Origins of the Sunday Comics by Peter Maresca for February 20, 2015

Stage left is Will Rogers, the only one I know!!Can anyone else name them?

Far right is William Gillette, who gave us the Sherlock Holmes of deerstalker and meerschaum pipe – and who was also cousin of Pamela Colman Smith, who gave him some style tips in her capacity as designer for Henry Irving’s Lyceum Theatre Company in London where she worked with Irving’s manager Bram Stoker. Pamela, or ‘Pixie’, was also the illustrator of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck, released 1910.

Teddy Roosevelt is saying “Delighted” in panel four.

First panel, on the far left I’m thinking Will Rogers and then Houdini ? We know that two of them are Barrymore’s, so I think second from the right is Lionel Barrymore, and then Ethel.It could be John Barrymore, but it really doesn’t look that much like “the great profile”. Then the lady with the huge hat should be Sarah Bernhardt. Who’s the couple on the left after Houdini?

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The bottom half of this strip doesn’t show up when it’s enlarged. Howcum?

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To Peter Maresca, would you PLEASE tell us who thepeople are in the first panel, from left to right??THANK YOU!!

I thought the man on the left was William S. Hart, but looking at a page of Google images has me wondering again.