NEGRO MINSTRELSY.
A REVIVAL AT IYA. A form of entertainment so old that it is now a novelty—a nigger minstrel show —is to lio given at IYA on Friday of next week. For the occasion the "Allblack Troupe," complete with interlocutor, end-men, bones and tambourine, and a large repertoire of cross-talk, has been formed from among the artists who perform regularly at the station. Old plantation songs will bo revived, and there will be various comic interludes. The station orchestra will play, "A Southern Wedding," a medley of negro songs, with vocal passages. The production has meant a good deal of research and much rehearsing in order to recreate tho true atmosphere of the minstrel shows which entertained thousands a generation ago, before revue and the moving pictures extinguished them.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20086, 25 October 1928, Page 7
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