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...sense of the word was she a prostitute. I'm sure Julia Peterkin, the author, of the book had no intention of presenting her heroine in the light of a prostitute...
...Pulitzer prize meant $1,000 to Julia Peterkin, the Liberty prize 50 times as much to Fannie Hurst. In Europe, when savants awarded the great Goncourt prize to Author Bedel for this book he received a measure of immortality and 5,000 francs...
Ethel Barrymore, according to last week's announcement by Producer Lee Shubert, will act in blackface next season. The play: a dramatization of Julia Peterkin's 1928 Pulitzer Prize novel Scarlet Sister Mary (TIME, May 27). The role: a South Carolina Negro prostitute...
...publish Scarlet Sister Mary serially. Intellectually it was exciting for Editor-Publisher George B. Lay, 32, and his two young associates-Thomas Freeman and W. Wells Alexander, each 22-to awaken Gaffney from what they, as college men, called its "uncultured daze.'' Moreover, there was, as Mrs. Peterkin said in her letter to Mr. Lay, the possibility that Librarian Pearson had eaten something disagreeable the morning she proscribed the book...
With each issue of the Cherokee Times, the issue of Scarlet Sister Mary will grow greater, for over and above the question of a black wench's "immorality," is the question of whether or not conditions on South Carolina plantations are as Mrs. Peterkin paints them, and above that comes the question of whether or not such conditions should be recognized and discussed. "If you know South Carolina," chuckled the Cherokee Times, "You may surmise that the storm will be more than a zephyr...