Word: minstreling
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Famous is an old-time two-line review: "Uncle Tom's Cabin played here last night. The dogs were good." Anything went in a Tom Show. Eliza might cross the ice against a backdrop of the tropics. There were comedy teams, minstrel troupes, animal acts. There were "double shows"-two Uncle Toms, two Topsies, two Legrees; there were even triple shows. Harriet Beecher Stowe once went to see Uncle Tom's Cabin in Hartford and had to have the plot explained...
...while drinking himself to death, turned out most of the best U. S. folk songs. In pictures about composers a vacant look, head noddings and rhythmic hand flourishes denote musical inspiration. With these appropriate symptoms Don Ameche, as Stephen Foster, is shown conceiving his songs. Al Jolson (Christy the minstrel man) sings them, manages to mar their simplicity with a few flourishes...
...Claus, or St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Generosity, was born on Dec. 6, do their giving then. Dutchmen conceive the Saint as a bishop whose ecclesiastic dignity is above lugging presents around in a sack. This is done by his far from humble minion, Black Peter, a capering minstrel in braided doublet, van Dyck ruff and Renaissance plumed...
...unpoetic minstrel of the Texas plains, who belabored the lines into being, jingled not of President of the White House Franklin Roosevelt, but of President of the Senate John Garner...
...first Pursuit of Happiness show this month, lusty Negro Baritone Paul Robeson volunteered. For his song, Director Norman Corwin dug up something called Ballad for Americans. Earl Robinson, its creator, is a two-fisted, not-too-widely recognized minstrel from the State of Washington...