Roly Poly
Contributors: Goetz, E. Ray, b. 1886; Sloane, A. Baldwin (Alfred Baldwin), 1872-1926; Smith, Edgar, 1857-1938; Frew, John, 1875-1955, artist; Corning, John Herbert, d. ca. 1940, donor; Weber & Fields (Comedy team); Weber & Fields' All Star Stock Company; Weber & Fields' Broadway Music Hall (Organization : New York, N.Y.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1912
Language: eng
Description: Weber & Fields' New Music Hall, Forty Fourth Street, just west of Broadway, the Messrs. Shubert, proprs., Weber & Fields, lesses & managers. Weber & Fields' All Star Stock Company in "Roly Poly," a more or less digestible dramatic dessert mixed by Edgar Smith, lyriced and tuned by E. Ray Goetz & A. Baldwin Sloane, staged by Gus Sohlke, and composed of the following ingredients, appearing in the order mentioned. Orchestra under the direction of DeWitt C. Coolman.
Notes: Weber & Field's New Music Hall [New York, N.Y.], beginning Monday evening, December 23, 1912. Matinees Thursday and Saturday, evenings at 8.15, matinees 2.15.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Arthur Aylsworth, Frank Daniels, Valli Valli, Joe Weber, Lew Fields, Clifton Crawford, Bessie Clayton, Elsa Reinhardt, Karl Kohn, J.E. Ludwig, Thomas Stephens, Alleyne Pickard, Verna Arnold, Marcelle Hontabat, Josephine Fields, Harriet Leidy, Gertrude Moyer, Hazel Rosewood, Margaret Cassidy, Inez Borrero, Adelaide Mason, Evelyn Westbrook, Lillette Boyes. Personnel of the chorus: Misses Elsa Reinhardt, Harriet Leidy, May Willard, Emily Monte, Edith Offutt, Maidie Burker, Evelyn Westbrook, Saidie Mullen, Mabel Ray, Lee Wyant, Eloise Rowe, Sue Duval, Mary Ellison, Carrie Monroe, Maurean Huban, Grace Williams, Frances Ramey, Louise Wilson, Katheryn Kirwan, Helen Neilsen, Vonnie Hoyt, Marie LaChere, Violet Jewell, Gladys Ingraham, Kathleen Allen, Norma Phillips, Tao Howard, Verna Arnold, Laura Hoffman, Lu Taylor, Margie DeGrasse, Eileen Kramer, Eugenie Miller, Alleyne Pickard, Marcelle Hontabat, Dorothy Bertrand, Mabel Taylor, Gertie DeVere, Inez Borrero, Margaret Cassidy, Lilette Boyes, Claire Aldwyn, Eva Ray, Ethel Ray, Nellie Moyse, Marian Sanford, May Hatherley, Mabel Faber, Margaret Taylor, Adelaide Mason, Bertha Lovelace, Sylvia Clark, Bessie Clark, Gertrude Rutland, Josephine Fields, Myrtle Mayer, Marie Sherwood, Myrtle Ross, Lotta Morse, Lillian Hazel, Gertie Moyer, Hazel Rosewood, Edna Chase.

Illustrated cover design by John Frew.

Label mounted on program: "During the progress of Act II, by special request, the Messrs. Weber and Fields will present their famous 'Pool Table' scene".

LC copy: Gift: Est. of J.H. Corning, June 20, 1940.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).