(MUSIC MINSTRELSY) Frolic Tonight for White Butterbeans Su

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(MUSIC--MINSTRELSY.) Frolic Tonight for White. Butterbeans & Susie. 11 PM. 4to leaf, (12 x 9 inches) folded to form a four page flyer. New York, circa 1930's

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a fragile flyer depicting the duo with their company of thirty people. Butterbeans and Susie were a comedy duo made up of Jodie Edwards (1895 - 1967) and Susie Edwards, née Susie Hawthorne (1896 - 1963). Edwards began his career in 1910 as a singer and dancer. Meanwhile, Hawthorne performed in African American theater. The two met in 1916 when Hawthorne was in the chorus of the Smart Set show. They married on stage the next year. Their act, a combination of marital quarrels, comic dances, and racy singing, proved popular on the TOBA tour. They later moved to vaudeville and appeared for a time with the blackface minstrel troupe the Rabbit's Foot Company. Butterbeans and Susie made several recordings of blues songs interspersed with comic banter through Okeh Records. They later starred in a black-produced feature film.