Winstead’s Might Minstrels always carried a few specialty acts, and it seems they came and went as seasons progressed and paths with better shows or closed ones crossed. They are rarely noted as part of the show in press accounts.

Mattie Sloan had advertising cards for these two:

Alice the Alligator Girl
    From Raleigh, Mattie Sloan said, “She wasn’t really with our show. She got stranded from a circus in Camden, South Carolina, and she worked with us three nights. Mr. WInstead ut her up there, and I used to go up and bathe her.” At this, she turned away and was silent.

Dokey, Mary. Contortionist.
     “She was a great star in the other shows,” Mattie Sloan said. “One of the greatest contortionists in this part of the country. She got so drunk her first show with us, pointing her finger around, she had a razor, we had to let her go right then. But she was a bigger star than Bessie.”

Frazier, Joe. Illusionist, hypnotist, fortune teller.
     Mattie Sloan said he also had a torch act: “He’d light the lights and dance. He’d buy all these boys diamonds and dance. Got killed one night, he had a good looking boy, left with Bob Young–Joe went crazy over that. Down in Red Springs, my husband had the club there” [where Frazier was killed].

Margie
     “My doll,” Mattie Sloan said, smiling, as she showed me her promo card that says she’s 20″ tall at age 19. “She was with us for about three weeks, her and her mother. Her mother was tiny, too. I made both of em’s picture.” Sloan said the photos were in one of her five Kodak books that had gotten away from her.

English, John. Hoops.
     Johnny English was perhaps the second best known of the Black hoops specialists of the 1920s, behind Coy Herndon.