Mr. Stine’s most recent engagements were with Joe Weber’s Company and Max Rogers, of the Rogers Brothers, in “The Young Turk.”
Charles J. Stine was born in Freeport, Ill., August 19, 1864.
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| ANDY McKEE | STEVIE ROGERS |
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| GEO. W. CUNNINGHAM | HERMAN MARION |
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| BILLY CHACE | LEW. DAVIS |
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Chas. K. Harris, the famous author of the famous song “After the Ball,” and other famous successes, did a black-face banjo act for the Elk’s Minstrels in Milwaukee, Wis., about 1898. Mr. Harris was born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., May 1, 1864.
Arthur Dunn, the abbreviated comedian of many a lengthy musical success, was a black-face song and dance boy with Haverly’s Minstrels in 1881. But that was not the only black-face work that Arthur Dunn.
Mr. Dunn was twenty-three years old, February 23,—1887.
Stuart Barnes, the well-known monologist, was formerly a black-face performer. Billed as the “Kings of Ethiopian Comedy,” in a plantation act called “Fish Heads,” Mr. Barnes and his partner played an engagement at the Harlem Museum, New York City, week commencing September 28, 1891. Be it understood that “Fish Heads” was simply the name of the act of Clements and Barnes.
Will Vidocq (Murray), of the favorite, featured, furiously funny team of Haines and Vidocq, contracted the actor fever in 1876, when he was one of the three Vidocqs, a white-face act. Subsequently he was of the well-known acts of Shannon and Vidocq; Hughes and Vidocq; Vidocq and Evans, and Thompson and Vidocq. But long before these he did a black-face turn with Dan. Lester, the old-time clown; this was about 1879.
He first formed an alliance with Nat. Haines in 1884; afterwards they rejoined each other in 1889, 1898 and 1909.
Mr. Vidocq was born in New York, April 22, 1865.