| Name |
Percy Turner HEMUS |
| Birth |
07 Mar 1876 |
New Zealand  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Immigration |
1895 |
USA |
| Event |
12 Sep 1916 |
| Drafted into US Army. Resident at 152 West 58th, New York City. Song leader. |
| Age: 42 |
| Census |
1920 |
New Rochelle Ward 4, Westchester, New York, USA |
| Singer |
| Age: 43 |
| Event |
15 Mar 1922 |
Broadcast advertised in Charleston Daily Mail
WJZ (Westinghouse Station, Newark) ...
7.30 p. m. Mozart's musical comedy, the "Impresario" (Kiehblel's English version) will be broadcasted under the personal direction of Willlam Wade Hinshaw, president of the Society of American singers of New York. Percy Hemus, celebrated American baritone, will be supported by famous all American cast. The entire opera will be produced. The cast of characters is as follows: Emanuel Schickaneder, director Vienna opera, house, Percy Hemus, Phillip, his nephew, a young baritone, Francis Tyler, Mozart, the composer, Thomas McGranahan Madam Hofer, Mozart's sister in-law, prima donna, Regina Vicarino, Mlle. Dorothea Uhlic, singer of Linz, Hazel Huntington, accompanist to Schickaneder, Gladys Craven. |
- Despite being a New Zealander by birth, Percy is described as American. He seems to have colluded in the deception, in 1920 stating his immigration date as 1895, in 1930 stating it as 1880.
|
| Event |
Jul 1922 - Dec 1922 |
| Recording released under the pseudonym "Lorenzo WELLS" on the Black Swan label. The record company used pseudonyms to conceal the fact that some of its artists were not black! |
| Occupation |
Jul 1927 |
Earl Carroll Theatre, 753 Seventh Ave (W 50th St) New York, USA |
| Actor in the melodrama "Madame X" |
| Occupation |
20 Sep 1927 - Apr 1928 |
Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th St., New York, USA |
| Actor in the comedy "The Command to Love" |
| Census |
1930 |
720 West End Avenue, Manhattan, New York |
| Radio Broadcaster |
| Age: 53 |
| Event |
06 Nov 1938 |
| Appeared in radio broadcast of "REST CURE" |
| Death |
22 Dec 1943 |
| Notes |
- Extract from "Music and Advertising in Early Radio":
Landers and his company decided to stay away from the “craze†of dance orchestras, which they thought would attract too young an audience for their product. Instead, their “final decision was to recreate the black face days of yore in an old-fashioned minstrel show,†which they did with comics Percy Hemus and Al Bernard in the resulting Dutch Masters Minstrels program. These two entertainers were not stars, Landers admitted, but figures who became “almost as well known as the ‘Happiness Boys.’ â€
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| Person ID |
I10912 |
Gadd |
| Last Modified |
16 Apr 2007 |
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