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In December 1928, my grandmother Donna Darling and her stage partner Sammy Clark appeared in Paul Specht’s “Syncopation” revue at the Plymouth Theatre in Worcester, Massachusetts, sharing the bill with Dolores Del Rio’s “Ramona.” Four consecutive issues of the Worcester Evening Gazette followed the engagement from its Monday opening to its Saturday close, offering an unusually complete week-by-week record of the act. Continue reading →