Word: balladist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music Hall imported from his quiet Mount Vernon home minstrelsy's last great survivor, white-haired, 75-year-old Neil O'Brien, star balladist and endman in the days of the late Lew Dockstader and George Primrose. Affably, Oldtimer O'Brien sat through the show, went backstage afterward and made a speech to the assembled company. "Any show that had the Rockettes in it," remarked he, with dry tact, "would be a success...
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