1899 "THE ROUNDERS" PHYLLIS RANKIN, HARRY DAVENPORT, DAN DALY, JOSEPH CAWTHORNE
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Outsized playbill from the George W. Lederer musical extravaganza, THE ROUNDERS, which starred nearly-newlyweds PHYLLIS RANKIN and HARRY DAVENPORT. This show was the young couple's second round of employment by Lederer, the pair having appeared in his "The Belle of New York" in 1897. Davenport (son of actress Fannie and brother of Fannie's near-namesake actress Fanny) would achieve immortality as Dr. Meade in the film "Gone with the Wind". Rankin was the daughter of theatre star McKee Rankin and actress Kitty Blanchard; one of her sisters was actress-playwright Doris Rankin, wife of Lionel Barrymore, while another sister was actress Gladys Rankin, who married Sidney Drew. (Keep it in the family, thesps.) With Dan Daly, Joseph Cawthorne, Max Freeman, Thomas Q. Seabrooke, Mabel Gillman. Marie George, Carrie Perkins, Crissie Carlisle, Irene Bently, Susie Drake, Nella Webb. Eva Kelly, Ilma Pratt, Celia Rhodes, Mabel Russell, Harriet Meritt, Mildred Meade, Pauline Chase, Mabel Frenyear, Grace Spencer, Frederick Urban, Walter Cifford, Ida Rock, Helen Irwin, Zella Frank, Sol Solomon, Arthur Etherington, Joseph Kane, Tom Collins, Horace Hayne, Roy Richards, and Henri Chaille. The show played the Casino Theatre. Producer George Lederer was also the manager of the Casino and the Casino Roof Garden, where vaudeville played. He eventually
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