{"id":1082,"date":"2019-03-05T17:16:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T21:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakeramitchell.com\/?page_id=1082"},"modified":"2019-03-05T17:16:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T21:16:01","slug":"vaudeville","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/vaudeville\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaudeville?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mitchell-Brothers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"841\" src=\"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mitchell-Brothers-1024x841.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mitchell-Brothers-980x805.jpg 980w, https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mitchell-Brothers-480x394.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><figcaption>From left: Bill Mitchell and his wife, soprano Pearl Mitchell, with brother John Mitchell<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This page is a curated repository of stories about vaudeville and my two uncles John and Bill Mitchell.&nbsp; John and Bill were &#8220;big time&#8221; jazz banjoists who played the Keith circuit until the collapse of vaudeville in 1930.&nbsp; They then formed a country and western act with Carson Robison called the &#8220;Pioneers&#8221; which toured Europe in 1932 and again in 1935.&nbsp; They then had a regular radio program as the Pioneers until the middle 1940&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a&nbsp;summary of Vaudeville and&nbsp;of John and Bill&#8217;s&nbsp;historic&nbsp;tours throughout the United States and Europe, I have&nbsp;combined several articles into a single piece where you can get a fast introduction to the times and their roles in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mitchell-Brothers-Vaudeville-and-Western.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Mitchell-Brothers-Vaudeville-and-Western<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mitchell-Brothers-Vaudeville-and-Western.pdf\">Mitchell Brothers &#8211; Vaudeville and Western<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a work-in-progress &#8230; to be continued with songs, sheet music, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page is a curated repository of stories about vaudeville and my two uncles John and Bill Mitchell.&nbsp; John and Bill were &#8220;big time&#8221; jazz banjoists who played the Keith circuit until the collapse of vaudeville in 1930.&nbsp; They then formed a country and western act with Carson Robison called the &#8220;Pioneers&#8221; which toured Europe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1082","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}