Philadelphoa native Francis Wilson (born this day in 1854) got his start in minstrelsy and old school variety as one of half of the blackface team of Mackin and Wilson. He’s not part of our Stars of Vaudeville series only because he left the variety theatre in 1878, to pursue what ended up being a [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:00AM on February 7, 2012