The Wonder of Vaudeville by Richard Duffy

article cut from January 1901 (v6 #6) issue of Ainslee's Magazine

- Article contains 9 pages, 16 illustrations -

Illustrations include:

  • Sam Lockhart's "Three Graces"
  • Otto T. Johnson - sleight-of-hand
  • Maude McIntyre - singer
  • Brothers Damm - acrobats
  • Robert Downing (as "King Lear")
  • Marvelous Dunham Family - circus troupe
  • Papinta - "picture dancer"
  • Watson, Hutchings and Edwards - comedy trio
  • Artie Hall - "coon shouter"
  • Wright Huntington - director of stock troupe
  • McIntyre & Heath, "Negro Sketch Artists"
  • Edward M. Favor and Edith Sinclair - comedy sketches
  • Lizzie and Vinnie Daly - singers
  • James Richmond Glenroy - monologist
  • Charles R. Sweet - "The Musical Burglar"

    (edited from Wikipedia)

    Ainslee's Magazine was an American literary periodical published from 1897 to December 1926.
    The magazine's publishers were Howard, Ainslee & Co., a division of the Street & Smith publishing in New York City.
    Among those who wrote for Ainslee's were Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, O. Henry, Jack London, Edna St. Vincent Millay and P. G. Wodehouse.

    (Actual size of article: 6 1/2" x 9 1/4")

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