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Show DECLARE m SliOlETEPlL Tom Heath Describes It as "The Ham and Eggs" of Art M..E:ityre -d Heat.T. ho a:e n:v: again audeiile heaclicers, openinc at the Orpheum theater r.er Wedneday eveninar. insist thit the minfrel shew !3 the only r.a'.ive Amc: :caa amusement and that it tvjll never d:e. Tom Heath describes de-scribes mms'reley as "'the him and cf s ' i of art; the public's rr.ir.ee pi" and '1o.:s"h-nuts, '1o.:s"h-nuts, its "parlor organ ar.J hron.o " He also says th:it no one knows the first minstrel loke and rha as near as lie can come to it psychological!:.-, the nv.r.sirl joke i? an eolution of tne r.idle. The, firs, jokft is b.irid m ar.r.ciw.'.y and, , thojgh lie lias a.-ke-i s:;cn tei;rrjb men! as L-.v Dockstaut-r. Will M. Crets and , Jam-s Tnornton. b I.o fo md no one tvr.o da tta t..at far back Hr.ith s own first joke b-r-;an ::h "V.'hv Is a ?" j or Tc-ords to That efTect. M'lntvre an1 Heath have ben toceiher since 1-74 ani 1 "The Georgia Minstrels " relate actual experiences ex-periences :n their early career. Heaih says t;iat dramatic critics invanablv err in their comments on ramjtrel it kes. rie I savs- " i Now. these jokes are meant to be funny, not because they are funnv. but because they aren t funny. To :u these -arkey roles, the jokes .-ouldn' t h$ ncw7 and or.o must understand that tne fun-, niest thin? about many of tee jokes is that the darkies themselves thir.k thev are sidesphtvne.'' The secor.d head-ir.er of the t.ll :V. be J:m and Betty Morgan, the son? composers com-posers who sing their o n delu-r-trullv entertaining nur..bers. The pair liarulv need an introdurtion to Sait Like vaudeville vaude-ville lovers, their act of last sea son be- 1 In sr one ct lite b.ij mu; i 'al hit i of the Xi -i " Still a-u.ther fentnre v '!l be the A!ev-1 A!ev-1 a :.t - K ! s ouw-. '.vmnir.f;. c'.o er, va-t 1-va'iii 1-va'iii ihiMreli. Ill a i e r 1 1 o; re -f soiik'b, ' 0 i in -i a r;i i i'" j e : Mi i mmi. Th f-lnet't . Anna. 15 U rai .h of a ' -f-i 1 .e is 1 " ijnd K' 1? 6 cjr- -.f &ct. The oi.m-' oi.m-' tt'-rs i-oin'1 i o:u ,t t V.em rical t .1 mily a n J have pnte'hally tc;: roa:ed :i ih bta.-Tr.e bta.-Tr.e oun of l :i- tr.o. l; -.-e. dos as I p.'t rl of :r con tr: but. on a Haw a n I da::ce. an h.yp.an dance, a chaplm imi-1 imi-1 Id Liou and a ru re num :-tr. ail of winch ; are dt-ciarel to "-e rlo:ouplv funny, i Kv.'.na Cor.i-'l!: and Iiul.y I'raven In ! th Wa?hif.i; i in J-juare pl-iyi s' success, 'Moo;v.cmi rank Crurr.lt, the nne-n.aii nne-n.aii js.(v flub, Vivian Holt and LiUia n Rf r-e'.aie. uj ijra ic o;)rano and p:anlt-coir.;" p:anlt-coir.;" oer. m son. and .-torli to n.uMr; the K.ir,:ini rry 9. uilibnsts with a la !i, t. i t he Pat ... Nt?. Hhowin? no-ta- .e. iinln'.aifl eveir.s, v ill 'orr.'pnse the la,ii:i-e o: "'i hill. The first ma tinea w nl ne on T.Tursd i v. Tr- prnt cn; :our head.!r.e bill, with H.irrv G:i.n sr.ri p'-yt-.s in "T.e Cherry Trt"-4 ': '"htrs V.":ti.f-;-f a:id company m 'Tor Pl:y"& ake . frjert Chfton in trn e.-t : 0:' t ..e w d r. sex. and B rt S'. r.; . Mi -l-.f.ijt- mo. 'hail, as tr.e b'c t;- pe fc i : u."e.-. w .11 be tl.own again lli.s I af' rnoon arid c eriinc. |