Word: musicomedian
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...this opponent could not be ignored for his political talents were famed and he was known to the world as Eddie Dowling. Mr. Dowling-Goucher's career is more remarkable than Mr. Gerry's. It began as a choir boy in Providence. It went on as a musicomedian with his wife Ray Dooley. It continued as a playwright (Sally, Irene & Mary, Honeymoon Lane). It cut over into the movies, first as an actor, then as producer. And it returned to Broadway last January when he produced Big Hearted Herbert. He has also penetrated political high places. Last autumn...
Died. John J. ("Jack") Donahue, 38, famed musicomedian and hoofer (Sunny, Rosalie, Sons o'Guns), magazine fictioneer (Letters of a Hoofer to his Ma), producer (Lost Sheep); after a chronic infection of the kidneys, sinus, heart had caused his collapse while playing Cincinnati in Sons o' Gum; at his home in Manhattan. Born in Charlestown, Mass., he began his theatrical career at 14 by appearing in local amateur nights. Subsequently medicine show entertainer, smalltime vaudeville dancer, he had his first big success in Sunny (1925). Despite the pain in his legs and feet, occasioned by the illness from which...
...Have one of the three pay an incognito midnight visit to his chamber. Next morning have each vehemently deny, then reluctantly admit, his charge. The result: pleasant theatrical fare for a summer evening. Ladies All is a doctored U. S. version of Rumanian Prince Antoine Bibesco's Who. Musicomedian Walter Woolf, in his debut as a legitimate actor, played seductively, sinfully, the rich young bachelor. His prize: Violet Heming, the blonde sculptress...
...Love Letter)-as Preacher Wampus, and Actress Loftus, 53, onetime variety actress, music hall singer, who once trouped with Sir Henry Irving, Madame Modjeska, Edward H. Sothern, William Faversham. Part of Lost Sheep's revenue or deficit will go into or come out of the pocket of Musicomedian Jack Donahue, a backer of the entertainment...
...occasion for the muster at Patchogue is a socialite benefit performance. And although the onetime troupers are delighted to see one another again, Sissy and Queenie are loth to admit publicly their acquaintanceship with Rosie and the spangled past. But after Sissy's daughter marries a musicomedian, and after Sissy's husband admits clandestine friendship for the free-and-easy Rosie, and after Patchogue society ostracizes Sissy's entire household, the curtain bangs down on a scene of beer-drinking good-fellowship between the aging handmaidens of Buffoonery...