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Entries from February 2020

1st Academy Awards

February 10th, 2020 Comments Off on 1st Academy Awards

As the 92nd Academy Awards wrap up a 3 1/2 hour worldwide broadcast and transition into endless recaps, reviews, and followup commentary, we take a quick look at a very different ceremony that took place for the 1st Academy Awards. Back on May 16, 1929, two hundred seventy people paid $5 a piece to attend […]

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Ruth Does Stuff

February 5th, 2020 Comments Off on Ruth Does Stuff

Following up on our earlier post, covering Babe Ruth’s 1924 appearance at Grauman’s Million Dollar Theatre, we have this Los Angeles Times news piece from the week. In what might be a contender for most underwhelming reporting, we learn one of the most famous people of the day “does stuff” on stage and this primarily […]

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