Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Between the Northern and Southern Chinese factions struggling for Shanghai (TIME, Oct. 4 et seq.) no important engagement occurred, last week, but the Southerners were strengthened by the sudden desertion to their cause of a previously neutral War Lord, Chen Tiao-yung, Governor of Anhwei, a province so located as to threaten seriously the rear of the Northern forces, if Chen has really turned against them...
Thirty thousand people crowded about the race track at Tia Juana, Mexico-famed drinking, gambling spot for southern Californians and visitors-to witness the rich Coffroth handicap. Among the spectators were noted fighter Jack Dempsey; his wife, movie-actress Estelle Taylor; a host of lesser celebrities, foretelling spring fashions from Paris...
Earth. The second production by the young insurgents (TIME, March 14) at the 52nd Street Theatre is more conventional in stage mechanics, though thoroughly "arty" in its choice of subject-the Southern U. S. Negro. Author Em Jo Basshe is by birth Russian, which is merely incidental to the fact that he has not lived long among the blacks. Therefore, it is not strange that his main character, a woman who is torn between voodoo magic and hysterical Christianity, distracted by the death of her six children, driven finally to loud rebellion against all the Powers of Destiny, should represent...
...building of a church; then to skip the hills and return to the city bootleggers, with the church fund. Little did they reck that Red Belwyn (Margaret Lawrence), beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover LOVE through the burly person of Devil Ace Gilson (Louis Bennison), head of the Southern Gentlemen's Association of Moonshiners. But she does. And the evildoers drink wood alcohol, thereby losing forever their sight of God's true Heaven. This melodrama, which might have been good satire-comedy, is both thick and thin...
...what southern state, besides Mississippi, are there more Negroes than whites...