Word: lilliane
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...fearing white folk in Georgia's Rabun County were scandalized in 1944 when "Miss Lil," Judge Frank Smith's middle-aged spinster sister, wrote a harrowing, compassionate novel about a Negro girl who was made pregnant and abandoned by a no-account white man. Lillian Eugenia Smith's Strange Fruit was unfashionably out of step with its time and place. It ridiculed white supremacy, scathingly described the lynch-burning of a Negro wrongly suspected of murder, and was spattered with words that a Southern lady was not even supposed to know. Its prose won no literary prizes...
Diamond Jim Brady went there regularly, accompanied by 27 Japanese houseboys and Lillian Russell. One day William K. Vanderbilt strolled into the casino to await some delayed dinner companions, dropped $130,000 in a few minutes. Another day John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates lost $500,000 on the races, then proceeded to win back most of it by playing faro until dawn. In the afternoons, Victor Herbert conducted concerts on the porch of an elegant hotel;-in the evenings, Caruso and John McCormack sang outdoors. Such was the summer scene at the turn of the century at Saratoga Springs...
...ruling out virtually all cooperation with whites and deepening the Negro's sense of separateness, the black-power movement may serve to increase Negro frustrations rather than relieve them. It has already begun to alienate whites, who bridle at the exclusionary connotations of black power; last week Author Lillian Smith (Strange Fruit) resigned in protest from CORE, whose membership was 50% white only five years ago. Black power is certainly submerging the bread-and-butter issues that matter deeply to aspiring Negroes. Perhaps most tragic of all, it turned last week into an attack on the Negro middle class...
...past three decades, the U.S. theater has dashed from the barricade to the bedroom, from a flirtation with Marx to an infatuation with Freud. The social-protest school, including Clifford Odets, Irwin Shaw and Lillian Hellman, recessed when it lost its villain. The Depression took its critics with...
Bresler and Duddy, both in their early 40s, begin by psychoanalyzing a performer "to find what she stands for," then work as long as six months polishing her delivery. With Jane Morgan, they played up her sex appeal and styled her vocal treatments after Lillian Russell; with Teresa Brewer, they provided "lots of saloon songs arranged as if they were done 30 years ago." They teach their singers how and where to walk (glide, but never too close to the tables lest someone see sweat or telltale wrinkles), give them mildly risque parodies of such standards...