Author: Edward Marble

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-19

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781332831210

Excerpt from The Minstrel Show, or the Burnt Cork of Comicalities: A Collection of Comic Songs, Jokes, Stump, Speeches, Monologues, Interludes, and Afterpieces for Minstrel Entertainments The comedians (end men) may change the personnel of their make-up by removing the buttons from their dress coats and replacing them with a large at brass button, wearing the ordinary double-breasted, low cut white vests, with small brass button, black trousers, extravagant white ties, comic black wigs, large pointed collars, large bout_on niere of sun owers or chrysanthemums. The musicians, full dress suits, white ties, black vests, black wigs and boutonniere of one color, distinct from others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."