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Messrs. Holtz & Baker, in boots, dilapidated hats and hickory shirts, courting Judy Canova, a dry, hillbilly Beatrice Lillie, with a spurious mountain ballad...
...read to its members at about this time. But contrary to his usual custom, this year he is announcing beforehand some of the selections which he has chosen. Among them are Browning's "Epistle of Karshish" and "Up at a Vills," Keate' "Ode to a Nightingale," and Tennyson's "Ballad of the Revenge." As Copey intends to read only poetry, he is especially cager that all those who have real interest in that field be present...
Entrance examinations for U. S. Foreign Service do not compare in difficulty with those for Britain's famed Civil Service (in which the candidate may be required to discuss anything from the causes of British hostility to Russia, 1815-1878, to the proposition, "The ballad is not literature"), but they are stiff enough to baffle most bright young Phi Beta Kappas. Cautious candidates commune with Mr. Roudybush for four months before attempting them. Confident candidates take the examinations first, often commune with Mr. Roudybush afterward for a second try. Each year 75 to 100 aspiring diplomats pay $225 apiece...
...Vanderbilt's Daughter," an old Virginia ballad appearing in Eight Negro Songs collected by Francis H. Abbott in 1923, includes lines which might well be the source of parts of "Casey Jones." Samples...
...greens. old coon dogs, Napoleon Bonaparte. Because many an expert believes that these are the rarest of U. S. folksongs, cameramen were present to film the proceedings for the Library of Congress. Feature of the afternoon was supposed to be an Elizabethan wedding celebration in which Marion Kerby, Chicago ballad expert, soloed. But outsiders were more interested in Jilson Setters, the 75-year-old fiddler whom Miss Thomas took to Lon don a year ago to perform in Albert Hall. Jilson Setters has earned wide publicity for Miss Thomas' folksong society. When he arrived in Manhattan to sail...