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South Before The War

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
December
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Of all the plays portraying life in Dixie land cluring ante-bellum days, none have been half so true to nature, and so successful from an artistic and flnancial standpoint, as the famous Wballen iS; Martell comedy-drama, ■ The South Before the War," which comes to the Grand Opera House on next Saturday evening. ïhe play abounds in Southern scenery. ïhe cotton plantation in f uil bloom, the darkits at work pieking the cotton, all the time singing the weird old tfouthem melodies that have made the South and the negro a never to be forgotton memory. A f ter the day's work is over, the steamboat Kobert E. Lee, is seen coming around the bend in the water, and lands at the plantation and is unloaded, and which allows of introducing pastimes on the levee consisting of all kinds and styles of dancing, singing and arroba! ie nonsense. Then a camp meeting on F rog Island is given, and in this are portrayed the various incongruities and festivities of such a scène. ïhe company is a large one, numbering some fifty people, oomposed mainly of negroes, who are used to give realism to the Southern scènes. Another feature is a pickaninny band, composed of seventeen little darkies who appear in several scènes of the play, and give a band concert in front of the opera house in the evening.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat