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The act was twenty-one minutes long on the full stage.
The Hawthorne Minstrel Maids consists of Harry Montgomery and Winnie Hawthorne in blackface, Miss Hawthorne as the interlocutor, Grace Edwards, Ida Melrose, and the Kirk Sisters. The girls are all in whiteface and are dressed in Colonial costumes with powdered wigs. Each of the girls does a solo and the Kirk twins do a dance. For the finale they do an “Indian” song and dance.
Some of the singing is light, but the act has plenty of action and an attractive appearance. The finale should be completely changed, however, because it does not match a minstrel act at all.
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Variety 28:12 (22/11/1912)