Analy High School - Azalea Yearbook (Sebastopol, CA)

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Erma Wood George Drezves Neoma Osborn Jessie Orr Ralph Peterson Tom Hyland

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Howard McCauley Margaret Upp William Trigeiro Waunema Jones Byron Nisson Blaine Showalter Merton Woods

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MINSTREL SHOW “Charcoal Alley,” the Analy Minstrel Show of 1923, was presented April 23 to a host of appreciative Analy patrons assembled from far and near, at Lincoln Hall. The play was directed by Messrs. Van Amringe and Grable, ably assisted by Dorothy Wiley, chorus director, and Charles Trezona, stage manager. They arranged the piece in a novel and unusual way. Instead cf opening with the customary circle of black comedians, the endmen and interlocutor, handed down to us from the days of George Primrose and Eddie Leonard, they introduced into minstreldom a snappy, modern chorus of dusky creole beauties, grouped upstage back cf the inter¬ locutor, who was seated in the center with four midnight-hued men on either side. On the chorus cf the solos which interspersed the dialogue, the chorus stepped down in front in a clever routine of steps and joined in the melody. Mammy Lou and her jazz hounds furnished the last word in synco¬ pation accompanying the songs and dances. The orchestra was the best jazz orchestra Analy has ever had, and this, together with the snappy chorus really made the show the success it was. A preliminary bit of entertainment which preceded the Minstrel show was a short, three-act farce entitled “Peanuts. The several eccentric characters were very aptly interpreted by half a dozen boys under the direction of Mr. Grable. Between each act of the show seve ral classical dance solos were presented. On the whole, the show was probably the best of its kind ever given by the Analy students. 14