Word: minstrell
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...opening production had a Brobdingnagian minstrel show banked high on the mammoth stage, with scenery and costumes by Robert Edmond Jones, resident designer. Mr. Jones had also prepared a set for the battle of Fort McHenry where, 'mid Roxy's red glare. Francis Scott Key composed the national anthem. Only Pressagent Dexter Fellows of Ringling Bros. Circus could have done justice to the array of talent which Roxy brought together for the public to gape at and listen to for as long as two hours and as little as 75? including...
...inns, a warm fire, dinner, and the canary flowing. A huge hound or two yawns about the table for food or crunches a bone on the hearth. Talk is free and boisterous until the fire burns low. Then a young boy, a page or a wandering minstrel, with a lute suspended from a silver cord around his neck, comes in with a repertory of ballads and lyrics, and sings for them--Campion's latest stanzas, perhaps, or some slight verses of his own. The crude excitements of the times vanish in the music, and the dogs curl up their paws...
...lifetime Sir Walter Scott was a hero. He earned $1,000,000 by his pen, probably more than any man before him. He dug up and popularized ancient ballads and legends, versifying whole sections of them in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and the Lay of the Last Minstrel while galloping about in cavalry maneuvers. With The Lady of the Lake Scott became a national figure; the Scottish duty on post-horses was raised when tourists began flocking to see its authentic background. Scott had a shrewd publisher in famed Constable, but they quarreled and Scott...
...great-granddaughter, unveiled a memorial in Galashiels, across the River Tweed from Abbotsford. Sir Robert Home, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a speech extolling Scott's "shining immortality." From Galashiels, whither went many a Scottish pilgrim, was broadcast a musical version of the Lay of the Last Minstrel. In Dryburgh Abbey there were ceremonies commemorating Scott's burial there. And in many a mountain glen the clans gathered, the pibrochs skirled...
...live U. S. socialite were performed last week over National Broadcasting Co. chains. They were notable because: C, "This Rose Reminds Me," by Stephen Collins Foster ("My Old Kentucky Home"), had long been lost. Composer Foster (1826-64) wrote it for Thomas U. Rice, pioneer U. S. minstrel, famed for his "Jim Crow" act. Minstrel Rice died before the song could be used. Lately "This Rose Reminds Me" was rediscovered by Dean J. Rice of Salt Lake City, grandson of Minstrel Rice. Last week it was played on NBC's Carnation Contented Program, by string ensemble with harp...