Ten years with three such organizations is a record of which Mr. Horan may justly feel proud.
Subsequently he appeared successfully with several well-known dramatic companies; after which he returned to minstrelsy with The George Primrose Co.
Mr. Horan has played vaudeville for the past few seasons.
Eddie Horan was born in Hartford, Conn.—after Lew Dockstader.
Wm. H. Hallett is well and favorably known as an interlocutor in present day minstrelsy.
His first engagement with a minstrel organization was with the Wm. H. West Company in 1896.
Subsequently he joined the Primrose and Dockstader Company, remaining three seasons, after which he identified himself with Lew Dockstader for the same period.
Mr. Hallett then forsook cork for grease paint, and for two years was with Charley Grapewin in “The Awakening of Mr. Pipp;” at the end of that period (Mr. Hallett, not Mr. Pipp) felt uneasy, and no one seemed surprised, when at the opening of the season of 1908, our rotund interlocutor was found in his accustomed place with Lew Dockstader’s Minstrels, where he remained two years.
He is now in vaudeville with Neil O’Brien.
Before his minstrel engagements Mr. Hallett was with the “Gay Debutante;” “Sis Hopkins;” and the “Daughter of Cuba.” In none of these plays did he assume the title-role.