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...Carl Van Vechten's "Peter Whiffle", there is an incidental character, a young dillentante of the American brand so often found in Paris, who has a theory upon which he intends to found the literature of tomorrow. He believes that our life is passed in a world of things, everywhere are things, things. And so having collected catalogues of all descriptions,--of perfumes, automobiles, furniture, cigarettes,--with the aid of a few characters he will piece together this data, and that will be the great novel...
...Author Carl Van Vechten, Caucasian, who took up Negroes as an esthetic fad, then pictured them as depraved, in a book full of Harlem dives, dope peddlers, degenerates...
Pick your winning color said Carl Van Vechten as he finished his "Nigger Heaven" and went into Childs...
NIGGER HEAVEN - Carl Van Vechten - Knopf ($2.50). Sullen-mouthed, silky-haired Author Van Vechten has been playing with Negroes lately; writing prefaces tor their poems, having them around the house, going to Harlem.^ They have been his latest fad, just as cats, perfumes, precious stones were his fads before. And now he seems to have sickened of Negroes. In this story about high and low brownskins in Harlem and Atlantic City he shows Negroes wallowing in extreme depravity. He makes the comparatively chaste, intelligent heroine most unhappy. The hero, an ambitious graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is discouraged, disillusioned...
...directorates on the Nickel Plate Railroad, the Advance-Rumley Co. (agricultural implements) and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The State Bank has resources of $66,000,000, is well organized, prodigiously profitable, but rather a neighborhood affair as great banks go at present. It hopes that Banker Van Vechten can wrap the purple of prestige about his new colleagues, lead them to diocesan power...