Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-07-06
The Lure of Southern Folk
Tales and Southern Folk
Songs. -

feOple OIL CulS century udfSf uSSAAi.t
so busy for the past century,. discoYs.
ering and developing well nigh end.
Hess resources for material and IN
dustrial wealth, that the resources sof
Art, Literature and Music have BEEN
until the past few years, virtually
untouched. 4
The East has its traditions Of the
early Pilgrim settlers. The West has has
its reservations where the native
American Indian lives and gives IT'D
the newer civilization the Indian arts
of wood-craft, knowledge of prinliS;
tive life in the wilds and adds its tcon-
tribution to the folk songs of me IF e
country. Is (;
In no section of the country M
there a richer field, for both the de-
lineator of folk lore or songs than than
the South. The Negro has given shis shis
contribution, direct from his native
Africa, and colors the traditions
handed down from ante-bellum days,
with the haunting minor cadencss
that must have set the leaves whiss1
pering in the African forests:
So rich is this material, andifiseo so.
tempting, because of the well nigh
limitless scope it offers to the ind5l-;
vidual interpreter, that it has drawn
to its magic circle many of the fore
most "raconteurs" and singers OF the
present generation, and its wealth has
just begun to be touched. 5ss
1t will interest the people of Edge
field to know that among the several
students who are this summer work
ing under the direction of SignorasD De
Fabritiis, there is very talented
young Southern girl, who fromSh her he
own girlhood spent in typical South
ern home, with a devoted 'Mammyn
and surrounded by all the traditions
of ante-war days, has woven stories
and episodes of real life. into g fs fas-
,cinating program for the entertain \ \
tment5of # tthosesof sns not 50 fortsa
| 81 IN our m youth. she brings to her Work
gift of poetic insight, a sympathy,
an appreciation of beauty, no matter
how humble it's origin, and touches
all things with a gentleness and mas
terry that make her characters as Wv
id to her hearers as they are to her
own imagination. To further carry
out the Elusive and create the realm
of fancy, authentic costumes give Wis
Eible form to the spoken tale, and hoop
skirts and slender girdle bring to the
eyes of the beholder pictures of grace
and gentle swaying movement.
Assisting this gracious daughter of
the South in her delineation of tales
is young singer, also Southerner,
who finds the study of these old songs
so fascinating that she has been
caught by their lure and plans to
make them a large part of her COM
ing professional life. She too, dresses
the part in the costume made famous
by reigning Southern bellies, and to-
gether these two young artists are
planning to make their bow to an
Edgefeld audience before starting on
tour of the mountain resorts in
North Carolina on the completion of
their intensive Summer Course in
Edgefeld.
The following is typical program
of their joint recitals:
Nanny Stories-Paul Lawrence
Dunbar Gan Alabama Negro)-Miss
Mary Helen Hynes.
Folk Songe-Stephen Foster, Miss
Agnes Cline.
Authentic Folk Tales of Georgia
and Alabama-Miss Hynes.
Authentic Folk Songs, Traditional
Miss Cline.
Queen of sheeba, A Story of the
Old South-Miss Hynes.
!. Southern Folk Dances, Miss Hynes
and Miss Cline.
Uncle Daniels Sermon, a Planta
ton Story-Miss Hynes.
: Group of Negro spirituels, Bur
leigh-Miss Cline.
The Littlest Rebel, Edward PEBBLE
Miss Hynes.
Written for The Advertiser by
Signora De Fabritiis.
Corley-Shuford.