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...Army got a good look at Louisiana: moss, bats, and dark, stagnant pools in forests of oak and pine; Negroes, staring wall-eyed from weather-grey shacks; from shacks no better, poor whites whose grand pappies saw the Confederates run the Yanks off this same land; a new oil find, 30 miles south of prosperous Alexandria; cotton, corn, potatoes, rice where cane grew until Louisiana sugar prices went to pot. Yellow signs reading: TROOPS, KEEP OUT hung on fence posts and trees. These signs marked farms whose owners had refused the Army permission to cross their land. One officer, seeking...
Last week Cotton Ed's ancient mustaches drooped like Spanish moss as he heard disquieting news: his own home county (Lee) had named him a delegate to the State Democratic convention, but had specifically instructed its delegates to support Term...
...played in stock in London. Oscar Hammerstein took Grant back to Manhattan where he worked (for five years at $350 to $550 a week) in Hammerstein musicals and for the Shuberts when they bought up his contract. Soon he was talking shop with, playing the piano for, Richard Rodgers, Moss Hart, Werner Janssen, the Gershwins...
...Natchez from Vicksburg, Centreville, Vidalia, Baton Rouge, even from New Orleans. Paid admissions: 557. The night was warm. Only way into the building was the front door; the Moneywasters had boarded the windows against peepers and gate-crashers. Tobacco smoke fogged the hall. Under the grey, dry Spanish moss which hung two feet above the dancers, the crowd on the floor yelled, clapped, sweated, stomped. Moneywaster Charley Hall and a helper, Johnny Jones, slaved at the bar in happy violation of Mississippi's dry law. By 11:30, the party was getting hot. A male guest, standing near...
...moss blazed up. Fire shot along the dry, wooden walls in their sheath of iron. Walter Barnes cried out: "You can all get out if you keep calm." He yelled and brandished his baton at the Creolians, trying to keep them playing on the platform. The dancers did not keep calm. They pressed toward the narrow door. It jammed. They dashed to the rear of the hall, and the boarded-up windows. Drummer Oscar Brown always carries a hammer to nail his drums to the floor; he hammered his way through a boarded window. A few followed...