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Negroes venerate especially: the Martyrs of Uganda; St. Benedict the Moor, 16th Century slaveborn monk; and St. Peter Claver, S. J., famed for his work in the early slave markets in Cartagena...
...chosen. As she walks into the stream to drown, the Boy creeps to the bank, plays on his flute. The Voodoo Man has him dragged away. A sacrificial procession. Tom-tom-tom. The Boy struggles in his bonds, the Voodoo Man leaps at him knife in hand. Comes a slave caravan, the Boy & Girl are chained together, carried away. The Voodoo Man runs through the clearing. Slavers club him down, but his tom-tom has sent its warning to distant drums...
...rascally Handback, Miltiades oversees the collection of his crops. Chance brings him the opportunity to settle old scores ? he ships 500 bales of Handback cotton to New Orleans, puts the proceeds in a valise in Gracie Vaiden's attic. Though Handback's mistress, she is an old Vaiden slave and will never tell. Miltiades goes about his business, calmly awaits the storm. The whole town knows of his peculation, accepts it philosophically : "Hit's nachel ? hit's nachel . . . evahthing what's bad is nachel...
...York's Polo Grounds one night last week, Aida the slave girl stood near the home plate, sang of her love and terror, was at last pent up to die with her soldier lover. There were no animals at all, the supers were ludicrously spindly-shanked and awkward, the scenery an arrangement of posts and draperies which seemed often to confuse the performers. Nonetheless many a Manhattanite had journeyed tediously to 155th Street to see the second U. S. operatic performance of lissome, dark Helen Gahagan, Belasco actress (Tonight or Never) turned singer. New Jersey-born, Brooklyn-raised, Actress...
...denounced large church weddings as "often vulgar as well as pagan." As head of the Corporation of Trinity Church, he administered the richest U. S. parish.* Died. Robert Scott Lovett, 71, board chairman of Union Pacific Railroad; after an operation; in Manhattan. A slow-spoken son of a slave owner, he entered railroading as a stump-puller when the Houston, East & West Texas pushed through his father's farm. Rising as a local attorney for Texas & Pacific, he was spotted by the late Tycoon Edward Henry Harriman, who quickly made him head of all his lines, appointed him administrator...