In 1908, Joe Keaton, actor Paul Lucier, and agent Lew Earl founded the Actors' Colony in Bluffton. By 1911 over two hundred theater personalities flocked to Bluffton each summer. They included Keaton, his wife, Myra, and his son Joseph Frank, nicknamed "Buster," who were billed as "The Three Keatons." Pascoe's Place, a local tavern, became the unofficial club headquarters. By 1918, film began replacing vaudeville and the Actors' Colony declined. Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton, praised in a 1903 New York Times review as an excruciatingly funny child star of "The Three Keatons," was known for his ability to keep a straight face in any situation. Born in 1895 and dying in 1966, he left the family act in 1917 to work in silent film and is recognized, with Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, as one of the creative geniuses of silent comedy.