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Of the comedy team of McIntyre and Heath, one of the greatest blackface vaudeville and minstrel acts of all time. Died of uremic poisoning, on his estate in Noyack, near Southampton, LI, NY. In the days following the Civil War, McIntyre and Heath were supreme in the field of minstrel comedy and soft-shoe dancing. For more than 50 years they toured every part of the country, including the Far West when it was really wild. Their famous skit, The Ham Tree, amused audiences for years. They developed the slow-paced, melancholy blackface type of comedy, and were forerunners of Moran and Mack and Amos n' Andy.
James McIntyre and Thomas Heath met in San Antonio in 1874, and then and there began a stage partnership which still endures and is the longest of its kind in the world. At the Forty-fourth Street Theatre, where they are at present playing ...
Partner in Famous Minstrel Team Had Been III Two Years. First Joint Act in 1874. Blackface Pair Last Appeared in 'America Sings' in the Early 1930s at Boston. Biographer Visits Him Bedridden at Partner's Death Returned to the Footlights Heath Lost a Partner Helped Introduce Ragtime Only Friend "Jim" Remained. Thomas K. Heath, partner of the late James McIntyre in the famous blackface team whose act, "The Ham Tree," convulsed generations of Americans, died last night at his home here on the anniversary of his partner's death. He was 85 years old.
McIntyre and Heath, droll as ever, and quite inimitable in their own peculiar line, returned to the New York last night, again creating almost continuous laughter in their amplified vaudeville sketch, now known as "The Ham Tree." As Alexander Hambletonian, lured from his "happy livery stable" to the uncertainties of minstrel life on the crossroads, Mr. McIntyre presents about as amusing a character in low comedy blackface as could be imagined.
McIntyre and Health appeared to-night in "In Hayti," a production by Klaw & Erlanger, at the Euclid Avenue Opera House.
James McIntyre and Thomas Heath came back to town last night, to the Shubert Theatre, with a show which lagged lazily through most of its first act but picked up speed in the second and was going well when the final curtain came down.
Vaudeville Favorite Stricken at 80, While Partner, 84, Lies Ill Near By. Wrote 'Ham Tree' Skit. He and Thomas Heath Played for Years in That Sketch All Over the Country Began as a Candy Butcher Joined the Putnam Show On Road to Success When McIntyre Met Heath A "Gag" That Always Scored Some of Their Successes. James McIntyre of the old vaudeville and minstrel team of McIntyre and Heath, died at 6:30 A. M. today on his estate in Nyack, near here, in his eighty-first year. He had been unconscious since last Friday; remained so to the end.
James McIntyre, who entertained the American public for over sixty years as one of the best of the black-face comedians, was buried today in a Catholic cemetery after simple funeral services in his Summer home, Tiana, on Noyback Bay. He died Wednesday, after a brief illness, at the age of 80. ... The Martins' two sons, George W. Martin 3d and James Martin, were among the pallbearers. The others were Mr. Rosenbaun, Raymond Crowsin, Warren Morton and ...
"Hello, Alexander" is conservative musical comedy of the vintage of 1906, although here and there it contains a joke older. It is lightened only partially by ...
Of the comedy team of McIntyre and Heath, one of the greatest blackface vaudeville and minstrel acts of all time. Died of uremic poisoning, on his estate in Noyack, near Southampton, LI, NY. In the days following the Civil War, McIntyre and Heath were supreme in the field of minstrel comedy and soft-shoe dancing. For more than 50 years they toured every part of the country, including the Far West when it was really wild. Their famous skit, The Ham Tree, amused audiences for years. They developed the slow-paced, melancholy blackface type of comedy, and were forerunners of Moran and Mack and Amos n' Andy.
