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...imply; local color, to be sure, is there, but woven with skill into the fabric of a tremendously swiftmoving drama; and, moreover, the folk atmosphere is not mere adornment, but has a vital part in the development of the plot. A red-coated orphanage band leading the inhabitants of Catfish Row on a picnic; a quack lawyer in a top hat, selling Porgy a divorce from Bess for a dollar and a half; the marvelous scenes of a score of bodies swaying in rhythm as they chant for the dead; these are local color of the highest grade, but they...
Chief Justice Taft's Mother Yale last week marched sluggishly through Georgia; wavered, struggled, stopped in front of a light but savage Georgia line. Spurning the handsome Bermuda grass of the brand new field in Athens, Left End Vernon ("Catfish") Smith of Georgia's little bulldogs helped block and then picked up a punt made by Yale's big bulldogs, ran it over for a touchdown, kicked the goal. In addition he did all Georgia's punting and scored another touchdown by snatching a forward pass. Capt. Joe Boland of Georgia played bulldoggedly at centre while...
...natural associations of the catch phrase thinker with the word "melodrama" are the mustachio and hound dogs, the Tennesseean Montagues and Capulets, and the revolving saw that yearns for the hero's throat. But along Catfish Row, in the negro tenement district of Charleston, murder, knife behind back, walks hand in hand with music. The very name of melodrama was derived of this union. Modern usage of the word had its birth in the musically accompanied plays of the mauve decade, when "Hearts and Flowers," various funeral marches, and "After the Ball" were softly breathed by violins below the stage...
...problem of the negro of America home at Harlem has been periodically attended to. The floods brought attention to the levee negro. But Catfish Row is likewise Africa in America. The attention drawn by the Liberal Club to a worthy drama has involved a too-familiar identification of the name of Harvard with the lighted overhangs of Tremont and Boylston Street; yet the identification seems this time not unjustified...
Idaho, as piscator, at Washington, scoffed at President Coolidge catching trout with angleworms in South Dakota: "They must have been imbecile trout. My interpretation is that the President must have caught not trout, but catfish. I never heard of catching a trout with a worm. Those South Dakota trout must be so elated over the President's coming to their state that they joined in the welcoming procession." Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, as piscator, said of President Coolidge's method of catching trout with angleworms in South Dakota: "Any trout that would bite on a worm...