Mellie and Gram Dunham on tour, Cleveland, ca. 1926
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Norway Historical Society
The Dunhams left Michigan on December 13. They stopped in New York City to visit Alfred Masury, a friend from his summer visits to Lake Pennessewassee in Norway.
They were greeted with more reporters and a welcoming crowd carrying signs and balloons.
Masury had also arranged for them to meet New York Mayor John Hylan.
Back in Norway, Freeland Howe had contacted Harry Jordan, manager of Keith's Theatre in Philadelphia, who was originally from South Paris.
The Keith-Albee organization was an enormous theatrical empire with control over 450 theaters and booking control over 775 theaters.
Keith's signed the Dunhams for a tour and agreed to develop, manage, and present an act that would open in Boston on December 21.
From Boston, they went to the Hippodrome in New York City, and on to 19 cities in 10 states over the next four months ending in Portland on May 17.
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