Word: darktowns
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...only Florence Mills familiar to the public is Florence Mills, the darktown strutter, famed Negro cabaret dancer. This fact, disregarded by the composer of the Times inept headline, caused the well-informed readers to gag upon their three-minute eggs. The real bride was, they discovered, white...
...Africa. It hid with the Norway rats in the hold, of pitching slave-ships; it crawled between the leaves of missionary Bibles to leap out grimacing and twitching, whenever a buck preacher smote the Book with his barrelhouse fist. The cadence of the cakewalk, wild plantation revels, darktown strutters' balls; the frenetic hallelujahs of jubilee revivals where hundreds of Negroes, drunk with ecstasy, wash in the blood of the Lamb, the shifting, subtle rhythms of such spirituals as All God's Chillun Got Wings and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, all are part of that Dark Music. Mississippi roustabouts, limber blackamoors...
...broad daylight of Sunday afternoon a ball of fire dropped from the skies and landed on a roof in Harlem's darktown quarter. To distant observers this phenomenon must have had as awful portent as Bardolph's flaming nose, perhaps dire prediction of the approaching eruption of such active volcanoes as Mount Borah, Mount La Follotte and Mount Hiram Johnson. But distance lends enchantment and observers who were not distant noon pricked this loinantie bubble of would-be anthology. The meteor proved to be nothing but a negro, dressed like Mephistopheles in crimson tights and tunic and hitched...
...Banjo Clubs gave a Yard concert on the steps of Holworthy last evening. The Glee Club sang "Johnny Harvard," "Wing Tee Wee," "The Pope," "The Miller's Song," "The Kentucky Daughter," "The Rhine Wine Song," "The Mulligan Musketeers" and "Fair Harvard." The Banjo Club played "'Rastus on Parade," "The Darktown Patrol," "The Darkies' Cake Walk," "Up the Street," "The Handicap" and "The Chimes of Normandy Waltz." G. R. Osborne 1900 sang two solos...
...Glee and Banjo Clubs gave an informal concert on the steps of Holworthy last evening. Both clubs were in good practice, and the large audience spent a very enjoyable evening. The "Darktown Patrol," by the Banjo Club, and "Ben Bolt," were especially well received. After repeated calls, D. C. Greene '95 rendered the solo "King Charles" with fine effect, singing wholly without accompaniment...