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...sent over from England to settle the dispute between the Baltimore and Penn families following Charles IPs grant to William Penn. When slavery became a U. S. issue, the Line was thought of as extending west via the Ohio River and the upper boundary of Missouri, separating free from slave states, North from South...
Moon of Israel. Again the Red Sea makes way for the Israelites.! This time the miracle is incidental to a story based on Sir Rider Haggard's novel. This German film includes an episode in which the son of Pharaoh seeks out a slave girl as bride. It manages to be rather dull...
...discusses everything from Greek philosophy to Tennessee evolution, and always she manages to insinuate the worst. Only at intervals does she make some mater-of-fact statement which catches the reader's fancy and conveys more truth then all of her long dissertations. For example, she says: "At the slave bazaar I also purchased a negro porter and a Greek philosopher. I paid five thousand sesterces for both of them --a most exorbitant price...
...Carnavel," OvertureDvorak "Ballet of the Sylphs" from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Selections by the Boston College Octetle Arthur J. Hagan, Baritone Soloist Irish Rhapsody Herbert "The Moldau," Symphonic Poem Smetana "Kikimora," A Fairy Legend Liadov "Marche Slave" Tchaikovsky Hungarian Dance No. 17 in F-sharp minor Brahms Intermezzo from "Amico Fritz" Mascagni Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa
Sixty-seven years ago the congregation of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, saw Pastor Henry Ward Beecher* mount the pulpit, accompanied by a trembling nine-year-old Negress. Then, while many a woman became hysterical, while many a man shed tears, famed Abolitionist Beecher turned his pulpit into a slave-pen, his sermon into an auctioneer's harangue, asked his hearers to bid $900 for this fine piece of colored flesh- Sally Maria Diggs, commonly known as "Pinky." Last week the congregation of Plymouth Church saw its present pastor share his pulpit with a Negress. They heard him recall that...