Mackey and Rollins.

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Vaudeville was a type of variety theatrical entertainment in the United States and Canada from the late19th through the early 20th centuries. It was similar to modern musical comedy or the music-hall variety show. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts included popular and classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies.

J. Frank Mackey was a vaudeville entertainer who worked in the United States and Canada, with various partners and performed under various names such as: Frank Mackey; J. F. Mackey; J. Frank Mackey; Mackey & Clark; Mackey and Clarke; Mackey & Rollins; Mackey's Comedy Players; Mackey Players; Mackey Amusement Enterprises; Mackey's Players; Mackey's Big Fun Show; Mackey's Indian Medicine Show; Mackey & Stewart's Comedy and Vaudeville Company; Mackey's Humanuva Company; Mackey's Original Humanuva Talking Pictures; Great Humanuva Talking Pictures; Quigg, and Mackey & Nickerson. Theresa Rollins was also a vaudeville entertainer who worked under a variety of names including: Tressa Rollins, and Mackey and Rollins. Mackey and Rollins were billed as a musical act, but Mackey also worked in blackface and marketed health products.

From the guide to the Mackey and Rollins vaudeville scrapbook, 1898-1930., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

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