 Today is the birthday of James Carl “Ham Tree” Harrington (1889-1956). Born in South Carolina, he ran off an joined a carnival in his adolesence, working in black vaudeville and revues throughout the oughts, teens and twenties, often with his partner Cora Green. A man of small physical stature, he played a slow-witted man who [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:17AM on January 11, 2013