People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Gus Phillips Departs. [ARTICLE]

Gus Phillips Departs.

Gus Phillips left yesterday morning for New York to join his troup for a forty-five weeks engagement. He plays,as mentioned before, with the Cecil and Edna Spooner Comedy Company, who visits only large towns making week stands of the same play. The following is a press notice from the Boston Critic, and Mr. Phillips has reason to feel that his services are appreciated when chosen to fill a responsible roll with a star that is earning such rich laurels: I don’t know when I have been more captivated by a dancer than by that graceful sylph, Cecil Spooner, who is at Keith’s this week. This is her debut in the East, but she is well known and popular all over the West, where she has starred at the head of her father’s company in comedies of the New England type. In these she introduced a kaleidoscope dance, with brilliant electric light effects, and it it is said to be almcst as entranctng as that of the more widely known terpsichorean artist, La Loie Fuller. Miss Spooner’s dances during this engagement depend altogether upon the grace of movement of the agile performer, and it is to be hoped that this visit will not be the last Boston will see of her.