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...business in the mid-19th Century. Pittsburgh, not the South he wrote most about, was the home of Stephen Foster. Author Howard traces his love for Negro music to a "bound" black girl in the Foster household who used to take him to shouting colored meetings, to the early minstrel shows for which Foster wrote many of his songs. Edwin P. Christy, famed Mr. Bones, was his steadiest customer. He paid Foster $10.00 for the privilege of first singing "Oh! Susanna" which became the marching song for the California gold rush, $15.00 for "Old Folks at Home" because Foster...
Dancing and entertainment will be continuous from 8 o'clock to 1 o'clock. The entertainment will include, among other things, a student quartet, rendering well-known airs; an old-time minstrel in Bavarian costume; a clever little six-year old danseuse performing an intricate tap-dance on a drum...
...Side of Jordan, a serious novel, was a far cry from Ol' Man Adam; most readers found it sordid and sinister. John Henry was a little consciously folk-tale-ish. But now, in Kingdom Coming, Author Bradford has turned the trick: neatly sidestepping the hoodoo of black-face minstrel-showmanship and the voodoo of Harlem, he has written a grown-up novel about Negroes of the Old South. Grammy (full name: Telegram) knew that his daddy, Messenger, and his mother, Crimp, were superior slaves. He could not figure out why their master should have sent them from New Orleans...
Meet for the lute of a minstrel, flowing in metrical cadence...
...delighted St. Louis Municipal Operagoers many a summer season in the past, takes the part of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner who finds himself in danger of having to execute himself. Yum-Yum, one of his wards, is Hizi Koyke. Her suitor, the Mikado's wandering minstrel son, is played by Roy Cropper, a young man with a pleasingly liquid tenor...