Gus Hogan had been manager for various burlesque companies, after their separation.
| NED—GOSS & FOX—JAS. (Portraits reversed) | JAS.—GRIFFIN & RICE—JOHN C. (1875) (Portraits reversed) | JNO. F.—FIELDS & HOEY—WM. F. (Portraits reversed) |
Harry Hogan (Hornidge) was born in New York, in 1857; he died in Jersey City, N. J., October 26, 1905.
Gus Hogan (Rohling) was born in New York; he died at Fair Haven, N. J., May 30, 1908; age 50 years.
Hooley and Thompson formed a partnership about 1871, doing black-face songs and dances.
Their first prominent engagement was with Welch, Hughes and White’s Minstrels in Brooklyn, N. Y. They were with Haverly’s Mastodons in 1878, and went to Europe with them in 1880, and continued with Haverly some time after that.
Subsequently they were with Wilson and Rankin’s Minstrels. In September, 1887, they joined Rice, Hart, and Ryman’s Minstrels; this was their last joint engagement.
They separated about August, 1888; Mr. Hooley subsequently acting in an official capacity at his uncle’s (R. M. Hooley) theatre in Chicago.
Mr. Thompson afterward played in white-face with Joe Murphy’s Irish dramas, and for several seasons was the latter’s manager.
Bob Hooley was born in Brooklyn, N. Y.; he, died in Chicago, Ill., January 24, 1899.