Wm. D. Hall, author, actor, playwright, manager and other things theatrical, says he had a serpentine career, although never having done a dance of that name.
Mr. Hall’s stage career began as a “prodigy” at the age of ten; city, Baltimore; theatre, Odeon. Musical Comedy, drama, variety, vaudeville and minstrelsy has he also been associated with.
He wrote the life of “Dan” Emmett, the immortal composer of “Dixie” and a play for the late Ernest Hogan; he also wrote several letters to the author.
Mr. Hall began the present season of 1910 with Dumont’s Minstrels in Philadelphia.
He is a son of George L. Hall, the oldest living minstrel vocalist.
Wm. D. Hall was born in Washington, D. C., December 25, 1867.
Willie Collier (I always call him Willie), the favorite comedian, is just as funny in black-face as in white; at least he was on the night of October 12, 1896, when as a colored damsel he sang and danced in the performance of “Miss Philadelphia,” at the Park Theatre, Philadelphia.
Mr. Collier was born in New York City, November 12, 1867.
NEIL. O’BRIEN
has long ranked with the great comedians that have tended to make minstrelsy famous.