Today’s Travalanche Daily Digest for August 27, 2025

Today’s new Travalanche posts for August 27, 2025 are about Hallie Flanagan and the Federal Theatre Project and Theodore Dreiser and An American Tragedy, which turns 100 years old this year.

Previous posts for August 27 have included ones on:

Pee-wee Herman

Martha Raye

Jimmy Finlayson

Lisette Verea (A Night in Casablanca)

Director Victor Heerman (Animal Crackers)

Dick Vosburgh (A Day in Hollywood, A Night in Ukraine)

Johnny Eck (Freaks)

President Lyndon Johnson

Tuesday Weld

Lester Young

George Montgomery

Diamond Teeth Mary

Harry Hill of Harry Hill’s Saloon

Cooch dancer Joyzelle Joyner

Monologist Charley Case

Humorist Robert John Wildhack

Silent movie actress Ruby Blaine

Western star Helen Gibson

Bowery actor Charles B. Ward

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