Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chow inferior to most recent Hollywood musicomedies, its narrative method stodgy, but are likely to approve the decor, Frederic Norton's music, the acting of the only performer in the cast whose name is familiar to them. Anna May Wong wriggles her eyebrows ably when placed on the slave auction-block, writhes in splendid style when compelled to turn the winch that opens the door of the robbers' cave...
BABOUK?Guy Endore?Vanguard ($2). Story of an African slave in Haiti, by the author of The Werewolf of Paris in different mood...
...Theodore Roosevelt Sr. pensioned 60-year-old Negro Charlie Lee. Son of General Robert E. Lee's slave body servant, Charlie Lee was engaged by President Roosevelt in 1902, served him until his death as personal bodyguard, has since been Mrs. Roosevelt's chauffeur. In Lee's home on Sagamore Hill hangs the most famed of Roosevelt's African hunting trophies, the original Big Stick...
...last week as he groveled over the prostrate bridegroom, chanted and yelped his frenzied incantations. The bridegroom, a wide-smiling Negro with a large gold tooth, was Asadata Dafora Horton, Kykunkor's librettist, composer, choreographer and director. He is a native of Sierra Leone. His great- grandfather, a slave for a time, took the name Horton from the Nova Scotian who owned him. Asadata Dafora started studying tribal music and dancing in his 'teens, traveled all over Africa, learned 14 dialects which he supplemented later with English, French, German, Spanish, Italian. He drifted to Europe, sang...
...Studebaker got a Columbia M.A. and his superintendency in 1920. Thin, wiry, bespectacled, he makes his subordinates enjoy being slave-driven. Many a U. S. school has copied his system of paying teachers' salaries on the basis of individual ability, rather than for the job held. Not content with educating Des Moines children, he wangled a tentative $120,000 from Carnegie Corporation in 1933 for a five-year experiment in adult education. In two years he has received $45,000, kept a Public Forum humming with lectures on current affairs. He is a Methodist, Mason, Shriner, Rotarian. Time left...