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Subtitled "A Farce Comedy Suggested by Uncle Tom's Cabin," this musical
burlesque was written in the late 1920s by Henrique Vivian Messetti. Not much
is known about either the performance history of the piece or the man who wrote
and starred in it. According
to the catalog at the Library at the University of California, Davis, the source for the material in
this part of the archive, Messetti was a "member of a vaudeville-circus family
active during the 1920's-1940's." In addition to Eva's Temptation, he
produced and toured California in shows called "Messetti's Great Road Show" and
"Messett's Musical Entertainers." It is not clear what part Messetti took in
his version of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- as posters for his "Musical
Entertainers" suggest, in some of his shows he apparently performed in blackface
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