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William Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony had a few exciting moments when drum beats drilled out a climax in true African fashion. But for the rest Composer Dawson appeared to have forgotten his primitive background. After his shoe-shining days in Anniston, Ala., he worked ambitiously at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. He studied music in Kansas City, later in Chicago where Conductor Frederick Stock chose him for his first trombonist. He returned to Tuskegee in 1930, to head the music department, direct the choir...
...Schreiber, U. S. Bureau of Standards chemist, in association with other workers at Anniston, Ala., has been producing xylose on a semi-commercial basis. Each year the U. S. produces a million and one-half tons of cottonseed hull bran which might be converted into xylose...
These delicate, unsolved terrors were so sensitively evoked that the Gardens Players won the Cup donated by clerical-collared Producer David Belasco for the best production. There were also two $200 prizes for the best unpublished plays. Hudson Strode of Anniston, Ala., won one of these with The End of the Dance, as presented by the Anniston Little Theatre. It was silly drama about a woman with a weak heart who died after she learned that her husband, whom she had supposed a musical genius, was in reality an esthetic piddler...
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...afternoon last week John Webb, 19, of Anniston, Ala., crossed Times Square, Manhattan, surrounded by a crowd of tittering street dolls and foyer sheiks. He entered a Childs' restaurant nearby, sat down, ordered a meal. The crowd persisted in peering at him through the window; some of them entered the restaurant and ordered a glass of milk or a cracker in order to sit near him; waitresses in the restaurant whispered behind their hands...