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Tambo & Bones. After a ballad or two, the Interlocutor addressed the show's comic artists, who flanked the semicircle and were known as endmen. Because they originally played the tambourine and bones, the endmen were known respectively as Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones. Sample dialogue between the Interlocutor and Messrs. Tambo & Bones...
...E.S.T.) as a possible summer substitute for one of the big shows. To prove his point that there is a bit of minstrelsy in every man, Producer Mort Lewis (If I Had The Chance) got Cartoonist Ham Fisher (Joe Palooka} and Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg as regular endmen, Actor Ezra Stone and Announcer Harry von Zell as extras, Jay C. Flippen as interlocutor. Celebrity Minstrels opened with Oh, Dem Golden Slippers, got in tune with There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, closed with Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. Sample chestnut: "Great Scott...
Promised attractions: Presidential Perennial Norman Thomas, Mouthpiece Sam Leibowitz as endmen; Al Smith, Dr. Sigmund Spaeth and Robert Moses for close harmony...
...GENTLEMEN, BE SEATED!"?Dailey Paskman and Sigmund Spaeth?Double-day Doran ($4.00). "There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight, my baby," when the interlocutor bids his black-face gentlemen be seated, and starts the volley of wisecracks between Bones and Tambo, the two "endmen." Endmen not only in the semicircle, these two always have the last word?at the expense of the ponderous master of ceremonies, Mr. Interlocutor. For "he is the father of all the foils in vaudeville, those well-dressed gentlemanly fellows of unimpeachable manners, who speak such painfully correct English...
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