Edna May Spooner, the favorite emotional actress, whose popularity seems to know no bounds (especially in Brooklyn, N. Y., and Centreville, Iowa), played Topsy in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” more than once; but if you want a date, here it is—Bijou Theatre, Brooklyn, N. Y., March 21, 1910. And how she did play it!
Bert Leslie, the slick slangster of several successful seasons, joined the Kickapoo Medicine Company No. 8, in November, 1892, doing a black-face specialty, in Tamaroa, Ill. Mr. Leslie attributes his present good health to the fact that he never took any of the medicine he was surrounded with; he says every time a bottle was sold it always made him “gag.”
Bert Leslie (Wm. Albert Johnston) was born in Dubuque, Iowa, May 6, 1871.
Walter McMahon, of the original team of McMahon and King, was also associated professionally with James Snider.
After separating from Mr. King he worked with his wife, under the team name of McMahon and Kingsley.
He died in Butte, Mont., December 22, 1899; age 27 years.
Arthur Leopold Guy is the junior member of the famous Guy family.
He made his first appearance with his relatives in Cohoes, N. Y., in 1876, at the immature age of four years.
Young Mr. Guy was always ambitious, and seventeen years later was qualified to vote. His debut was made in white-face, as a singer; subsequently developing into a comedian of unusual ability.
Mr. Guy early showed executive talents, and it was no surprise to his friends when on February 22, 1909, he organized and produced what he claims to be the originator of—giving a complete minstrel performance in vaudeville.