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...hall with striped calico shirts, ruffled sleeves, flaring collars. One Saturday night, on tour, his minstrel leader asked him to compose a new "walk around" (stage march) for use the next day. Emmett frowned at the hurry order, went to his hotel, rummaged out of his trunk the rough draft of a tune he had thought up some years before. The words for the tune had been suggested to him by a grumble he had often heard on the lips of circus performers "up North" when nippy autumn nights set in: "I wish - I was in Dixie's land...
...original draft Minstrel Emmett put a few new touches, rhymed "cotton" and "forgotten," changed the tempo, handed his chief what he felt was a botched job. But next evening, the audience swayed to the new tune, caught the words easily, especially the "hoorays." It was one of those songs that people sing leaving the theatre. Soon the whole country sang it, echoing it into the end of last week...
...licensed Negress. Nightly she coaxes or drags celebrities out on her jazz floor, makes them perform, makes them ridiculous to their own intense delight-for the crowd are all clannishly impersonal and good-humored. Therefore, last week Prince Henry was not irked when Miss Jones sought to draft him as a contestant in an impromptu black bottom contest...
...Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, recipient of the first Wilson "Peace Prize"* (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) and British delegate on the Preparatory Commission, described the Commission's "progress" last week in optimistic terms. Said he: "The Commission has carried out its assignment. ... It has drawn up a scheme [the "Draft Treaty of Disarmament"] for the reduction and limitation of armaments. . . . While it is true that the figures quantitatively representing armaments remain to be filled in; and, while this must prove a task of great difficulty, still broad outlines have been established. . . . Reservations have been made by various countries and alternative...
...times that number. During our trip into Arkansas we were constantly passing rickety wagons, carts and occasional autos holding the families of the refugees, and all the worldly possessions they had been able to save. Chairs, beds, tables, springs, and poultry seemed to have been piled helter-skelter. The draft animals looked very poor and scrawny, and there were so many people moving that it seemed almost like a migration...