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Carl Hyson

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ComposerOn stage 19171920

Carl Hyson was a ballroom dancer who, with his partner Dorothy Dickson, became one of the popular dance teams of the 1910s and appeared in the original cast of Jerome Kern's Oh, Boy! (1917).

On stage 7 productions, 3 years

1917 Oh, Boy! Princess Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Royce, Robert Milton 463 perf.
1917 Ziegfeld Follies of 1917 New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Ned Wayburn 111 perf.
1918 Girl o' Mine Bijou Theatre · Original · directed by Clifford Brooke 48 perf.
1918 Rock-a-Bye Baby Astor Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Royce 85 perf.
1919 The Royal Vagabond Cohan And Harris · Original · directed by Julian Mitchell 348 perf.
1920 Kissing Time Lyric Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Royce 65 perf.
1920 Lassie Nora Bayes Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Royce 159 perf.

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Worked with more than once5 names

Dorothy Dickson 6 productions
Tessa Kosta 2 productions
Leo Howe 2 productions
Kathryn Rahn 2 productions
Charlotte Wakefield 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 3 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

In the literature2 passages

  • Cast: Marie Carroll, Tom Powers, Anna Wheaton, Hal Forde, Edna May Oliver, Marion Davies, Justine Johnstone, Dorothy Dickson & Carl Hysonebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • turing Irene and Vernon Castle who had become the rage as a dance team. Other popular dance teams at this time were Maurice and Florence Walton, Carl Hyson and Dorothy Dickson and John Murray Anderson with his wife, Genevieve Lyon. Other musicals that scored were the World” with Eugene and Willie How-theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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