Acting
Amon Davis was born on 23 January 1880 in Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Darktown Revue (1931). He died on 1 June 1934 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Michaeux provides a record of several cabaret acts, using intertitles to separate the individual numbers. This quietly outrageous film begins with the high-toned Heywood Choir singing "Watermelon time" and concludes with Amon David playing a preacher using heavy blackface. Amon Davus was known as "the Back Biting Comedian, Par Excellence", and his sermon is one of Michaeux's many notable send-ups of the clergy.