Word: minstrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Claus, or St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Generosity, was born on Dec. 6, do their giving then. Dutchmen conceive the Saint as a bishop whose ecclesiastic dignity is above lugging presents around in a sack. This is done by his far from humble minion, Black Peter, a capering minstrel in braided doublet, van Dyck ruff and Renaissance plumed...
...unpoetic minstrel of the Texas plains, who belabored the lines into being, jingled not of President of the White House Franklin Roosevelt, but of President of the Senate John Garner...
...first Pursuit of Happiness show this month, lusty Negro Baritone Paul Robeson volunteered. For his song, Director Norman Corwin dug up something called Ballad for Americans. Earl Robinson, its creator, is a two-fisted, not-too-widely recognized minstrel from the State of Washington...
...Bend, orphaned at seven, a runaway (from Father Drunogie's orphanage) in his 'teens, Joe Howard had been on the boards for 60 years. His runaway took him to St. Louis where, still in short pants, he got a job with McNish, Johnson & Slavin's Refined Minstrels, singing A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother. This job was the making of him. He became a protege of the late, bully-built William Muldoon (later T.R.'s sparring partner), who was then touring the minstrel circuit with Charley Mitchell, the little man who wouldn...
...Flushing, L. I. The son of one of the first U. S. Negro college graduates (Oberlin '45), Bland himself attended Washington's Howard University. Handsome and honey-voiced, he could not stay away from music. Because white men in blackface hogged the field of U. S. minstrel shows, Bland did not get very far in his U. S. minstrel career. In London, however, where he went as end man with Billy Kersands' Minstrel Troupe, he made a big hit, earned $10,000 a year and King Edward VII's (then Prince of Wales) personal bravos...