Word: mulatto
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...land to colonize, at last settles on a strip of jungle-fringed seacoast. Meantime Harvey's sly companions spread unrest in the group, most of them leave. In the end it develops that the land is already a British possession. Defeated, cast off by all save a mulatto girl, Harvey realizes that the only reason she has stood by him is because she is not pure Negro but part white. Actor Wilson's role is played with earnestness and fervor, but the play has not been written well enough to bring out its brilliant possibilities...
...Hudson would ever be more important than the city of Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo in 1630 was still the capital and nerve centre of the declining Spanish Empire in the New World. Dominicans are prouder than Mexicans of their Spanish blood. Actually over half the population is Mulatto. They pay no taxes. The government struggles along on a 60% tariff on all imports collected for it by a U. S. customs agent, William E. Pullman. Sugar cane, coffee, tobacco, cocoa are their only important crops. World overproduction has ruined all four. A $30,000,000 loss is not a disaster...
...that we can't do without the Negro here in the South but you northerners have no idea at all what they are really like. Then too, I happened to know of a very sad case where one of our nicest young men did kill himself and a mulatto girl. Perhaps Mr. Wall had the same case in mind when he wrote the book...
Unlike the other two who have fought Primo Camera in the U. S. to date, Bill Owens, a mulatto of Guthrie, Okla., did not lose the ability to move and think at his first glimpse of his opponent's bulk. For a round he dodged the terrific right uppercuts and left hooks winged at him; he countered, ducked, and backed away, but at the start of the second Camera rushed out of his corner at a speed amazing for so big a man, landed a right, then rapid rights and lefts. Black Owens went down backward flat...
...June Collyer does not know that Miss Dresser is her mother at all. This is not surprising because daughter and mother have not seen each other since the one's babyhood and the other's flaming youth. Also, because the mother, as a nightclub hostess, is in mulatto makeup much of the time. Because the story, de pending mostly on character, is a strong one, because the background is unusually well directed, the picture is worth seeing in spite of several long, slow dialog sequences. Best shot: Miss Dresser making the no-good slap her face to impress...