In the 1925 silent comedy “Seven Chances,” Buster Keaton’s character is thrown out of a theater, with his clothes torn and his straw hat shoved down his head, after strutting inside in pursuit of a ...

Editor’s Note: In Snap, we look at the power of a single photograph, chronicling stories about how both modern and historical images have been made. For Indian actor Chapal Bhaduri, the last man known ...

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PROVIDENCE — Francis Renault became an internationally celebrated vaudeville “female impersonator” in the early 1930s, known for his dazzling soprano voice and his extensive wardrobe of women’s ...