Word: massa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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STEPHEN FOSTER ALBUM: Why anyone could get enthusiastic about MASSA'S IN THE COLD COLD GROUND and OLD FOLKS AT HOME was rather more than we could see until we heard it. But consider! Directed by Nat Shilkert we have the REVELERS, PAUL ROBISON, the JUBILEE SINGERS, VAUGHN DE LEATH and the VICTOR SALON ORCHESTRA, Gorgeous or chestration-one selection melting into another! A perfectly swell album-at six dollars...
With the Civil War fading into legend, the ordinary northern U. S. citizen takes a sentimental attitude toward the South. It is the land of sleepy, gentle plantations. There Cotton is King; white men are colonels; lazy colored men lie on their backs and croon "Massa's in de col', col' groun'" up at a beautiful orange moon; and colored mammies are kissing babies & making pancakes. That conception received last week a rude jolt from Dr. Julius Klein, able chief of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. At Memphis, Mr. Klein delivered...
...Perkins Institute, Boston, where he was Helen Keller's contemporary and friend. Casting about for an occupation, he tried music, piano-tuning, chair-caning, but resolved finally upon lecturing and poetry. Recognition was slow. He once received $1.65 for a talk delivered to 13 people. His poem, "How Massa Linkum Came," later a popular favorite, was refused by 17 editors before the Springfield Republican accepted...