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…"

Music in Maine - MAKE

"… their talents and performing in operas, vaudeville, and so-called “Wild West” shows. They met and sang with people from other Indigenous…"

Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"… and Clouthier department store, and played vaudeville stages in New York. Franco Bands Alphonse Cote, Lewiston, 1918Franco-American…"

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."

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"… in Michigan, he and his wife Emma performed on vaudeville stages including in New York, Boston, Washington DC and Philadelphia."

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"She was a mezzo-soprano and performed in vaudeville shows, where she met my grandfather, Bruce Poolaw."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

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