The Thumping Process (Minstrel Show) Leavitt, Andrew J. Derived Text Format to access the structural information conversion Mathias Göbel TextGrid CC-BY-4.0 Lizenzvertrag Andrew J. Leavitt Richard Moody, 1911 – The Thumping Process (Minstrel Show): A. J. Leavitt [in, Dramas from the American Theatre: 1762 – 1909: Edited with Introductory Essays by Richard Moody ...] Boston Houghton Mifflin Company xiii, 873 p. PATIENT: 1ST PATIENT: BILL: JAMES: DOCTOR: Black Minstrel Show Sketch Comedy Prose data extraction from source 1969
CHARACTERS DOCTOR GRAPE BILL, a Servant 1ST PATIENT 2ND PATIENT JAMES, a Servant
Scene. — Chamber. Table, chairs, door in flat; screen back of table. Doctor discovered reading paper . DOCTOR:

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Enter Bill and James BILL:

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Exit Doctor. Bill and James commence dancing and singing BILL:

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Bill puts on Doctor's gown. Knock heard at door BILL:

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Patient takes chair JAMES:

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Bill, who has been looking out from behind screen, runs off JAMES:

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Enter Bill with letters; looks at Patient BILL:

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James goes to table, gets the two stuffed clubs, hands Bill one, and both shake them behind Patient's back PATIENT:

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Patient straightens up; Bill and James both club him; he falls on the floor; they keep clubbing him till he crawls off BILL:

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James takes the blue frame, a two-foot square frame with blue paper pasted on it, and bursts it over the Patient's head; Bill squirts seltzer water at him; the Doctor and 1st Patient rush in; Bill squirts water over the Doctor; James clubs both Patients. Close in The End