Mr. Thatcher has since been in vaudeville singly, also at various periods with Ed. Marble, Charley Ernest, Banks Winter, Mrs. Zenaide Thatcher and Will Phillips.
Also did he play an engagement with Moore and Burgess’ Minstrels in London, England, about twenty-five years ago; his success there was nothing short of phenomenal.
Mr. Thatcher is a natural wit, always original, and an actor as well as a performer, as evinced by his clever interpretations of black-face characters in “The County Chairman” and “Cameo Kirby.”
In 1908 he was with Cohan and Harris’ Minstrels, and in 1909 the feature of Eddie Leonard’s Minstrels.
George Thatcher was born in Baltimore, Md., July 15, 1846.
John P. Hogan, besides being a great dancer himself, has the ability to impart his skill to others.
Mr. Hogan began his professional career doing a song and dance with Stanley and Mason’s Minstrels in 1862.
In 1865 he joined Raynor and Christy’s Minstrels, with Johnny Prendergast doing a neat song and dance, which by the way they were probably the first team to do such an act. That same year they joined Bryant’s Minstrels in New York, and the following season he formed a partnership with Ruey Hughes at Bryant’s Minstrels. In 1867 they were with Griffin and Christy’s Minstrels, located in New York.
Their next minstrel engagement was with Bryant’s in 1868, also in the metropolis.
In 1869 the pair joined Buckley’s Serenaders, and the following year they were with Billy Manning’s Minstrels, located in Chicago, where in the Spring of 1871, Hogan and Hughes severed their business relations, owing to the illness of the latter.