Vesta Victoria: Look What Percy’s Picked Up in the Park
Today is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #264: Vesta Victoria (for more on her, go here). Now for your delectation, from 1912, here is “Look What Percy’s Picked Up in the Park”:
To find out more about the variety arts past and present, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever nutty books are sold. And don’t miss Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, to be released by Bear Manor Media in 2013.
