Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Edward cheerfully lent his Household Trumpeters to the old folk who ceremoniously assert every year that the "rightful" King is the descendant of beheaded Charles I's daughter Henrietta. Current pretender is Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria.* This year the various Stuart societies postponed their technical treason two months out of consideration for the House of Windsor's bereavement...
Early last year John Avery Lomax, crack compiler of U. S. folk songs, arrived in Manhattan with a big, wild-eyed Negro known as Lead Belly (real name: Huddie Ledbetter). John Lomax' protègé was a murderer, but he was also a natural-born minstrel. From a Texas jail he won his pardon by singing a petition to onetime Governor Pat Neff. In the Louisiana swamplands his knife made more trouble. Again he was imprisoned, again got out with a song when John Lomax made a phonograph record of it, submitted it personally to the late Governor...
...been sentenced to life imprisonment in Texas. At John Lomax' request Governor James V. Allred granted Baker a furlough to tour as a minstrel, visit penitentiaries in Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, sing his songs so that other convicts will understand what Lomax wants for his folk-song files in the Library of Congress...
...really important because Professor McLaughlin yesterday made the feeling of the other opponents practically effective. Certain members of the hearing committee are so ignorant and yet so conceited that implications mean nothing to them. They must be told in the blunt language that Professor McLaughlin used what educated folk think of them. When, for instance, the professor said of heckler McDermott, "I am not accustomed to speaking to people who do not know what I am talking about," the applause of the audience was universal and prolonged. In the face of this response, how can you say that fear...
...theatre folk who go to Russia to profit artistically rather than financially, the U. S. S. R. seems to be indeed the millennium of the show business. Audiences seem to like everything they get. The spirit of experimentation is vigorous and widespread. And what puts the golden cap of perfection on the whole situation is that the State pays all the bills...