Maclyn Arbuckle, the comedian, who may one day play Falstaff, was a member of the “Lambs’” Minstrels at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, May 31, 1909.
The story that Mr. Arbuckle had blacked nearly his whole anatomy before the veteran minstrel, Raymond Hitchcock, intervened and told Arbuckle that only the face, neck and chest needed the burnt cork, is a fabrication, pure and simple.
Albert Guy has long been a member of the Guy Brothers Minstrels, where his superb baritone voice is heard to excellent advantage. As an interlocutor he ranks high.
Mr. Guy has been associated with his brothers professionally practically his entire career.
He was born in New York, January 7, 1865.
Chas. J. Stine, the well-known capable character comedian, whose efforts in some of the more prominent productions have brought him the prominence he deserves, made his initial bow as a performer as a member of J. N. Gilbert’s Minstrels—we all know Charley Stine, but—“has anybody here seen Gilbert?” This occurred at Ridott, Ill., in 1878; later Mr. Stine did shine as one of the stars of Horace Herbert’s Grand Constellation. Things were “Nip and Tuck” for a season, then he “troubadoured,” and then joined Goodyear, Cook and Dillon’s Minstrels.
After several farcical affairs, Mr. Stine allied himself with George Thatcher’s “Tuxedo” and “Africa” companies.
About 1893 he married Ollie Evans, and as Stine and Evans played vaudeville in this and foreign climes for several seasons.
In 1901 he once again “blacked up” with Dick Jose’s Minstrels in San Francisco.
Mrs. Stine died in January, 1908; subsequently Mr. Stine married Miss Barbara Daub, a non-professional lady, February 24, 1910.