The Minstrels of 1922

Series

Series Name

Around The Town

Issue

Issue No.

115

Date Released

9 Feb 1922

Length of issue (in feet)

750

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Through Life’s Windows: Series two
2. 2The Jazz Girls give us a Jazzy Dance.
3. 3An original and grotesque animal study
4. 4Some charming and latest modes in "Condor Millinery" worn by Constance Worth
5. 5The Noah Family: Japhet, a fish, and a plum cake. (Part two)
6. 6The Minstrels of 1922

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 7

Summary

NoS synopsis: '"The Minstrels of 1922". A revival of the Burnt Cork Comedians. This form of entertainment was very popular in the eighties’. ‘Gene Gerrard and Gus Chevalier, the two corner men, have an argument as to whether "Beauty is only skin deep-"'. Close up of two blacked-up men in dinner suits arguing. ‘The Dis-harmony Four. Music may have charms - but the singer was not the least disturbed by the harmony (?) as he had the loudest voice’. Four blacked-up men clown around with a tuba, harp and deck chair.
End title - A patch of white paint contracts to read "FINIS".

Keywords

Music and dance

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   2 February 1922, p58.
The Bioscope   9 February 1922, p8.
Viewing Copy - bfi   Used for synopsis
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998)   p98.

Credits:

Production Co.

Around the Town Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

121

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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