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...novelists, of many another Negro author who has written realistic, often tragic narratives of the Negro masses. "Why doesn't Jean Toomer write about nice people?" asked the Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they objected to Negro Artist Winold Reiss's drawings of Negroes because he "made his colored people look so colored." Of the whole radical school of young Negro authors they said, pityingly, disapprovingly: "Lord help these bad New Negroes...
...which Author Hughes made venomous reply: To those who objected that Artist Reiss had pictured colored schoolteachers in regrettably dark tints he replied: "Should all teachers resemble the high-yellow ladies dominating the Washington school system?" Of the upper-crust Negroes as a class he observed: "Many of the so-called best Negroes are in a sort of nouveau riche class, so from the snobbishness of their positions they hold the false belief that if the stories of Fisher were only about better class people they would be better stories." As to these "best" Negroes' complaint that their lives...
Licensed to Marry. Nettie, Samuel, and Leo Rosenblatt, children of famed Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt; to Harry Reiss, Clara Woloch and Doris Podoll respectively; in New York...
...first prize of $100 was awarded to Miss Ruth Morton of the University of Minneapolis. A second prize of $50 was awarded to William A. Reiss of Ohio Wesleyan University, while the third prize went to Miss Laura Murfee Anderson of Judson College, Marion...
...artists will play the following parts: Brunnhilde, Mme. Gadski Erda, Mme. Schumann-Heink Waldvogel, Mme. Alma Gluck Mime, Mr. Albert Reiss Der Wanderer, Mr. Clarence Whitehill Alberich, Mr. Otto Goritz Fafner, Mr. Basil Ruysdael Siegfried, Mr. Johannes Sembach Conductor, Mr. Alfred Hertz...