John Hart was screamingly funny in the old-time nigger acts he used to do with Arthur Moreland at various times.
He also played an engagement with Augustin Daly in the play of the “Royal Middy.”
John Hart was born in Monongahela City, Pa., July 10, 1833; he died in New York City, June 4, 1904.
J. G. H. Shorey was one of the early minstrel proprietors and comedians.
The first record of Mr. Shorey’s career as a black-face performer was in his father’s barn at the age of nine years; pins were the admission fee, and it is said that no one ever complained of being stuck. A few years later he joined a dramatic company, and later a circus; after that came Shorey’s Southern Minstrels.
In the middle 50’s he formed an alliance with Duprez, Carle and Green, playing for a few seasons under the firm name. In later years he was identified with several prominent organizations in an executive capacity, as well as playing the variety theatres.
Mr. Shorey is reputed to have been the proprietor of the first Dime Museum ever opened in Boston.
J. G. H. Shorey was born in Great Falls, N. H., April 10, 1833; he died in Lynn, Mass., May 23, 1886.
Charles F. Shattuck was one of the oldest and most noted of minstrel bassos. He was the author of the song, “One Hundred Fathoms Deep,” and had made many beautiful minstrel arrangements.
He had been associated with such well-known minstrel organizations as Newcomb’s; Buckley’s; Simmons and Slocum’s; Geo. Wilson’s and numerous others. Mr. Shattuck died in New York, November 29, 1905; age 69 years.