Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-09-09

leatH partnership OF % years
is at an end with the death of James
Mcintyre, seventy-nine, at his home
D.. rL at Southampton,
ou'nt-Io'R N. Y. AS Mcintyre
Iroubadours died, Thomas X.
Stepped High Heath, eighty-four
years old, lay suf-
fering from paralysis unaware Of
his partners demise. "Under the
Gas Light" "Ingomar the Barbara
an" and "The Black Crook" were
played straight and never bur-
lesqued in the f1ourishing days Of
Mcintyre and Heath's Georgia
Minstrels," as were Chester A. Ar
thurs sideburns and Benjamin
Harrison's fuzzy plug hat. Boys in
short pants who tagged the parade,
somewhere out on the kerosene cir
cult, have grown old and died since
the 40 burnt-cork troubadours, STEP
ping high in linen busters, stirred
new life in remote towns.
Their So years was not a record.
Fox and Ward of Philadelphia were
together, I believe, something over
70 years.
Mcintyre and Heath, however,
had a record in their 1880 per-
formances. They never missed a
show, and gave II performances
daily at the Omaha State fair in
1876. Appearing for the last time in
New York in 1929, they said stage
humor hadn't changed much. All
they did in refurbishing their old
jokes, said Mcintyre, was to put in
words like "airplane" and "prohi-
bition" and "radio."
To such oldsters, much that seems
glaringly modern was really old
sPahh;. Con-, stuff. The first au-
Noo"'' gong neutrality-suspicious.
Learned From on the American
Former SluUe stage was "The
Rabbit Song" Of
jerky measure, with an accompany
ing hitch-kick, sung and danced by
Mcintyre in 1879. He said he got
it from a former slave.
They appeared in dance halls, mu-
sic halls, concert halls, variety the
aters, vaudeville, burlesque, must
cal comedy, light opera, revues, ex-
travaganzas, pantomime, comedies,
drama and motion pictures.
They teamed up in San Antonio,
Texas, May IL, 1874. They were in
separate blackface song and dance
acts on a vaudeville bill. Heath's
partner became ill and they merged
their acts. Their first show was
stranded in Louisville. They paid
no salaries, but gave Riley, the
bandmaster, the bass drum. Nc
Intyre got job in a livery stable.
They pulled the partnership togeth-
er again and out of it came the
Georgia MINISTRIES. "Hennery and
Alexander" of ''The Ham Tree" will
be remembered until all who saw
them have gone.
THIS administration helped many
L Harvard men to "rise and
shine" Unhappily, two others come
to grief at about the same time.
Francis O. French, father-in-law of
P.J,t.. Yo,, John Jacob Astor,
-, who confesses
HARVARD Fails bankruptcy, was
Came to Grief Harvard class
mate and buddy of
Ernst Hanfstaengl, former piano
player to Adolf Hitler. Herr Hanf-
staengl ducked his nazi captors in
Spain, as they were planning to drop
him out of an airplane, and is now
studying Germany in absentia.
The brief stock market slump of
1921 wrecked Mr.. French, son of
Amos Tuck French. When, trying
for comeback in 1923, he drove a
taxicab, the papers spoofed him in
stead of giving him credit for his
courage. All in all, he got a pretty
rough deal.
The other taxi-drivers liked him.
One of them showed me a copy of
the "Taxi News" to which Mr..
French had contributed an essay on
democracy which wasn't half bad.
But he made only SIT in about a
month of driving.
Thereafter he sold overcoats on
commission and now, at forty-eight,
eases down into bankruptcy, owing
Chinese laundryman ST .49, this be-
ing one of several small liabilities.
CIR ROBERT CRAIGIE stopped
" several weeks in this country
and visited Washington, en- route to
Japan as the newly appointed Brit
Noroy E~..~. ish ambassador.
- He is Britain's ma
of Britain val exnert He
Pays Us Call previous visits
have touched off
much newspaper conjecture, in
which his trip has been interpreted
as move by England to get Amer
lea to police her interests in the
Pacific and the Far East. All this.
Sir Robert has suavely waved aside.
He served IA years in the foreign
office and three years ago became
assistant secretary of state. He is
the son of the late Admiral r. w.
Craigie. He was chief naval ex-
- II.