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Presumably one of these guys is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Tubb He led the Texas Troubadours which played at the first Grand Ole Opry show from Carnegie Hall. PIctures at www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=10193 would seem to confirm that Tubb is in the light suit in the middle. But Bob McCoy doesn't seem to have been a member of the band. Maybe he's the guy hiding behind Tubb -- perhaps adjusting a mike.

books.google.com/books?id=yygEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=RA1-PA22&a... www.legacy.com/ns/fullstory.aspx?storytype=1&storyid=42 is another biography, with a video of him singing "Walking the Floor Over You", a big hit for him and much heard and covered over the years. [ www.allmusic.com/song/t1431695 shows albums that have included the song.]

Beatrice Allen was on Broadway in the 1910s. See www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=29630 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Pennington_(actress) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Dawn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_McCoy The Green Book Magazine, Volume 15, 1916 books.google.com/books?id=U2YhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA686&l... shows a Consuelo Bailey who was an actress at the time. Photo is compatible with third woman from right, as indicated by ordering of names in caption. Vera Maxwell was on Broadway in the 1910s. See www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=51948 An Eleanor Dawn was on Broadway by 1920. See www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=37540

At the automobile fashion show at the Sheepshead Bay Speedway on June 23, 1917, s. The sun., June 24, 1917, Page 1, col. 4, 'POPULACE SPILLS HAZEL DAWN BEANS' chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1917-06-24/ed-...

The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, July 08, 1917, SECTION FIVE, Image 63 printed this photo oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1917-07-08/ed-1/se...

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This series and others collected in an online album: historicalzg.piwigo.com/index?/category/35-1917_actor_s_f...

Seems like Mrs. R. H. Davis is Mrs. Richard Harding Davis. Harding's second wife was Bessie McCoy (c1886-1931), a Vaudeville performer--they wed in 1899, he died 1916. Harding was a journalist associated with the Hearst papers, but he also wrote a lot of stories that were adapted for Broadway shows. www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=68280 www.nndb.com/people/398/000048254/ Bessie's sister in show business was called Nellie McCoy. www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=52211

Thanks pennylrichardsca for the additional information. I spoke to someone who knows vaudeville performers and he confirmed that this is Bessie McCoy on the left and Nellie McCoy on the right.

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