R.C. (Richard "Charlie") Lucas, also known as Woo-Foo, was born August 15, 1909. Lucas was a former Ringling Brother fireeater who found success playing the African Prince "Woago", (and later Woo-Foo) in African Jungle Reviews with Conklin's Shows in Canada in the 1940's and early 1950's. Apparently Lucas graduated to crafting the shows himself and eventually managing them. Claiming to be from Cape Town, South Africa in early press clips, it appears as though Lucas was actually born in Chicago.

In 1943 Lucas married Mary Sahloo (nee Mary J. Wigfall), also known as Princess Sahloo, Princess Wago, Mary Lucas and Woggie (also Woodgie), who performed with Lucas in the Conklin Shows, where he may in fact have first met her. Mary Sahloo later performed for many years at Hubert's Museum as a "Voodoo Jungle Snake Dancer". While claiming to be a native of Nigeria, Sahloo is also identified on her marriage license as "Mary J. Wigfall", but like her husband, hailed from closer shores than Africa, most likely South Carolina.

Hubert's Museum:

Charlie Lucas is perhaps best known as the manager of Hubert's Museum from 1956 until its closing. Quoting from Charlie Lucas' diaries:

                                    July 9-7 1952 Open at Hubert's
                                    as a change man. 1954 in July I
                                    went to Canada-- Came back to
                                    Hubert's.  Tell [Until] July 1955 Roy was
                                    the boss.  So he said I don't thank [think]
                                    we can us[e]  you. I got a job at 156
                                    St. Ane St. NY

"Roy" was Leroy Heckler who managed Hubert's Museum, and performed its Flea Circus.  The type of job Lucas had at St. Ann Street is unknown, but Hubert's 
called him back again in 1956:

                                    In the Spring they call for Woggie
                                    Snake Dance. Roung [Around] April 20 I
                                     heard Hubert's was
                                    closing for good. Mr. Milk
                                    Ask me to come and talk with Max 
                                                    I said I don't think would
                                    do no good, round May 15 I
                                    was ask to come in and see Max.
                                    Do you wont the Dance Show at
                                    71 p.c. 29 to Hubert's
                                    I tryed tell [until] July 3-7-1956.

"Max" was Max Schaefer, one of the owners of Hubert's.  Although it is not totally clear, it appears that from May 15, 1956 until July 3-7 1956 Lucas was paid a percentage (71%) for 
the snake dance show he and Mary Sahloo set up at Hubert's.  Perhaps because of bad business Lucas appears to have been put on salary of $53 a week beginning around July 4-8, 1956:

                                   this day on July 4-8 1956 was very
                                   Tufe [tough]-- it was bad-- good [god] know I am
                                   make 53 Dollars a week.  By the first
                                   of Aug 1956 I word [would] be make 75 a week.

Lucas  may have proved himself, as by August he appears to have been making $75 a week.  Then late in 1956 when Heckler's retirement from show business was 
announced in the press, Charlie Lucas was left to manage Hubert's Museum himself-- if only initially for a short time:

                                   Roy close at Hubert's on Oct 14 1956.
                                   At last I own Hubert's Museum,
                                   I was rong-- on Dec 5-12 1956 the
                                   Pace of Hubert's was put back in
                                   place-- in April 1957 Roy came
                                   back....

Whether Heckler had changed his mind about retirement, or whether he was called back in by Max Schaefer, because of Lucas' mishandling of the museum management
is unknown.    But Charlie Lucas was to take over Hubert's again:

                                   In March 1960 one more
                                   time I Pake [pick] up the peace [pieces] of
                                   Hubert's Museum-- Can I put them
                                   back in place--

Lucas' apparent take from Hubert's in the times when he was managing the museum was 71% of the admission fee and the blow-off, with 29% going to owner Max Schaefer.  
When business was tough, Lucas suffered as he recounted in his diaries a constant fight to keep the wolves from the door.  Between bouts with the bottle and the tax man, 
Lucas described suprisingly few difficulties with his performers:


                                   May 1sh 5 1961
                                   To day is the last
                                   day of the Jungle
                                   Creep-- This man or
                                   a very good actor,
                                   but just cant not
                                   be trust-- by RCL                                   
                                   Time 105pm.

As times got tougher, Lucas was forced to make hard decisions:

                                   May 24-5-61
                                   Phone ring 3 times-- no one
                                   things or [are] very bad at H. Museum--
                                   this is the last week of 5 acts
                                   I RC Lucas cut down to 4 Acts

Finally the decisions were not made by Lucas, as it appears that in late 1964, or early 1965 Lucas was let go by Max Schaefer, and Hubert's operated for a short time 
without live acts, until it finally closed in mid-1965.  Charlie went back on the road after Hubert's, once again putting on African Jungle Shows.  Charlie Lucas and Mary Sahloo lived for years
in a Harlem apartment, but may have later moved to Morningside Heights, where Charlie died on March 4, 1991.  

Mary Sahloo, i.e. Mary Lucas is as of this writing living in a home for the aged in Philadelphia.