Mr. Sully’s first minstrel experience was with the Beach and Bowers Company, and it sure was an experience. His salary was to be $15.00 per week and “cakes” if he was _good_. While he really went _bad_ in Dixon, Ill., he stood on the streets and told the population how good he was. Mr. Sully candidly admits that at that period he was a profound drinker; subsequently he became a profound thinker. Later he played successful minstrel engagements with Al. G. Field’s; Primrose and West’s; Primrose and Dockstader’s; Wm. H. West’s, and Dumont’s Minstrels. Also did he spend a period of five years intermittently with Carncross’ Minstrels in Philadelphia, and a season with Haverly’s Company. Mr. Sully is the author of “Hesitate, Mr. Nigger, Hesitate”; “I Don’t Love Nobody,” and other well-known songs. Lew. Sully was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., March 28, 1862. FRANZ VETTA (Louis R. Newmayer), the famous operatic bass singer, was also known as Frank Wetter in minstrelsy. He first appeared with Geo. Thatcher’s Minstrels in Philadelphia about 1881; subsequently he played engagements with Haverly, and the Standard Minstrels in San Francisco. He was the husband of Lizzie MacNichol, the well-known opera singer. Franz Vetta was born in Camden, N. J., in 1862; he died in Riverside, Cal., July 15, 1892. GEO. W. CUNNINGHAM made his first professional appearance with Tommy Curran, as Cunningham and Curran, at Fraley’s Garden, Jeffersonville, Ind., in March, 1875, doing a black-face act; subsequently he formed an alliance with Ed. Talbott. In 1890 Mr. Cunningham and Ed. E. Grant became partners in one of the most amusing black-face acts on the vaudeville stage; for four years as “The Brutal Brothers” they played the best variety houses and combinations. Cunningham and Grant dissolved partnership in 1894, after which Mrs. Cunningham (Geneva Smith) and Mr. Cunningham did a white-face act for several seasons. July 20, 1908, the new firm of Geo. W. Cunningham and Herman Marion was born, and at two years of age is doing splendidly. George W. Cunningham was born in Brookville, Ind., May 18, 1863. BILLY PEARL (Jacob Allgier) was known from one end of the country to the other as one of the team of Marion and Pearl. Mr. Pearl’s first partner was Burt Marion, now of the team of Marion and Dean; subsequently he formed an alliance with Herman Marion, now of Cunningham and Marion. Mr. Pearl had been associated with Vogel’s; Cleveland-Wilson’s; Haverly’s (Nankeville’s); Primrose and Dockstader’s, and other first-class minstrel organizations, including Marion and Pearl’s Minstrels. Billy Pearl was born in New York, November 27, 1863; he died at Paterson, N. J., June 24, 1908. BILLY VAN (Van Name), famed far and wide as one of the most unique monologuists, began his professional career at Jeff. Staley’s in Jeffersonville, Ind., doing a black-face song and dance, about thirty years ago.