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Memorials for Mickey Daniels

Our Gang fans in the L.A. area: A friend writes to let everyone know that there is headstone laying ceremony for, and program about,  Mickey Daniels (1914-1970) on Friday. Here are the details:
 
Remembering Richard Daniels, Jr.
Mickey of the Our Gang Comedies
Reflection and Films (about one hour)
September 27, 2019 11:00 AM
Brand Recital Hall
Brand Library & Art Center
1601 West Mountain Street
Glendale, CA 91201
 
12:30 PM
Headstone unveiling graveside
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
1712 South Glendale Avenue
Glendale, CA 91205
Vale of Memory, Lot #2121, Space 2
For more on the freckled faced rascal, who passed away in 1970, go here.

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Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.