The latest from the 2013 Buster Keaton Convention Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts. Bart Williams began his acting career at 11. Credits include (film)Bye, Bye Birdie, Hello, Dolly! and Tunnelvision; (TV) General Hospital, America’s Funniest People, Weird Science, Mad TV, Stanley’s Smogless Steamer (as co-host) and Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld; (theater/stage) national and regional productions, USO tours, and title role in The Wizard of Oz at Radio City Music Hall. Bart has won two Drama-Logue Critic’s Awards. In New York, he re-created Classic Burlesque Comedy with Irving Benson for the documentary, The Last First Comic. Dennis Scott is president of the Chicagoland Theater Organ Society and the Silent Film Society of Chicago. In demand as a silent film organist, he began accompanying silent films in the 1970s, and has been staff organist at Chicago’s Music Box Theater, plus having performed at the Travoli Theatre Guild, the Oriental Theater in Milwaukee, for the Racine Theater Guild, and is a regular for the Sound of Silents Film Festival in Three Oaks, Michigan. Since 2000, he has been featured in the Silent Film Society of Chicago’s Silent Summer Film Festival. He recently recorded a CD with the West End Jazz Band of Chicago. Felix Arndt (May 20, 1889 – October 16, 1918) was an American pianist and composer of popular music. His mother was the Countess Fevrier, related to Napoleon III. Educated in New York (his music teachers included Carl Lachmund), Arndt composed songs for the famous vaudeville team of Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes, and recorded over 3000 piano rolls for Duo-Art and QRS Records. He died in New York city aged 29 during the Spanish Flu pandemic. Arndt is best remembered for his 1915 composition, Nola, written as an engagement gift to his fiancee (and later wife), Nola Locke. It is sometimes considered to be the first example of the novelty piano or novelty ragtime genre, published by Sam Fox Publishing Company. It was the signature theme of the Vincent Lopez orchestra, and a top ten hit for Les Paul in 1950. youtu.be/fH_S9Weg-ps Video Creator: Robert Crabtree To view more: https://bit.ly/busterfun
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