page_title: David C. Montgomery
section_title: Fame
hierarchical_section_title: David C. Montgomery / Fame
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Fred Stone as the Scarecrow and David C. Montgomery as the Tin Man in the stage extravaganza The Wizard of Oz
context_page_description: David Craig Montgomery was an American actor and dancer, the partner of Fred Stone.
  Montgomery and Stone became famous for their performance in the 1903 Broadway musical The Wizard of Oz, and had many other successes in musical comedy and vaudeville.
context_section_description: Montgomery and Stone received an offer to appear in A World of Novelties at Miner’s Bowery Theatre.
  They first appeared on Broadway in 1901 in The Girl From Up There, at the old Herald Square Theatre. 
  The critics identified them as the most significant players in this show.
  They went with the show to London in 1902.Vincent P. Bryan wrote most of Montgomery and Stone's comic songs.
  They performed the song Nautical Nonsense in The Girl From Up There.in 1901. This may be the same song as Hurrah for Baffin's Bay, one of the hits from The Wizard of Oz, with music by Theodore F. Morse and words by Vincent Bryan.
  Montgomery and Stone were hired to appear in The Wizard of Oz.
  They persuaded director Julian Mitchell to let them introduce their trademark physical humor. 
  Montgomery played the Tin Man with creaky movements and a broad grin, while Stone played the loose-limbed Scarecrow.
  Their physical antics and comic duets made them both stars.
  The show ran in New York for nearly a year, then toured the USA with great success.
  They continued to play in The Wizard of Oz on tour and in return engagements through to 1905.
  Montgomery and Stone were co-stars of The Red Mill in 1906, an operetta written by Victor Herbert.
  They played the roles of Con Kidder and Kid Conner, two penniless American vaudevillians stranded at a small inn in Holland. 
  The Red Mill opened in New York at the Knickerbocker Theatre on 24 September 1906. 
  The Winthrop Moving Picture Company made very short films of two of Montgomery and Stone's routines from this show in May 1907.
  Montgomery and Stone often performed in vaudeville tours between Broadway engagements where they appeared in The Old Town (1909), The Lady of the Slipper (1912) and Chin-Chin (1914).
  Victor Herbert’s musical play The Lady of the Slipper opened at the Globe Theatre, New York, on 28 October 1912.
  Elsie Janis played Cinderella, with Montgomery and Stone as Punks and Spooks. A reviewer said, "‘The names of David C. Montgomery and Fred A. Stone have been inseparably linked with fun and frolic ever since years ago they forsook vaudeville to enter the musical comedy field, and the same applies to Miss Janis, and in their present vehicle they live up to their reputations to the utmost degree."Chin-Chin was the greatest hit of the 1914–15 Broadway season. It ran at the Globe Theatre from 20 October 1914 to 3 July 1915.
  The show is about painted dolls and tin soldiers in a Peking toy shop that come to life and meet Aladdin and his lamp.
  Both children and adults loved the show, which ran to packed audiences.
  David C. Montgomery died unexpectedly in Chicago, Illinois, on 20 April 1917. He was aged 47. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City.
caption: Fred Stone as the Scarecrow and David C. Montgomery as the Tin Woodman in the 1902 stage extravanganza The Wizard of Oz
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