PRINCESS THEATRE

Evening Star, Issue 19221, 12 April 1926, Page 6

PRINCESS THEATRE

HIGGER KiHSTBELS TO-HifiHT To-night tbo Nigger Minstrels will niafco liieir premier at tlio Princess Thealre. Fa i,hers ami grandfathers will liail with delight Ilns old-time lonn of entertainment, which used to bo a regular feature in vaudeville entertainments of lons' ago. '1 o the present generation it will be a decided novelty, and tiny will ho as pleased with this show ns their elders. These nigger minstrels have been revived by the Fuller management with great Micea«.s. and tonight you will have an opportunity pif renewing or making aepnaintanco with black faces, cake-walking, tambourines, and knuckle hon.es. The company carries some fine vocalists, and old-timo ballads will he rendered most effectively. Intermingled with the swept old songs, cross-talk, and knuckle bones will be" Linn Smith’s ragtime band. Among the minstrel porfonrfnrs will be Will Kenny, Ward Lear, Jack Kearns, John Rorke, and George Day. The second half of the programme will be supplied by the George Ward (Little Kermis) Snapshot Kevne Co. in a brand-new’ show entitled ‘Not Yet,’ which is a pot-pourri of perpetual pleasure, in which the lortnncs of a wealthy widow and the attempts of various interested parties to capture some of it figure prominently in the action of this piece. Hcrmie assumes the role of guardian angel, and, with the assistance of his pal, ALa Cohen, they keep the fun pot boiling.