Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banjo On My Knee (Twentieth Century-Fox) is, in a completely unpretentious fashion, a new kind of picture. It is a folk story about a group of Mississippi islanders so isolated that they regard land folk as belonging to another race, hold to the belief that "if God had intended people to live in towns He would have created towns the same way He made rocks and trees." The folk story elements are as authentically saturated with mood as though this were serious drama instead of a light cinema with warmish music. What is most original about Banjo...
With solo parts sung by an octetta Mendlessohn's "Jaglied" will be the next selection. Then the Club will sing two Italian folk songs, followed by two choruses from "Orpheus" by Gluck, the "March of the Peers" from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe", and the "Corongtion Scene" from the opera by Meussorgsky...
Beginning this week, Preacher Whitelock planned to pack his wife and belongings in what he calls "the Chassis Church," take to the road for good. After a tour of northern New England the Whitelocks will head for the paradise of trailer folk, Florida. There they will put to full use a technique which has earned them some fame broadcasting as "Uncle Herb and Aunt Ede" over small New England radio stations. Brisk, 50-year-old Uncle Herb preaches the gospel to crowds attracted by Aunt Ede's singing, to her own accompaniment. Says...
...Jews are the regents of the exchange forces of the American Union. Every year permits them to rise further to control over the labor power of a folk of 120 millions, while only a few Americans, to their exasperation, stand independent today...
...Jews are like maggots in a decaying body. The black-haired Jew with satanic joy in his face is ever lying in wait for some innocent Aryan girl. . . . No folk can remove this [Jewish] fist from its gullet except by the sword. Only the gathered, concentrated strength of a powerfully rising national passion is able to oppose the international enslavement of peoples. Such a procedure is, however, and remains, a bloody...