Monarchs of minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to dateRice, Edw. Le Roy (Edward Le Roy)
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Monarchs of minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to date
Rice, Edw. Le Roy (Edward Le Roy)
Actors -- United States; Minstrel shows
In May, 1871, Mr. Hogan joined the Hooley Minstrels in Chicago for a
supplemental traveling season; with this company he did a specialty
with J. K. Campbell.
Subsequently with Jimmy Cummings, he played an engagement at Moran and
Dixey’s Minstrels in Philadelphia, closing there about February 1,
1872, after which in a variety theatre in the same city he did “Let Me
Be” with Harry Kernell, who afterward gained fame as an Irish comedian.
Hogan and Mudge’s Minstrels toured in 1872, likewise Hogan and Ella
Chapman played in the principal variety houses.
In 1874 Mr. Hogan returned to Bryant’s Minstrels, and continued there
until the death of Dan Bryant, April 10, 1875. A few months later
he joined hands with Charley Lord, and as Hogan and Lord played an
engagement with Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels.
John Hogan was born in Montreal, Canada, March 14, 1847.
ARTHUR MORELAND. Instances of black-face performers going from the
minstrel to the dramatic stage are of very frequent occurrence, but
when a legitimate performer goes into minstrelsy, we are inclined to
rub our eyes, sit up and take notice.
Such was the case of the subject of this sketch, whose professional
debut was made in Troy, N. Y., at the Griswold Opera House, April
14, 1865, in the “Lady of Lyons”; this was not an animal show, as
unthinking persons might surmise.
Mr. Moreland next went to London, England, where for five months,
commencing in 1865, he played a stock engagement at the Sadler’s Wells
Theatre. Returning to the United States extended engagements followed
at St. Louis, New Orleans, Louisville, Cincinnati and New York City. In
1872 he assumed the management of Johnny Thompson, in “On Hand.”
Mr. Moreland’s next move was to the Olympic Theatre, in Brooklyn, N.
Y., 1873; it was here that Mr. Moreland first became a “corker,” though
he had been a corking good fellow fully a quarter of a century prior to
that date--and ever since.
His first minstrel engagement was with Hooley in 1876; the following
year he was with Maguire’s Company in San Francisco, and later with
Emerson’s Minstrels, same city. In 1880 Mr. Moreland became a member of
the San Francisco Minstrels in New York City, where he remained four
years.
In 1884-85 he did “nigger acts” with Dan Collyer; the following season
he was a member of Harrigan’s Company in New York City. Mr. Moreland
was one of the members of Lew Dockstader’s permanent minstrel company
in New York, commencing September 17, 1886, and continuing with them
during the existence as an organization, terminating in 1889.
As Col. Risener, in “Blue Jeans,” appearing in white-face, season of
1891-92, Mr. Moreland once more showed his versatility.
Mr. Moreland has long been recognized as the premier interlocutor in
minstrelsy, and the legitimate successor of Wm. H. Bernard, who retired
in 1872.
Arthur Moreland was born in New York City, November 12, 1847.
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