Lew Dockstader and his Minstrels

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Featuring Al Jolson in blackface; Pierce Keegan; Dockstader holds his own as one of our beat story tellers. Toward the end of the first part he puts over three short, catchy songs, "Broke," "It Looks Like a Big Night" and "Welcome to Our City." "Politics Under Water" was his specialty; Neil O'Brien, the comedian of the organization, was his only competitor. Other vaudeville features were the comedy sketch by Neil O'Brien, an adaptation of the veteran afterpiece "Dr. Dippy's Sanitarium," in which O'Brien, of course, played the "Patsy." "The Left Hind Foot of a 'Rabbit'" was an incident in the "dream travels." There were eight important numbers in the opening piece. Of these Jolson's "It's Better to Have a Little Too Much," Will Oakland's "Again, Sweetheart, Again," Neil O'Brien's "Everybody Looked at Me," Will H. Thompson's "Years, Years, Years," and Rees V. Prosser's "There's No Love Like Mine" were the best liked.
There was unlimited variety and shift of scene in the rest of the proceedings, and it was noticeable that the latter half of the evening witnessed more applause than the former.
Some of its humor is old and perhaps familiar, but by no means dull on that account. Somehow it isn't possible to imagine a minstrel show without at least some of the reminiscent interlocutor- end man dialog.
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Variety 14:1 (04/13/1909)