In this blog, I'll be delving into the Charles Rogers & Co act ' The Movie Mania '. If you'd like to read more about Charles Rogers and Co and their later act, ' The Ice Man ', please click here ! Sadly, as is the case for ' The Ice Man' , no pictures of the act or its performers have yet surfaced. As always, if you have any pictures or information about Rogers and his work (or any Roach folk!) that you'd like to share with us, Matthew and myself would be more than happy to hear from you - you can email us at roachwriters@gmail.com. ☺ ' The Movie Mania' was toured by Rogers and his company throughout the USA during the mid-to-late 1910's. It is synopsised (and named instead as ' The Movie Rehearsal ') in a 1917 Variety review as the following; 'two men and a woman in a comedy sketch...Scene is laid out in a picture studio, comedian and soubret applying respectively for the positions of leading man and leading lady to th...