Official Orpheum and Shubert Circuit Vaudeville photographer Orval Hixon was the premier arts and crafts photographer of the 1914-1930 era. His Kansas City studio at the opulent Baltimore hotel was patronized by hundreds of stars of Vaudeville, film and theatre. These included celebrities like Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Joan Crawford, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, Marie Dressler, Theda Bara, Baby Rose Marie, Charles Buddy Rogers, Theodore Kosloff, Ruth St. Denis, Olsen & Johnson, Eddie Rickenbacker, Fannie Brice, Will Rogers, Sessue Hayakawa, The Singer Midgets etc. His KC subjects account for over 29 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame