Word: quadroon
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...have characteristic motifs just as Wotan and Siegfried have theirs in the Ring operas. Cap'n Andy Hawks has a light, rollicking phrase all his own. Parthy, his New England wife, has a phrase as shrewish and tart as Actress Edna May Oliver's face. Julie, the quadroon, has her tragedy suggested by the mournful notes which introduce "Can't Help Lovin' That Man." Show Boat's choruses are more than an excuse to display pretty faces and legs...
...great success. He was in last week's revival, heavy, slavish, magnificent as he sang his one song, half-hypnotized by it. Dennis King was new too as Ravenal, the gambler who marries Cap'n Andy's Magnolia (Norma Terris). Helen Morgan was back as the quadroon with her fluttering hands and hangdog look...
...Jerry Catlin, a Southerner who had fought in the Northern army. With his family scattered, his property dwindling, his position gone, 01' Pap Vaiden went feebly to work again at his long-disused forge, and when Death struck him he would have died there alone if Quadroon Gracie had not happened along. In the arms of his unacknowledged daughter 01' Pap Vaiden died, furiously protesting...
...stories and eight bits of verse there were 16 special features, among them an "exposé" of U. S. rule in the Virgin Islands; an account of primitive African musical instruments; a success biography of Samuel Winningham, watermelon tycoon; notes upon Alexandre Dumas, pére (he was a quadroon) and Ignatius Sancho, "the forgotten man of letters"; an argument against birth control with detailed objections to contraceptives; a debate, "Is It Possible for the Church to Serve the Modern Youth?" Jokes were also included. Sample: Big Congo Chief-"Waiter, where's that roast white meat I ordered...
...Europe, after living at the seashore with the red-haired Swinburne, she took refuge in Paris at the house of that famed, fatherly quadroon, Alexandre Dumas Sr. Her poems, edited by Swinburne, were published, praised. She became the toast of Charles Dickens, Napoleon III and many another celebrity, staid and profligate. Yet for the Montparnasse tombstone, bestowed on her remains by Baron de Rothschild, the epitaph she wrote in advance was mournful, cryptic: Thou Knowest. She died in 1868, aged...