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...Hartley Harrison, scoutmaster, is one of the most innocently poisonous characterizations ever done. Some of her others are: acidulous Aunt Sarah, 99, with parrot and enema bags; dependable, blockheaded Charlotte, who marries Hoagland Driggs; the fat little heir across the street; wan, wishful Carrie, Aunt Sarah's slave; and-flashes-sultry, vivid Opal Mendoza, "bad girl," the only one whose words comfort Joe at all; squat, square, red-faced Effa, "simply killing," a perpetual circus, whose salt tears run into her broad mouth when she smells the lilacs and knows she will never have a lover...
...Erected by the City of Natchitoches in Grateful Recognition of the Arduous and Faithful Service of the Good Darkies of Louisiana. Donated by J. L. Bryan, 1927. Mr. Bryan, cotton planter and banker, had been lulled to sleep in his babyhood by Negro spirituals, and had played with little slave boys on his father's old plantation, so he recently felt the urge to do something big for the Negro. The bronze statue of "The Good Darky," completed last week by Hans Schuler, Baltimore sculptor, was the result. It depicts a Negro, old and stoop-shouldered, with shabby clothes...
...This measure for the deportation of incorrigible political and social riff-raff, including loan sharks, cocain sellers, white slave traffickers and perverters of children, among them some women, will be a social purge ridding the country of many pernicious influences. In Naples alone over 60 usurers and 40 co cain sellers repeatedly guilty of the lowest offenses are on the deportation list. With these I have no pity...
Last week Fuzzy Wuzzy (Osman Digna, called "The Ugly") died in Wadi Haifa, Egypt. He was 90. He had spent 22 years in prison, more than 20 years slave trading, some 25 years fighting. His father was a Scottish sailor or Beelzebub. Perhaps he had an Arab mother, or perhaps his mother was a Turk. Nobody is sure. History recognizes only that ugly Osman Digna* spent his boyhood and adolescence helping his parents sell slaves. The Digna family was very rich. In 1882 the British again forbade slave-trading. The Dervish Mahdi proclaimed a Holy War and Osman Digna, brown...
...cover displayed a reproduction of the marble "Greek Slave" in the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, which has the air at first glance of being a young woman clad only in police handcuffs. Aside from this bit of salesmanship by sex appeal, however, the contents of Your Body was almost humorously devoid of erotic motif. Ponderous, on cheap paper, its make-up was technically horrible...