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I have Barnes' autobiography packed away somewhere, I'll see if it has any info on Mchenry. The earliest I see him with Barnes is 1917. There are ads in Billboard in 1920 trying to get Mchenry to rehire with Sidney Rink as a 'mule rider'. Rink was an animal trainer for Barnes at various times and de...

Is this the Curtis McHenry you're looking for? I don't know him well enough for a visual id. I thought this could be a contender as he's in Los Angeles, and seems to be doing non cinema work at this period (1929). The person in this image also seems to be the Curtiss McHenry who was a comedian with ...

A fantastic announcement! I've been hoping for this for years, thanks for making it happen.

Just a heads up that Rob Bader appears this week on Gilbert Gottfried's May 15 Podcast . It's ninety minutes long and moves along rather well since the two interviewers know the subject fairly well themselves and examine more than just the usual questions. Then again since this is Gilbert, he occasi...

Late to the game but I'll give this an endorsement too. I've had it for about a year and a half and never tire of flipping thru it. Very thorough. I especially like the discussion of the living room couch as scene for romantic encounters.

3,000! That makes me even more appreciative of the effort/risk people are putting into these releases. I saw Mack Sennett on an episode of Kovacs' Take A Good Look this morning and when they showed some fuzzy washed out clips it made me think about how lucky we are with the quality of what comes out...

The book has published and an initial review in the Wall Street Journal has caused Amazon's entire stock to sell out. In the mean time you can order directly from the publisher at a reduced price of $25 via this website set up for the book. It's worth checking the site out just to see the photo of t...

It's finally happening, the book publishes on October 15. Here's a website with some info on the book . Check out the Who's Who section, it has some pictures of people you may have heard about for years but have never seen a photo of. The section also introduces two new performers who worked with th...

Very interesting. The character is based on a comic strip that I never heard of and ran from about 1905 thru 1927. I looked up some examples and it seemed to use exactly one joke repeated daily for 20+ years: Everett is offended by someone lacking in some area and beats them up. https://s15.postimg....

Coming this October the most in depth look at the Marx Brothers' stage career, as we'll likely ever get: http://press.library.northwestern.edu/content/four-three-musketeers Author is Rob Bader, who released the multi disc Marx Brothers on TV set two years ago. And was also the editor of a Groucho an...