1914 American Music Hall Chicago Theatre Joseph Santley

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Celebrating Our 10th Year on Ebay!! 1914 American Music Hall Chicago Theatre Joseph Santley I have a whole bunch of early theatre programs this week, please see my other auctions for more neat stuff! This is a program from The American Music Hall Theatre in Chicago dated January, 1914. Approximately 26 pages of program information and fantastic ads! The program for that week was "When Dreams Come True" starring Joseph Santley which was a musical comedy of youth. May Vokes co-starred. A sampling of ads (not all inclusive) are for: Djer-Kiss; Swift & Company; Washington Shirt Co; Overland Motor Co (maker of electric cars); Borland Electric Cars; Edelweiss Beer; Lowney's Cocoa; Chiclet's;Justrite Corsets; Zam Zam Candy Laxative; Woods Motor Vehicle; Colosimo's (w 1,500,000 yards of spaghetti always on hand); and Libby's. And, t are many, many more not noted. T is also information/listings about other Chicago-area theatres of the period. History : I have looked all over for information regarding the American Music Hall in Chicago and have come up with nothing, so have to assume it no longer exists! Perhaps a native Chicagoan can provide some assistance. Joseph Santley was born in 1889 and died in 1971 and was an American actor, singer, dancer, writer, director, and producer of musical theatrical plays and motion pictures. As a boy, he and older brother Fred began performing in live theatre appearing in summer stock and touring with their parents. In 1906, at age seventeen, Joseph Santley co-wrote and starred on Broadway in the play, Billy the Kid. In 1907, he acted in film for the first time for Sidney Olcott at the Kalem Company in a silent Western film short called Pony Express. Santley continued to work almost exclusively in musical comedy plays, returning to Broadway five more times as well as touring nationally. A gifted dancer, Santley created the Santley Tango and the Hawaiian Butterfly. After he married actress/singer and cabaret dancer Ivy Sawyer, beginning in 1916 the two danced as a team, performing together in a number of Broadway musicals and at other major venues across the United States such as the National Theatre in Washington, D.C.. Their final collective Broadway presentation was in 1927's Just Fancy which Santley co-wrote, produced and directed. In 1928, Joseph Santley directed his first motion picture, making a short talkie for Paramount Pictures that featured singer Ruth Etting. The next year, Paramount had Santley direct three more films that were short singing productions, one with Etting, another with crooner Rudy Vallee, plus a third titled High Hat with Broadway singing star Alice Boulden. Also, he directed A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic, a musical film featuring Eddie Cantor along with Eddie Elkins and his orchestra. In 1929, Joseph Santley co-directed, with Robert Florey, the first Marx Brothers feature film The Cocoanuts, a musical comedy for which he is most famous. Based on the George S. Kaufman play, and with music by Irving Berlin, the film was billed as "Paramount's All Talking-Singing Musical Comedy Hit." His other notable directorial efforts include 1935's Harmony Lane, a biographical musical on the life of composer Stephen Foster. In 1940, he directed Melody Ranch starring "singing cowboy" Gene Autry. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Joseph Santley died in 1971 in Los Angeles. Hallmarks : N/A Size : 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" Condition : Good, t are a few creases and wear around the edges. Very clean. I combine shipping on purchases of multiple items. All fragile items are securely double boxed for safe shipping. 6349 noisyboy has really cool stuff, click on my other auctions to view them or visit my website at The Noisy Boy and Disorderly Girl! for an enlargement: ... read more

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