Mr. Patti defied all theatrical traditions by making his initial professional appearance on the thirteenth anniversary of his birth.
Ten years later he organized the “Greg. Patti Minstrels,” since which time he appeared at various functions of the elite, among whom may be mentioned Mr. Pembroke Jones, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Mr. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., Mrs. James Speye, Mr. Roy Rainey, Mr. Paul Rainey, Mr. Juilliard, Mrs. Murray and many others.
COHAN AND HARRIS’ MINSTRELS, 1908.
In addition he has shown with his merry little band at many of the bon ton clubs, notably, the Metropolitan (known as the “Millionaires”), Union League, Equestrian, at Sherry’s, all in New York City.
Also at the Tuxedo, at Tuxedo; Fort Orange at Albany, N. Y.; Algonquin, at Bridgeport, Conn.; Lakewood Club, at Lakewood, N. J., and numerous others.
Like his illustrious namesake and relative, Mr. Patti reaches for the high notes—and gets them.
Greg. Patti was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 23, 1866.
Boardman Carnes was one of the best known vocalists in present day minstrelsy.
He was long a member of the Quaker City Quartette, and had developed into being a fine interlocutor.