Clarence Burton was born in Erie, Pa., about 1857; he died there March 12, 1885.
Thos. Adams, of the well-known black-face musical team of Bunnell and Adams, was identified with several prominent companies, and played the principal vaudeville theatres.
He was born in Boston, Mass.; he died in Little Rock, Ark., March 10, 1893; age 35 years.
Billy Golden (Wm. B. Shire) started theatrically in 1874 with Frank Merritt as a partner, remaining with him one year. In 1875 he joined Billy Draiton, and for ten years they appeared in all parts of the United States as Golden and Draiton.
In 1885 with his wife, May Golden, played for several seasons as The Goldens; later this alliance was augmented by Dick Schalpan.
Mr. Golden retired in 1900 to enter hotel life in Washington, D. C., where he remained three years.
September 25, 1904, he joined Joe Hughes as the team of Golden and Hughes, and as such they are now playing.
Mr. Golden’s wench business is genuinely funny, and it’s worth going miles to hear him sing “Turkey in the Straw.”
Billy Golden was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 9, 1858.
J. C. Harrington made his first appearance with Leslie, Raynor and Smith’s Minstrels, at the Temple of Music in San Francisco, 1868; nigger acts? Why, yes.