Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1919 — REYNOLDS IN NEW ENGLAND [ARTICLE]

REYNOLDS IN NEW ENGLAND

RENSSELAER VAUDEVILLE ART-p-diSTS ARE TOURING NEW 1 ENGLAND STATES. - Mr.~and Mrs. Earle Reynolds and daughter, Helen, of this city, world’s leading skaters, are now on a vaudeville circuit in New England. A letter from Earle states that they expect to start in on a new booking on ! March 14, which will carry them well ’ into the summer, after which he and i his family will return to Rensselaer i for a visit. The following article is I taken from the Bridgeport, Connecticut, News: “How to live an ideal family life on the vaudeville stage, is beautifulily exemplified by the Reynolds family, well known to theatre goers everywhere under the billing title of Reynolds, Donegan and Company. Mr. Reynolds is the Reynolds, Mrs. ' Reynolds is the Donegan—-her maiden name—and little Miss Reynolds is the Company. The family are appearing at Pali’s in a spectacular skating act, gorgeously costumed. They are a pleasant little family, engrossed in themselves and their interests, touring the country together, making their stay in hotels and theatres measure up to a real domestic standard of life. “But we really have a home,” said Mrs. Reynolds. “It’s a way off in Indiana, and it’s all our own. We spend six or eight weeks there every -y—■■-■ ■ ' “You should see ourho use,’’broke in Mr. Reynolds, enthusiastically, “It’s a peach of a place, right in the middle of five acres of the best wheat land you ever saw. We have seventeen rooms there, with a big garage in the rear, made into & gymnasium where we exercise to keep in trim and practice our new numbers for next season.” “Oh, yes, we feel quite proud of

Indiana,” broke in Miss Helen. “It’s the home of Booth Tarkington, you know, and George Ade and George Barr McCutcheon —his home is only twelve miles away from us. My grandmother and twin sister are out there keeping house for us and we’ll see them when we go home this summer. My sister—isn’t she beautiful?—” shyly producing a picture. She’s just getting ready to graduate from high school. She’ll probably be with us next year. I hope so because we all like to be together.” AAnd the little lady who spoke so wistfully of her sister and her home is nothing less than the recent premier dancer at the Hippodrome, the girl who took the place of Charlotte, the great ice skater, when she went to Chicago to fill an engagement there. She’s a little dark beauty, too, thicklashed and lustrous. See her in the picture. The family are just real folks, not like stage people at all—father, mother and daughter, pleasant ,to meet, pleasant to talk with and exceedingly pleasant to watch.”