E. M. Kayne (Kerr), was a well known and capable interlocutor and bass singer.
His professional career began about forty years ago when he appeared under his own name. April 10, 1875, in conjunction with E. M. Hall and Ned. Wambold, he organized a minstrel company which had a brief existence.
Mr. Kayne was one of Haverly’s original Mastodons in 1878, and continued with Haverly for several seasons.
For some time prior to his death, which occurred in Chicago a few years ago, he was employed in that city in a mercantile establishment.
Harry Kernell, one of the greatest Irish comedians the variety stage ever knew, was an end man with Hyde and Behman’s Minstrels in 1885; and for many years before that. He died in New York, March, 1893.
Ed. Marble came from an old theatrical family of the legitimate stage.
He joined Thatcher, Primrose and West’s Minstrels in 1884 as interlocutor, and continued with them several seasons.
He subsequently wrote and produced “Tuxedo” for George Thatcher, and it was a pronounced success. Mr. Marble later played with Mr. Thatcher in vaudeville. His daughter is Mary Marble, well known in vaudeville circles.
Ed. Marble was born in Buffalo, N. Y., September 6, 1846; he died in Brooklyn, N. Y., August 9, 1900.
J. Melville Jansen entered the profession in 1874 at Fall River, Mass., with Gus Bruno, and as Johnson and Bruno, they continued as a black-face acrobatic song and dance team for five years; and they were rated with the best. They played the principal variety houses and some of the best minstrel companies, notably Sweatnam’s in 1878.