Word: minstrelling
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...come on it yet," Henry proves to be a lonely, lecherous, whimsical, unstable academic hipster in the process of growing old, with an extraordinary talent for becoming the people and things he likes. His friend is an odd presence at his elbow who cautions, encourages and describes him in minstrel-show dialect-a cranky Still Small Voice in blackface who is a part of, and yet apart from, Henry Pussycat/House...
...investment. More than 15,000 thoroughbreds are foaled in the U.S. each year, so the odds against any one winning the Derby are 15,000 to 1. Still, folks keep trying. Financier Louis Wolfson has been at it for years. In 1961 he had a top prospect in Roving Minstrel, but one day Roving Minstrel reared over backward, damaged his brain, and had to be destroyed. "The breaks of the game," sighed Wolfson, and coughed up $39,000 for another colt, Raise a Native. The horse won four races, smashed two track records -and broke down. Or consider the case...
...piece, was a bit of an anti-climax. It lacked the brilliant individual performances of the leads in American in Paris and the general solidness of The Comedy. It was nevertheless a delightfully funny piece. The music is an orchestral arrangement by Kay of Gottschalk's late nineteenth century minstrel songs...
...music-to-yawn-by, and Director-Choreographer Michael Kidd unleashes his dancers only once for some sword and gun play. No one could coax a poor performance out of Robert Preston, but his hard-sell charm, snap and gusto create the curious impression of a history-book minstrel man in whiteface. Still, he could save the show if there was one to save...
Edwin P. Christy has been long forgotten by all but a few devotees of the early minstrels. Not so the name of one of his proteges, Stephen Collins Foster, some of whose best-loved ballads were popularized by Christy. If the New Christy Minstrels can develop a smash hit like Oh, Susannah or Old Folks at Home, both of which were first presented to the American public by E. P. Christy's minstrel troupe, they will deserve to rank with their illustrious predecessors...