Word: minstrelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week an enterprising German publisher advertised that he would shortly distribute a bit of popular sheet music entitled "The Minstrel's Waltz by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht." At Berlin, the sensation equaled that which might be produced in Manhattan by announcing that Mr. John P. Morgan had just composed the words for a new jazz moaner's "blues." The denouement...
...Traveller--to use the style affected by my friends in the next column--Lillian does her stuff, to the extent of one story, "The Eternal Triangle". And it is really worth mentioning, worth even more than mentioning. For Lillian's muse is equal the fiddling flair of Maine's minstrel of the bobbed haired wife. It prefaces a return to the casual in contemporary letters and, more than that, reminds me of the Marks' remark about the Revere Beach of yesterday, the Coney Island of today...
...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...
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