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Category Archives: Donna Montran
Donna Darling Co. at the Bucklen Theatre, Elkhart, Indiana – 1924
In November 1924, the Donna Darling Company appeared at the Bucklen Theatre in Elkhart, Indiana, presenting “A Beach Promenade,” a bathing girl revue featured in a five-act vaudeville bill for Armistice Day. Continue reading
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Tagged 1924, Bathing Girl Revue, Bucklen Theatre, Elkhart Indiana, A Beach Promenade, Armistice Day
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Donna in the News – Maryland Theatre, Hagerstown, MD, November 1920
In November 1920, Donna Montran — billed as “Donna Montram” — headlined the Maryland Theatre in Hagerstown, Maryland, with Tom Rooney’s Bathing Beauties in “A Beach Promenade.” The Daily Mail called the act “a sure fire winner, from every viewpoint.” Continue reading
Posted in Theatre History, Beach Promenade (1920), In the news, Donna Montran, Vaudeville
Tagged Galetti's Monkeys, Vaudeville, Vaudeville #History, Man o' War, Montran, Genealogy Research, Charles Thropp, Maryland Vaudeville, A Beach Promenade, theatre history, Maryland Theatre, Hagerstown, Maryland, Bathing Beauties, The Herald-Mail, Tom Rooney, Donna Montram, Daily Mail, 1920, Bob Milligan, Donna Montran
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Donna Darling and Her Girls at the Elks’ Mardi Gras, Carlinville, IL – Week of October 12, 1925
In October 1925, Donna Darling and her girls brought “Her Little Revue” to the Carlinville Elks’ Mardi Gras and Auto Show — playing not in a theatre but under an 80-by-200-foot circus tent just off the town square in Carlinville, Illinois. Continue reading
Posted in Donna Darling and Girls, In the news, Donna Montran, Vaudeville
Tagged Two Sunflowers from Dixie, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Orpheum, The Evolution of a Bathing Suit, Donna Montran, 1925, Vaudeville, Western Vaudeville Managers Association, Illinois, Carlinville Illinois, Donna Darling, Elks Carnival, Donna Darling and Girls, Her Little Revue, Illinois Vaudeville, Macoupin County Illinois
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Donna, Sammy & Hal — Worcester, Massachusetts (July 1927)
In July 1927, my grandmother Donna Darling brought her own touring company — with Sammy Clark and Hal Dixon — to the Palace Theatre in Worcester, Massachusetts, sharing the bill with C. B. Maddock’s “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.” Three consecutive days of Worcester Evening Gazette coverage document the engagement, which slots into a documented one-week New England swing between stops in Springfield and New Bedford.
