Word: interlocutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assumed the air of a third degree. For 15 minutes the three Government men left Murray and Fairless alone, to talk things over by themselves. Then Schwellenbach took Murray aside, while Snyder talked to Fairless in the Cabinet Room. John Steelman flitted between the groups, a combined kibitzer and interlocutor. Then, as in a game of musical chairs, Snyder and Schwellenbach switched partners. Finally all five men got into a huddle again...
...classical minstrel show consisted of three parts. In the First Part, the flashy company of "coons" marched to their seats in a large semicircle on the stage. In the center the Interlocutor, in a resplendent tail coat, pronounced the inaugural "Gentlemen, be seated...
Tambo & Bones. After a ballad or two, the Interlocutor addressed the show's comic artists, who flanked the semicircle and were known as endmen. Because they originally played the tambourine and bones, the endmen were known respectively as Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones. Sample dialogue between the Interlocutor and Messrs. Tambo & Bones...
...Bowery Amphitheatre, introduced Manhattan to a new art form, conceived in blackface and dedicated to the proposition that the white man could equal Negro comedy, song and dance. The Music Hall's directors strewed its stage with comedians and buck & wing dancers, got themselves a towering interlocutor in a yellow satin dress suit, and put on a 38-minute minstrel show of huge, streamlined proportions...
...Michael Aden's novels of Mayfair. Actually this Mayfairian tone is something Gertie only gradually acquired. She did not come to the theatre from England's upper crust. Born in London on July 4, 1898, baptized as Gertrude Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen, she was the daughter of a Danish interlocutor of a traveling minstrel show, and an Irish actress...