Souvenir program
Subtitle: February 24th 1924
Publisher: Waldon C. Harris Advertising Service, 2 West 129th Street, Apt. 7-R
Published: 1924
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Clubs; African American business enterprises; Marketing; American Historical drama; African American theater; History; Inc Dressing Room Club; Miller & Lyles
Other titles: Historic pageant of the progress of negro theatricals
Description: Souvenir program for a Historic pageant of the progress of negro theatricals, 1860-1924, given by the Dressing Room Club, an important African-American professional social/benevolent club for members of Black vaudeville, minstrel, musical, and dramatic professions. Includes significant biographical information about performers, as well as many photomechanical portraits, and copious advertisements from other performers and businesses which support the Club.
Notes: Cover title.

Publisher from back cover.

Includes portraits with biographies, of Miller and Lyles, Revella Hughes, Charles S. Gilpin, James A. Jackson, Edith H. Wilson, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, Lottie Gee, Florence Mills, Will H. Vodery, Jesse A. Shipp, and Griffith B. Wilson.

Includes portraits without biographies, of C. Franklyn Carr (propertyman), A. G. Brooks (electrician), Winifred P. Carr (call boy), Walter H. Parker, Leon Williams, H. Qualli Clark, Leigh Whipper (head flyman) Sydney B. Chase, Edw. Johnson (splicer), The Three Musketeers (Harry Bestry, Flournoy Miller, Aubrey Lyles), George Stamper (The original lazy dancer), Clarence Bush, J. Wesley Jenkins, Byron Brothers, William White (of the Chicago Defender), Porter Granger and Bob Ricketts, Edward Johnson (Black Carl), and Andrew A. Copeland,

"Things historical about things theatrical"--unnumbered pages 45-47; a significant timeline of dates termed authentic, of important performances and events of interest to African Americans in the theater.

"Dead they are not, but departed, for the artist never dies": list of deceased members appears on unnumbered page 51: William (Billy) Johnson, Thomas (Tom) A. Brown, Joseph W. Hodges, Robert A. Kelly, Edward Sterling Wright, Walker Thomason, Robert Kemp, J. Frank Wheaton, Egbert A. William, Jesse A. Shipp Jr., George N. Day, John Vaughner, James H. Burris, Emile Simmon, Will A. Cook.

A.G. Brooks designed the cover--Unnumbered page 52.

Purchase; Between the covers rare books, Inc.; 2020 March; 2020T-9; $9500.00 (Robert Gould Shaw Fund).

In English.

Purchased through the Robert Gould Shaw Fund, 2020.

Staple-bound in original gold-illustrated dark blue paper covers, in mylar wrapper; in prefab, 23 cm.
Table of contents: title: Historic pageant of the progress of negro theatricals, past and present, from 1860 to 1924 / conceived and directed by Flournoy Miller ; period costumes by Eaves; title: Dance program.