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...rattle of modern machinery has not brought prosperity--where sandy reads wind leisurely over cotton fields, where darkies sing at evening in the old plant disturbed tranquillity atop the graveyard hickory. It is of such an Arcadian backwater that Mrs. Julia Peterkin writes in her new book, "Roll, Jordan, Roll," a charming series of sketches on the Gullahs of South Carolina...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

Black Beauty ROLL, JORDAN, ROLL-Julia Peterkin & Doris Ulmann-Ballon ($3.50). One of the very few Southern gentlefolk writing today, Julia Peterkin has a proprietary interest in the Negro, who in her books behaves according to Hoyle (Southern style). Neither lynchings nor Harlem hotspots darken her clear pages. A Martian visitor reading Authoress Peterkin would hardly guess that there was such a thing as a "Negro problem." For her and her readers the Negro is the Southern plantation darky, whom Southerners always represent as being a lovable, child-like creature, living as a happy dependent on a sympathetic white master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King Christina | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

HARVARD YALE England, g. g., Quayle Wemple, r.f.b. l.f.b., Murray Stent, l.f.b. r.f.b., Bates Morrill, r.h.b. l.h.b., Curtis Dorman, c.h.b. c.h.b., G. Fawcett Gummere, l.h.b. r.h.b., K. Fawcett Grover, r.o.f. l.o.f., Aspinwall Clos, r.i.f. l.i.f., Maxwell Manheimer, c.f. c.f., Upton Stork, l.i.f. r.i.f., Jordan Baxter, l.o.f. r.o.f., Coerr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY BOOTERS WILL FACE ELI TEAM TODAY | 11/24/1933 | See Source »

...Student Employment Office which is engaging men for Jordan Marsh and Co., sponsors of the pre-Yuletide celebration, expects to secure the requisite number of official greeters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Students To Welcome St. Nick As Animal Keepers | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...Adam an' His Chillun (from which Marc Connelly shaped his 1930 Pulitzer Prize play, The Green Pastures) effectively pigeonholed Roark Bradford as a writer of humorous Negro dialog. But Author Bradford, not content with his niche, has made manful attempts to emerge. This Side of Jordan, a serious novel, was a far cry from Ol' Man Adam; most readers found it sordid and sinister. John Henry was a little consciously folk-tale-ish. But now, in Kingdom Coming, Author Bradford has turned the trick: neatly sidestepping the hoodoo of black-face minstrel-showmanship and the voodoo of Harlem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Makin' Free | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

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