Word: hiawatha
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...Laemmle lords it in his own Universal City, outskirt of Hollywood, proudly watching his son, Carl Jr., turn out lavish super-cinemas (All Quiet on the Western Front, The King of Jazz). He remembers with a grin earlier Laemmle productions such as the 988-ft. Hiawatha. Of the human Carl Laemmle Biographer Drinkwater is unwilling or unable to tell much. "I understand that he plays poker for nickels or dollars with application and some skill, and that he has a palate for champagne which, it is whispered, he is in a position to indulge. He is generous in his benefactions...
...supper hour, by candlelight, two hours before the evening carillon-curfew, the Commons Scholar from Oxford will recite a parody of 'Hiawatha' by Lewis Carroll, and other esoteric nonsense-verse. The Dunster House Matron of Morsels will entertain as black-face comedienne, in her inimitable interpretations of 'mammy' songs. By popular request the Senior Tutor will cast aside academic dignity as a concession to the holiday season, and sing that famous and lachrymose lyric of the frigid Forties, entitled 'Father's a Drunkard and Mother's Dead, or Poor Little Bessie's Plea for Bread...
From Virginia came Hampton (Negro) with thousands of black rooters, to take revenge on Lincoln of Pennsylvania for beating them last year. Both teams were so extraordinarily cautious that Hampton scored only three first downs, Lincoln only two. Quarterback Hiawatha Harris of Hampton disgusted his followers by the way he handled punts and was replaced by Long Beam who juggled less. Famed Halfback Edgar ("Beau") Guess did nothing whatever. Hampton 0, Lincoln...
...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...