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| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams. |
| Date: | 04 15 1932 |
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| Description: | Comedians Ole Olsen and "Chic" Johnson, called "the mirth provokers of a nation," posing in front of a streetcar that displays an advertisement for their "... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin... |
| Date: | 01 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Navy sailor standing at a microphone performing a comedy act. |
| Date: | 11 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Copy photograph of Actor Clyde Cook in costume, for the RKO Orpheum Theatre, with a signature that reads "Blosey, Chicago." |
| Date: | 02 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Church, the Highlands, in costume, posing as actors in a scene from "Taming of the Shrew"; part of a comedy program, "A Combine of ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Mack Sennett, in a dark suit, and two technicians stand by a Prestwich camera on the set of an unidentified Middle Eastern themed Keystone Comedy. A belly ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The theatrical Stone family at Chin Chin Ranch. From left to right: Allene Crater (Mrs. Fred Stone), Fred Stone, Dorothy Stone, Carol Stone, and Paula Ston... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Louise Fazenda holds baby Don Marion who holds a revolver on Eddie Gribbon who is held about the waist by Billy Bevan in a scene still for the Mack Sennett... |
| Date: | 02 17 1960 |
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| Description: | The Madison Theater Guild production of the Moliere comedy "Tartuffe" is presented at Madison West High School. Shown left to right are: Lois Klein, in the... |
| Date: | 03 14 1961 |
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| Description: | The Beth Israel Players will present an original musical comedy, "Room for One More" in the auditorium of Beth Israel Center. Shown in a scene from the pla... |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with two Commedia dell' Arte characters: Pantalone, a black masked figure... |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with three Commedia dell' Arte characters: Corallina, who wears a black m... |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with three Commedia dell' Arte characters: Stenterello, who wears a jacke... |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd as Jake and Elwood Blues from the film The Blues Brothers. They are both wearing dark sunglasses. B... |
| Date: | 10 25 1957 |
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| Description: | Actors in elaborate costumes for the first Wisconsin Players show of the season, "All's Well That Ends Well." William Dunlop of Milwaukee who plays Bertram... |
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