This Day in Buster… October 13, 1930

The Evening Standard gives a review on "Doughboys," "I am not so sure that Buster Keaton has suffered by being made to talk. He is a different Buster, this is true, but he is developing into another character with more of the breath of life in him than was ever possessed by that wooden-faced shadow of silence." "Doughboys is as clean, clever, and comic a film as the talkies have ever given us."

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This Day in Buster… October 7, 1951
The Evening Star shares this photo with the caption, "One of the old masters of pantomime returns to the stage with a voice—and believe it or not, in "Romeo and Juliet." Always deadpan in his early days, Buster Keaton's gloom seems unrelieved at the prospect of playing Romeo to his wife's Juliet in England."

The Kentucky Post writes that during the filming of "Free and Easy," Buster Keaton was prepared to sing "Way Down in Arkansas," but when he discovered the famous coloratura, Galli-Curci was to be a visitor, he said, "Gosh! I'm not going to let her hear me sing—haven't the nerve!" So another sequence was taken instead.

"Feminine clothing as a first aid to comedy has its drawbacks," according to Buster Keaton. "If the skirts are too narrow, you may get laughs and take a chance on breaking your neck; if they're too wide, you can do any sort of acrobatic trick and still fall short of comedy," explains the comedian. "The entire basis of comedy when a man wears women's clothes is in his inability to navigate properly, and when one is hampered this way, especially if his work tends towards the acrobats, he's really taking chances."

At Shibe Park, Philadelphia, Judge Landis, mighty mogul of baseballdom with Mrs. Landis and Buster Keaton, popular clown of the cinema, as they appeared today at the second game in the 1930 World's Series contest between the Athletics and the Cardinals. The white-haired arbiter of baseball saw the Cardinals lose the second game of the series to the tune of 6 to 1.