Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1914 — Jay Dwiggans to Take John Bunny Parts in Movies. [ARTICLE]

Jay Dwiggans to Take John Bunny Parts in Movies.

Older residents of this city will well remember Jay Dwiggins, son of R. S. Dwiggins, for many years a resident of this city. The Dwiggids family owned and lived in the house now owned by W. O. Rowles, on west McCoy avenue. Jay Dwiggins has. for several years been engaged in the entertainment business, and has made a great hit as a reader of Riley poems. He left San Francisco and located ip. New York City a tew years ago. He has for some -time been an understudy for John Bunny, the immensely funny and popular actor for Vitigraph moving pictures and is now to take Mr. Bunny’s place while he takes a long . and much needed rest. Mr. Dwiggins has already, appeared in a 1 number of performances, but the first of the pictures will be released on Nov 7th. Rensselaer people generally, especially the old friends of Mr. Dwiggins, will be very anxious to witness his performances. Augustus Phillips, also of this city, is still engaged as a movie actor with the Edison company and is one of the popular film actors with our people.