The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-28
She FELL IN LOVE.
Why Dancer at Novelty Left Legiti-
mate Stage.

from QlTecIO1T0 gown InOQ6l TO an
actress and from the legitimate stage
to the vaudeville because she fell in
love is the career of Mrs. Frank Ma
lone, who does an acrobatic dance
with her husband at the Novelty this
week They are billed as Malone &
Malone" Mr.. Malone began his work
doing stunts in a sawdust pile near an
old saw mill at his home in St. Paul,
MINI, and has been in the acrobatic
business ever since he was II years
old. Seven years ago he was in To-
peka at the old Novelty on Kansas
avenue in an acrobatic act with Rosa
lese.
No, Mrs Malone is not from New
York, either. Her home is in Tacoma,
Wash, and she thinks there is no state
like Washington for a home. Oh, yes,
vaudeville people and other theater
pie. Many of them are reared and
reared carefully and do not just
grow like Topsy.
At Tacoma Mrs. Malone was Miss
Irene Reehling. No, again. Her ia
Their was not a minister. A great
many people think that either the
narrow life of q minister's daughter
induces girls to the glamcr of the foot
lights or that their parents were both
poor and cruel to them and they ran
away from home. Not so in this case.
The father of the clever dancer at the
the wolf howled not at their door.
A few years ago she demonstrated
a directoire dress in one of the large
stores in Tacoma, according to the
young woman. (She says she is 10
years old and, really, she doesn't look
a day older.) On account of her stun
ming appearance she became Thes-
plan.
But let her tell it,
mo one in our family as far back
as We know was in the show business"
said Mrs. Malone as she waited in the
wing for her turn"
''It just cropped out in me. It hap
pened this way. When the directoire
gowns first came out few years ago
1 was asked to demonstrate them and
did so in one of the largest stores in
Tacoma The people at the theater
saw me and liked me and offered me
q chance to DO little parts. 1 took it.
was with the McRae stock company
for some time.
mo, really I couldn't dance a step,
couldn't even shake my foot until I
met Mr.. Malone. That was at Everett,
Wash, about three years ago. 1t was
case of love at first sight. We de-
cided to get married and then he
taught me to dance"
'And she does mighty good work,
too" put in Mr.. Malone, who was
standing nearby.
yes" continued his pretty wife, 'I
like vaudeville much better than the
regular drama. We are SO much more
independent. And there is more
money in it than in the legitimate
stage"
Mr.. Malone's career is equally as
unique.
"a lot of us kids practiced all kinds
of flip f1ops in a sawdust pile near an
old saw mill at my home, st. Paul,
Mimi. John Bell now a famous aero
bat and the boys known now as Wells
& Sells were in the bunch. L got to
be pretty good when 1 was II years
old. (Say wish you could have seen
that circus 1 gave about then in
tent made of gunny sacks and DON
key hitched to wheelbarrow as the
main feature of the parade.) A little
later 1 went with an acrobatic troupe
in a circus and have just been tum-
bling around Citerally) ever since. |
used to make balloon ascensions and
high dives when just a kid. (Mr. Ma
lone is only 26 years old now) had
to be strapped in the parachute to
keep from falling out ="
what do you think when you are
doing a high dive?"
'Well, you fix your eye on certain
spot in a net and you know you've
got to hit it. But that's suicide work.
"Ballooning is comparatively safe
after you have made one or two as
cents. OF course, the parachute when
first cut off from the balloon falls like
a shot for about seventy or eighty
feet and makes you sick at your stom-
ach for few times, but it isn't so
bad after you get used to it"