Cole and Johnson Brothers

Cole and Johnson Brothers Bob Cole was a black composer and lyricist Athens, Georgia, July 1, 1868; Catskills, New York, August 2, 1911. His first big break occurred in 1890, when he was hired as a comedian in Sam T. Jack’s Creole Show and also served as its stage manager. In the cast was soubrette Stella Wiley, who would soon marry Cole . Next, he got a job as a playwright and stage manager for Worth’s Museum All-Star Stock Company, which James Weldon Johnson described in his book Black…