Word: gullah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Council of Learned Societies last week handed out $64,000 in grants and fellowships to 57 youngish U. S. scholars. Some things to be studied: Islamic architecture in Persia; the history of Chinese law; the Nootka language of Vancouver Island; Latin geomancy; Gullah; Roman pavements; Ibrahim ibn Yaqub's Commentary on Genesis; Widsith...
...Once a winter she goes to New York, "to pleasure herself," not to be lionessed. At home the local colored folk know that "Miss Julia" has put them in books, do not much care. Negro intelligentsiacs agree with the whites ? that Authoress Peterkin writes accurately, vividly of the Gullah Negroes. Equally vivid, Bright Skin gives a broader picture of Gullah life than Scarlet Sister Mary, Though Ethel Barrymore made no stage success of Scarlet Sister Mary, this time cinemen are reported to be dickering for the rights already...
Audiences in Columbus were not particularly warm toward the play. Adapted from Julia Peterkin's Pulitzer prizewinning novel, its first drawback was that the dialog was in Gullah.* And Actress Barrymore's facial expressions, under cork, were hard to see, especially since the sets were made too dark. But Actress Barrymore was not downhearted. She had the kind of a part which is every actor's dream: when she was not holding the stage all the other actors were talking about...