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Author Archives: Don Taylor
Donna Darling at the Strand Theatre, Pontiac, Michigan (June 22–24, 1925)
Newspaper advertisements confirm Donna Darling’s June 22–24, 1925 appearance at the Strand Theatre in Pontiac, Michigan. Promoted with her Bathing Girl Revue and “Comedy Life Guards,” this engagement strengthens the reconstruction of her 1925 Midwestern vaudeville tour between Ohio and Detroit. Continue reading
Posted in California Bathing Girls (1925), In the news, Bathing Beauty Revue, Donna Montran, Vaudeville
Tagged Donna Darling, Strand Theatre Pontiac, California Motion Picture Beauties, 1920s touring performers, Michigan vaudeville, Bathing Girl Revue, 1925 vaudeville tour, Comedy Life Guards, madonna montran, Pontiac Michigan theater
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Happy Birthday Grandma Donna
Happy Birthday rememberance of my grandmother, Madonna “Donna” Mae Montran (1893–1976). She lived a complex and fascinating life that extended far beyond her vaudeville years. Born in Albion, Michigan, she married several times, later settled in Michigan and Minnesota, and ultimately donated her body to science. This remembrance reflects both documented facts and the enduring personal legacy she left to her family. Continue reading
Faces from the Past – Hunnewell & Plummer Family Portraits (1860s–1880s)
Six 19th-century portraits from the album of Nellie Plummer Roberts preserve the likenesses of Lucy Hunnewell Libby, Marietta “Mettie” Hunnewell Small, and Seth L. Plummer of Scarborough, Maine. Studio imprints, fashion details, and known birth dates allow these tintypes and cartes de visite to be securely dated from the Civil War era through the mid-1880s. Continue reading
Posted in Linwood Dyer Collection, Faces from the Past
Tagged Plummer family, Hunnewell family, Cumberland County Maine, Civil War era photography, tintype portrait, Scarborough Maine history, carte de visite, Lucy Hunnewell Libby, J H Lamson photographer, Marietta Hunnewell Small, Chas W Hearn photographer, Seth L Plummer, 19th century family portraits, Nellie Plummer Roberts, Mettie Hunnewell
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Donna Darling at the Heilig Theatre (Eugene, Oregon) – 1926
In November 1926, the Donna Darling Revue appeared at the Heilig Theatre in Eugene, Oregon, as part of the Western Vaudeville Managers’ Association circuit. Contemporary coverage in The Eugene Guard identified Donna as the “heading act” and described a visually ambitious production featuring song, dance, and a striking “radium coat” finale, offering rare insight into her touring career. Continue reading
Posted in Donna Darling Revue, In the news, Donna Montran, Vaudeville
Tagged Radium stage costumes, Donna Darling Revue, Madison Square Garden beauty contest, The Eugene Guard newspaper, 1920s Theater, Vaudeville 1926, Heilig Theatre Eugene Oregon, madonna montran, Western Vaudeville Managers Association, Donna Darling, Eugene Oregon 1926, Sammy Clark, Flo Ziegfeld reference, George White revue, Association Vaudeville circuit
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Faces from the Past – Libby, Potter, & Small
Five photographs from the Linwood Dyer Collection illuminate members of the Small, Potter, and Libby families, spanning ambrotypes, tintypes, and early 20th-century portraits. Through inscriptions, photographic formats, and family research, these images reconnect individuals to names, dates, and places in New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and beyond. Continue reading
Posted in Linwood Dyer Collection, Faces from the Past
Tagged tintype, Portland Maine, Black Point Cemetery, Scarborough Maine, Libby family, Small family, Potter family, Linwood Dyer Collection, Identified Photographs, 19th century photography, historical photographs, ambrotype, Faces from the Past
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