In a message dated 3/1/2004 11:43:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, richardson69@comcast.net writes: For anyone that may be interested in the history and origins of blackface performing in the United States, I found this page that I found very interesting. I wanted to pass it along. I enjoyed Al Jolsen and in Richmond they had live Black Face Minstrels that my parents took me too as a child. Other than the typical stereotype of the times I found it very entertaining. The comedy and music were very good and of course the blue laws of the 3o's guaranteed a clean performance Tom Hollingsworth