Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — CHARLES RHOADES BACK FROM NEW YORK [ARTICLE]

CHARLES RHOADES BACK FROM NEW YORK

Helped Train Ballet Girls and Witnesses First Performance of “A World of Pleasure.” Earle Reynolds and Nellie Donegan are the >iggest attraction in New York. Charles Rhoades, Jr., who for five weeks helped Mr. Reynolds train the ballet girls to do a roller skating act to fill in the Reynolds & Donegan act in “A World of Pleasure,” returned to Rensselaer Friday night and will reenter high school. He Bad a fine trip, a splendid experience and saw some of the pleasures of the greatest metropolis on the western hemisphere. “A World of Pleasure” opened what is expected to be a thirty weeks’ run at the Winter Garden theatre in New York last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds have the Toller skating act, which has the advantage of a big chorus of ballet girls, all on roller skates. They enter the stage to waltz music and furnish the background for the act of Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds, which is a decided hit. Mrs. Reynolds changes costumes a time or two during the act, Earle doing the act by himself while Mrs. Reynolds leaves the stage. The show was doing a great business and the theatre had been packed at every performance up to the tinje Charles left. The show will come to Chicago after its run in New York.

Miss Helen Reynolds, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds, is also in the skating act, and has a neat little specialty that is making quite a hit. Helen’s sister, Miss Maude, is attending school here, and living with her grandmother, Mrs. S. R. Nichols. Charles returned home by way of Buffalo, where he visited for a day with a great uncle and aunt and spent a few hours at Niagara Falls.