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...brown river bank at the edge of Jefferson Davis Park. "Great Lawd, look at the Niggers on those cotton bales." guffawed the crowd. "Naked as jay-birds. What they supposed to be, Egyptian slaves or something? It says here in the program: 'Egyptian Pageant, Memphis on the Nile in the Time of Menes, First Prince of Memphis...
...Jack Dempsey was picking his nose in the ring and acting as referee. After Mr. Dublinsky and Mr. Wolfe had finished with each other, the celebrants moved en masse to the Hotel Peabody, a copy of which graces every U. S. town. Unhappily, the opening of the new Egyptian Nile Club on the roof had to be postponed...
First scenes were acted at Murchison Falls, 150 mi. up the Nile from Victoria Nyanza. Miss Booth acted in a skimpy garment made of monkey fur. Elephant grass cut her bare feet and legs, the sun blistered her bare thighs, arms and back; African insects gouged her everywhere. The heroine rejoiced when a cloudburst destroyed the camp, two hippopotamuses trampled the debris, and Director Van Dyke ordered the company to move to the Belgian Congo...
...little Jamaican who swept into Manhattan's Harlem during the War, proposed to ferry the whole Negro population of the U. S. back to Africa, plumped for a Black Christ, made himself Provisional President of the African Republic, Imperial Potentate of the Valley of the Nile, Emperor Marcus I of Ethiopia, Admiral of the Black Star Line, President General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, Commander of the Nobles of the Sublime Order of the Nile and Knight of the Distinguished Service Order of Ethiopia. On the side he sold stock in his Black Star Line and for that...
...Metz got the mood for "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" (1896). With ragtime the Negro composers came north, the men who founded present-day Harlem. Negro Rosamond Johnson was one of Marks's protégés. He wrote "My Castle on the River Nile" (1901), "Under the Bamboo Tree" (1902), a melodic inversion of "Nobody Knows de Trouble...