Word: minstrelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telling a tale. The tale has been told time and again of Arthur and his knights, of Gwenivere and her Lancelot, but never so utterly that a master craftsman dare not render his version. Not as an epic drama in the Tennysonian manner, but like the medieval minstrel in fitful lyrics Masefield catches a climax here, a sad mood there. The variegated metres and intermittent themes are disjointed in a whole effect, but the wistful beauty of moments and moods stands out as never in earlier classics. Thus Arthur dying...
...World Series having been finished and the fame of Yankee Pitcher Waite Hoyt having been augmented, Mr. Hoyt has hibernated with profit into vaudeville. He has a fair baritone voice and his father, Ad Hoyt, used to be a minstrel player; so he was not labeled "a freak" (i.e., one who capitalizes on his fame in an alien line...
KING FOR A DAY --OLD MAN SUNSHINE, sung by SAM COSLOW. Coslow is billed as the "Broadway, Minstrel", has a good voice similar to Harry Richman, and a pair of agonized eyebrows. The record however, Isn't so hot. Not Coslow's fault--just a poor recording. Watch this...
...smiling Scotch minstrel, turned autobiographer, tells of coal-mining, at eleven, to knighthood...
Surprisingly soon after his mother bought the fiddle for him, Harry Braun met Leopold Auer, greatest teacher of violinists. Leopold Auer was interested in meeting the adolescent minstrel as he is in meeting all youthful violinists; he remained interested in Harry Braun. When Harry Braun was a little older he met Zinc-King August Heckscher, who gave him a $25,000 Stradivarius...