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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Ph. D. His outstanding achievement was the organization of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in connection with which he has devoted his life to the collection of sociological and historical documents of Negro significance. Interested readers perusing casually the maze of unfamiliar facts portrayed in history viewed through smoked glasses* glance twice at such information as: Several Negroes were included among the "minutemen" of the Revolutionary War. Crispus Attucks, Negro, was one of the first four soldiers to shed blood in behalf of U. S. liberty. Southern Aristocrat Jefferson openly opposed slavery; Henry Laurens...
...barbaric cruelty of his oppressive military régime. While the pen of Wu traces not seldom such poems as are expected from a Chinese gentleman, Chang scorns a lighter toy than his automatic pistol. He has been known to remark to a passing stranger: "Your face seems not unfamiliar. But I thought I ordered you beheaded last year...
Ella Cinders (Colleen Moore). If you study this title carefully and reverse it, you will find that it is not unfamiliar. This current Cinderella is a slavey, wins a beauty contest, becomes a picture star. Her sweetheart is an ice man. Many old quips are kneaded in, even the one about growing sick over a cigar. This is the kind of picture that makes serious supporters of the cinema frantic; and the kind of picture that makes much money. Miss Moore is, as usual, excellent...
Henry IV. The Players for their annual all-star revival unfolded the tempestuous and unfamiliar lengths of the first part of Henry IV. They did it resonantly, picturesquely, a trifle tiresomely. Their Falstaff was the rotund and eminently genial Otis Skinner, a fine actor. Mr. Skinner took it into his head that the rogue should be played hygienically. His Falstaff was a beaming and unvicious figure. One could not help feeling that he would make his next entrance down the chimney with a pack on his back instead of through the scullery door with a wench by the hair...
...reason is that the engineer's greatest asset is his ability to think straight; to recognize facts. He is not gailty of the twisted reasoning that incites revolutions and riots. He realizes that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points even when it is couched in unfamiliar terms. He does not run wild on fantastic theories. Everything is subjected to analysis. It must be able to satisfy a mind that takes nothing for granted...