Six years previous to this, however, he organized Arthur L. Guy’s Novelty Minstrels.
Arthur Leopold Guy was born in New York City, January 26, 1872.
Manuel Romain is the happy possessor of one of the most pleasing tenor voices in minstrelsy, and has the faculty of using it to the very best advantage.
In 1893 he made his bow to a minstrel audience in New York, with Primrose and West’s Company. In 1895 he was with Cleveland’s Minstrels, subsequently playing extended engagements with Primrose and Dockstader’s, and later Dockstader’s Minstrels.
In 1907 Mr. Romain entered the vaudeville field with an elaborate production entitled “Down in Music Row,” and met with flattering success. Two years later he produced “Before and After the Ball,” which, if possible, achieved even greater success than its predecessor.
Manuel Romain was born in Cambridge, Mass., October 1, 1872.
Will F. Phillips, whose clever portrayal of light comedy roles in “Havana,” the “Top O’ the World” and other Broadway successes, the past few years has brought him such deserved success, was a member of a stingy troupe with the explanatory title of the “American Minstrels,” in 1887.
The company was sans band, sans five dollars collectively and sans nearly everything that could be sansed. They arrived in Haverhill, Mass., the same day as the Thatcher, Primrose and West’s Company, and when the latter made their noonday parade, the “American Minstrels” acted as trailers. Strange to relate, the T. P. & W. show did the business on that memorable, never-to-be-forgotten evening.
Will F. Phillips was born in Albany, N. Y., October 31, 1873.
Eddie Mazier is one of the cleverest of the latter-day minstrel comedians; for a performer who can sing and dance equally well, and tell a story in such a way as to bring out its best points, is certainly clever; and such is Eddie Mazier.