Variety (December 1907)

40 VARIETY "ONCE UPON A TIME" By LEE HARRISON. SAM MORTON was once a candy maker. • . MARC KLAW was once a lawyer in JOHN E. KELLARD was once an orator. Louisville. GEORGE W. MONROE once owned a HARRY LEE (The parodist) was once a plumber. WILL M. CRESSY once owned a lake. A. L. ERLANGER was once treasurer bakery. of the Euclid Avenue Opera House in Cleveland. ROBERT EDESON was once a shipping clerk. EUGENE O'ROURKE was once a police - man. RICHARD GOLDEN was once a clerk in a millinery store. RICHARD CARLE was once an oculist. SNITZ EDWARDS was once a jockey (for one day). NAT GOODWIN was once a Lyceum reader. BARNEY BERNARD was once a cloth ing packer. WILLIAM MORRIS was once the editor of a cloak journal. HENRY E. DIXEY was once a night JOE COYNE was once a pattern cutter. REN SHIELDS was once a brewer. clerk. LEW DOCKSTADER was once a bell GEORGE EVANS was once a printer. JOHN T. KELLY was a needle threader in a tailor shop. EDWARD HARRIGAN was once a ship caulker. PETER F. DAILEY was once an auc- tioneer. TEDDY MARKS once sold Chinese cigars. DAVID WARFIELD was once an usher at the Bush Street Theatre, San Fran- cisco. WEBER and FIELDS once worked as a team for B. F. Keith in Boston for $16 a week. SAM BERNARD was once a paper hanger. JOHN RINGLING was once a doctor's assistant in Chicago. . HARRY LAUDER was once a miner. REN WOLF was once a lawyer. WALTER KELLY once ran for Con- gress in Virginia. JULIAN ROSE was once chief account- ant for the Bell Telephone Company at Philadelphia. DE WOLF HOPPER was once ^ com- mercial man. FRANCIS WILSON was once a cash boy in Providence. DAVID MONTGOMERY was once a drug clerk. FRED STONE was once a stone cutter. JOE CAWTHORNE was born in the theatrical business, and so was JEFF DE ANGELIS. VICTOR MOORE was once an engineer. GEORGE M. COHAN was once a civil engineer. R. G. KNOWLES once owned a book store. LOUIS MANN was once a dog fancier. MACLYN ARBUCKLE was once a law- yer in Texas. JTJNIE McCREE. "Junle McCree," all alone by Itself. Is a sufficiently descriptive caption for the original of the above portrait. Mr. McCree Is known from coast to coast; he has made of hla "Dope Fiend" a world-wide character; he Is versatile, and held In high esteem by all professionals. boy in Hartford. GEORGE PRIMROSE once ran a news- stand in London, Ontario. DICK BERNARD was once a book maker. NED WAYBURN was once a foot run- ner. JAMES J. CORBETT was once a bank cashier. JAMES J. MORTON was once a school teacher. GEORGE FULLER GOLDEN was once an acrobat. AL FIELDS was once a cloak salesman. GEORGE THATCHER once worked in a DA VE LEWIS was once a window foundry. dresser. FRITZ WILLIAMS was once a violin maker. LONEY HASKELL was once a foreman in a factory. CHARLIE BIGELOW was once a piano tuner. STUART, the male Patti, once sold tamales in Austin. Tex. AL SHEAN was once a pants presser. BOBBY NORTH was once an editor of a Jewish almanac. ISSIE WARD was once a stage carpen- ter at Keith's Bijou, Philadelphia. "MUCK" WEBER once sold vegetables. EDDIE FOY was once a horse shoer. JOE HART was once a fish dealer. FRED HALLEN was once a news butcher. SAM COLLINS was once a cigar strip- per. CHARLES E. EVANS once kept a res- taurant. • WILLIAM MACART was once a tele- graph operator. ' CLIFTON CRAWFORD was once a pian- ist. CLIFF GORDON once sold zithers. WALTER JONES was once an usher at the Grand Opera House, Cincinnati. GUS YORKE was once a window dresser. NICK ADAMS was once a plumber. GEORGE BEEBAN once ran a lunch counter. JESS DANDY once drove a butcher wagon. BERT LESLIE once wrote an opera. ROBERT HILLIARD was once a broker. CHARLES BLANEY was once a ticket broker. JULIUS TANNEN was once private secretary to Philip Armour. HARRY WILLIAMS (the song writer) was once an acrobat in a circus. ROGER DOLAN once took milk baths for two mornings. HARRY BULGER once owned a news stand in Zanesville, Ohio. WILL H. COHAN was once private sec- retary to John L. Sullivan. WILLIAM GILLETTE was once a chem ist. WILLIAM COLLIER was once a call boy for Augustin Daly. CHARLES J. ROSS was once a stable boy and bid fair to become a great jockey. HARRY VON TILZER was once a Dutch comedian. GUS HILL was once the champion club swinger of the world. BOB FITZSIMMONS was once a black- TOM NAWN was once a life saver in smith. a Yiddish swimming school. Johnnie Le Fevre and Frankie St. John have retired from the cast of "The Mayor of Tokio," and are now playing in vaude- ville.