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...that, gentle readers, is no little change for the Vagabond who is more suited to an evening musing in his Tower than gadding about Father Knickerbocker's island. But here it is; and, bless his soul, here he is: "Look out der, buddy; this ain't bean town" . . . "Her der, hey der, Tigers fav'red; pape, mister, pape!" Hold thy prophecy, youngster, the game is . . . "Ah, nertz; read al' 'bout...
Into Los Angeles from his $2,000,000 castle in Death Valley chugged Walter Scott ("Death Valley Scotty") in an old, rebuilt Franklin. Snorted he: "These city trails ain't no place for this locomotive. It's a specially made model for traversing the desert mountains into the Valley. . . . It goes 700 miles without stopping. Got a 100-gallon gas tank and carry ten gallons...
...model prisons in the U. S., a great fresco panel, first of a series depicting The Cycle of a Woman's Life was just finished. Giggling, nudging, shrilling with excitement, the inmates in their brown-&-white-checked house dresses crowded round the small, serious artist with cries of "Ain't it purty...
...represent the musical content of Mr. Heyward's material, and clearly a work which can proudly take its place beside Gershwin's previous compositions as representative of the promise of American music. There are songs such as "Woman is a Sometime Thing", "I got Plenty o' Nuttin'", and "It ain't Necessarily So", which have a haunting melodic appeal and seem destined for considerable popularity. And there are themes such as those used in "Buzzard Song" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" which are highly talented musical expressions of Mr. Gershwin's peculiar genius. Final judgment of the music...
...Both cringe before the white folks' laws, the ill-omened buzzards, the lashing hurricane which provides the play's great climax. There are such numbers as A Woman is a Sometime Thing, Bess, You is My Woman Now, A Redheaded Woman Makes a Choo-Choo-Jump its Tracks, It Ain't Necessarily...