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Tydeman & Dooley were a pair of comedic acrobats who starred on the B.F. Keith vaudeville circuit in the 1900s and 1910s. Vincent A. Tydeman grew up in Camden, and also had a long career as a minor league baseball player.
Those of us who knew and esteemed the late H. Bart McHugh, Sr., recall the many-fold fine attributes of the man who was the heart and spirit of the annual Mummers Parade in Philadelphia for so many years.
Johnny Dooley, 41, comedian, died June 7 in the Homeopathic Hospital, Yonkers, of intestinal trouble. He had recently been operated upon for appendicitis.
William Dooley, brother of Johnny, Gordon and Ray of the theatrical family of that name, died Sept. 29, at his home 308 west 97th street, New York.
William Dooley, whose knockabout acrobatic antics with his brother Gordon have been familiar for many seasons in vaudeville and the roof shows, died early yesterday morning.
William (Billy) Dooley, born in Camden and a Philadelphia schoolboy, who was widely known among visitors at vaudeville theatres, died in New York yesterday following a fall from a taxi-cab on Tuesday.
The passengers who made the first trip up the Mississippi river on the Creole may wonder what ever became of the young-looking chief steward. He is none other than Johnny Dooley of the team of Dooley and Rugel at the Orpheum.