RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION - Genesee County

RUTH McEVOY COLLECTIONArthur Sidman - wrote as well as acted and directed. 9-10-1895Edwin Houghton - marries Bertha Delbridge. 9-1-1898F. P. Spellman of Batavia - with Dan McCarthy Company 1-3-1899F. P. Spellman of Batavia - with Dan McCarthy Company 10-16-1899Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Houghton at home after successful season. 6-30-1899Bert Carpenter to join the W. E. Hooker outfit. 5-16-1903Burt Carpenter to New York today. 7-1-1903Miss Ruby Garlinghouse - in Toronto and Quebec. 8-28-1905Elroy Smith and Charles Bolt now on vaudeville circuit. 2-8-1908SUBJECT TEXT DATEActors and Actresses (cont.)Past and Present column: Paragraph on Alice Chappel, dancing studentin New York. 3-8-1930Alyce Chappell in Lew Holtz' new show "Johnny Royle's Sextette" inPhiladelphia - later for New York. 12-22-1930Past and Present column: Paragraph on Alice Chappell the dancer. 1-3-1931Mildred Dawson Williamson - soprano - had theatrical parts in N. Y. 5-26-1931Past and Present column John Saunders the actor - really George W. Root,son of Dr. John Root.Sarah Root, George Root's sister, married James Brisbane - mother ofGeorge Brisbane of New York. 7-1-1911Edward Russell to Baltimore to take engagement with Lyman H. Howetravel festival. 8-2-1912Harry D. Crosby - in Alias Junney Valentine in Majestic Theatre in Buffalo. 12-10-1912Maud Lansing Rowan died. 12-4-1912Clifford Weed - well known local actor - in amateur productionat Dellinger. 3-18-1915Mrs. Frances Wakeman Davies appears in scenes from Griffith's play"Way Down East" (Mrs. Merton Davies afterward Mrs. Oscar Mandell.) 12-4-1920Past and Present column: Paragraph on former legitimate actors now inBatavia: Harry D. Crosby; Frank D. Spellman; Matie Remunev?(Mrs. Contant); Edward J. Dellinger, manager. 2-12-1921Past and Present column: Paragraph on Jesse M. Thomas - in vaudeville,son of Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Thomas of 472 Ellicott St. 5-5-1923Past and Present column: Paragraph on play, Honor Be Damned, atMorosco Theater in New York with two Batavians in cast - andfrequent mention of Batavia in text. 3-5-1927George "Dutch" Weiss back after spending fifty years in vaudeville androad shows. 9-21-1928Past and Present column: Hallie Stiles, the only American in Opera Conuquein Paris, a former Batavian. Father was Newell W. Stiles who had adrug store at 92 Main St. - later Riders Drugs. Hallie became an operastar. 12-29-1928Hallie Stiles writes she is not the Hallie Stiles of Opera Conuque. 2-7-1929Past and Present column: Paragraph on William Courtney a singing teacherand James H. Ryley and Madeline Lucette who met in his classes inBatavia and married. They went on to great success in musical comedy,soon went to London where she was born. She wrote many comedies.Died at 75 in London. 3-3-1934Polly Walters, a sister of Mrs. John Carmody of 213 Bank St. - signed by