Avil and Grimm
blackface comic acrobats / c.1904-1913
Avil and Grimm were vaudeville entertainers calling themselves "Comedy Gymnasts" from San Francisco, Calif. at the beginning of the 20th Century .
Avil was Arthur Avil. Their character's were the Zulu Kids (in black face) and the act was called "A DAY IN ZULULAND".
Arthur Avil's signature and address from his personal memo book, where he kept an itinerary of all their performance dates,
contact names, baggage costs, etc. (courtest Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)