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The performance is laid out along the lines of the old-time minstrel show, excepting there are no “bones.” The usual number of solo singers, all tenors or falsettos, are heard, with three changes on the “ends.”
Harry M. Morse makes an excellent interlocutor and has a deeply pitched voice which might be heard alone to advantage.
The Palace of Emeralds.
Waiting at the Church.
Brotherly Love
Dearie
Waltz Me Around Again, Willie
Anybody but You
The Hot Air Subway
Dixie
Anybody But You was liked through the concert singing in the chorus, which was good at all times.
It was extremely pretty, the emerald-shaded jewels in the "palace" setting giving an effective framework for the forty-five minstrels, including the orchestra, containing a harp and organ.
The show should do business in the city. There are plenty who prefer the blackface comedy to any other kind.
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Variety 5 :2 ( December 22, 1906)