Major Bowes
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Edward J. Bowes, professionally known as Major Edward Bowes, was an American radio personality, theatrical manager, and film executive. Best known as the creator and longtime master of ceremonies of M
Major Bowes as his Amateur Hour became a national radio program in 1935
The grave of Major Edward Bowes and wife Margaret Illington in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Margaret Illington
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Margaret Illington was an American stage actress popular in the first decade of the 20th century. She later made an attempt at silent film acting by making two films with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players
Major Bowes
…composer, and arranger. He also produced Broadway shows such as Kindling in 1911–12 and The Bridal Path in 1913. He was married to Kindling star Margaret Illington from 1910 until her death in 1934. He became managing director of New York's Capitol Theatre, which he ran with military efficiency. He insisted on…
Illington featured in Theatre Magazine, 1906
The year of her divorce from Daniel Frohman, 1909
Poster for Inner Shrine, one of two 1917 features Illington made for Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky.