Cohan & Harris Minstrels
Contributors: King, John; Tenney, Ernest; Leonard, Eddie, 1875-1941; Gibson, Alf; Eltinge, Julian, 1883-1941; Cohan, George M. (George Michael), 1878-1942; Harris, Sam, 1872-1941; Columbia Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1909
Language: eng
Other titles: Cohan and Harris Minstrels; Cohan and Harris' [sic] Minstrels with Raymond Hitchcock and 100 honey boys presenting an entertainment embracing minstrelsy, vaudeville, burlesque and musical comedy.
Description: Washington's leading theatre, the Columbia. The Columbia Theatre Co., proprietor, Frank Metzerott, pres., Oliver Metzerott, treas., Fred G. Berger, manager. "Cohan & Harris' Minstrels" with Raymond Hitchcock and 100 honey boys, presenting an entertainment embracing minstrelsy, vaudeville, burlesque and musical comedy.
Notes: Columbia Theatre, Washington, D.C., week of Monday, March 1, 1909. Matinees Thur. and Sat.

Title devised by Library staff.

"The Columbia program. Vol. XII, no. 26, season 1908-09".

Cast: Alf Gibson, Ernest Tenney, John Blue, W. Brazil, L. Freeze, John King, Earl Benham, Frank Morrell, Matt Keefe, Eddie Leonard, Raymond Hitchcock, Julian Eltinge, Waterbury Brothers, Jas. Rice, Johnny Bell Prevost.

LC copy imperfect: [6] p. only of program. Shelved under: Cohan & Harris Minstrels.

With: The belle of the barber's ball / George M. Cohan. Issued together.

Available in digital form on the Library of Congress Digital Collections Web site: Variety Stage: Theater Playbills and Programs under the title: Cohan and Harris' [sic] Minstrels with Raymond Hitchcock and 100 honey boys presenting an entertainment embracing minstrelsy, vaudeville, burlesque and musical comedy.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: In the glade of the orchids. John King and Ernest Tenney. Introduction of those famous fellows Eddie Leonard and Alf Gibson. Arrival of America's own comedian Raymond Hitchcock; title: Part second. A few moments with Raymond Hitchcock, the world's newly discovered minstrel star; title: The dancing marvel  Eddie Leonard assisted by the two Gordon Boys and the Cohan & Harris Dancing Corps, in an entirelynew terpischorean divertisement, introducing Walter Brazil, the eccentric dancer; title: An artist from the land of finesse, Julian Eltinge, in his marvelous imitations of feminie charaters, introduing his lates and most remarkable creations. The Salome Dances. As studied by him in the principal European cities and now presented by this wonderful artist for the first time in America; title: A new and sensational marching feature, "After the Battle" / conceived arranged and produced by James Gorman; title: Intermission; title: The emperors of wit and melody Waterbury Brothers and Tenney. The Acrobatic comedy stars Rice and Prevost (Jas. Rice and Johnny Bell Prevost) presenting their funny absurdity "Bumpty Bumps"; title: "The Belle of the Barber's Ball" / George M. Cohan.