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J.A. Coburn's Minstrels
John Arthur "Cobe" Coburn (1868 – March 5, 1943), more commonly known as J.A. Coburn, was an American minstrel troupe manager, theater company owner, musician, and businessman. He was known for his traveling Blackface minstrel shows, and had worked as a professional cornetist, and later as a bandleader. He was associated with the Barlow Bros. Minstrel, and J.A. Coburn's Greater Minstrels. Coburn lived in Daytona, Florida. Life and career John Arthur Coburn was born in 1868, in Boston. During his early life he was as a cornetist for the Elgin National Watch Company's military band. In 1886, he started his musical theater career in forming Trewetz and Coburn. This was followed by Coburn joining Louis Baldwin in 1890, for a few years of performances until Baldwin's death in 1903. His first minstrel show was in 1893, with the W. S. Cleveland and Company, led by William S. Cleveland (1860–1923). By 1898, Coburn had formed and directed his own theater company named the Barlow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singin' Sam
Singin' Sam (January 27, 1888, Springfield, Ohio – June 12, 1948, Richmond, Indiana), also known as Harry Frankel, was an American minstrel performer, vaudevillianDeLong, Thomas A. (1996). ''Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 98. and popular personality during the early days of radio. He was best known as "Singin' Sam, the Barbasol Man" for his long association with that company. Early life The son of clothing merchant Sol Frankel, Harry grew up in Danville, Kentucky, singing in various quartets, moving with his parents to Richmond, Indiana, when he was nine years old. He joined J.A. Coburn's Minstrels in 1908, and later toured with Al G. Field's Minstrels. Frankel and Joe Dunlevy were known as the "Two Blackbirds" when they performed in vaudeville theaters during the late 1920s. Career When Frankel began in radio in 1930 on WLW (Cincinnati, Ohio), sponsored by the Great States Lawn Mower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedians From Boston
A comedian (feminine comedienne) or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting foolishly (as in slapstick), or employing prop comedy. A comedian who addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comedian. A popular saying often attributed to Ed Wynn states: "A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny." This draws a distinction between how much of the comedy can be attributed to verbal content and how much to acting and persona. Since the 1980s, a new wave of comedy, called alternative comedy, has grown in popularity with its more offbeat and experimental style. This normally involves more experiential, or observational reporting (e.g., Alexei Sayle, Daniel Tosh, Malcolm Hardee Malcolm Hardee (5 January 1950 – 31 January 2005) was an English comedian and comedy club proprietor. His high reputation among his peers rests on his outrageous publicity stunts and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackface Minstrel Performers
Blackface is the practice of performers using burned cork, shoe polish, or theatrical makeup to portray a caricature of black people on stage or in entertainment. Scholarship on the origins or definition of blackface vary with some taking a global perspective that includes European culture and Western colonialism. Blackface became a global phenomenon as an outgrowth of theatrical practices of racial impersonation popular throughout Britain and its colonial empire, where it was integral to the development of imperial racial politics. Scholars with this wider view may date the practice of blackface to as early as Medieval Europe's mystery plays when bitumen and coal were used to darken the skin of white performers portraying demons, devils, and damned souls. Still others date the practice to English Renaissance theater, in works such as William Shakespeare's ''Othello''. However, some scholars see blackface as a specific practice limited to American culture that began in the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Male Stage Actors
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19th-century American Male Actors
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems and confirm ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 Deaths
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz is executed by the Germans at Kaisariani. * January 10 – WWII: Guadalcanal campaign, Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces of the 2nd Marine Division and the 25th Infantry Division (United States), 25th Infantry Division begin their assaults on the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse#Galloping Horse, Galloping Horse and Sea Horse on Guadalcanal. Meanwhile, the Japanese Seventeenth Army (Japan), 17th Army makes plans to abandon the island and after fierce resistance withdraws to the west coast of Guadalcanal. * January 11 ** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously unequal treaty relationships with the Republic of China (1912–194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1868 Births
Events January * January 2 – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries. * January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, declares the ''Meiji Restoration'', his own restoration to full power, under the influence of supporters from the Chōshū and Satsuma Domains, and against the supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate, triggering the Boshin War. * January 5 – Paraguayan War: Brazilian Army commander Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, enters Asunción, Paraguay's capital. Some days later he declares the war is over. Nevertheless, Francisco Solano López, Paraguay's president, prepares guerrillas to fight in the countryside. * January 7 – The Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock. * January 9 – Penal transportation from Britain to Australia ends, with arrival of the convict ship '' Hougoumont'' in Western Australia, afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Blackface Minstrel Troupes
This is a list of blackface minstrel troupes, a 19th- and 20th-century American form of musical theater. A * Adams and Lee B * Backus' Minstrels * Barlow Bros. Minstrel, later Great Barlow Minstrels * Barney Fagan's Minstrels * Brooker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels: an all-black minstrel troupe. * Bryant's MinstrelsToll, 1974, p. 57. * Buckley's Serenaders (also known as Buckley's Congo Melodists, Buckley's New Orleans Serenaders, New Orleans Serenaders) C * Callender's Georgia MinstrelsToll, 1974, p. 200. * Cal. Wagner’s Minstrels * Campbell's Minstrels * Carncross' Minstrels * Chicago Minstrels * Christy Minstrels (also known as George Christy Minstrels) D * Dockstader and Cleveland's * Duprez & Benedict's Minstrels E * Ethiopian Serenaders (also known as Boston Minstrels, Ethiopian Melodists, Ethiopian Minstrels)Toll, 1974, p. 37-8. G * Gavitt's Original Ethiopian SerenadersLott, 1993, p. 37: an all-black minstrel troupe. * Geor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Entertainers Who Performed In Blackface
This is a list of entertainers known to have performed in blackface makeup, whether in a minstrel show, as satire or historical depiction of such roles, or in a portrayal of a character using makeup as a racial disguise, for whatever reason. A–C * Roy Acuff, country music singer, performed in blackface in 1930s-40s traveling medicine shows * Scarlet Adams * Anne of Denmark, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, in '' The Masque of Blackness'' * Ant and Dec, in old Saturday Night Takeaway sketches * Fred Armisen, impersonating U.S. President Barack Obama on ''Saturday Night Live'' in 2008 and 2009 * Clarence Ashley, 1910s-1940s singer and blackface comedian in traveling medicine showsSweet, Frank W. ''A History of the Minstrel Show''p25 * Fred Astaire, in ''Swing Time'' (1936) and in ''Easter Parade'' (1948) *Gene Autry * Dan Aykroyd, in ''Trading Places'' (1983) * David Baddiel, while portraying Jason Lee on a 1995 episode of '' Fantasy Football League'' * Rita Baga * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
