Charles Ross Taggart: Difference between revisions

'''Charles Ross Taggart''' (19 March 1871, [[Washington, D.C.]] - 4 July 1953, [[Kents Hill, Maine]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[comedy|comedian]] and [[folklore|folklorist]] who appeared all over the Eastern U.S. as "The Man From Vermont" and "The Old Country Fiddler" from the mid-1890s to the mid-1930s. On the [[Chautauqua]] circuit, he would perform folk music on his violin, sing, play the piano, do ventriloquism, and tell outlandish stories that supposedly took place in rural [[New England]]. Taggart retired from performing after suffering a stroke in the mid-1930s.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2122671 Taggart entry with short biography at IMDB]</ref>

[[Lee DeForest]] filmed Taggart for a short film made in the DeForest [[Phonofilm]] [[sound-on-film]] process. The film premiered 15 April 1923 at the Rialto Theater in [[New York City]] with 1817 other films made in the Phonofilm process. This film is now in the Maurice Zouary collection at the [[Library of Congress]].