LYLES, AUBREY

LYLES, AUBREY. Vaudeville entertainer (c1883 in Jackson, Mississippi; 28 July 1932 in New York). His family moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, when he was a child, and later to Chicago, Illinois. He met Flournoy Miller when both were students at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and they formed a partnership in 1903 that lasted over twenty-five years. At Fisk Miller and Lyles wrote their first plays together and took part in college theatricals. About 1905 they joined Robert Bob Motts's...