<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3>In a message dated 2/5/03 12:16:16 PM Central Standard Time, gwilliamoakley@earthlink.net writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">So, your recollections, mine and Walter Winchell's all seem to point to the<BR>
existence of the white-face minstrel show.<BR>
Best,<BR>
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Thanks for your contribution to this, Bill. Let me say that I don't hink that 'white-face' minstrel show is the right designation. They were just minstrel type riverboat shows with white casts.<BR>
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JIm Beebe</FONT></HTML>