Lancton and Lucier
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Paul Sarconi (aka Paul Lucier) Born: 1870 or 1877 Denver, CO Died: January 18, 1916 Chicago, IL |
Iva Lancton Born: Unknown Died: Unknown |
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Dorothy (Lucier) Sarconi Born: 1897 Died: Unknown |
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Little is known about the
lives of Iva Lancton and Denver native, Paul Sarconi, who
performed under the stage name Paul Lucier. Married, the couple
performed as the Lancton and Lucier Company, Lucy and the Luciers as
well as separately, with Paul performing with partners Hayes and
Montgomery and Iva working in the vaudeville team Higgins, Melville and
Higgins. (Iva's sister and wife of Edward M. Waterbury, Laura
Lancton, also performed on the vaudeville circuit, as part of the
Waterbury Bros and Tenny). The couple arrived in Muskegon in 1905 and again in 1907, playing the Lake Michigan Park Theater as "Lucy and the Luciers". Friends of the Keatons, Paul worked with Joe Keaton and Lew Earl to form the Actors' Colony in 1908. Lucier along with wife and daughter, Dorothy settled in Muskegon for the summers, in a cottage on Walnut Street. During the vaudeville season, Dorothy attended the Ursuline Academy in Muskegon and later, the Holy Name academy of Grand Rapids while her parents toured the vaudeville circuit. She resided with her grandmother, Mrs. Josephine Lancton in Muskegon. In 1916, Paul Lucier was found dead in his room at the Grand Hotel in Chicago the morning after a performance by the Montgomery and Hayes act. |