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Negro Minstrelsy Is Dying.Other nations may have disputed our claim to the invention of the steamboat and the telegraph, but negro minstrelsy Is as Indisputably due to American inventiveness as the telephone itself. Here in the United States it had its humble beginnings; here it expanded and flourished for many years; from here it was exported to Great Britain, where it established itself for many seasons; from here it made sporadic excursions Into France and into Germany; and hero at last it has fallen into a decline and a degeneracy and a decay which seem to doom it to a speedy extinction. Its life was little longer than that vouchsafed to man, three score years and ten, for it was born in the fifth decade of the nineteenth century and in the second decade of the twentieth it lingers superfluous on the stage, with none to do it reverence.— Brander Matthews in Scribner’s Magazine.
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Chicago Englewood Times
Chicago, Illinois, US
Fri, Jul 23, 1915
Page 5
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