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...Moritz Rosenfeld of New York will give a reading from his Yiddish poetry under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein in the Fogg Lecture Room on April 18. Yiddish is a German dialect of the middle Rhine district, with some Hebrew and Slavic words incorporated into...
...WALDO RICHARDS will give a Story Reading and Dialect Recital, at Brattle Hall, Monday evening, Feb. 21, at 8.15 p. m. The programme will include selections from Robert Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, William Barnes, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mary E. Wilkins, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, F. Hopkinson Smith, and others. Tickets on sale at Thurston's. Price...
...WALDO RICHARDS will give a Story Reading and Dialect Recital, at Brattle Hall, Monday evening, Feb. 21, at 8.15 p. m. The programme will include selections from Robert Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, William Barnes, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mary E. Wilkins, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, F. Hopkinson Smith, and others. Tickets on sale at Thurston's. Price...
...sketch of the Kentucky mountaineer in order to make the stories more intelligible to those who were unfamiliar with this unique type of American character. Mr. Fox has portrayed this character in his stories with a clear insight and a fine sense of humore. His complete mastery of the dialect, from having been much among the mountaineers, and his understanding of their character, give his readings a peculiar interest and charm...
...season and out of season, to the study of his chosen profession. One of his German friends once said that it was not true that he could speak German like a native (as was sometimes reported), but that it was true that he could imitate a local German dialect so that a man from another part of the country would think it was his native tongue...