Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Present were such upland musical celebrities as bristle-bearded Fiddler Jilson Setters and Brother Dawson of Rowan County, who leads his Gregorian Chanters through old liturgical chants. Also present, in full plaid regalia, were ballad-singing Director Lyda Messer Caudill, direct hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, and Author Jean Thomas,* "traipsin' woman" who founded the festival after "traipsin'"all over the neighboring mountains collecting the songs of the mountaineers...
...ballads of the Southern mountain folk have been kept in cold storage since the 17th Century. The hillbillies have inherited not only ballads, but also the tradition of creating them. For three years, Dr. Edwin Capers Kirkland, professor of English at the University of Tennessee, has, like Author Thomas, chased folk songs deep into the Southern Appalachians. Dr. Kirkland has found that twangy-voiced mountain singers and guitar pickers are making ballads from yesterday's newspaper headlines...
Marriage Announced. Jon Hall (real name: Charles Locher, pronounced Lo-shay), 25, muscular, part-Tahitian cinemactor (Hurricane), second cousin of Hurricane's co-author James Norman Hall; to Frances Langford, 25, cinema singer (Palm Springs, Bom to Dance, Hollywood Hotel) who was a soprano until a tonsillectomy made her a contralto; in Prescott, Ariz.; secretly, fortnight...
Third and most influential champion of the idea is Robert Rhea (pronounced Ray), a Colorado Springs invalid, author of The Dow Theory, textbook published in 1932 at the bottom of Depression I. Printed at his own expense. 91,000 copies have been sold. Robert Rhea first went to Colorado Springs in 1910 with tuberculosis, in three years was pronounced cured. But in the air service during the War he had a minor crackup, got influenza and pneumonia, was discharged as permanently and totally disabled. Seeking relief from pain in utter exhaustion, he worked in bed at market studies begun earlier...
...Maine superiority chiefly on his vehement dare to the reader to knock Maine off his shoulder. Says Roberts: Maine ducks and partridges fly faster. Maine fish fight harder. Maine food tastes better than anywhere else in the world. But the most ingenious evidence concerns the Maine air, which Author Roberts credits with bringing 75 writers into his neighborhood of southern Maine. His theory is that they go there and write furiously and successfully because the air contains iodine pounded out of the seaweed by the ocean surf. For himself, unfortunately, the iodine is wasted, since he can write only...