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Moms Mabley (2,036 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

1920s and became a veteran entertainer of the Chitlin' Circuit of black vaudeville. Mabley later recorded comedy albums and appeared in films and on television

One Mo' Time (musical) (217 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

Lyric Theatre of New Orleans in 1926. The Lyric Theatre was on the black vaudeville circuit known as the Theatre Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.)

Jailhouse Blues (225 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Columbia Pictures. It features Mamie Smith, who was a top star in Black Vaudeville and a recording artist with Okeh Records. By the time Jailhouse Blues

S. H. Dudley (singer) (689 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

recording artist, and music business executive. He was unrelated to the black vaudeville performer and impresario Sherman Houston Dudley. Rous was born in Greencastle

Will Benbow (486 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

manager of the Alabama Chocolate Drops touring company and "a pioneer of black vaudeville entertainment in the southern states in the early part of the twentieth

Tutt Brothers (1,775 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Tutt, Tutt & Whitney and the Whitney Brothers. They were prominent in black vaudeville and created over forty revues for black audiences. Salem Tutt Whitney

Hazel Meyers (401 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

female blues and country blues singer. She spent most of her career in black vaudeville and on recordings she was billed as a blues artist. Her more famous

Lillian Glinn (417 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

country blues singer and songwriter. She spent most of her career in black vaudeville. Among her popular recordings were "Black Man Blues," "Doggin' Me Blues"

DeForest Covan (370 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

1917 - September 8, 2007) was an American actor, dancer, and former black vaudeville performer. Starting with his first film appearance in The Singing Kid

Douglass Theatre (338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Macon, GA". Douglasstheatre.org. Retrieved 2008-11-20. "The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s: Selections from the Records of

Daisy Martin (408 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

blues style. She toured the eastern and midwestern United States in black vaudeville in the 1910s and early 1920s. In 1914 she appeared in the revue My

Morton Theatre (484 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2016.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Riis, Thomas L., Black Vaudeville, The TOBA, and the Morton Theatre: Recovering the History 1910-1930

Open the Door, Richard! (896 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

became a runaway pop sensation. "Open the Door, Richard" began as a black vaudeville routine. Pigmeat Markham, one of several who performed the routine

Classic female blues (1,720 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

themselves on guitar or piano. The effect of the Great Depression on black vaudeville and the recording industry, and also the trend toward swing music in

Harold Nicholas (1,027 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

three, his older brother Fayard enjoyed sitting in the audience of the black vaudeville theater where his parents performed, enraptured by the great performers

George Lederer (500 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Marion Cook and lyrics by poet Paul Dunbar. It starred the prominent black vaudeville team of Bert Williams and George Walker. Then crossing the Atlantic

Carolina Chocolate Drops (1,404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Alliance for their work in Keep a Song in Your Soul: The Roots of Black Vaudeville. Staged by the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, written by

Henry "Crip" Heard (783 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

1991) was an American professional dancer who appeared mostly in black vaudeville theaters and nightclubs during the late 1940s and 50s. What distinguished

Evelyn Anderson (dancer) (847 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

Blackbirds of 1928. She was 18 years old when she was selected for an all-Black vaudeville troupe due to perform in Paris. La Revue Negre was headlined by Josephine

Stump and Stumpy (426 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

United States, managed by Nat Nazarro, on what was often called the "Black Vaudeville" circuit. On the circuit, Cross met Norma Catherine Greve, with whom

Aileen Stanley (809 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

handling of blues material was similar to that of some of the northern black vaudeville singers of the time. Her stage appearances billed her as "The Phonograph

Charles Anderson (vocalist) (402 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

well as "I Got Those Crying Yodelin' Blues." Although a favorite with black vaudeville audiences at the time, Anderson has tended to be dismissed as a curiosity

Hamtree Harrington (318 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Upon leaving the carnival, Harrington took work as a comedian and Black vaudeville performer, moonlighting as a barber when stage work was unavailable

Hart Wand (406 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

few months later by "Baby Seals' Blues", a negligible item by the black vaudeville performer "Baby" Seals and ragtime pianist Arthur Matthews." Davis

Aida Overton Walker (1,166 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

and his partner Bert Williams, and together they became the major black vaudeville and musical comedy powerhouses of the era. She and George Walker married

Ethel Waters (4,082 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

getting her the job. After her start in Baltimore, Waters toured on the black vaudeville circuit, in her words "from nine until unconscious." Despite her early

Ernest Brown (dancer) (973 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

Venable's Mammy And Her Picks. They traveled around, touring on the Black vaudeville circuits, arriving back home in Chicago at the Riviera Theater. In

Edna Hicks (493 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

his shows, but they separated after a few years. She was popular in black vaudeville in the American Midwest in the late 1910s and 1920s, appeared often

The Railroad Porter (514 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

showcased in The Railroad Porter were recognizable faces in days of black vaudeville. Lottie Grady, who was a former member of the Pekin stock company,

Earl Palmer (2,960 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

career at five as a tap dancer, joining his mother and aunt on the black vaudeville circuit in its twilight and touring the country extensively with Ida

Minstrel show (11,598 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Chappelle capitalized on this and created the first totally black-owned black vaudeville show, The Rabbit's Foot Company, which performed with an all-black

Emmett Anthony (385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Black Musical Shows. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810883512 – via Google Books. "Anthony, Emmett". Harry Bowman Black Vaudeville Collection. January 1, 1924.

Emmett Anthony (385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Black Musical Shows. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810883512 – via Google Books. "Anthony, Emmett". Harry Bowman Black Vaudeville Collection. January 1, 1924.

Mattie Dorsey (519 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

early life. It has been recorded that Mattie Dorsey had been active in black vaudeville since 1910, perhaps earlier. There is some evidence that Dorsey was

Butler May (888 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

1911, they played in Chicago at the Monogram theater, one of the top black vaudeville venues in the city, and, according to writers Lynn Abbott and Doug

Daisy Tapley (1,041 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

detroitpubliclibrary.org. Lee, Felicia R. (February 10, 1999). "An Encore for Black Vaudeville; A New Revue Finds Dignity in a Derided Art Form". The New York Times

Apollo Theater (24,207 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

from the Empire Wheel in late 1932, and the Apollo began to stage black vaudeville that year. The Apollo's operators also started serving alcoholic beverages

Blackface (22,079 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

American star. In the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA), an all-black vaudeville circuit organized in 1909, blackface acts were a popular staple. Called

Dallas Blues (1,000 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

a few months later by 'Baby Seal Blues', a negligible item by the black vaudeville performer Arthur 'Baby' Seals and ragtime pianist Arthur Matthews."

Ida Forsyne (1,280 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

wings. In 1924, she returned to the Theatre Owners Booking Association Black vaudeville circuit. On returning to New York, Forsyne auditioned but was not hired

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (17,217 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

months. The theater's last productions of the 20th century were the Black vaudeville Honky Tonk, in 1986, and the revue Stardust, featuring Mitchell Parish's

Rhinelander v. Rhinelander (3,111 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre, The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s, Digital Library of Georgia Heidi

Charles Cook (dancer) (2,609 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

act "Garbage and His Two Cans", playing the garbage cans, and toured Black vaudeville circuits with Sarah Venabe and Her Picks. In 1930 he formed the dance

Foster Photoplay Company (2,339 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

both trusted adviser and business manager, making a point to book black vaudeville acts. Continuing his efforts to further the success of black performers

Harry Kraton (770 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

shows, he also performed in vaudeville as early as 1900 with the Big Black Vaudeville Company. With his wife Ethelyn Kraton he formed a hoop rolling vaudeville

Catherine Basie (999 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

career and began pursuing dancing. At 16 years old she joined the Black vaudeville quartet, the Whitman Sisters and became part of a trio of dancers which

Timeline of music in the United States (1880–1919) (14,223 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

Grand Theatre, is an early use of the word jazz and is used by "more black vaudeville acts than any other song ever published". The Navy shuts down Storyville

The Adventures of Villar (944 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

predominant of jazz musical actors of the early 20th century namely black vaudeville performers. The band spread the style to Europe. The band's protagonist

Edna Lewis Thomas (1,141 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

during the Harlem Renaissance. Thomas was a prolific actress in all-Black vaudeville productions and theaters. She acted and sang in numerous productions

Griffin Sisters (1,896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved January 27, 2024. Scott, Michelle R (2023). T.O.B.A Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners Booking Association. University of Illinois