Word: kilpatrick
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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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...
Musical?EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, SONS o' GUNS, KILPATRICK'S OLDTIME MINSTRELS, THREE LITTLE GIRLS, SIMPLE SIMON...