stand-up comedy was Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice, the man accredited with evolving the troubadour shows. A significant number of the most punctual vaudeville-period stand-ups picked up their…

next opera, Rienzi. Before finishing Rienzi, Wagner and Minna left Riga, fleeing creditors, in 1839. They hopped on a ship to London and then made their way to Paris, where Wagner was forced to take whatever work he could find, including writing vaudeville music for small theaters. Wagner was part of the quasi-revolutionary "Young Germany" movement, and his leftist politics were reflected in Rienzi; unable to produce Rienzi in Paris, he sent the score to the Court Theatre in Dresden, Germany,…

giving him his first lessons and played the drums in his school band. With an incredible ear, he could repeat any tune he heard. Though he excelled musically, Count Basie ended up dropping out of junior high school and learned to operate lights for Vaudeville. He eventually started improvising at the local theatre when he played for a show, which the pianist did not arrive on time.…

But I don’t call being involved in a vaudeville act with my old friend Noble Sissle, or bringing an all black Broadway show to success to be sinful. What’s sinful is those entertainers with their cork acts and black face comedy. Now I love Miller and Lyles, but there’s more to us black entertainers…