Away for Awhile

I'm heading down to UCLA for about a week of research in the film and television archives there, so there may not be any posts here for the duration of my trip. In the meantime, perhaps regular readers would want to go back and offer some comments to earlier posts, just to keep up the appearance of activity in my absence (?). Let me leave you with this clip from about 1934, with the great W.C. Fields performing the act that he perfected on the vaudeville circuit long before he made his way to Hollywood: