Marion A. Brooks was an actor, playwright, and theater businessman.[1][2] He partnered on the Bijou theater company at the newly established Bijou Theater in Montgomery, Alabama with players from Chicago. After it folded, he returned to work at the Pekin Theatre in Chicago.

With Flournoy Miller, he founded the Bijou Stock Company in Montgomery, Alabama in 1908.[3] It closed in May 1908.[4] He helped open the Chester Amusement Company with J. Ed. Green, a theater operator in Chicago.[5]

Theater

  • Ephraham Johnson from Norfolk (1908), co-starred as Harry Blue and co-wrote[6]

Works

  • Out All Night co-wrote with J. E. Green[7]
  • Panama (1908) co-wrote with Charles A. Hunter[8]

References

  1. ↑ Blacks in Blackface page 1381
  2. ↑ Hill, Errol; Hatch, James V. (July 17, 2003). A History of African American Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521624435 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Sampson, Henry T. (October 30, 2013). Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810883512 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "archives.nypl.org -- Flournoy Miller collection". archives.nypl.org.
  5. ↑ Blacks in Blackface page 56
  6. ↑ Peterson, Bernard L. Jr. (October 25, 1993). A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780313064548 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Carson, Lionel (April 14, 1909). "The Stage Year Book". Stage Offices – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ Peterson, Bernard L.; Peterson, Bernard J. (April 14, 1990). Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers: A Biographical Directory and Catalog of Plays, Films, and Broadcasting Scripts. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313266218 – via Google Books.


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