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He was born in Monroe, Louisiana, to Frank, an old-time Dixieland bandleader, and Marcella. [2] Moreland began acting by the time he was an adolescent; some sources say he ran away to join a minstrel show in 1910, at age eight, [2] but his daughter told Moreland's biographer she doubts this date is correct. [3]
Roberta's father Robert Sherwood was the manager of a traveling minstrel show; she and her sister Anne were raised on the road after their mother died.Roberta started performing in vaudeville at age 11, and the sisters soon became a vaudeville and nightclub act.
The theatre's inaugural event was held on April 12, 1967, with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association sponsoring the national cast production of Man of La Mancha, starring Richard Kiley and Joan Diener. [4]
William C. McClain (12 October 1866 – 19 January 1950) was an African-American acrobat, comedian and actor who starred in minstrel shows before World War I.He wrote, produced and directed several major stage and outdoor extravaganzas, and wrote a number of popular songs.
Billy B. Van (born William Webster Van de Grift; August 3, 1870 – November 16, 1950) was a prominent American entertainer in the early decades of the 1900s.He was a star, progressively, in minstrel shows, vaudeville, burlesque, the New York stage, and movies.
Mexican-American singer and actress discovered while performing with her sister, Dolores, in Los Angeles. After becoming a part of Gus Edwards' vaudeville troupe, she made a number of films, including 1930's On the Border with John Barrymore and Rin-Tin-Tin. [40] Julia Arthur: May 3, 1868 March 28, 1950 Canadian
The Billy Rose Theatre Collection at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts contains photographs and theater memorabilia.; The McIntyre and Heath Archive 1878–1936 10 Boxes held in the Charles Deering McCormick Library at Northwestern University in Illinois holds fan mail, photos, playbills, posters, correspondence with Emma Young, texts of comic operas, and contracts.
The Virginia Minstrels put on a full minstrel show at the New York Bowery Amphitheatre on 6 February 1843. Whitlock was the most famous of the foursome, [5] but soon all four names became well known as they toured New York and Boston. Whitlock's banjo was long-necked and four-stringed, though a fifth was added by 1844.