Evening star., 1941-09-21

Rejected Magazine Article
Blossoms Into Fine Book
Assignment to Study Lives of
Southern Tenant Farmers
Inspires Brilliant Prose
I ct lie Now proise Famous Men
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men


Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Aeee Houehton Mfn Co., Boston
wholly result of
wholly of the wepubcized miser Of
Southern tenant farmer Its authorship Agee writer and Mr.
Evans phoogaphe-were Northern
actually
thereafter depict in pictures the inconven
ene apparent They
produced
indeed until last spring that they found pnosne and Oy
present 6o9k of m m m pge f mets ss " NIL
experience earthhaking to him One only
say & Writes ea a S pOp 5 bd w mas no @ @ mnp than the
be in fashion and & articles and ABOUT nave @ O
this boepate what MI Ages editor was he
which has grown khp whatsoever
the school of writing which simply makes saaoe copy out OF human
The stuff
S a @ oes e has
breeding The reviewer already has said that his
book S unconventional.
Shocked by Assignment to 'Pry"
TT seems to me curious he writes
oughy terrifying association of beings
organ Journalism pry intimately lives undended
rural n famy for the poe padng the
and hmaions Of these I before anO group % f Social M
and for reputation for crsadn and for unD
politics patronage etc. and
these people could capable of medng this prospect without
slightest doubt of their qualification TO do honest piece Of work
unanimous public approval"
his his assignment In explanation for accepting
Hii + y su.i:e:
among their most dangerous enemies Further he the
whole project of extreme coptn and declares tna ne ana
situation the tenants and themselves
thing could justify undertaking made in such scorn
other disnherited within the
body poic Is honest in keeping his contract with MS & boss e eo
but his contract itself is finer sense not honest Ms Ae @ ana
their boss and substitute Tor 1t one imposed by ngner
gate ga m e ae @ dhGnS @ ] @ p b work. 1 %oud be-
beautiful and significant To the reviewers mind there
question that their work meets these requirements
Prose Is Brilliant" but
descriptive and short stories OF
different actual
and hanpenings There bril-
nntat its best soaring brilliant its worst So In
into genuine whole One the consistently maintained ood OF ar
does not seriously flag pages perfect balance
between the photographs and the text Against the Soa
They tie Mr. Ages vision to reality 10 use
Three Alabama % people within the
homes their furniture their clothing food the
Oh @ the arn Poyerv Of course is the great
the tenant farmers life 1t is the element OF his xenfe nc las as
the professional investigator to view nm IN
man disegardn his contract with his boss set
himself beyond the invigaos narrow limits and became ee 70 use
popecase hstorehis work has the rich quality OF great
ing in life as the great imagination and far
death which the average case history written
Any work about socially shapes into
attack on the system follow this rule by
attacking the tenant system badened his line
assault beyond such handy He ATTACKS I tne %
above all other aspects OF mans nature so that governs not
spirit that he inclnes to exa those who have suffered
from it. In those who 0y fcGno hS Ac eoue
is not necessarily his book healthy revolt 1t one more
which at various times have been heard crying aloud
| the wilderness