"GENTLEMEN, BE SEATED!"—Dailey Paskman and Sigmund Spaeth—Double-day Doran ($4.00). "There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight, my baby," when the interlocutor bids his black-face gentlemen be seated, and starts the volley of wisecracks between Bones and Tambo, the two "endmen." Endmen not only in the semicircle, these two always have the last word—at the expense of the ponderous master of ceremonies, Mr. Interlocutor. For "he is the father of all the foils in vaudeville, those well-dressed gentlemanly fellows of unimpeachable...
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