How lucky we are that the Vitaphone Collection was found. Those of us older movie buffs have vague reminisces of the Hippodrome Theatre and the Palace in New York City. We were not old enough to have attended. We have only seen later performances of those comics such as George Jessel on "The telephone" doing their sketches on early television. Some of the entertainers of the period made it to the Milton Berle show. The reparteé between the Howard Brothers was typical. Early TV viewers had a taste, updated, with George Burns and Gracie Allen. This is not 21st century comedy, but rather an insight of what amused your grand-parents and great-grandparents back when a roast beef sandwich cost a quarter.