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...rapid tuneless and delicious music. Bill Robinson makes the show; if he were on the stage more of the time he would make the show a lot better. Not but what Adelaide Hall, with her hoarse, high voice, and an energetic chorus make Blackbirds, despite dull moments, the best coon show in town...
Sherwood Anderson, author of Dark Laughter, collects news from Coon Hollow, Spratts Creek, Troutdale, Marion and many another Virginian village, prints it in two weekly newssheets. When he bought the Smyth County News and the Marion Democrat (combined circulation, 5,000) he explained to whom it might concern: 'I am doing it primarily to make a living. My books have never sold." Last week Editor & Publisher Anderson confided to readers of the Democrat: "The trouble with us is that we have to write the whole paper, and make our living nights. You can't make money and have...
...Coon 3G, tutor in Anthropology, D. S. Vyers 1G, and H. A. Wolfe '29, have charge of editing the films, and have a room equipped for the purpose in Peabody Museum...
...various classes. But every one moves faster than usual. There is a hustle and a bustle and an under-current of excitement. Today at 1 o'clock classes stop and the college, in toto, will "peerade," as they call it, to Boston for the Harvard game. Students clad in coon-skin coats will leave in big cars. Boys in sweatshirts and sweaters will drive down in ramshackle Fords. Many will go on the special trains. A few will work their way down. Others will bum their way. But all will go. No one stays behind...
...have been a subscriber of "TIME" since the beginning of "TIME" and I dislike very much to enter the ranks of the disgruntled, for I have no complaint to make, but merely wish to state a preference. Re the coons, if we must have coon let us have Rebecca and ignore the Parisian species. Still, if you do need something with which to fill space, I prefer either one of the coons as a subject to the uninteresting, distorted views of the eminent Baltimore Sun reporter* on our worthy Chief Executive [TIME, June 20]. . . . C. V. LEMEN Wichita Falls...