Dumbells

The troupe organized its own professional touring variety show and undertook 12 cross-Canada tours up until 1932. Jack McLaren performed in a 1955 Dumbell revival at Massey Hall in Toronto. The Dumbells story was later recreated in a stage musical.The Legend of the Dumbells, at the Charlottetown Festival in 1977.

Top: Scene in "The Duchess Entertains" 1921.  McLaren at far right.

Right: Jack McLaren (left) and Al Plunkett (right) singing a duet in a Dumbells' sketch.

Middle: Biff, Bing, Bang playbill.

Far right: Jack McLaren as Sir Joseph Porter in "H.M.S. Pinafore."