Actors' Fund of America scrapbooks

Actors' Fund of America

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The Actors’ Fund of America was founded in 1882 largely through the efforts of Harrison Grey Fiske, the owner of a theater trade publication, the New York Dramatic Mirror. The Fund got off to a rousing start, fueled by Fiske’s enthusiasm; by the “instinctive generosity of show people” (Simon, p. 3); and – most important – by the backing of the nineteenth-century theatrical elite, the actor-managers who owned and operated the theaters and from whose ranks the Fund’s officers and trus...

Lillian Booth Actors' Home of the Actors' Fund of America

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Hutchinson, Muriel

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Smith and Dale

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Smith and Dale were a well-known vaudeville duo who performed together for over seventy years. Joe Smith was born as Joseph Sultzer on February 16, 1884 and Charlie Dale was born as Charles Marks on September 6, 1881. Both men were born in New York City. They met in December of 1898 after getting in an accident while riding bicycles. Both boys had rented bikes from the same shop and they brought they bikes back to the shop bickering with each other all the way. The shop owner told t...