DUDLEY, S[HERMAN] H[OUSTON]

DUDLEY, S[HERMAN] H[OUSTON] (HAPSY). Vaudeville entertainer/manager (12 May 1872 in Janesville, Louisiana; 29 February 1940 in Washington, D.C.). He began his career performing with traveling carnivals. Later he toured with various groups, including McCabe and Young's Minstrels and Richard and Pringle's Georgia Minstrels , among others. In 1904 he was a member of John Isham's King Rastus Company, which featured Billy Kersands , and later in the same year took over the...