Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under the spell of the methods for which H. L. Mencken stands. . . While the Evening Sun [Mr. Mencken's]was saying in effect that it is a pretty sordid world and all jobholders ought to be hung,* Mr. Adams clung to his old sentimental love of the human race.'' Said H. L. Mencken in the Evening Sun: "Of all the journalists I have known in this life, the late Jonh Haslup Adams was the only one who never made a visitor compromise with hie convictions...
...Negroes. Meeting the ceaseless mutter that the Guild worships at the shrine of foreign playwriting, the first selection went completely native. It is set at Charleston's docks, written in Negro patois, deals with purely Negro problems (as opposed to most plays and books about Negroes, which struggle with race prejudice and intermarriage), is played almost wholly by a company colored without burnt cork...
Back of this gentle fable is fashioned a magnificent background of race humor, pathos, song and hot-blooded simplicity. Dice click, spirituals sigh and scream, superstition stalks and little children chatter. For this background the piece is chiefly notable. The play itself is not a masterpiece. The acting is brilliantly accounted for by a troupe seized from the dusky depths of the vagrant Negro theatre...
...Matrimonial Bed. French farce is either very funny or, much oftener, practically fatal. Falling firmly into the latter class, this one deals with a wife twice married. The earlier husband, lost in amnesia, returns; remembers; stages an undressing race with his rival to see who can jump first into the ample piece of furniture cast for the title role...
...letter from Carroll to Mrs. Richards, a school teacher, gives the writer's opinion of small boys. "I wish you all success with your little boys," Carroll wrote; "to me they are not an attractive race of beings. As a little boy I was simply detestable, and if you wanted to induce me by money to come and teach them, I can only say you would have to offer me more than 10,000 pounds sterling a year." Another letter of interest is one written by Carroll in such small script that it is hardly legible. The letter was signed...