Originally posted in 2009. This piece has special meaning for me — it’s actually the first vaudeville biography I ever wrote. I generated it as part of the book proposal for No Applause, which would make it about ten years old now. Perhaps the best-known African-American in vaudeville (then and now), Bill Robinson left us […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:53AM on May 25, 2013