Word: minstrell
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...enough. They must be kidded. Therefore he put his plot out in the sunshine and set the Marxes to splashing around in it. Hotels, real estate and climate are treated with extreme irreverence. Somewhere in the first act there is a diamond robbery and somewhere in the second a minstrel show. The amazing Marxes contribute scene after scene of rattle-brained revelry. Groucho (with the cigar) and Harpo (he says nothing) are the principal disturbances. Mr. Berlin has contributed two excellent tunes, "A Little Bungalow" and "Florida," and Mr. Harris brilliant masses of costume and scenery. And the result...
...wink and scamper of dice . . . the flicker of honed steel . . the thud of fists . . . the pumping of great black legs. Is this all that Negro gentlemen know of sport ? Last week, those dolts who ha.ve derived their views on the colored race from the stale gags of minstrel shows were amazed to discover that at Westfield, N. J., there is a Negro golf club-the Shady Rest Country Club. Broad piazzas it has, sofas, rocking-chairs, lounges, loggias, beds, in which a tired golfer-or one who may in the future play golf-can catch 40 winks...
...Videon '25 "Call to Arms and Liberty or Death" Patrick Henry Joseph Fisher '24 "Speech at the Funeral of a Brother" Robert Ingersoll James Harry Smith Jr. '25 "The Bells" Edgar Allen Poe Arthur Gustave King '26 "The Necessity of Force" John M. Thurston Paul Whitcomb Williams '25 "The Minstrel's Curse" Ludwig Uhland Milton Arnold Kramer '26 "The Last Suttee" Rudyard Kipling Alvan Ruckman Grier Jr. '26 "Revelation" Robert Service Edward Adams Sawin '25 "Blainc--the Plumed Knight" Robert Ingersoll Julian Hackett Weiss '25 "A Vision of War" Robert Ingersoll
America should be grateful to Mr. Balieff for the new and exciting form of entertainment he has brought to enliven our none-too-lively stage. It is said that in Russia, an American negro minstrel show has been enjoying as much popularity with Russian audiences as have the Russian players in America: whatever may be the relation of the ruble and the dollar, the rate of dramatic exchange sets strongly in Russia's favor...
...angry gods and jealous goddesses, and all the clangor of archaic war, the rumbling of chariots, the crash of spear on shield, and the dominating twang of Apollo's silver bow--was thought to be nothing more than the day dream of an idle afternoon, as the blind minstrel whiled away the sunny hours on some hillside overlooking...