Vaudeville Headliners
Simply to play the Palace assured an enhanced reputation and future bookings, but to play the coveted headline spot, usually billed seventh and next to the closing act, was a special distinction. Through the years of vaudeville's heyday, these headliners included:
- Ed Wynn (1913)
- Ethel Barrymore (1913)
- Nora Bayes (1914)
- Fritzi Scheff (1914)
- Nan Halperin (1915)
- Will Rogers (1916)
- Blossom Seeley (1917)
- Lillian Russell (1918)
- Leon Errol (1919)
- Marie Cahill (1919)
- Olga Petrova (1919)
- The "Dixie Duo" (Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake) (1919)
- Bert Williams (1919)
- Marie Dressler (1919)
- Aileen Stanley (1920, 1926, 1930, 1931)
- The Marx Brothers (1920)
- Lou Clayton and Cliff Edwards (1921)
- Bessie Clayton (1921)
- Fanny Brice (1923)
- Isabella Patricola ("Miss Patricola") (1923, 1926, 1927, 1938)
- Cecilia Loftus (1923)
- Trixie Friganza (1924)
- Florence Mills (1924)
- Cliff Edwards (1924)
- Doc Rockwell (1925)
- Weber and Fields (1925)
- Eva Tanguay (1926)
- Ethel Waters (1927)
- Julian Eltinge (1927)
- the Duncan Sisters (1927)
- Clark and McCullough (1928)
- Clayton, Jackson & Durante (1928)
- Buck and Bubbles (1928, 1929)
- Harry Langdon (1929)
- Mary Hay and Clifton Webb (1929)
- Phil Baker (1930, 1931, 1932)
- George Jessel (1930)
Other performers appearing at the Palace included Sarah Bernhardt, Al Jolson, Enrico Caruso, Helen Kane, Eddie Cantor, Frank Fay, Bob Hope, Sophie Tucker, George Jessel, Mae West, Vernon and Irene Castle, Gus Edwards, Eddie Leonard, Burns and Allen, Fred Astaire, Benny Fields, Kate Smith, Bill Robinson, Ethel Merman, Bing Crosby, Wheeler and Woolsey, Rudolph Valentino, and Jack Benny.
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