FReeper Canteen ~ Favorite Comedians - The 1920's ~ 06 NOV 2007

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~Favorite Comedians~

The 1920's, Vaudeville, and Silent Films

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Vaudeville was a genre of variety entertainment prevalent in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Developing from many sources, including concert saloons, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque, vaudeville became one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America.

Each evening's bill of performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts. Types of acts included musicians both classical and popular, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, acrobats, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and short films.

Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields

Eddie Cantor

Vaudeville Follies

The term "vaudeville," itself, referring specifically to American variety entertainment, came into common usage after 1871 with the formation of "Sargent's Great Vaudeville Company" of Louisville, Kentucky.

Benjamin Franklin Keith, however, earns the distinction of "the father" of American Vaudeville. Keith began his career in show business working variously as a grifter and barker with traveling circuses in the 1870's, and for dime museums in New York. He returned to his home state of Massachusetts and in 1883 established his own museum in Boston featuring "Baby Alice the Midget Wonder" and other acts. His success in this endeavor allowed Keith to build the Bijou Theatre.

At the Bijou, Keith established a "fixed policy of cleanliness and order." He strictly forbade the use of vulgarity or coarse material in his acts "so the that the house and the entertainment would directly appeal to the support of women and children.

There was no abrupt end to vaudeville, though the form was clearly staggering by the late 1920s. The continued growth of the lower-priced cinema in the early 1910s dealt the heaviest blow to vaudeville.

Lured by greater salaries and less arduous working conditions, many early film and old time radio performers, such as W. C. Fields, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, Edgar Bergen, and Jack Benny, used the prominence they first gained in live variety performance to vault into new media. Other vaudevillians who entered in vaudeville's decline, including The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, Kate Smith, Bob Hope, and Rose Marie used vaudeville as a launching pad for later careers.

Silent comedy films placed a heavy emphasis on visual and physical humor, and what are known as "sight gags", to tell a story and entertain the viewer. Many of these physical gags were exaggerated forms of violence, and came to be called "slapstick".  The term "slapstick" refers to a doubled, or "tricked", hitting stick that makes a loud sound upon (light) contact with another person. The "prat fall", slipping on a banana peel, getting soaked with water, and getting a pie thrown in one's face are all classic examples of slapstick comedy devices.

Mack Sennett (creator of the Keystone Cops) and Hal Roach were two of the most famous producers of silent comedies. Actors from this era are now legendary: Ben Turpin, Mabel Normand, Edna Purviance, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Charley Chase,  and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

Charlie Chaplin and the "Table Ballet"

Buster Keaton in "The General"

Keystone Cops in "Bangville Police"

Harold Lloyd In "A Sammy In Siberia"

Laurel And Hardy in "You're Darn Tootin'"

W. C. Fields in "Pool Sharks"

In the early years of "talkie" films beginning in 1927, a few actors continued to act silently for comedic effect, most famously Charlie Chaplin, whose last great "silent" comedies City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1935) were both made in the sound age. Another late example was Harpo Marx, who always played a mute in the Marx Brothers' films.

Another important legacy of silent film comedy was the humor in animated cartoons. Even as live-action comedy moved towards a focus on the verbal humor of Abbott and Costello and Groucho Marx, animated cartoons took up the entire range of slapstick gags, frenetic chase scenes, visual puns, and exaggerated facial expressions previously seen in silent comedies.

These devices were most pronounced in the Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies cartoons from Warner Brothers directed by Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, and Friz Freleng and in the MGM Cartoons of Tex Avery and the "Tom and Jerry" cartoons of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Bosko And Bruno

Felix The Cat - The Stone Age

Chimpy Chimp - Hosin' Around

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[SandRat]

Keystone Cops

[laurenmarlowe]

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[laweeks]

Paul Winchell and all his puppets (same for Danny O’Day).

[PROCON]

Newbie in...definately Laurel & Hardy

[The Mayor]

November 6, 2007

Better Yet

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READ: Philippians 1:19-26

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. —Philippians 1:21

Sir Francis Bacon said, “I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.” Woody Allen said, “I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

It’s not death that’s so frightening. It’s the dying that scares us. As Paul faced imprisonment and the prospect of dying in a jail cell, he shared his view about life and death: “To live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil. 1:21). What a perspective!

Death is our enemy (1 Cor. 15:25-28), but it does not possess the finality that so many dread. There is something waiting for believers beyond this life—something better.

Someone has said, “What the caterpillar thinks is the end of life, the butterfly thinks is just the beginning.” George MacDonald wrote, “How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.”

I love this paraphrase of Philippians 1:21, “To me, living means opportunities for Christ, and dying—well, that’s better yet!” (TLB). During our physical life, we have opportunities to serve Jesus. But one day, we will actually be in His presence. Our fear will melt away when we see Him face to face.

That’s the “better yet” the apostle Paul is talking about!
 

Death?—Christ said not death;
He called it sleep;
A vast awaking, a new day breaking,
A bright way taking, with visions deep. —H. Frost

For the Christian, the fear of death will give way to the fullness of life.

Bible in One Year:   Jeremiah 37-39; Hebrews 3

[wtc911]

Lou Costello before his kid drowned. A force of comic nature.

[laurenmarlowe]

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[laurenmarlowe]

Evening Sand!

FIRST!!

[swmobuffalo]

Evening! Any of the military folks on here know what an Article 15 is?

[llevrok]

vaudevillians who made the leap to the new medium - radio

Burns and Allen, Jack Benny, Fibber McGee, and so many more

Great comedy writing and performances!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy laweeks! Thanks for sharing your favorite!

SECOND!!

[Tanniker Smith]

G’evening all. A good night for a good laugh!

[Publius]

Article 15 is non-judicial punishment. Its name comes from Article 15 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

A commander takes a miscreant into his office and applies certain punishments, usually a fine and/or reduction in rank. The solider receiving non-judicial punishment may appeal to the next higher level or refuse the Article 15, demanding a court-martial.

As a battalion adjutant, I was involved in administering many of these.

[Tanniker Smith]

I recently rented (from the library) a series of shorts with Buster Keaton and Fatty Arbuckle. Funny stuff.

Buster Keaton also starred in the only "silent" Twilight Zone episode.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Thamks for tonites thread lauren!
Good evening Ma!
Good evening Canteeners,Veterans and Troops!
How’s everybody tonite?
Had a nice visit with Poppa and then went to a nice pub with Robert afterward..a nice day.
I’m in for abit!
Hugs alla round!
Ms.B

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening PROCON, and welcome to the Canteen!

THIRD!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you Mayor, and thank you for the words from The Bible.

[mylife]

Oh! WC fields the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy without a doubt