For the baseball player, see Frank Brower (baseball).
Frank Brower
Francis Marion Brower (November 20, 1823 – June 4, 1874) was an American blackface performer active in the mid-19th century. Brower began performing blackface song-and-dance acts in circuses and variety shows when he was 13. He eventually introduced the bones to his act, helping to popularize it as a blackface instrument. Brower teamed with various other performers, forming his longest association with banjoist Dan Emmett beginning in 1841. Brower earned a reputation as a gifted dancer. In 1842, Brower and Emmett moved to New York City. They were out of work by January 1843, when they teamed up with Billy Whitlock and Richard Pelham to form the Virginia Minstrels. The group was the first to perform a full minstrel show as a complete evening's entertainment. Brower pioneered the role of the endman.
After a successful tour in the British Isles, Brower returned to the United States and teamed with Emmett and other blackface performers for a time. In the 1850s, he left minstrelsy to work in the Tom shows based on Uncle Tom's Cabin. He returned to minstrelsy briefly as the decade closed and nostalgia for the old minstrel show came into fashion. In 1867, Brower retired from show business and opened a saloon.
Francis Marion Brower (November 20, 1823 – June 4, 1874) was an American blackface performer active in the mid-19th century. Brower began performing blackface...
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original lineup consisted of Emmett, Billy Whitlock, Dick Pelham, and FrankBrower. After a successful try-out in the billiard parlor of the Branch Hotel...
banjoist and singer. In association with Billy Whitlock, Dick Pelham, and FrankBrower, he organized the Virginia Minstrels, which made their first appearance...
Wrestling. Hart claimed that Brower wrestled Whipper Billy Watson over 500 times. After his run in Stampede, Brower wrestled for Frank Tunney in Toronto from...
in the Scrubs episodes "My Friend the Doctor" and "My Chopped Liver" FrankBrower, 1840s-1860s minstrel performer David Byrne, in Stop Making Sense (1984)...
"Miss Lucy Long" (a.k.a. "Lucy Long", "Miss Lucy Song"), Dan Emmett and FrankBrower (1844), or Billy Whitlock (1842) or possibly Billy Whitlock (1838) "Moze...
riding master. The piece starred Richard Pelham in the title role and FrankBrower as a black clown. "Old Dan Tucker" did not appear on a Virginia Minstrels...
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the white minstrel performers Richard Pelham, FrankBrower, John Daniels, John Smith, James Sanford, Frank Diamond, and John Diamond. The idea that Juba...
For example, in 1846, Dan Emmett and FrankBrower added these lines to a "Miss Lucy Long" sketch: [Dialogue.] FRANK She had a ticklar gagement to go to...
he sustained a complete break of his collarbone when he crashed into FrankBrower while trying to beat out an infield hit. Heilmann had to have his collarbone...
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Brower parted company to tour with Dan Emmett, though he rejoined Sweeney by spring of 1844. At this time, Dick Pelham met up with Sweeney and Brower...
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until the end of the 1922 season. He was then traded to the Senators for FrankBrower on January 8, 1923. Evans' first year in Washington saw him set career...
addition to traditional techniques, he played it like a drum. Pelham and FrankBrower, who played the bones, were the first minstrel endmen, and greatly influenced...
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Hall of Fame and the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame. Right fielder FrankBrower had a .362 batting average and led the team with 36 home runs and 411...
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