davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Arizona republican., 1920-11-08

cast, which includes among many of the foremost personages of the silent drama-Pinto, Hart's famous little pony, who has big part in the pro- duction. Pinto's sensational leap, in which he jumps from a high cliff into a river with Hart astride, is by far the most sensational thing he has. ever done. a scene which for vivid realism is seldom reached in any type of mo- tion picture.
 The comedy on the program is Slip ping Feet" with the Pathe News round ing out the program.
Arizona republican., 1920-11-08

herding the stock and the famous
 whoop that Is heard for miles as he
 rides down the dangerous mountain sides If you are a tenderfoot Tofts is the place for you, for you will learn how to run a range in just a few min utes at the cowboy party. Get out the wide brim, slip a couple into the boots, l lind your most highly colored hat, and get out to Toft's early Tuesday night for the big year.
Arizona republican., 1920-11-08
Toft's Country Club

Stick him, cowboy" Hook em
 steer and all the wild warhoops heard
 on the plans or desert of Arizona will
 be repeated at Tofts Country club Tuesday night at the big Cowboy night" party. If you ever threw a rope or rode the champion buckers of the state, get out the old saddle and spurs and be there when the first mustang is turned loose. The best cowboy outfit to be seen on the ballroom floor will be | in line for the prett1est sst of gold
Arizona republican., 1920-11-08
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, MONDAY MORNING 1920

at the huge carnival will be complete unless one drops in for at least a few jazzes to the music of Gene Dabney and his Vernon Six. And Gene Dabney and his artists have more than one jolly surprise in store for their friends this week.
Arizona republican., 1920-11-08
Strand

The Strand is offering Sand" Will liam s. Hart's powerful story of the west, continuing the attraction today and tomorrow The second picture the famous actor has made under his own management, and by his own company, Sand is not only perhaps the biggest story Hart has ever appeared in, but it would be indeed hard to imagine a western drama with any more human appeal or any more intense action that is presented in this production.
 Hart is surrounded by an exceptional
Arizona republican., 1920-11-08
ADJUSTMENTS
MUSICAL SHOW AT
 THE ELKS TONIGHT

beginning tonight. the Brandon stock company will present one of the iaz-
 -.est comedy dramas of the season.
 me Follies of 1920" This deliehtful musical comedy has been especially selected by the producer, Ed Redmond. ss tne most fitting vehicle 10 diap ort ,< ne talents of the entire company, now
Arizona republican., 1920-11-08
American

Tomorrow will witness the opening l of two events, the Arizona state fair, and another week of happy jazz at the
 American And talking about the fair, | if is a certainty that no evening spent
Arizona republican., 1920-11-08

terpolations, including a novelty com edy quartette by Jay Allard. Robbie Deane Irene Noblette and Edd,e Young, The Follies of 1929r should prove popular during the week. Popu- lar prices will prevail.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-07-29

author to a single ordinary or average
reader, who sits down in the privacy
of his closet to be amused and in
structed, chiefly amused. The style
required in both cases is personal, fam
iliar, and conversational. Formality
is thrown aside, and unrestrained by
any critical audience or the presence
of ajudge of mature mind and high
appreciation, both tale teller and
story writer speak freely of the pri-
vacy of life, and of its most sacred
secrets as we'll as its most hidden vices.
Such medium is very far from the
lofty dignity of poetry, yet it is per-
haps the only truly democratic form
of literary art.
AS we have seen, the modern novel
was at first nothing more than an
almost verbatim report of the tavern
tale teller's narrative. Then, in Rich
ardson and Fielding, we find the same
kind of gossip invented by the author
and set forth with triAe more fancy
and imagination, as it is done in let
tiers. The powers of the prose essay
invented by Addison and his fellows
were soon added to the style of the
novel, an early illustration of which
we may find in Goldsmith's Vicar of
Wakefield. Scott gave the novel the
dignity and romantic interest of his
history made human and there
fore turned into true lite -ure.
Dickens added the sentimental, poetic
style of the ballad, and Thackeray the
teaching of the familiar homily. In
the stories of Hawthorne we see what
the ancient fable and allegory contri-
buted to the modern fictitious phan-
tasy.
In Balzac for the first time we dis
cover any attempt to make fiction the
vehicle for the broad national drama
which Homer gave us in his epic
poems. In Poe we find the begin
nings of an application of dramatic
priciples to the construction of the
short story, and in this very small
field Manpassant brought the art of
dramatic construction we'll nigh to
perfection. We may imagine that a
novel ought to be as complete and
perfectly constructed drama as one
of Shakespeare's plays, but the fact
that we find no such novels suggests
that fiction as an art is yet incomplete
and not fully matured.
The origin of fiction was very
low; but it was an origin very near
to the common people, and so to the
simple and natural instincts of all of
us. With this broad foundation the
possibilities of development are enor-
nous, and we may reasonable hope
that some day the novel will take
place in literary art that is much
above that of the epic poem or even
the poetic drama. 1t is not hampered
by the mechanical limitations of either
of these, and the variety and literary
opportunity which characterize it are
the possession of fiction alone.
And now let us ask, What are the
characteristics of good novel? And,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-07-29
Vol. XXXIII: No. 81

how may we judge novel? We may
think of the novel in two ways, as the
tavern tale and as poetry-as prose,
with its characteristic humor and con-
versational style, and the imaginative
and lofty dream of the human soul,
otherwise expressible only in verse.
AS a tavern tale we may test novel
by fancing that the author is sitting
down in person with us in our dress
ing gown before the fire. He talks to
us and tells us tale. If he were
there in person, what characteristics
should he have to make him attractive
to us: Why, of course, he should
be polite and engaging. Too great
familiarity even in the privacy of
home spoils friendship, and so does
vulgarity. And yet with a certain
reserve of manner he may enter upon
almost any topic of human thought,
and even discuss with us our own
secret sins. The good conversation
alist will make us think and talk our
selves, and so will the good novel
writer. Of course we cannot talk
to the author, but we can find in our
friends a good substitute for him.
Another quality we shall demand
is sincerity. While we may like to
listen for time to the brilliant con-
versation of a witty talker whom we
cannot trust, the sincere friend will
hold our affections long after the good
talker is forgotten. (What better ex-'
ample of this could we have than
Oscar Wilde? When the insincerity
of his character was found out, how
quickly the world dropped himD
The novelist above all other writers
stands to the reader in the altitude of
a personal friend. At first we turn to
such a friend merely because he is
agreeable as a companion; but the
time comes when we wish to consult
him as to the solution of our personal
difficulties, and ask him to share in
our personal joys. In the stories he
tells he deals frankly and sincerely
with just such problems of life and
emotion as those which confront the
reader, and through his characters he
declares what he thinks the best thing
to do. If you would test the great
ness of any novelist, ask the question,
"Would you be willing to follow the
advice which he gives his characters?"
1t is not important that those char
acters should ever have really existed
in the world, what is demanded is
that they be natural and possible and
true to the principles of life. The
creative writer will of course create
characters never seen before. Of
course, also, these characters must
have their COLLISIONS with other char
acters or with forces of fate. That
is necessary to give dramatic interest,
the interest of plot. So in brief we
may say that great novelist Tor
other dramatic writer) is known by
the great deeds of his characters.
From this point of view Shakes
peare is our greatest author. His
Lear, Othello, Desdemona, Portia,
Macbeth, Hamlet, Caesar, Brutus,
Cleopatra, and the rest form noble
company of great men and women.
But novelist who gives no characters
which we can take an interest in even
if we do not love them or admire
them is not much of page 8, Co.. s)
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-07-29
Saltwater, Minnesota, Thursday, July 29, 1920.
HOW AND WHAT TO READ
Chapter l: What Constitutes Good Novel
By Mr.. II. p.

examples of the stage drama in
Shakespeare, and we find that the
poetic language uttered by the various
characters on the stage is not very
different from the language uttered
by the single minstrel when he was
the only performer. Moreover, we
find a new element which the minis
trel could not very easily represent,
and that is humor. In the humorous
portions the poetic drama begins to be
prose.
The discovery of the printing press,
which makes books that every man
may read in his closet, has given birth
to the third form of the great human
story-the novel.
While there can be no doubt that
the novel is the form above all others
in which the world today chooses
to receive the human story, the epic
poem no longer being written and the
poetic drama but rarely, still we
should make a mistake if we suppose
that the novel is the direct child and
heir of the stage drama even to the
same extent that the drama was the
direct child and heir of epic poetry.
But the epic poem and the poetic
drama have a dignity and loftiness
that much more adequately represent
the nobler and loftier characteristics
of the human personality than the
often trivial and even base and ignoble
fictitious tale in the novel. The truth
is, the modern novel is directly de-
scended from the tavern tale, the
amusing and entertaining narrative
of the chance traveller coming unpre-
tentiously and Unexpectedly into the
quiet country village. Such tavern
tales we find in their purest form in
the Arabian Nights and in Boccaccio's
Decameron. The stories of Sindbad
the Sailor and the lovers of Boccaccio
had unquestionably been told again
and again by the wayfarer eager for
the applause of his little audience, and
had again and again been listened to
by common folk whose only glimpse
of the life of the outer world came
through these same tavern yarns.
Boccaccio collected his stories from
the taverns of Italy, and wrote them
out in the choicest Italian for the
entertainment of his king and queen.
CA. D. 1348). The stories of the
Arabian Nights were collected in
Egypt at about the same time by some
person or persons unknown, and
reached the European world through
the French version of Galland at the
beginning of the eighteenth century.
In the Arabian Nights we may find
the origin of the modern romance,
and in the Decameron the beginning
of the modren love story or novel.
The bond of union between the
tavern tale and the story of modern
fiction is not difficult to detect. The
tavern tale is the confidential nara
tive of the unpretentious traveller to
his handful of uncritical common peo-
pie whose instincts are primitive and
whose primary desire is for an1use-
ment. The story of modern fiction
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-07-29
FROM the beginning of literature
the most interesting thing which

the most interesting thing which
writer can write has been the
life history of man. We are like
boats borne on the swift current of the
rushing river of time. Whether our
boat sinks or swims, or turns to the
right or to the left, is the matter of
intensest interest-indeed, our interest
is so intense in this subject that we can
think of nothing else with any zest.
And as we study our own problem
of navigation on the waters of life,
we watch all. our neighbors to see
how they succeed or fail, and why.
Their problem is our problem and
ours is teirs. Hence it is that stories
of human life have formed the sub
stance of the worlds greatest litera-
ture since the days of Homer.
Before outlining the history of the
literary form which the universal hui
man story has taken, let us explain
the meaning of "the dramatic. ORA
ma deals with the cries in individual
lives. While our boats on the current
of Time sail smoothly and starlight on
their way, there is no drama, nothing
that can be called dramatic, and so no
material for an interesting story; but
the moment that any obstacle or force
of any kind, exterior or interior,
causes the steady onward course of
the life to cease or turn aside, how
ever little, that moment we have the
dramatic. So for the elements of
drama we must have collision of
life forces, one of which forces is the
onward movement of some individual
human life. The other force may be
circumstances, or "Fate," as we call
it; or it may be aother human life.
When but two forces meet, we have
the simplest form of the drama, such
as we may see in any short story or
a one-act play. In novel or a drama
we shall find collision of several
and various forces, usually different
human lives meeting and influencing
each other.
While the human story has been
the same, and the principles of dra-
matte construction have been but little
changed in several thousand years, the
artistic form has changed with chang
ing conditions, and the history of its
development is intensely interesting.
The first form in which the story
of life was told was the epic poem,
as for example Homer's Ilaid and
Odyssey. The Ilaid was the tale of
the wrath of Achilles, Peleus' son."
That force, coming straight athwart
the current of the warlike lives of the
Greek and 8rojan heroes, could not
but be dramatic, for there was not
one of them whose onward movement
was not changed in some way, and of
course the changes were interesting
in proportion to the importance of
the lives of the subjects-the greater
the subject the greater the drama (if
adequately executed) in the worlds
literary history.
The next form which the human
story took was that of the stage dra-
ma. Mechanical necessity required
that the collision and life changes
should be represented in the speeches
of the characters, as in the epic poem
they had been narrated in the song of
the minstrel. We have our finest
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-08-05
]. FRANK HANLEY KILLED.
Two Companions Also Victims of Col.
liSion of Train and Auto.

Dennison, Ohio, Aug. il. Frank
Hanley, former governor Of Indiana
and candidate for president on the
prohibition ticket in 1916, and DR.,
and Mrs. Baker, of kilgore, Ohio
were killed six miles from here early
today when a Pennsylvania freight
train struck the automobile in which
the party were driving to kilgore.
All three suffered fractured skulls
and crushed bodies and neither re
covered consciousness after beng
brought to a local hospital. Mr.
Hanley died at 9 a. M, Mrs. BAKER
at 1880 and her husband at o:3O'
DR.. and Mrs. Baker had met Mr.
Hanley at Dennison this morning and
were driving him to their home IN
Kilgore 20 miles from here. The au-
tomobile drove across the tracks OF
one freight train and directly in front
of another. The automobile was
struck souarely Mr.. Hanley was en-
route to Carrollton, where he was
to have delivered an address tomor-
row. He had intended to spend one
dav with the Bakers at their home
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-08-05
SEEKS UNIDENTIFIED MAN.
Criminal Assault Attempted in City
of Greenwood.

Greenwood, July 29.-An unidentl-
fed man, supposed to have been a
negro, attempted criminal assault on
a. prominent white woman in the
southern, part of town near
Greenwood this afternoon about 3
o'clock. The attempted assault oc-
Cured in an clubhouse in the back
yard of the victim. When she ran
out of the building after having elud-
ed the assailant, she was met by an
unidentified white man, who claims
he saw a negro run out of the yard
and across the field in front Of the
house. He Immediately undertook
pursuit of the negro, but had not
been seer IT late hour this after
noon.
The woman, it is said, thinks that
her assailant was negro wearing
blue overalls, blue shirt and cap at
the time of the deed. A negro an
swerine that description was cap
tured about o'clock this afternoon
and placed in the county jail.
A large crowd is securing the
country in search of the guilty man,
but officers say they do not antici-
pate any violence
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-08-05

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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-08-05
WILL NOT RECEIVE YOUMANS.
AIlendale Man Sings Hymns il
Wolfe's Office.

Columbia, July 30.-Dick YOU
mans. who, it is alleged, shot his
brother-in-law, John Dunbar, to
death on the streets of Allendale
about a month ago, was brought to
Columbia today by Sheriff L. G. Ben
nett, of Allendale county, in an ell
fort to have him confined in the state
penitentiary or the state hospital Tor
the insane for purposes of observa-
tion.
The state hospital authorities
could not take the man unless by
special order of the court and the
state prison superintendent, Col. A.
K. Sanders, refused him admission
unless by an order of the governor,
who is now on his summer vacation.
AS there was no circuit Judge avail
able, the prisoner had to be taken
back to Allendale this afternoon.
Sheriff Bennett said that Youmans,
who is a slender man of ffty-two
years, began to act irrationally about
a week ago, it is said While his &C
tions are those of demented man,
he is not dangerous, claimed the
sheriff.
When in Columbia, the man was
hroueht into the Office of the attor-
nev general who was attempting to
unravel the legal tangle, and While
there Youmans sang hymns one min
ute and emitted throaty, !gutteral
sounds, lige the growing of an ami
NAL. the next. He was in constant
vocal action.
AS it was impossible to get the man
bail and as none of the physicians OF
Allendale was inclined to pass on the
mans mental condition, because of
the serious charge under which he is
resting. Sheriff Bennett decided that
he would bring him to Columbia in an
effort to have him under expert eX-
animation.
It is probable that an order will be
secured from a circuit judge shortly
to have the man placed in the state
hospital for the insane prior to his
trial.
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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-08-05
NOTICE TO DEMOCRATS.

The campaign meeting for candi-
dates for United States senate will
be held at Bambere August 7th,
instant. Speeches will be made by
Senator E. D. Smith, Solicitor George
Warren, Hon. W. G. Irby and Ex-
Senator w. P. Pollock. A large at
tendance is expected. The speaking
will begin at II o'clock a. m.
J. F. CARTER,
County Chairman.
August 3Td, .92O.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-11-01
mont ronulous IeIana.

The most populous country in the
world 20 The square mile eyceE. China
is Barbados island This ISLAND also
ls accounted the most healthful in the
group of the West Indies 1t is but
one.eiehth the size Of Rhode Island.
but has twice as many inhabitants as
the smallest ana most denSely inhab-
tod state. There is but one island
despite the misleading plural name.
Barbados was the first place in the
British empire where sugar cane wa9
planted. Bridgctown, the island cap.
tail, is a hot dusty city OF about 10000
people, generally busy on Fridays
when planters flock to town for bust
ness It's cathedral was bulls primes
pally by funds obtained from a lottery
authorized by the legislature, after tie
original building had boen blown dowE
by hurricane in 1850, Labor is SO
plentiful in Barbados that men for a
time had to compete with beasts c.
burden. BHt ths condition was great
~ improved by the use of considerable
Barbados labor in the building of the
Panama canal. George Washington
carried to his grave the mards eff
smallpox contracted on visit 20 the
slnnd
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-11-01
sHumANN 4elNK CONCERT
Famous Singer Pleased North Ad-
ans Audience.

Famous Singer Pleased North Ad-
ans Audience.
Nine. Shumann Hcink was cnthusi-
astically received at the Tuesday night
concert in North Adams Her charm
ing presence and effect of wonderful
voice wop her audience as soon az
she appeared It was her FIRST APP
poarance in the city She expressed
herself as well pleased with North
Adams and the Trail. Her part Of
The program consisted of three boau-
tlully balanced groups of songs.
THE Rosary an encoure was grac-
iously given. and closed the concert
With her was Katherine Hoffman, at
the piano and George Morgan, soldier
baritone. both genuine surprises.
II win be remembered that a few
months ago Nine, Shuman Heink pre-
sented The general secretary Of the
local 'Y' with a yctrola and several
OF her own records Three times She
sent her motherly love and regards to
The young people of Bennington
promising to come and pay visit
here should she pass near here on her
return tour
The Y. NJ. c A handled the ticket
ARRANGEMENTS for this concert and
viii for al lplays and concerts Of AL
bany and North Adams Tickets may
be- purchased end information obtain
ed frcm II. w. Winslow