America's Oldest · Founded 1808

Historic Photo Gallery: 1900 to 1920

1915

In October 1915 Edward Everett Horton led the Penn Players, Walnut Street Theatre's stock company at the time, in several productions, including The Man from Home, Within the Law and Ready Money. Horton is best known for his supporting roles in several Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers films, and went on to become the voice of "Fractured Fairy Tales" on the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon series. (Photograph courtesy of the Theatre Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia.)

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