A season with “Muldoon’s Picnic,” with Hyde & Behman, and Mr. Reed returned with Emerson’s Minstrels in San Francisco, subsequently becoming a partner of Emerson, and later Charley Reed’s Minstrels held sway at the Standard Theatre until April 10, 1886. August 16, 1886, he opened at the Madison Street Theatre in Chicago, with a minstrel company. He continued here a few weeks, and in the following October he appeared with Lew Dockstader’s Minstrels in New York, playing a brief engagement; this was his last appearance in black-face. Later he appeared as Ko-Ko in the “Mikado,” “A Rag Baby,” “City Directory” and other farcical plays.
At the time of his death he was associated in partnership with William Collier in “Hoss and Hoss.”
Charley Reed was born in New York City, May 22, 1855; he died in Boston, Mass., November 21, 1892.
Nat. C. Goodwin in minstrelsy? Why, yes. He commenced an engagement with Haverly’s Minstrels at Chicago, September 11, 1876, doing a specialty consisting chiefly of imitations.
Griffin and Rice ranked with the premier black-face song and dance teams of minstrelsy.
They made their first appearance as an act in Pittsburg, Pa., about 1873. September 15, 1875, they opened with Buckley’s Serenaders in Boston; the season closed October 25, 1875.
December 20, same year, they began an engagement with Carncross and Dixey’s Minstrels in Philadelphia, and continued throughout the season.
On November 20, 1876, they opened with Sweatnam’s Minstrels, also in the Quaker City, an engagement that terminated December 16. Two days later they returned to Carncross and Dixey, where they remained the major portion of the time until the dissolution of their partnership in 1883.