1908
The black-face team of McIntyre and Heath came to the Walnut in
The Ham Tree
in January 1908. This musical adventure of two African-Americans stranded in a
small town featured W.C. Fields in a supporting role as a tramp juggler.
Fields, pictured here, went on achieve international acclaim as a world-class
juggler, taking his tramp character to several continents and to Broadway in the
Ziegfield Follies. (Photograph courtesy of Library of Congress,
Prints & Photographs Division.)
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