Howard & Fields

Representing the small number of minstrel "nostalgia acts" in 1917, this graphically powerful montage juxtaposes a white face with a black face for supposed comic effect… On verso: AZO ∆'s stamp box…………..."Some of the best black-face acting seen at the Star in some time is being shown In the last act of vaudeville at the local theater in which Howard and Fields are showing in "The Ragtime Dining Car," a minstrel feature depicted this time in the Twentieth Century Limited express instead of the old time semi-clrcular row of chairs with bones and tamberines.