Word: minstrell
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...short, stocky Negro named (Arthur) Dooley Wilson, who started this forgotten ditty toward its sensational present success by the loving way he sang it in the Warner Bros, movie Casablanca (TIME, Nov. 30). Dodo and Dooley met at Manhattan's Greenwich Village Inn, where the veteran Negro minstrel was doing a singing turn...
Slight, soft-spoken Sid Grauman, who has long-term plans for San Francisco producing, was born 56 years ago in Indianapolis. The son of a minstrel-show manager, he was carted young all over the country: "I went to a hundred schools, and I never got out of the fifth grade." When still a boy, he went with his father to Alaska, where they "expected to pick up gold in a pail." After a few gleamless months, the father rushed home to a dying child and left Sid with $250, which he promptly lost in a crap game. He picked...
Died. Lynne Overman, 55, veteran character actor, cinema's jack-of-all roles; of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica. A onetime jack-of-all-trades (jockey, candy butcher, song plugger, minstrel man), he was a Broadway favorite before he went to Hollywood in 1934, thereafter played more than 50 wry-humored cinema roles -nearly all of them out of the side ot his mouth...
...photograph of the present Supreme Court [TIME, Oct. 26] is not quite up to par. Paraphrasing the old hymn, it might well have been-"Change and decay in all around I see," or with the addition of a few banjos and a very little black face the old minstrel show salutation-"Gentlemen, be seated" might be in order...
Fifty years before Tin Pan Alley became a business machine, the U.S. learned and sang its songs in rowdy taverns, stuffy parlors, minstrel shows, free-and-easies. It got many of them from anonymous buskers who worked for throw money, known only as "the old geezer with the dulcimer" or "the lame fellow who plays the accordion in Franklin Square." It bought most of its sheet music (words only) as penny broadsides, hawked by old men & women on street corners, or in dime songbooks. As the nation's customs, styles, manners and morals changed, so did its songs. Much...