- (1927 - 1932) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1927) Stage Play: Bottomland. Musical comedy. Music by Clarence Williams. Book by Clarence Williams. Lyrics by Clarence Williams. Musical Director: Clarence Williams. Featuring songs with lyrics by Jo Trent [earliest Broadway credit], Chris Smith, Len Gray and Joe Jordan. Featuring songs by Donald Heywood, Spencer Williams and Gerald Williams. Directed by Clarence Williams and Aaron Gates. Princess Theatre: 27 Jun 1927- 13 Jun 1927 (19 performances). Cast: Dot Campbell (as "Chorus"), Raymond Campbell (as "Skinny"), Alice Carter (as "Chorus"), Louis Cole (as "Jimmy"), Craddock and Shadney (as "Specialty"), Charles Doyle (as "Henry Henpeck"), Edith Dunbar (as "Chorus"), Edward Farrow (as "Rastus"), Portia Hands (as "Chorus"), Katherine Henderson (as "Tough Tilly"), Slim Henderson (as "Joshua"), "Nuggie" Johnson (as "Shiftless Sam"), Dolly Langhorn (as "Chorus"), James A. Lilliard (as "Pappy Lee"), Sara Martin (as "Mammy Lee"), John Mason (as "The Dumb Waiter"), Walter Miller (as "Chorus"), Gansea Otiz (as "Chorus"), Olive Otiz (as "Sally"), Willie Porter (as "Mammy Chloe"), Mildred Pritchard (as "Chorus"), Eva Taylor (as "May Mandy Lee"), Edwin Tonde (as "Policeman Doolittle"), Emanuel Weston (as "Kid Slick"), Clarence Williams (as "At the Piano"), Bertha Wright (as "Chorus"), Billie Yarbough (as "Chorus").
- (1927) Stage Play: Rang Tang. Musical revue. Book by Kaj Gynt. Lyrics by Jo Trent. Directed by Charles Davis and Miller and Lyles. Royale Theatre (moved to The Majestic Theatre from ? Sep 1927- close): 12 Jul 1927- Oct 1927 (closing date unknown/119 performances). Cast: May Barnes, George Battles, Inez Draw, Josephine Hall, Daniel Haynes, Gilbert Holland, Crawford Jackson, Josephine Jackson, Zaidee Jackson, Byron Jones, A. Lyles, Lavinia Mack, Marie Mahood, F.E. Miller, Evelyn Preer, Le'etta Revells, James Strange, Edward Thompson, Lillian Westmoreland, Josephine Willis. Produced by Mr. Walker and Mr. Kavanaugh.
- (1929) Stage Play: Fioretta. Musical/romantic comedy/operetta. Music by George Babgy and G. Romilli. Book by Earl Carroll. Book adapted by Charlton Andrews. Lyrics by George Babgy and G. Romilli. Additional lyrics by Grace Henry [final Broadway credit], Jo Trent and Billy Rose. Music orchestrated by Domenico Savino. Musical Direction by Han Fredhoven. Choreographed by LeRoy Prinz. Production Supervised by Earl Carroll. Directed by Clifford Brooke and Edgar J. MacGregor. Earl Carroll Theatre,: 5 Feb 1929- 11 May 1929 (111 performances). Cast: Dorothy Knapp (as "Fioretta Pepoli"), Violet Arnold, Lionel Atwill (as "Count Matteo Di Brozzo"), Faith Bacon, Paul Banker, Vic Banks, William Billinghurst, Jack Boggs, Lilian Bond (as "Rosamanda/Ensemble"), Jay Brennan, Fanny Brice (as "Marchesa Vera Di Livio'Dorothy Britton Leo Bronson Louise Brooks )' (as "Lucetta," and "Ensemble"), Catherine Clark, G. Davison Clark, Charles Columbus, Elsie Connor, Dorothy Corrigan, Dorice Covert, Rita Crane, Evelyn Crowell, Frank Cullen, Frances Delacy, Sylvia Derby, Leon Dumbadse, Leon Errol (as "Julio Pepoli"), Jackson Fairchild, Stuart N. Farrington Corporal Frank Fiore, Dorothea Frank, Geranium, David Gerry, Harry Goldberg, Betty Goodwin, Gean Greenwald, Giovanni Guerreri, Roy Hansen, Marion Harcke, Angeline Hassel, Virginia Hawkins, George Houston (as "Orsino" AKA "Count di Rovani"), Charles Howard, Stanley Howard Ensemble Margaret Joyce, Theo Karle, Nelda Kincaid, Carol Kingsbury, Martin Le Roy, Bob Lee, Jack Leps, August Lindauer, Wallace Magill, Margaret Manners, John Marlowe, Doris Maye, Russell McLelland, Ida Michaels, Odessa Morgan, Alphonso Mullarkey, Armin Muller, Ordoni Muzzi, Charles Naylor, Leo Pardello, Ruth Patterson, Elsie Pedrick, Irma Philbin, Rae Powell, John Roland, Leonard Ross, Louis Ruff, Albert Sanchez, Blanche Satchell, Hugh Saunders, Sidney Schlesser, Rose Shaw, Martin Sheppard, Autumn Simms, Nelson Snow, Rita Stone, Clement Taylor, Peggy Taylor, Ernest Tello, Benjamin Tilberg, Leonard Trion, Costanza Venturella, Ethel Jane Walker, Dow Walling, J. Allen Ware, Vivian Wilson, John Zimmerman. Produced by Earl Carroll. Note: The quintessential flop of Broadway history. This was Carroll's first attempt at one of his own script adaptations. He made the critical error in casting his girlfriend, Miss Knapp in the lead role in a musical. Knapp couldn't (and didn't) sing in the production and was ridiculed by critics. Carroll's principal backer, Mrs. Anne Warren Weightman Penfield lost her $350,000.00 investment in this show.
- (1931) Stage Play: Sugar Hill. Musical comedy.
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