Pistel & Cushing

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I wonder who dug this up. The two men form a black face team giving up the old Stranded Minstrel act which we have had in various forms in vaudeville ever since it has been vaudeville, and even dates back to the old variety days. More than twenty years ago, Hall & Stanley did it for us in white face, a dozen years ago Simmons & White revived it in black face, it formed the basis of McIntyre & Heath’s Georgian Minstrels and was originally performed by one of the original minstrel companies along 1850. Pistel & Cushing are offering it in practically its original form. They managed to get some laughs out of it, but I do not believe it will cause a tremendous rush to the box office. 12 minutes in one.  
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University of Iowa, Keith Albee Vaudeville Collection, Manager Reports, 13 November 1916 – 21 January 1918