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Updated: June 18, 2025
When they spring a funny joke they're used to hearing their audience laugh, and when they don't hear anything, they get peeved sometimes. They can't get used to the blank silence after their best efforts." "I can easily understand how it would have that effect," said Bob. "It might save them a lot of trouble, though. Take the case of a black-face artist.
Bert Brannigan, Brannigan and Bowers, Black-Face Comedians." "Ah?" murmured Miss Nellie, who was always polite even in the most trying circumstances. But Miss Eva could only stare at the rich brown suit, the lavender tie and matching socks and handkerchief. "Well?" said Miss Eva. Mr. Brannigan cleared his throat and looked cautiously about the room. His heavy, clownlike face was troubled.
In a metropolitan music hall, gaudily bedecked and brilliantly lighted, it would have been tolerable from the lips of a black-face comedian. But in this quiet place, upon this quiet night, and in the colonel's mood, it seemed like profanation. The song of the coloured girl, who had dreamt that she dwelt in marble halls, and the rest, had been less incongruous; it had at least breathed aspiration.
In a few seconds the canoe was backed and the straw-hat rescued from its perilous position. "It's an ill wind that blows nae guid, as the Scotch say," remarked Barney, rising in the canoe and reaching towards something among the overhanging branches. "Here's wan o' them trees that old black-face calls a maraja, with some splendid bunches o' fruit on it.
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