All posts tagged "vaudeville"
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12.0K10Crime and ScandalKing Charles Solomon, Boston’s Answer to Al Capone, Gunned Down in Mob Shooting
King Charles Solomon ruled Boston’s underworld without challenge until a small-time gangster gunned him down in the men’s room of the Cotton...
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5.7K4Arts and LeisureRemembering Martin Bergen, From Beaneaters Star to Murder-Suicide
In the summer of 1934, three very different lives converged in North Brookfield, Mass.: song-and-dance man George M. Cohan; Philadelphia Athletics...
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10.7K9Arts and LeisureMolly Spotted Elk, From Poverty in Old Town, Maine, to Fame in Paris — and Back
In the fall of 1931, 27-year-old Molly Spotted Elk was far from home and unsure about marrying her French journalist lover. She...
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83.7K5Arts and LeisureJohn L. Sullivan, America’s First Superstar Athlete
“My name’s John L. Sullivan and I can lick any son-of-a-bitch alive!” If you heard those words shouted out in the 1880s,...
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7.4K24Arts and LeisureGeorge M. Cohan, Way More Than A Song-and-Dance Man
George M. Cohan at 22 years old produced a Broadway play that injected American theatre with something new: energy and speed. Called...
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10.4K5Arts and LeisureSophie Tucker, The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas, Returns Home to Hartford
The week Sophie Tucker spent performing in Hartford in 1913 was one of the best of her life. The brash ‘Last of...
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