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...father's taste, proved to be lamentably without his shrewdness. To liquidate his debts his executors offered the renowned Chiesa collection for sale. Last week part of it- 63 paintings by Flemish, Dutch, Italian masters, and a show of old armor, basinets and brigandines, a Castilian chapel-de-fer, a Venetian salade, some great two-handed swords from England-was put on exhibition in the American Art Galleries...
...Mammy's Memories of Christmas in the Old Plantation" Miss Williams "Georgia Sunbeams" Miss Williams 3. "Old Black Joe" Audience 4. Silhouettes of Dixie: "A Mississippi Test of Love" "The Old Virginia Reel" (Banjo accompaniment) Miss Williams 5. "Way Down on the Suanee River" Audience 6. "Old Wash Up fer Moonshine" "The Haunted House. . (Negro ghost story) Miss Williams 7. "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia" Audience 8. Cabin Folk Songs of Dixie (collected from life): "A Cottonfield Serenade" "Down in de Valley" "Sis Patsy" Miss Williams 9. My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight" Audience
...dispute with the uncouth West and the effete East the attentions of aspiring writers. Two recent works in different fields of literature which have won prizes in competition with hundreds of others, have both dealt, by singular coincidence, with the provincial picture-esqueness of Southern life. In "Hell-Bent Fer Heaven", the Pulitzer prize play for last year, Hatcher Hughes presented a light comedy in a remarkable setting among Southern mountaineers. In the November issue of "The Forum" is published that magazine's prize short story for 1924, which also has a Southern theme. "The Secret at the Cross-roads...
...works have revealed. Just as Gray's introduction of nature into English poetry was the prelude to countless rhapsodies on nature by succeeding poets, just as Montesquieu's "Letters Persanes" prefaced many a book both in France and elsewhere in letter form, so it is probable that "Hell-Bent Fer Heaven" and "The Secret at the Crossroads" will open to American literature a new field a field rich in possibilities, and one as yet only touched...
...they have what not only the United States, but every country needs for the cultivation of industry; valuable woods of various kinds, including, of course, the rubber tree; sugar plantations, coconut groves, orange, banana and pineapple farms. The waters teem with fish. Cattle are successfully raised. The land is fer tile. The climate benign...