
John Dooley
John Dooley was a comedic acrobat who starred on the B.F. Keith vaudeville circuit in the 1900's and 1910s. Amongst other performances, he was part of Tydeman & Dooley .
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John Dooley was a comedic acrobat who starred on the B.F. Keith vaudeville circuit in the 1900's and 1910s. Amongst other performances, he was part of Tydeman & Dooley .

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.

Vincent Ariel Tydeman was born in New Jersey on August 24, 1883, to Edmund and Sarah Tydeman, who emigrated from England to the U.S. in 1878 with their nine children. The Tydemans welcomed another child, Florence, just before the 1880 census.

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 (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.

Johnny Dooley, comedian, entertained the Advertising Club at a luncheon at the Hotel Emerson yesterday. He was assisted by the Misses Constance and Daisy Madison.

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.