Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 124, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 14, 1924 Page: 16 of 48
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THE LITERARY LANTERN
re—The Literary Lantern buing week, in the Sunday Times and in
intended to throw light on writing around and about the South. Com-
munications for this column should be addressed to the master of
The Literary Lantern.
The origin of the term “Dixie" is
" interesting the country again. The
, general explanations of dictionaries
and hand-books is that the term
i. came from the Dixon of “Mason-
■ Dixon," but we have seen others-
such as the one which argues that
" It was derived from the certain
northern plantation run by a man
named Dixon—a model establish-
meat from the point of view of la.
bor conditions. The right of the
matter seems to lie in the explana-
Moa advanced by the pamphlet is-
sued by the Citizens’ Bank of New
Orleans ten years or so ago. This
bank, it appears, issued notes printed
in English and French, the ten dollar
I not bearing the French word “Dix"
In large letters completely spread
1 over the face of one side. River-
men spread these notes all up and
the new editor affirms. The first
issue will be the October number.
Thomas Dixon has recently been
at work developing the “continu-
ity" for a motion picture based on
bls new novel of tbs klan—“Ths
Black Hood”— which, we under-
stand. he expects to rival “The
“Birth of a Nation" in popular ap-
peal. Dixon, by the way, is cele-
brating his sixtieth birthday - by
building a log, cabin study in the
woods near bis country home, “Cur-
rituck Lodge," in the . forests of
Currituck sound. In North Carolina,
observation the author makes in his
introduction. - Frequently enough
we have seen the statement that the
legendry and folk-lore of the negro
^w .8.22"*"s;
lot in America. The Rabbit of
Uncle Remus, we have been told, le
but the weak creature, the slave,
“forced to resort to cunning and
lying” to protect himself from the
harshness of his cruel master." Mr.
Gonsales, however, argues definitely
that “the slave brought these
myths from Africa, whence also he
brought his racial characteristics.”
ICHITA DAILY TIMES, SUNDAY, 01
lucky, Derby background: but it is
also in • serise A Kentucky moun-
tain yarn, with the bore of feudal
origin and much of its action
pitched in ths hills. Whether it’s
good or not, “he goes on to say.
“It’s too early to guess since it
has not run the gauntlet of crit-
icism—and the author is naturally
the meet ignorant cuss in the world
where his own output le concerned.”
Buck’s “Gentleman in Pajamas" was
one of the successful mystery
stories of the past year: and hasn’t
the man a flare for titles!
OR 14,1924
Winslow u appearing with consta-
erable regularity over verses dis-
tinguished for subtle intellectual-
ity and deftness of phrase. Miss
Winslow, whose home is in Raleigh,
Tennessee, sends us “The Heir," by
Anne Goodwin Winslow.
There is a jungle and Ite roots are
Where the old years ito colled in
faithful sleep:
Aalf ^a^ IS& ana stay.
Sometime during the next month,
or perhaps early October, Braith-
waite’s “Anthology Of Magazine
Verse" for 1924 should be ready for
distribution Mary Sinton Leitch
sends us a folder sent out by the
publishers. B. J. Brimmer, an-
nouncing the new issue of the an-
nus! volume and showing that the
improvements prominent In last
year’s book are to be developed even
further in the current volume. Be-
sides Including two hundred of the
"best" poems of the year, the an-
thology serves a real function as a
near where White's “Lost Colony”
landed on Roanoke Island. Once the
new structure to complete, Mr. Dix-
on plans to begin work on a pro-
jected trilogy of the American
revolution, the first volume of
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**=**=u*n==w .....— ms. ., -aw_____year book presenting an index of
down the country; they rex into the For us the high water mark of ..... ----------------
VS-----------------------our recentrending has been the
new Gullah book by Ambrose E.
Gonsales—"With Aesop Along the
Black Border," published by * the
State Company. We are no expert
in the matter of dtotoot or folk-
lore. bat since Joel Chandler Harris
first enthralled us we have found
a very real amateur’s satisfaction
in the subject, and we question
whether anyone today to more at
home with the material than Mr.
Gonzales. The book te unique from
several angles, but ths particular
charm we found in it cams from the
fact that Gullah thought and Gul-
lah life were revealed through
stories familiar—by Aesop—to every
reader. Tbs old "Fox and the
Grapes" story, for instance, every
one knows; but when Gullah tells
it through Mr. Gonsales the thing
reflects a life now to us, a life rich
in racial meaning* -
habit of saying they were going to
“Dixie-land," or “We’re going south
for dixies.”, Dan Emmet, of course,
popularized the term and gave per-
‘, manence to it by his song. Are
there other or better explanations?
“The Texas Review" to undergo-
. ing something very like a sea-
change. The University of Texas
has relinquished its claim to the
magazine which le to be published
now by the Southern Methodist
University, with Jay B. Hubbell,
"editor: George Bond, associate edi-
tor. and Herbert Gambrell, manag-
Ina editor. Mr. Hubbell tells us
that be hopes to put nsw life into
the publication, setting as his
deals a distinctive southwestern
flavor, variety, -and vital con-
, temporaneousness. “I am particu-
Dlarly anxious to get in touch with
young southern writers who are
just getting a, foothold or who are
still unknown—if they can write,”
poems and poets, bibliographies of
articles and reviews, poetry prise
contests and winners, lists of maga-
sines publishing verse, and poetry
societies and officers. The poet
who is “business-like,” and now-
5 adays what poet isn’t?, will find the
volume pretty close to his rhyming
dictionary in importance.
We recently took occasion in
this column to quote a dispatch
from California chronicling an ad-
dress made by W. W. Ellsworth and
citing some rather startling figures
as to the number of poets in the
country. The item caught Mr. Ells-
worth's eye had he writes us to
remonstrate. “It sounds like,” he
says, “A tale told by an idot, full of
sound and fury, signifying nothing."
And that to what we thought at the
time. But Mr. Ellsworth relieves
us greatly by the information that
three ciphers were missing in the
figures given. Instead of there be-
ing “20 poets in every 115,000 per-
sons" the Century- editor—actually
said: "There are 25 poets in our
population of 115,000,000, whom
There to a cavern where black
wrapo"4"?7” a "Thence of her
ahrddada”,7.4. to die,
still would she start and fly.
There is a stream whose sullen
By rods Where" men no longer sow
I and reap:
^ " 2 MEL
O you whose course shall In the
...lght be run.
Holding your shining purpose to
W*e.1*254224,11*
. —Telfair, Jr,
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____Starting Monday
Morning at 4
' 8 p. m. N:
SNAPPY
CHIC
NEW
1 STYLES
We were interested, too. by an
“A Treatise on Gardening by <
Citizen of Virginia," la soon to ap-
pear. The “citisen” is John Ran-
dolph, Jr., and the book first pub-
lished over a century ago, has been
edited for its new appearance by
Marjorie Fleming Warner. The
William Parks Club of Richmond
are the sponsors for the volume."
people want very much to read-
We will say, in round numbars,
that dae person in 5,000 is sending
poetry to magazines, one in 250,000
gets it printed, one in 600,000 issues
a book of poems, and one in five
million is a real poet"
KETCHUM BLUFF GAS TO
BE PIPED TO WAURIKA
Charles Neville Buck writes us
from Cape Cod. where he is “sum-
merins.” that hle new book, “The
Rogue’s Badge,” is to be published
this month by Doubleday, Page and
• Company. The story is, he says. Ta
novel with a race track back
a ground, more particularly a Ken-
The same item attracted the at-
tention of one who la, we believe,
one of the U real poets “whom
people want to read," and she
states the case somewhat different-
ly to us. "I have long observed,"
she writes, “that few people ever
read any verse save those who are
trying to write it if Mr. Ells-
worth’s statement is turned about
and made to read, 'All the people
who love poetry try to write it.’
there you have pictured—a very
hope ful, healthru1 situation.”
F In the literary magazines of the
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ago he applied for admission to the
city relief home and retired from
his labors.
Life in retirement became too mo-
notonous for ths active old fellow,
however, and now he is back on
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his ancient skirt, making alvins
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souri SEA ROMANCE FADES
AS NATIVES DANCE TO JAY#
PAPEETE. Tahiti, Beptr.18. *
Moving pictures and radio, dags
music, motor care and bobbed hair
have crowded out the old native
customs of Tahiti, and some of the
romances of the South Seas would
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Time was when July 14, the anni:
versary of the Masthle, was the
PART TWO 4
soos-e-no
great native festival are these
islands. There were singing and j
dancing contests among the nativi
clans, prepared for months in ad.
vance, and the competition for real
excellence was keen. This year only
a few small and medicore companies
entered the contests, and later.,,
was distinctly lacking. The prin-
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front where Jams bands led th.
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