1921 Vaudeville

[wheelerwoolsey.livejournal.com]

This ad appeared in Portland's Oregonian on September 4, 1921.
The act Burns and Lorraine consisted of two comedians named Billy Lorraine and Nat Burns. Nat Burns would later team with Gracie Allen and be better known as George Burns.
Also note that Stan Laurel was appearing on the bill with his common-law-wife Mae.
(Oh to be able to go back in time and see George Burns and Stan Laurel on the same bill together....long before they had teamed up with their more well known comedy partners....)

Comments

[versailles-rose.livejournal.com]

That is really interesting.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

This is a tremendous find!

What a hard-working life for these artists: three shows daily and the acts changing all the time. That kind of schedule must have weeded out the less ambitious pretty quickly. To get "discovered" by Hollywood meant a comparatively luxurious schedule of all-day shooting, a warm climate, and three squares. Though of course Hollywood could throw you right back out on your ass.

We need to send an A.C.E.-certified cameraman back to record these for us to marvel at.

I want to see "The Blizzard".

[misstia]

of course at this time hollywood was still iffy and vaudeville was still seen as a viable competition to movies.....

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

What a great piece of entertainment history! I had no idea Stan Laurel performed with anyone other than Oliver Hardy.

I would love to learn more about Pantagescope. There's not even a Wikipedia page for it!

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

I wonder (not hard enough to google it) if the Pantages in Hollywood is the last survivor of that chain?