Draft:Dave Liston
Dave Liston was a vaudeville performer. He performed with Virginia Crawford in The Stolen Child in Houston.[1] He married her in 1911. She became Virginia Liston. He was a tenor.[2] They separated a couple years later and she eventually married Samuel Gray and had another marriage after she retired. He performed with the Billy King Stock Company at the Grand Theatre in Chicago.[3]
Dave Liston Sr. was his father. He had a sister in New Orleans and may have been from the city.[4]
He performed in How Newtown Prepared in 1916 as “Indian” chief Eagle Eye.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Abbott, Lynn; Seroff, Doug (February 27, 2017). The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781496810038 – via Google Books.
- ^ Abbott, Lynn; Seroff, Doug (February 27, 2017). The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781496810052 – via Google Books.
- ^ Sampson, Henry T. (October 30, 2013). Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810883512 – via Google Books.
- ^ Abbott, Lynn; Seroff, Doug (February 27, 2017). The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781496810052 – via Google Books.
- ^ Jr, Bernard L. Peterson (October 25, 1993). A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780313064548 – via Google Books.
- This draft is in progress as of April 11, 2024.