Word: hiawatha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...16th Century by the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Senecas and Cayugas. In 1722 they admitted the Tuscaroras. In the American Revolution they fought for the English. Now their shrunken tribes are on reservations in Canada, New York, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Most are Roman Catholics, some Methodists. Hiawatha retells some of their myths...
Baron Ago von Maltzan, (German Ambassador to the U. S.) claimed to have "realized a childhood dream" by gazing upon the Falls of Minnehaha near Minneapolis, Minn. The dream occurred to him 40 years ago when the Baron memorized Poet Longfellow's "Hiawatha...
...stories, of which there are many in both prose and veree--Hiawatha's Bowling, Joe Slow, the Boy Inventor. The Little Girl and the Kind Ogre, Jack the Giant Spiller, How Brother Rabbit Cleared the Yard, Archibald and the Surly Dragon, The Naughty Boy and the Vengeful Peauut--are all neat little yarns in themselves, and at the same time sly parodies of the plots, characters, and narrative manner of fairy tales...
...shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining Big-Sea-Water, in a distant Bronx apartment, in fact, lives David Farjeon, 10. Last week the Manhattan music world waited, more or less anxious, to hear a musical setting he had composed for Poet Longfellow's "Hiawatha." Ethel Hayden, soprano, was scheduled to sing it at Carnegie Hall...
...studied music for two years only. His mother was an actress (Claribel Fontaine), his father an actor (Herbert Farjeon) and his great-great-uncle was actor Joseph Jefferson. That might explain without undue "forcing" some of his immature thirst for Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky "and specially Mozart." Besides the "Hiawatha" setting he had written only an Indian war dance, a "Suite of Characteristics" and a "Rhapsody in Red." The latter, he said, was "after the idea of the 'Rhapsody in Blue,' but they aren't anything alike." And, "I like Gershwin. I saw him once...