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Aubrey Lyles

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Book WriterActor 1884–1932 On stage 19121931

Aubrey Lee Lyles (8 January 1884 – 28 July 1932), sometimes credited as A. L. Lyles, was an American vaudeville performer, playwright, songwriter, and lyricist. He appeared with Flournoy E. Miller as Miller and Lyles as a popular African-American comedy duo from 1905 until shortly before his death. in 1929 they appeared on film as grocers in the Vitaphone Varieties short comedy film They Know Their Groceries.

On stage 4 productions, 19 years

1912 The Charity Girl Globe Theatre · Original · directed by George W. Lederer 21 perf.
1921 Shuffle Along 63rd St. Music Hall · Original · directed by Walter Brooks 504 perf.
1928 Keep Shufflin' Dalys 63rd Street Theatre · Original · directed by Clarence Robinson 104 perf.
1931 Sugar Hill Forrest Theatre · Original 11 perf.

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Worked with more than once6 names

Flournoy Miller 3 productions
Jennie Day 2 productions
Ina Duncan 2 productions
Gussie Williams 2 productions
Evelyn Irving 2 productions
Edna Ellington 2 productions

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In the literature2 passages

  • Cast: Flournoy Miller, Aubrey Lyles, Noble Sissle, Gertrude Saunders, Roger Matthews, Lottie Gee, Lawrence Deas, Eubie Blakeebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • house was The Mayor of by the blackface comedians Aubrey Lyles and Flournoy Miller. When in 1920 Miller and Lyles met another performing duo, the lyricist Noble Sissle and composer Eubie Blake, their combined talents produced one of the biggest musical comedy hits of the time. Shuffle Along (1921). With a strong book based on the earlier…theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt

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