At the present time Mr. Casey is said to be doing an act in vaudeville with Dan Swift.
Chas. A. Mason, the well-known Dutch comedian, formerly Mason and Mason, also formerly Kelly and Mason, was very much a minstrel before gaining fame as Teutoner.
In 1880 he was with Billy Arlington’s Minstrels, and up until 1887 he played extended engagements with M. T. Skiff’s Minstrels, likewise Whitmore and Clark’s.
Charles A. Mason was born in Dürkheim, Bavaria, Germany, July 14, 1860.
J. Arthur Doty (Oakman) was a clever female impersonator, and a bright writer of sketches, burlesques, etc.
In 1879 he worked with Fred Malcolm doing acts in the variety houses.
September 11, 1886, he began an engagement with Simmons and Slocum’s Minstrels in Philadelphia; subsequently, and for about eighteen months, he did an act with Belle Fairmont.
March 23, 1879 he was announced to marry Eva Belfontaine, a non-professional of Denver.
J. Arthur Doty died in Detroit, Mich., April 13, 1890.
The three Crimmins Brothers made their first appearance as a team in 1872, although John and Steve had preceded their younger brother in the profession about two years previous.