Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-08-28

team, are still in business.
Ida Siddons has strawberry faru
o near Mount Clemens, Mich.
n Ned Perry is dead. Lydia. hi
+ widow married John +. Drew
E Luke Brandt. The Californi;
Cornstock Comedian, is dead.
Billy Leonard, arranger and lead
cr of orchestra, died in Seattle.
W. II. Davenport, the old-timt
, stage-manager, died in Montana.
" The Allcoats" and Eddie Dol
an, are in vaudeville in the East.
Al Titus, the famous variety lead
er, died some years ago in Spokane.
Waldo Whipple. the bone artist
and champion buck-andwing dancer,
is dead.
Conchita and Leo" recently
played an engagement at the Coils
cum in Seattle.
Eddie OBrien is dead. Alice
married a Boston man and retired
from the stage.
Pearl and Cassidy" are living in
) Spokane, where they are well sup
piled with this worlds goods.
Ivanho," the extemporaneous
vocalist. with his run like the
devil, but you cOuldn' beat Ivanho, ;"
is still in business.
Johnny Brace, of the team Brace
and Bit" is dead Brace was consid-
cred of the best black face" CONNIE
dians of those davs.
| Ed. Mozart has a Pennsylvania cir
cult of cheap-priced theaters. His
wife Georgia, is blind, and has quit
the business entirely.
Mortinella, whom John Cort of the
Standard, paid fabulous salary in
those days, is now a vaudeville agent
with offices in New York.
One of the De Forrest sisters mar
ried Layman, The man of many
faces, who conducts 4 successful
vaudeville theater in Peoria, Ill.
Warren Burgess, who as 4 cornet-
player had no equal on this coast,
was killed by a landslide on his
ranch, near Snohomish, years ago.
Bobby Gaylor, with his welI-re-
membered, well Anyhow" given
in his rich Irish brogue, has retired
from the profession and lives in Chi
cago.
Hazel Lester, vocalist of the team
of " MOncrief and Lester" died in
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grave, somewhere between Everett
anb Seattle.
Frank Healy, of the Healy Broth
trs, )" fell off the burlesque perch in
Paris, and was instantly killed. His
brother, Bill, brought the remains to
Chicago for burial
The always favorite Morgans
sketch team-have pretty home in
Stockton, Cal. where with theirchild-
ren, they live the simple life"
when not playing dates.
Crimmons and Gore. of by the
Sad Sea Waves" and Coming
Through the Rye" fame, have musi-
cal combination of their own and re-
Gently played the Sonnd towns.
Big Bertha" who was about the
size of Taft, and who conducted vari-
iety show-shops in many towns on
the coast, is dead. Her delight was
to appear in tights. Gee! what u
sight.
Conchita," formerly one of the
Chapman Sisters. married Tom
Leo, of the Leo Brothers," gym
nasts. They have resided for the
last ten years on their ranch near
Seattle.
Maggie Cline, who jumped from
Tony Pastors to Seattle to open, has
retired from the business. Her long
journey, without breaking, to play a
date. was the sensation amongst per-
formers those days.
Charles Hawkins, who conducted
the Montana Variety" at Port
send, was chOked TO death by an Oys-
ter lodging in his throat while eating
at a hotel in Portland, where he was
employed as barkeeper.
James Woodville, the old burnt
cork rascal, probably has circuit
of his Own-one could never tell where
James was" Here to-day, gone to-
morrow, was his creed. And he ad-
hered to it strictly. He was good
performer.
Bob and Eva Mckinley. sketch
and musical artists, who used to tour
the Territory in a stage-coach, are
now East, playing the high-class
vaudeville theaters. Bob" was a
trick viOlinist, initiating various
birds and animals.
Nellie Boyd. who owned the Nellie
Boyd Dramatic Company, which car
ried band and orchestra, and was a
favorite organization in Territorial
days, has retired from off the road
and lives on her orange-ranch near
Fresno. California.
Geo. Lavender, of Lavender and
Thompson" great favorites with
the public, is now working single.
tie owns few producing acres near
Salt Lake, has beautiful home. and
was recently in Seattle, playing the
Orpheum circuit. His wife has re-
tired from the stage.
John Cort, who ran the Standard.
and whose name was a household
word with every variety perform
er those days, because he paid the
largest salaries and booked only the
cream of the profession, is now gen
eral manager of the Northwestern
| Theatrical Association. and lives in
Seattle
John Burgess, the famous tuba
player of those days, BECAME mixed
up in a shooting -scrape in Seattle,
jumped the town, and later under
the name of Jack Hume, conducted
the Mascot variety in Missoula, Mon
tana. Burgess was found dead in
chair in hotel in Great Falls, Mon
tana, where he had went from Mis-
soula to play the races.
Chas. f. Bray, the orchestra lead