In the Fall of 1862, as Master Dumont, he was with Arlington and Donniker’s Minstrels, subsequently he was associated with John Cross and Tom Fish with Cross, Fish and Dumont’s Minstrels; this was in 1866. The following year he was with Ned Davis’ Minstrels; early in 1869 he was with Dashington and Kling’s Minstrels and that same year he joined Duprez and Benedict’s Minstrels, and continued with them about eleven years. Subsequently Mr. Dumont was with Carncross in Philadelphia, the San Francisco Minstrels in New York, and with Lew Dockstader’s Company. While with Sweatnam’s Minstrels, August 22, 1879, he sang “The Old Family Table.” Mr. Dumont is the author of innumerable songs, sketches and plays, and produced all the shows at the Eleventh Street Opera House, Philadelphia, since the inception of Dumont’s Minstrels there January 27, 1896. Frank Dumont was born in Utica, N. Y., January 25, 1848. WILL G. MACK, once of the team of Mack and O’Day, had been in the profession about twenty-five years, and with Al G. Fields’, Barlow Bros., and other minstrel companies prior to his death, November 12, 1897. CHARLES HEYWOOD (Frank Haffner), who has an international reputation in minstrelsy as a female impersonator, possesses a remarkably fine cultivated voice, which long experience has taught him to use to the best advantage. Mr. Heywood made his debut with an amateur minstrel company in Newark, N. J., in 1867, at the famous old Library Hall. In January, 1868, he appeared professionally in New York with Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels. Later he was identified with Buckley’s, Duprez and Benedict; Emerson’s; Simmons and Slocum’s; Haverly’s, and several other notable organizations. In 1881 he was with Thatcher and Ryman’s Minstrels in Philadelphia, and the following year with Clark and Ryman’s Minstrels he went to Australia--with his pigeons; for Heywood wouldn’t travel without his pigeons, and the pigeons wouldn’t travel without Heywood; so there you are. After the pigeon engagement, which lasted sixty weeks, Mr. Heywood joined Haverly’s Mastodons in London, in 1884; again using the pigeons, 100 strong, as a feature of his act. After several notable engagements in the music halls on the Continent, he returned to this country, and subsequently built a theatre in Newark, N. J. As a builder Mr. Heywood admits he wasn’t a success, but as a hustler he is second to none. And then he opened a conservatory, where several who since achieved success in their profession received their tuition. Of late years Mr. Heywood’s talents have been devoted chiefly to concert work. Charles Heywood was born in New York City, October 24, 1848. BARRY MAXWELL (Maxey) has been famous for many years for his delineation of the aged “darky,” of which he is a master. His stage career began in his native city as a member of the Crescent City Serenaders, in which he was one of the end men.