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...Milwaukee, a baby, part Amerindian, was christened Franklin Delano Blue Eagle Knapinski...
Caterina Jarboro was born in Wilmington, N. C. of an Amerindian mother and a Negro father who worked as a barber. As a little girl she learned to moan the throaty melodies of her race, sang Gregorian chants in Latin in a Catholic choir. When her parents died she went to live with an aunt in Brooklyn, continued to sing in church at Sunday Mass, until Broadway's flair for Negro music resulted in Shuffle Along. Jarboro got a job in the chorus at $50 a week. Noticing that the other girl singers paid 50? for manicures, she learned...
Igloo (Universal) is the latest of many epics showing the prolonged death-grip of Man and remorseless Nature. Nanook of the North did it in 1922. Grass did it in 1925 for the nomads of central Asia, The Silent Enemy for the Amerindian in 1930. Grass was a symphonic study in time, space, herds and mountains. The Silent Enemy used a plot, a love triangle. Igloo follows the evolved formula of love against a landscape. Otherwise it is an unrelieved stagger through snow...
Satirist Grosz had opinions last week about the U. S. face (he had seen only Manhattan faces). He analyzed it as typically pale, thin and long, notably Puritan with heavy lines of violence beside the mouth, somehow suggesting the Amerindian...
Tales of treasure-hunting, of Tomacito, a New Mexican Thumbling, of drunken burros, spice the book. More sombre are the tales of disappearing Amerindian tribes and customs, but they are stoically told. The Zia Indians, in their decay, became so poverty-stricken, so skinny, that other Indians called them the "hungry ones." The "hungry ones" called back: "Fat Indians dance slowly...