Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hungry straggler mounts to world championship, hangers-on, Fierce-Arrows, booze, kotowing, all the tinseled impedimenta. After two years of demoralizing opulence, double-crossed by his manager, disillusioned by the discovery that his idolized Irene is tinged with black blood like his own, he forsakes the devious paths of Harlem, seeks out the sunny slopes of California, wanders away again, a singing hobo...
...spent as guest critic with that newspaper (TIME, Oct. 13, 1924, et seq.). During those same months, Critic Newman was treated to a close-range view of the great U. S. pastime of discovering profound significance in artistry previously considered crude, slapstick or otherwise lowly-Charles Chaplin, Ring Lardner, Harlem, George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman...
NIGGER HEAVEN - Carl Van Vechten - Knopf ($2.50). Sullen-mouthed, silky-haired Author Van Vechten has been playing with Negroes lately; writing prefaces tor their poems, having them around the house, going to Harlem.^ They have been his latest fad, just as cats, perfumes, precious stones were his fads before. And now he seems to have sickened of Negroes. In this story about high and low brownskins in Harlem and Atlantic City he shows Negroes wallowing in extreme depravity. He makes the comparatively chaste, intelligent heroine most unhappy. The hero, an ambitious graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is discouraged, disillusioned...
...What Negro courtesan conquered Harlem and Paris...
LULU BELLE ? Lenore Ulric in a gutturally exciting portrait of a Negro courtesan who conquered Harlem and then Paris...