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Donna – A “Cabaret Girl” in Panama.
We know that Grandpa Dick (Clifford/Richard Brown/Durand) was in the Army in the late 1920s and early 1930s and was stationed in Panama where he and Donna met. We don’t know exactly when Donna and her husband Sammy Amsterdam went … Continue reading
Babcock Theatre, Billings, MT – May 17-18, 1924 – Donna Darling & Company
I’m still looking to find more about Donna’s time in the Spring of 1924. I know she was in Bridgeport, CT in early February but have nothing on her whereabouts until she appears in Billings, Montana, at the Babcock Theater … Continue reading
Posted in Donna Darling & Co., Donna Montran, Vaudeville
Tagged Montran, Donna Darling, Montana, Billings, Babcock Theatre, Vaudeville
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Donna wishes a Merry Christmas
On December 24th, 1919, Donna joined 139 other people in wishing Roehm and Richards a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year via an ad taken out in the New York Clipper. They all hoped that Health and Prosperity will … Continue reading
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Tagged New York Clipper, Happy New Year, Merry Christmas
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Donna in Boise, ID at the Pinney Theatre – Dec 4-7, 1919
Donna’s next stop with the company of Chin Chin was in Boise, Idaho on December 4th to the 7th. The Idaho Statesman ran many agent supplied articles and advertising for the show. Articles began in the “What Boise Theatre Managers … Continue reading
Posted in 1919-20 - Chin Chin, Donna Montran, Vaudeville
Tagged Chin Chin, Donna Montran, Vaudeville, Montran, Idaho
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Donna Montran – 1919 – Charles Smith & Able Green
By April of 1919, Donna had relocated from Boston, MA to New York. She and Trixie Bressler took out an ad in Variety. Trixie had, in 1918, led Max Roger’s Review at Perry’s in Brooklyn and was one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Donna Montran, Vaudeville
Tagged Brown/Montran, Sarah Blackhurst, colonial theater, 1919
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