Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1913 — Left For Australia and Trip Around the World. [ARTICLE]

Left For Australia and Trip Around the World.

Mr. and Mrs. Earle Reynolds, known to the theatrical world as Reynolds and Donegan, roller skaters, whose act has been one of the leading vaudeville features for several years, left Rensselaer this Wednesday morning for San Francisco, from which city they will sail on Aug. 26th oh the steamer, Ventura, for Sidney, Australia, Mrs. Reynolds’ native home. They will open in the Trivoli theatre in Sidney and play other Australian cities for the next year, arriving home the latter part of next June. Mrs. Reynolds’ father, James Donegan, came from New York to bid them farewell. Mr. Donegan and his daughter and husband and her twin daughters, Maudie and Helen, were entertained at dinner Tuesday evening by Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fendig. Mr. Donegan is the head of the Dunedin troupe of bicycle performers, now in New York, but which will be at the Princess theatre is Chicago during the week beginning Aug. 24th. They will then play Sullivan & Constantine for thirty weeks, playing in the large theatres of this country until November of next year, when they Will sail for Australia and play the same theatres abroad that Mr. and Mrs. Reynold® are to play this year. Last week Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds played at the famous blue grass fair at Lexington, Ky., and Governor James B. McCreary, made a special trip to the fair to witness the skating act. The Lexington Herald, of last Thursday, states that the governor called Mr. Reynolds by long distance telephone to Inform him that he would be at the fair to witness the act, which was the fair headliner. The governor was met at the station by the band and escorted to the fair ground, where himself and party were the guests of Mr. Reynolds. The Herald concludes its article by saying: “The skaters are said to be the best ever seen on a local stage by the many critics who have seen them perform.”