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Eugene Victor Debs came with Socialism. George Spoor and E. H. Ahmet took pictures that moved ("Essanay") of Gloria Swanson, Charlie Chaplin. Eddie Foy tried to stop the fire-panic at the Iroquois Theatre. Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters got an audience denied in the East. Three young businessmen began Rotary...
Died. Eddie Foy, 70, famed well-loved buffoon, star of Cinderella (1889), Sinbad, Ali-Baba, and many another early musical comedy, hero of the Iroquois Theatre fire when he was the last man to leave the stage; of heart disease; in Kansas City, Mo., while on a farewell vaudeville tour...
When President Andrew Johnson was facing impeachment charges after the Civil War, Eddie Foy started on his career as a professional entertainer, turning handsprings in Manhattan saloons and "passing the hat" for an outdoor fiddler. When French engineers ventured to dig the Panama Canal, Mr. Foy was shuffle-dancing and tumbling before miners in the mushroom towns of the Wild West. When Theodore Roosevelt called for Rough Riders, Eddie Foy was in bright lights, a symbol of spry clowning. By the time che Kaiser had started for Paris, "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys" had be come a vaudeville...
...years, Mr. Foy is returning to the vaudeville stage for a farewell tour. The Fallen Star is the vehicle that takes him through the Keith-Albee theatres. This one-act sketch by Tom Barry tells of the plight of a once idolized actor who, in old age, is reduced to the position of doorman. Enthusiastic, Mr. Foy's friends urge him to revive Rip Van Winkle, one of the plays in which Joseph Jefferson toured the country...
...Prentis W. Abbott, Mrs. Robert E. Bacon, Mrs. James A. Bailey, Mrs. George P. Parker Jr., Mrs. Foy H. Booth, Mrs. Nicholas P. T. Burke, Mrs. Dwight W. Chapman, Mrs. Patrick F. Coady, Mrs. Louise H. Daley, Mrs. Philip S. Dalton, Mrs. Malcolm Donald, Mrs. Eben H. Ellison, Mrs. Edwin E. Farnham, Mrs. W. B. Osgood Field, Mrs. Frank J. Gamache, Mrs. Gordon Gordon, Mrs. Robert H. Gross, Mrs. Robert H. Hallowell, Mrs. Paul M. Hamlen, Mrs. Joseph D. Hitch, Mrs. Ralph Horween, Mrs. John P. Ilsley, Mrs. Bayard L. Kilgour, Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont...