The Russell and Smith’s Minstrels

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It is amazing how an audience will groan over old material by a monologist but laugh their heads off at the same stuff used in a minstrel act. The Minstrel's use a lot of their old stuff. While the three men employed for the "ballads" have pleasing voices, harmonizing well, the jokes are moth-eaten.
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Variety 22:5 (04/08/1911)