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...CROSBY AND MR. MERCER (Decca,). Last June, when the genial Westwood Marching and Chowder Club (North Hollywood Branch) put on its second Breakaway Minstrel Show, the Olio was enlivened by " 'Lasses' (Molasses) Mercer and 'Chittlins' (pig or calf intestines) Crosby in an erudite analyseration of swing." The "analyseration" was sung to the music of the 1920's famed duet Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean, new words by Lyricist Mercer (Cowboy From Brooklyn, et al.). The summer's most amusing ditty gets more amusing when Crosby explains to Mercer that jazz is merely old-fashioned...
...vestibule read on them that for the price of admission ($1.50) they were not only entitled to the spectacle itself, but "Free Eats, Drinks and Be-merries." Inside, the place looked just like what it was supposed to be: an oldfashioned beer & music hall, with advertisements painted on the olio, tin guards over the footlights. Not only in the matter of eats, drinks and be-merries does the American Music Hall surpass the old Morley productions (which had no tables and obliged the patrons to step down the street for their beer), but its actors for the most part refrain...
Critics of minstrelsy thought that the show's failure was not the result of any inadequacy of the "First Part," but by the mediocre character of the "Olio" (vaudeville). Producer Kilpatrick's Olio contained a series of antediluvian skits which included a ventriloquist, a female impersonator and some more singing, performed before a splendid example of early American opera-house curtain which bore advertisements for a patent electric belt, a dry goods store, and Mike's saloon. By far the best act in the Olio was not in the oldtime minstrel tradition, but bore the stamp...
Richard Folsom Hayward '27 of Cincinnati, Olio has been chosen Fresh than tennis manager as a result of a six weeks competition ending yesterday. Robert Kenneth Strauss of News York, N. Y. was appointed assistant manager...
...Saturday Messrs Leete and Gillespie of the Yale Union, McDowell and Campbell of Princeton, the former of the Olio, the latter of the American Whig Society, and H. C. Lakin, representing the Wendell Phillips Club and the New Harvard Union, met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, to arrange for intercollegiate debates. Harvard will debate with Yale at Cambridge about January 20, 1894, and with Princeton at Princeton about March 20. Yale and Princeton will debate at New Haven about May 10. Thus each college will have annually one debate at home and one abroad...