Album of Gems, Introduced by Williams and Walker and Their Own Big Company
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The Policy Players was their 1899 production that garnered glowing reviews and stories of audiences laughing in \u00e2\u0080\u009cuproars.\u00e2\u0080\u009d"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Walker and Williams reclaimed material from white minstrelsy performers who \u00e2\u0080\u009cblacked up\u00e2\u0080\u009d to racially derogate African Americans. Walker was the straight man and petty tyrant of the hapless and put-upon Williams. The gaiety of this cover featuring flowers, ribbons, and levity, however, belies the darkly racist and contradictory conditions the entertainers endured as pioneers in professionalizing black theater\u00e2\u0080\u0094as \u00e2\u0080\u009cblacks in blackface.\u00e2\u0080\u009d W.C. Fields, another vaudeville actor, once commented, Williams was \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe funniest man I ever saw\u00e2\u0080\u0094and the saddest man I ever knew.\u00e2\u0080\u009d"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "En esta portada de unas partituras musicales figuran retratos de los celebrados artistas de vodevil George Walker (abajo a la izquierda) y Bert Williams (arriba a la derecha) y, entre otras, escenas de los actores ense\u00c3\u00b1\u00c3\u00a1ndole su famoso baile \u00e2\u0080\u009ccake walk\u00e2\u0080\u009d a William Vanderbilt. Su producci\u00c3\u00b3n de 1899, The Policy Players, recibi\u00c3\u00b3 cr\u00c3\u00adticas muy elogiosas y mantuvo al p\u00c3\u00bablico ri\u00c3\u00a9ndose a carcajadas."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Walker y Williams reutilizaban material de artistas ambulantes blancos (minstrels) que se presentaban pintados de negro mof\u00c3\u00a1ndose de los afroamericanos. Walker era el hombre serio del acto, que tiranizaba al infeliz y explotado Williams. El tono alegre de esta portada con flores, cintas y humor contrasta con las condiciones racistas y contradictorias que estos artistas sufrieron como pioneros del teatro negro profesional \u00e2\u0080\u0094como \u00e2\u0080\u009cnegros pintados de negro\u00e2\u0080\u009d\u00e2\u0080\u0094. W.C. 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