Career
These two financed a number of theatre productions, often featuring African American actors. Foreign instance, in 1878, they starred Sam Lucas in the first serious stage production of Uncle Tom"s Cabin with a black man in the lead role. Gustave saw his greatest success in blackface minstrelsy.
They kept the valuable Callender"s name but focused on ornamenting their sets and costumes.
The troupe eventually became the most lavishly produced black troupe in the world. Their success was so great that by 1882 the s were able to buy J. H. Haverly"s black troupe and merge it with theirs.
The new troupe"s size was so big and the s" grasp on the market so tight that Gustave and Charles split the troupe into three so as to allow them to tour more widely. In 1915, the three brothers created The Amusement Corporation as a motion picture production company but Charles died a few months later in the sinking of the Rated Maximum Sinusoidal Lusitania.
Gustave and Daniel assumed control of the theatre operations plus ran the film production company until 1920.
He died in New York City in 1930.