Comedy

The musical comedy Three Little Lambs is playing at The 5th Avenue Theatre, New York City, USA.

The musical comedy The Cadet Girl is playing at The Herald Square Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 48 performances.

The musical comedy San Toy is playing at Daly's Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 65 performances.

Musical comedy The Girl From Up There closes at The Herald Square Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, after a run of 96 performances.

The Ramblers Burlesque Company, described as 'A splendid Vaudeville bill', plays at The Dewey Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Irving Jones, billed as 'The monologist who has written some famous songs' is appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA, along with 'novelty musical clowns' Bimm, Bomm, Brrr.

Billed as 'The Sweetest Singer On The Stage', Mr Chauncey Olcott appears in the new comedy Garrett O'Magh, at The Columbia Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.

Anna Held is starring in the musical comedy The Little Duchess at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.

Ada Arnoldson (The Swedish Nightingale) and Bimm-Bomm-Brrr (European Novelty Musical Artists) are among the performers appearing at Chase's Polite Vaudeville Theatre, Washington DC, USA.

The Chaperons, billed as a "superb singing organisation, of over 100 people, including the greatest of lyric comedy artists" open for one week at The Columbia Theatre, Washington DC, USA.

The musical comedy Florodora is presented at The New York Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. The show will play on Broadway for a total of 505 performances.

The musical comedy Dolly Varden is presented at The Herald Square Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 163 performances.

Singer and "coon impersonator" May Henderson plays the third night in a week of shows at The Empire, Brighton, Sussex, UK.

Harry Bryant's Burlesquers are playing twice daily at The Standard Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

The Bostonians troupe performs the musical comedy The Serenade at The Tivoli Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.

The Knickerbocker Burlesquers, featuring "20 Young Girls", are playing at Kernan's Theatre, Washington, DC, USA.

Fanny Rice, Hedrix And Prescott, The Troubadors Toulousians, Mr. and Mrs. Silver, The Three Dancing Dawsons, Kathleen Parlow, The Six Blackbirds, and Paul Cinquevalli are appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.

The Picchiani Sisters, Wormwood's Monkeys, J.C.Nugent And Grace Fertig, Lawrence And Harrington, Frank LeMondue, George Yeoman, The Elinore Sisters, Billy S. Clifford, The Neilsen Sisters, Esmathilde and others are appearing at The Columbia Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Rickard's Vaudeville Company plays at The Theatre Royal, Perth, Western Australia, Oceania.

Bailey And Madison, The Colby Family, The Broadway Trio, William Cahill, The Welch Brothers, The Buttons, Sophie Burnham, Doll And Burden and Frank Ducrot are appearing at Pastor's, 14th Street, New York City, USA.

Sam Devere's Company presents a show described as "Refined Vaudeville and Extravaganza" at The Dewey Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

The 'fashionable vaudeville' show at The Grand Theatre, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, features Capt. Webb's Educated Seals And Sea Lions, The Andreassen Brothers, Lizzie Evans And Co, Libsey And Thayer, Florence Bindley, Orth And Fern, Lizzie Wilson and George W. Day.

The Frank Daniels Opera Company presents the musical comedy Miss Simplicity at The Metropolitan Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

Vaudeville family The Four Cohans (including George M. Cohan) are appearing at the 14th Street Theatre, New York City, USA.

Bert Williams and George Walker are starring in the musical comedy In Dahomey at The Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.

The Broadway Gaiety Girls play the fifth night of a week at The New Lyceum Theatre, Washington DC, USA, along with The Georgia Campers, billed as "The greatest colored act on the stage".

The musical comedy Stop! Look! Listen!, with music by Irving Berlin, is presented at The Globe Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 105 performances.

The musical comedy movie Mad About Music, starring Deanna Durbin, opens at cinemas in Ireland, Europe.

The Irving Berlin musical Louisiana Purchase is playing at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 444 performances.

The musical comedy Toplitzky of Notre Dame, with songs by Sammy Fain, opens at The New Century Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for sixty performances.

The musical comedy, Call Me Madam, with music by Irving Berlin and starring Ethel Merman, is playing at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 644 performances.

With his clay model of a polar bear, ten-year-old Don Vliet wins the first prize blue ribbon in the monthly modeling contest at Griffith Park Zoo, Los Angeles, California, USA. Young Don will go on to find greater fame as innovative rock musician Captain Beefheart.

Danny Kaye opens at The Palace Theatre, New York City, USA, for a run of four weeks.

Carol Burnett stars in the CBS-tv special An Evening With Carol Burnett on tv in the USA.

Freddie And The Dreamers record their first single, If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody, in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe, with producer John Burgess. The song is a cover of a 1961 US hit by James Ray

Jazz xylophonist, vibraphonist and bandleader Red Norvo is the guest on tv's Danny Kaye Show in the USA.

A package tour headlined by Roy Orbison and featuring Marianne Faithfull, The Rockin Berries and Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers, plays at The Gaumont, Sheffield, UK.

The Fugs, Richie Havens and The New Group play the second of two nights at The Cafe Au Go Go, New York City, USA.

The Association, The Stone Poneys (including Linda Ronstadt), Oscar Brown Jr. and Jean Pace play in a Benefit concert to raise scholarship funds for Negro students in the south Los Angeles area, at Pauley Pavilion, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Glen Campbell and John Hartman perform Black Mountain Rag on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour tv show in the USA.

When Australian spin bowler Shane Warne bowls his first ball against England, in his first Ashes Test, at Old Trafford in Manchester, he takes the wicket of English batsman Mike Gatting. The ball is so spectacular that it will go down in cricketing history as The Ball of the Century, immortalised in Jiggery Pokery by The Duckworth Lewis Method. Warne will go on to become a cricket legend, with at least three songs dedicated to his life and achievements - The Shane Warne Song by Paul Kelly (2008), The Shane Warne Song by Kevin Bloody Wilson (2019) and Shane Warne Is An Aussie by The Barmy Army.

Roy Estrada, former bassist with Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention and Little Feat, is convicted in Orange County, California, USA, of the felony offense of committing a lewd act with a child, and sentenced to six years in prison.

Ted Nugent appears, in animated form, in this day's episode of The Simpsons, entitled I Don't Wanna Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.