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

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

 

 

The FReeper Canteen Presents

~Favorite Comedians~

The 1920's, Vaudeville, and Silent Films

Welcome to the FReeper Canteen! It's great to have you with us!!
Thank you to all of our Troops, Veterans, and their families for allowing us to entertain you!

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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[Tanniker Smith]

You had to love it that only in America could ventriloquists become famous for appearing on the radio!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy wtc911, Lou Costello was hilarious to watch!

[PROCON]

Yep, form of UCMJ non-judicial punishment, usually a few bucks out of the paycheck for doing something dumb.

Had one once when I was young and stupid.

[rwa265]

“Any of the military folks on here know what an Article 15 is?”

Unfortunately, I do from first hand experience. It is a non-judicial limited punishment that a commanding officer can impose for minor infractions committed by a member of his or her command.

See: http://usmilitary.about.com/od/justicelawlegislation/a/article15.htm

Nonjudicial punishment (NJP) refers to certain limited punishments which can be awarded for minor disciplinary offenses by a commanding officer or officer in charge to members of his/her command. In the Navy and Coast Guard, nonjudicial punishment proceedings are referred to as “captain’s mast” or simply “mast.” In the Marine Corps, the process is called “office hours,” and in the Army and Air Force, it is referred to as “Article 15.” Article 15, of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, (UCMJ), and Part V of the Manual for Courts-Martial, constitute the basic law concerning nonjudicial punishment procedures. The legal protection afforded an individual subject to NJP proceedings is more complete than is the case for nonpunitive measures, but, by design, is less extensive than for courts-martial.

In the Army and Air Force, nonjudical punishment can only be imposed by a commanding officer. That means an officer who is on actual orders, designating them as a “commander.” In the Navy and Marine Corps, nonjudicial punishment may be imposed by an “Officer in Charge.” The Term “Officer in Charge” does not mean an “OIC,” as a “job title,” but rather a specific officer where the flag officer holding general court-martial authority designates the office as the “officer in charge.”

“Mast,” “Article 15,” and “office hours” are procedures whereby the commanding officer or officer in charge may:

Make inquiry into the facts surrounding minor offenses allegedly committed by a member of his command;
afford the accused a hearing as to such offenses; and
dispose of such charges by dismissing the charges, imposing punishment under the provisions of Art. 15, UCMJ, or referring the case to a court-martial.
What “mast,” “Article 15,” and “office hours” are not:

They are not a trial, as the term “nonjudicial” implies;
a conviction; and an acquittal if a determination is made not to impose punishment.

[mylife]

Where did you go? Gritty McDuffs?

[MS.BEHAVIN]

I LOVE Mae West!
;0)

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you llevrok, thank you for sharing your great favorites!

[swmobuffalo]

Thank you both. One of the soldiers in my son’s company is facing one. Just wanted to clarify what it was. My son is doing his advanced training with the Army. He’s enjoying the training but the “after hours” crap is getting on his nerves. I’m beginning to question the effectiveness of some of the discipline!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Nope..
We went to Gippers..
It’s a sports pub, but the food is wonderful!

[mylife]

My little chickadee is a classic

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy TS, it’s good to see you!

These characters are sure fun to watch!

[skimask]

I’m partial to the Three Stooges, but that’s just me.

[Tanniker Smith]

I haven't seen a Laurel & Hardy film in years ... except "The March of the Wooden Soldiers", which I'd like to see more often, but I keep missing it.

I saw lots of them when I was a kid.

[Old Sarge]

We do indeed, in all its forms. What about it?

[laurenmarlowe]

I DO remember that episode of Twilight Zone!

[The Mayor]

Thank you for the thread!

[AZamericonnie]

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[mylife]

I love those places for lunch. We dont have that here in Tx

[rwa265]

Is your son at Fort lost in the woods?

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening MS.B! *HUGS*

Glad you had a very pleasant day!