Word: minstrels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this week the Banjo Club, on invitation, took part in the Cadet minstrel entertainment at Music Hall. The audience on both evenings was large and appreciative. Though the members of the Banjo Club were undistinguishable by their nearest friends, since they had assumed the complexion of dwellers of Ethiopia, nevertheless they were heartily applauded as they appeared upon the stage and rendered the most appropriate piece entitled "The Darkie's Dream." The club also played "Stephanie Gavotte," while four dusky maidens danced a clog. The work of the club was very good, in spite...
This evening and tomorrow evening the Banjo Club plays at the Cadet minstrel entertainment at Music Hall...
Princeton's minstrel performance was a financial success, and netted a good sum of money for the baseball cage...
...long-expected and anxiously awaited minstrel show will positively come off Friday night, and as the proceeds are for the cage and the minstrel troupe is one of the most popular organizations in college, the seats, although only put on sale this morning, are almost all gone. There are thirty performers and six end men, and it is thought that this performance will surpass anything of the kind ever given here...
Princeton has its minstrel show this evening. The '90 orchestra will furnish the music. The end men are: Bones-King, '88; Segur, '89; Edwards, '89; tambos-Graham, '88; Irvine, '88; Brackett, '90. Interlocutor, Studdiford...