Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… showmanship and a keen understanding of the Vaudeville style. He was said to be a story teller of great talent and an unrepentant trickster."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… summers the Pastime also hosted plays, offering vaudeville between acts. The Park Theatre opened in Southwest in 1919, and soon, even Somesville…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… a matinee or evening performance of “corking good vaudeville,” as one ad put it, all nationally-known acts contracted through Boston and New York…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"Concerts, minstrel and vaudeville shows, oratories, chorales and dramatics were all available on a regular basis by nationally known stars as well as…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… and included magicians, dancers, singers, musical vaudeville, acrobats and aerialists, slapstick comedy and musical productions."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"The Opera House also had magnificent vaudeville. Their opening act of as of 1913 was “Odiva,” the queen of mermaids."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Exhibit 1916 • Eagle Theater opens – movies, vaudeville, summer stock, Houdini! 1919 • Passamaquoddy Tidal Project proposed – two dams built in…"