Word: darktowns
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...royal in black underwear, a hula skirt of sea grass, a tin crown. His sceptre is a broomstick, topped by a snow-white rooster. Preceding him is his Queen, behind are his capering dukes. The King mounts his throne-a decrepit easy chair on a mule-drawn wagon. Up darktown's Rampart Street whoop King and courtiers, laughing at the whites on the royal way. At 7 p. m. their parade ends, and the drinking and the loving begin. It is carnival for the merriest of people. It is also dark satire on the pretentious, elite Mardi Gras courts...
...conceived by Messrs. Todd, Short, and Robinson, and put on as "The Hot Mikado" is an all-time high in sacrilegious lunacy. Gilbert and Sullivan worshippers would probably rather hear a Goodman rendition of Beethoven's Ninth than their beloved "Mikado" slapped into the groove by a lot of Darktown strutters. But like so many iconoclasts, Michael Todd seems to be getting away with his Great Idea and packing the houses as royally as any D'Oyly Carte company ever...
Amos 'n' Andy are not what they were seven years ago, when the nation used to drop whatever it was doing to listen to them and echo such of their darktown phrases a.s "ow-wah!" and "I'se regusted." But they still command the top five-a-week 15-minute radio audience estimated at 40,000,000 weekly. For eleven years the faithful have heard Amos 'n' Andy over NBC stations, but beginning April 3 Amos 'n' Andy will move...
LAUGHING BOY BLUES (The Charioteers; Vocalion). Very darktown, very cheerful...
...YOUR FACE BEFORE ME (Mildred Bailey; Vocalion). The Schwartz & Dietz ballad taken through darktown by the ablest white blues singer...