Darkest America, John Vogel's Mastodon Minstrels, Munroe Opera House, 12/1/1898

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Offered here is a wonderful antique
Official Theatre Program
Munroe Opera House, Play Bill, Vol 1 No 16, December 1, 1898;
J
ohn W. Vogel's Senegambian Carnival Afro-American
Mastodon Minstrels
performing the Extravagant Extravaganza, "Darkest America"
This is in wonderful condition with a light center fold and rare enough just with the Original Counter Cover intact.  Loaded with numerous adds and some theatre information.  Shipped between stiff cardboard for protection with delivery confirmation!
John W. Vogel is one of the minstrel kings and began his show career in March, 1882, with Sells Brothers’ Circus. He joined Thatcher, Primrose & West’s Minstrels in November, 1882, at Cleveland, Ohio. One of the bitterest fights ever known was between Barlow & Wilson Minstrels and Thatcher, Primrose & West’s Minstrels—the latter playing at the Euclid Avenue Opera House and the former at the Park Theatre.
Abe Erlanger assisted Vogel to bill Cleveland at that time. He has been identified with the following attractions in a managerial capacity since: Primrose & West’s Minstrels; Primrose & Docksteder’s Minstrels; McIntyre & Heath’s Minstrels; McNish, Ramza & Arno’s Minstrels; McNish, Johnson & Slovin’s Minstrels; Dominick Murray’s “Right’s Right” Co.; Harry Blooda- ood’s “Happy Thought or Rose” Co.; George S. Knight’s “Over the Garden Wall”; Al G. Field’s Minstrels; the Original Adam Forepaugh’s Circus; manager Fifteenth Street Theatre, Denver, Colo.; Thearle & Cooper’s “Siege of Sebastopool”; Cliffside Park, Huntington, W. Va.; (lessee) “Darkest America”; John W. Vogel’s Afro-American Mastodon Minstrels; John W. Vogel’s (all white) Big City Minstrels, now in its twentieth year. He has several fine farms in Fairfield County, Ohio, on which there are a number of oil and gas wells. He is owner of the Gem Cigarette Roller and interested in numerous other business enterprises.
With Vogel’s Minstrels this season, there are: Edwin De Coursey, James Conroy, Lew Denny, Al and Don Palmer, Ted Godfrey, Arthur Crawford, Tom Miller, Billie Mack, Harley Morton, Fred Miller, William Rowe, Ed Ewald, Jack O’Malley, Clyde Chain, Raymond Henry, Albert Petty, Carl S. Graves, F. S. Nagle, John Goodrich, George C. La Furroo, George C. Nunn, James S. Finning, Harry Baker, Newton Garner, George Van, “Zella” (the frog impersonator), Mack (the musical artist), Fred L. Day and Lee Mitchell, all splendid comedians, singers and dancers. HTTPS://www.circushistory.org/Cork/BurntCork6.htm
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