MCKEE and ROGERS joined forces in the Fall of 1871, and during the first years of their co-partnership played the principal variety houses and specialty companies of their day. Their first joint appearance was in St. Louis, Mo., where they gave their original song and dance “Rebecca Jane;” with it they were ever after identified, as well as “Mischief,” “Lucinda” and several others. About 1874 they went to London, England, where they played a most successful engagement with Moore and Burgess’ Minstrels. On their return to the United States in 1875, they joined Tony Pastor’s road company, and continued with it until the death of Rogers. Stevie Rogers, or “Little Stevie,” as he was generally called, was one of the most lovable characters in minstrelsy. As a clog dancer he was second to none in his day. His first professional appearance was with the 50 Engineer Pontoon Minstrels, September 5, 1865; this company in the spring of the following year was known as Sam Hague’s and Cal. Wagner’s Minstrels. With that company he had a partner by the name of John O’Brien. Stevie Rogers’ success was so pronounced that he quickly obtained a metropolitan engagement with Charley White. Subsequently he was with Kelly and Leon’s in New York, and Hooley’s Minstrels in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1870 he joined Manning’s Minstrels, and on August 21, 1871, he opened with the Dearborn Minstrels in Chicago. About this time he met Andy McKee, and the rest has been told. Stevie Rogers was born in Elmira, N. Y., December 11, 1853; he died in New York City, March 3, 1876. Andy McKee first appeared professionally in 1865 at Cairo, Illinois. Mr. McKee’s success was so pronounced with his eccentric dancing, that he had little trouble in obtaining other variety engagements in Memphis, New Orleans, Cincinnati and St. Louis. In 1867 he played his first minstrel engagement with Skiff and Gaylord; other prominent engagements were with Hooley, and with Simmons and Slocum. Later he joined Manning’s Minstrels, and subsequently met and joined forces with Stevie Rogers. After the death of the latter he went to Europe with Hall’s New York Minstrels, playing Scotland and Ireland; subsequently re-organizing with Lew Simmons and Charley Sutton, they went to South Africa, opening at Cape Town, March 17, 1879; thus preceding Colonel Roosevelt in the exploration of that country just thirty years. Afterwards Mr. McKee formed a partnership with John F. Byrne, of the Brothers Byrne. And here’s two more little items. After Stevie Rogers’ death, Mr. McKee doubled with Charley Walters for a brief season, opening at the Olympic Theatre, New York, August 28, 1876, and--that same year at the Globe Theatre, also same city, Mr. McKee created the character of Cy. Prime, in “Josh Whitcomb;” the latter subsequently evolutioned into the “Old Homestead.” Andy McKee was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, May 11, 1844; and is now a citizen of Seattle, Washington.