VTG 1944 Brisbane Australia Will MAHONEY CREMORNE Vaudeville Theatre Program

Description

This graphically exciting program evokes America in the 1940s as translated to audiences in Brisbane during World War II, The featured program in was "Ride 'Em Cowboy," starring theatre owner Mahoney.
In 1931, Will Mahoney had extensive experience on the vaudeville circuit in the US, becoming the highest paid variety star in the country by the early 1930s, when he arrived in Australia with fellow American star and future wife Evie Hayes. They acted in the film Come Up Smiling in 1939, after which he became a theatre manager in Australia of the Cremorne theatre in Brisbane. The theatre was successful and many of Mahoney's US friends attended including Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Gary Cooper and Artie Shaw, amongst others.
Program opens up to a variety of really interesting period advertisements, as well as pictures of performers.