Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BLACK IVORY-Polan Banks- Harper ($2). Once upon a time there was a pirate who marauded the Gulf of Mexico. Black ivory (slaves) was his chief booty. His men were cutthroats to the last gurgle. But his diablerie was so debonair, his ruthlessness so discriminating, that the Latin citizenry of...
Despite occasional lapses into quiescence, the species juvenilia continues to justify its Wordsworthian epithet of "mighty prophets, seer blest". Vibrations of exotic metre have scarcely died away in a certain quarter of Brooklyn when the evangelical eloquence of twelve year old Uldine Utley presages a great western spiritual movement. For...
With the romantic final curtain of Somerset Vaughan's Circle, which is at the Repertory this week, still impressed upon my visual memory, one might suppose my taste for the unreal and for drawing-room comedies would be sated. But at 10 o'clock this morning I shall be found...
The French Quarter, the Vieux Carre, was originally the city itself. Its dignity, its gayety and especially its Mardi Gras carnival have made New Orleans one of the storied cities of the U.S. Hither came adventurers from Latin Europe, from Latin America. Here endured an Old World culture exotic and...
This is the second vehicle by which the delightful ingenue, Miss Lois Moran, has conveyed her exotic charms to the public. The first was "Stella Dallas". Again Miss Moran is the daughter of Belle Bennett, who it will be remembered, was Stella herself. This time, however, the effort is not...