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... the straight man of the famous comedy team Scott and Whaley. Eddie was born in Montgomery, Alabama and the coloured American was a Minstrel show performer before coming to Europe. He came to Britain for an eight-week engagement and apparently never returned ...
... 1901, at 7, Upper Duke Street, St ret ford Road, Manchester, Alioe, the beloved wife of Billy Richardson (Sum Hague's Minstrels). American papers, please copy. STA5LKY On Thursday, February 21, 1001, at Leith Hospital, James Henry Eccles (Harry Stanley) ...
... Jig-Fernandez.--- Passed aiway in Manchester, March 8, 1008. 1 ate erf late S*>in Hague'9 Minstrels. Inserted by his eanployd, Lizaie 4tfl W. H. Thompson. American paiers please oopy. Leyton.-- In ever -cherished memory of my be- loved and only son, Sydney ...
... the Palladium Cinema in that own. His mother was a cousin of Sir Henry J. Wood and his father as a member of the American Old yme Minstrels, a show which oured Welsh lesorts in the 1880. Obituary ...
... profession hen Thatcher and Alice, Thatcher and 1 Leopold, Sam lUjiue's Minstrels, etc. I l>il January 15. 1977, at 44, Rich- j i mood Street, C. on M Manchester. --Deeply mourned by all. American papers, please copy. W infield (Charlotte Watts M&thlas), beloved ...
... most of the music, including White Christmas for the BING CROSBY and BOB HOPE films RAY SHANNON RAY SHANNON, the well-known American vaudeville and production comedian, who died, at the age of 7b, on January 1, in Cincinnati, U.S.A., was, for three years ...
... America when he failed his examination for Ihe Army. There he appeared with circuses and Western minstrel troupes. By the time he was 27 he drifted into tbe American theatre and played with Maurice Barrymore. He returned to London in 1899 and appeared in The ...
... as one of Britain's leading jazz musi cians, but also a natural comic who became a popular feature of the Black and White Minstrels, George Chisholm died, on December 8 at Milton Keynes after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease. Bom in Glasgow on March ...
... Europe, as well as the Royal Ballet, the London Festival Balltff and the Black and White Minstrels He leaves a wife, Julie, and a daughter Jill. ELSIE KEENE, the American actress, has died, aged 90, was believed to be the last surviving member of William Gilette ...
... 1895. For the past three years he had been in poor health. Joe Keppel made his profes sional debut with VAN ARN- HEIM s MINSTRELS at Albany. New York, in 1910. He teamed up with JACK WILSON in March 1919, with the pair presenting a comedy acrobatic and ...
... died at the age of 62 on October 16 at his home in Los An geles. He started his career at the age of six as a juvenile in a minstrel show at Providence, Rhode Island. His real break in show business came in 1932 as a male dancer at the Roxy Theatre, New ...
... any point or not. It is no wonder then that dramatic honours are lei t to the manufacturers of idiotic jukes, mummies and minstrels, the getters-tip of witless parodies, and putters-together of scenic melodramas. With such men in possession of the public ...