“Pray pardon me for the delay in replying to your letter, but I have been much absent from town and my time wholly occupied with rehearsals.
“I am sorry to say that I’m afraid I can’t give you any definite information, as it is from twenty to twenty-five years ago, and I really don’t remember. I only recollect that I played many little parts. Faithfully,
“David Belasco.”
Wonder if Mr. Belasco has any ideas in that fertile brain of his, as to how a minstrel show should be run? Bet he has.
Sallie Cohen played Topsy in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” when she was a little girl; she told me so herself.
But that couldn’t have been such a very long time ago; now was it, Mrs. Rice?
Sam Rickey (Rich. T. Higgins), one of the greatest stage Irishmen ever known, and who was an early partner of Edw. Harrigan, played frequently in black-face during his early career with Add. Weaver. He was also with Hart, Ryman and Barney’s Minstrels in 1871.
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| JOHN A. LANG | BOB. TYRRELL | RAYMOND SHAW |
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| HAYDON TILLA | THOS. B. DIXON | HARRY SHIRLEY |
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| GEO. W. HARLEY | HARRY W. ROE | HORACE RUSHBY |
| MORE SINGERS. | ||
He died in New York, September 10, 1885.
Edmond G. Corbin, the Apollo banjoist, formerly of Claudius and Corbin, Hale and Corbin, and just Corbin, was one of the features of the Primrose and Dockstader’s Minstrels in 1901.
Mr. Corbin’s ideas of comedy frequently conflicted with those of Jas. H. Decker.