| JNO. F.—SHERIDAN & MACK—JAS. W. | BEN COTTON, JR.—HARRY BOOKER—BOB BIRDUE EUGENE CANFIELD JOE LOVELY BURT WAYNE | FRANK CONVERSE—TOMMY PEEL |
Subsequently he was with Pauline Hall in “Puritana,” “Niobe,” “Prodigal Father,” and other first-class companies.
In 1893 he joined Charles Horwitz, and as Horwitz and Bowers, for five years played the cream of the vaudeville houses, singing their own compositions, of which Mr. Bowers wrote the music; among the best known were “Always,” “Wait,” “Because,” and “When I Think of You.”
Mr. Bowers’ first minstrel engagement was with the Cleveland Company, others were Frank Cushman’s, Dockstader’s in 1903, and Wm. H. West’s (Ricaby’s) in 1905.
He was subsequently two seasons with McIntyre and Heath, in the “Ham Tree,” followed by as many seasons in vaudeville in his offering “College Days.”
As a reader of a song Mr. Bowers has no superior in present-day theatricals.
Frederick V. Bowers was born in Boston, Mass., June 11, 1874.
Pete Detzel hails from the home town of such celebrities as Johnny Jennings, Mark. Sullivan and Clarence Burton, naturally he must be good.
His first professional appearance was with Hi. Henry’s Minstrels in 1895, doing an end and acting as drum major; Billy Van’s Minstrels was next, after which Mr. Detzel says he “laid away” for a few months. But one can’t lay away much while idle, so he played two seasons with the Ted Faust’s Minstrels, and an equal length of time with Vogel’s Minstrels.
The best part of the past three years have been spent with Dockstader’s Minstrels. Mr. Detzel is now a vaudevillian with Billy Cawley.