Word: eisteddfods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York. Many are mill workers, weavers, miners. Most of them sing. Put four or more together and you have a chorus dedicated to the ancient music and tongue of Cambria. Put two or more choruses together, egg them into competition, and you have what is known as an eisteddfod...
...eisteddfod (pronounced "eye-steth-fod") causes more stir in Wales than a heavyweight championship fight in the U. S. Wales' great annual eisteddfod is held in August, attracts every Welshman's attention, brings many Welsh-Americans across the Atlantic. Last August's eisteddfod took place at Machynlleth where Owain Glyn Dwr (Owen Glendower) became Prince of Wales in 1403. A specially built auditorium, accommodating about 12,000, houses each eisteddfod. Poets, orators, artists and singers compete. Audiences sit tensely, yell their applause. The winning team earns its town a place in history...
First U. S. eisteddfod was in Carbondale, Pa., in 1850. Now they are held in many U. S. towns. The largest one in Warren, Ohio, every May, is seven years old, attracts Welsh from Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, the rural and mining areas of Ohio and West Virginia. Smaller eisteddfods are held, usually on New Year's Day, in such Pennsylvania industrial centres as Wilkes-Barre. Plymouth. Kingston, Allentown, and in Philadelphia. New York and Los Angeles...
Chrysler's male choir, the most up & coming group, owes its existence to little Tom Lewis, a bespectacled Welshman who as a boy worked in the mines and had his greatest fun at the yearly eisteddfod. In the Chrysler factory Tom Lewis found eight other Welshmen who liked to sing with him. Encouraged, he corralled more workers-a millwright, a metal finisher, a carpenter, a stockman. Two hundred sang with him at the Festival last week, a bit self-conscious in their dressed-up clothes but lustily sure of the songs ("Cornfield Melodies," "Galway Piper") that Tom Lewis...
Attentive Welshmen gathering last week in Wrexham for the national festival or Eisteddfod of Wales politely honored a bleak, grey-mustached, sensitive man who as a youth polished cuspidors and the brass rail of Luke O'Connor's bygone saloon in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Later in Yonkers, N. Y. sensitive John Masefield learned to abhor the Machine Age by working in a rug mill. Last week as the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom he told Welshmen that "the world subconsciously longs for poetry but it now invents substitutes, such as speed, to obtain the excitement...