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Alonzo Moore
| Alonzo Moore | |
| Born | circa 1870 |
|---|---|
| Died | circa 1914 (age 43) |
Alonzo Moore, who was once billed as the Black Hermann (not to be confused with a more popular conjurer, Black Herman), served his magic apprenticeship during the 1890s as an assistant to Ed Maro and performed his own act starting in 1900.[1]
Moore joined Billy Kersands' Minstrels in 1904. The act, during the five years he was with it, matured from a minstrel format into a vaudeville bill that played in the United States and to Queen Victoria in London.
When Moore played the Castle Square Theatre in Boston, he feature the Chinese Linking Rings and multiplying billiard balls
His last tour was of the Orient with the Hugo Brothers Minstrels in 1913.[2]
His death is usually reported as 1914, but in the Sphinx for February, 1921 under the "WIZARD'S WANDERING FROM WHEELING, W. VA" column by Paul R. Semple it was reported that "Harvey's Minstrels was in Wheeling and carried with them Alonzo Moore, a colored magician."
References
- ↑ A History of Blacks in Magic BY JIM MAGUS, Linking Ring,October, 1983
- ↑ Vaudeville, old and new By Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly (2007)
