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Questions on THE BIG SEA /Slovak Translation/

Note: I am translating from the third printing, February 1945 - Knopf, N.Y. The numbering of pages refers to this edition.

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3 **Sandy Hook** - what is it, a peninsula off N.Y.?

4 "You see, books **had been happening to me**" I do not understand the phrase, please explain the meaning.

5 **pig-Latin** - is it a sort of vernacular Spanish?

7 **Blues** - please explain as fully as possible. What is the difference between a song and blues?

12 following **John Brown** in his historic raid at Harper's Ferry -
I do not know anything about Brown and the raid. Please explain.

15 **Jim Crow** - refers to racial discrimination. What is the origin?
What measure is it now?

16 & 167 **Alger boy** - quite unknown. Please explain.

22 **Theda Bara**, **Pearl White** - men or women? actors?
**road shown** - are they cinema performances or theatre?

Sothern, Marlowe - actors, men or women ?

Bon Bon Buddy, the Chocolate Drop - is it a song, revue, film ?

26 books like **The Rosary**, **The Mistress of Shenstone**, **Freckles**,
**Riders of the Purple Sage** - could you give manes of authors
and sort of books they are.

31 **The Gadfly**, **Jean Christophe** - dtto as above.
**Eugene Debs** - who was he?

32 **Woodlawn Avenue** - are there the slums of Cleveland?
painful words: **kike**, **spick**, **hunky** can you help me to translate
by giving approximate meaning of these words?
millinery shop in the **Loop** - what does Loop mean?

33 **Chicago riots** - what were they, when ?

35 **track letter for the high jump** and the **440-relays** - do not understand
what it is.

39 **victrolas** - what is it?

44 **serape** - what is it ?

47 **Xochimilco** - what is it ?

52 **drill corps** - was it attached to the school, or an independent
organization of what sort ?

p.t.o.

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52 **puttees** - what is it?
dance at the Longwood Gym. - is Gym. for gymnasium, a school?

53 please clarify the difference between poems and verses and jingles. I would like to be quite sure about the meaning of these words to be able to translate them perfectly.

62 **Shuffle Along** - a revue ?

64 **tamales** - what is it ?

68 **Emily Dickinson** - who was she ?

70 bullfights for the charity of la Cavadonga - don't understand
banderillas - not knowing Spanish I would appreciate your
translation into English

71 **Duesenbergs** - a mark of passenger car ?

80 **gyp-joint hotel** - what is it ?

81 in Harlem - "I registered at the Y. - what is it ?

83 "When I tried out for the Spectator, they assigned me to go gather frat house and society news, an assignment impossible..."
- I cannot catch the sense of this sentence, please explain.

85 **Rand School** - what is it ?

108 **United Cigar Store coupons** - what sort of coupons were they?

124 **windjammer days** - do not understand the meaning

161 "...a black-eyed susan from the unheared-of Alabama jardin de luxe, where sophisticated darkies grow." - rather difficult to understand, please explain.

163 **"Man, you gonna bust your diamond studs in a minute"**
give the meaning, please.

164 Bob used dope - what sort of narcotic drug is it?

175 "Chérie, you take the cake" - an idiom I do not know - please explain the meaning

179 old stage tuxedoes - what is it ?

180 **Bojangles** - man or woman ?

185 Mr. Barnes the Aggyrol magnate - what does A. mean ?

202 **Rain and What Prices Glory** - films or theatre plays ?

206 **Dixie** proper - what is it ?

209 **barrel** houses - what is it ?

216 Mae Miller & Hallie Queen - men or women ?

218 **cinnamon** toasts - what is it ?

223 **Charles Gilpin** - who is he ?

**tom-toms** - what is it ?

**Works Progress Administration** - what purpose ?

224 **A Bill of Divorcement** - theatre play or film - by whom ?

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224 *The Verge* - film or theatre play ?

M. Wycherly - man or woman ?

226 *Lindy-hoppers* at the Savoy - who are they ?

227 Heywood Broun - what celebrity is he ?

pent house - what is it ?

228 *hit play* on Broadway - what is it ?

... the season the *Chauve-Souries* first came in to town"

what is Chauve-Souries ?

*house rent* parties - why are they called *house rent* ?

229 *grille* of elevators - what is it ?

230 there is a lot of unknown words in the invitation cards:

1st Card:

*SOUTHERN MAMMY* *STARLIGHT* - what do these words mean ?

2nd Card:

*"Refreshments Just It"* - cannot catch the meaning

231 /further invitation cards:/

1st card:

"If sweet Mamma is running wild, and you are looking for
a Do-right child, just come around and...."

Please explain the sense of it.

2nd Card:

"Black Wax, say change your mind and say they do and he will
give you a hearing, while MEAT HOUSE SLIM, laying in the
bin killing all good men."

Don't understand the meaning of this sentence, please explain.

233 *Garland* Fund - explain what or who is Garland

234 *ghost* writer, ... *ghosted* books... - is it a writer writing
under *anonymes* ?

Thurman's *"The Blacker the Berry"* - what is the meaning of
this title of book ?

235 "...considerably *distorted* for box office *purposes*..."

please explain the sense

236 Franz Boas - who was he ?

237 *green and purple story* - what does it mean ?

239 /about Zora Hurston:/ ...who did not let college give her a
broad "a" and ..." - do not understand the meaning

240 *Village* - is it Greenwich Village, an artists' colony ?

242 *Dubose Heyward* & *Julia Peterkin* - who were they ?

Heyward - man or woman ?

243 *Park Avenueers galore* - what is it ?

244 *Gus Simons, the Harlem *crooner** - what is it ?

p.t.o.

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244 Negro number bankers - who were they ?

Andy Razaf - m. or w.

249 Florine Stettheimer & V.F.Calverton - men or women ?

250 Claire Spencer - man or woman ?

Colin McPhee & man or woman ?

party in the Fifties - what is it ?

Tully's Black Boy - a revue ?

251 Jascha Heifetz - man or woman ?

Chief Long Lance I suppose it is an Indian name for the Chief
of a tribe, consequently Lance is not family name - please confirm.

252 Isa Glenn - man or woman

play Cain's Gal in The Green Pastures - what is Cain's Gal?

Green Pastures - a film or theatre play ?

254 ribald ditty - what is it ?

255 writing lyric and sketches - what do you understand under sketches ?

256 Showboat /where Robeson appeared/ - is it a film or revue ?

- what does the title - Showboat - mean ?

258 Butterbeans and Susie type - what is to be understood ?

259 Snakehips was a permanent "solid sender" - do not understand, please
explain

Taos - an artist's settlement ? where ?

264 roustabouts - what is it ?

266 LANGSTON HUGHES' BOOK OF POEMS TRASH - what is it ?

LANGSTON HUGHES - THE SEWER DWELLER - do not understand

270 The Tattooed Countess by Van Vechten - what does tattooed mean ?

272 Scotsboro case - what was it ?

sheer poppycock - what is it ?

273 box-back suits - what is it ?

274 inn交易所 lodges - is it something like free masons' lodges ?

277 Nation, New Republic - weekly or monthly publications ?

280"... freshmen were given paddling of their lives ... every night ... assume the angle for paddling" do not understand - please explain

Thanksgivings day - when is it ?

Fraternity, initiations - what is it ?

ordeal of brotherhood - please explain

281 bull sessioning what is it ?

282 supply of hooch - what is it ?

287 play the dozens - play at cards ? or some other play ?

288 The Negroes ... had horrifying tales to tell of forced labour at the
point of a gun on levees that finally gave way. - please explain the
sense of this sentence.

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290 "That little one _yonder, the meriney, belongs..."

please explain the meaning

<u>Blind Lemon Jefferson</u> - was he blind or is Blind his name ?

<u>voodoo shops</u> - what is it ?

292 waiting ... in the <u>fo'c'sle</u> - what is it ?

<u>lichee nuts</u> - don't understand

296 Dr W. and his daughter <u>Lucy Ariel</u> - is Ariel her 2nd christan name or a family name if she was married ?

299 <u>Uncle Remus</u> - I understand it is both the hero and the name of a book written by whom ?

306 <u>redbugs</u> - what is it ?

Negro teachers had the interest of <u>students at heart</u>

- does it mean they were supposed to prefer students who liked to learn things by heart? - or any other meaning

308 <u>curricular activities</u> - what is it ?

309 <u>alumni, students</u> - what is the difference between ?

313 /about strawberry stems/ - "since they were all <u>allergic</u> to them" do not understand, please explain.

315 <u>budding Marian Anderson</u> - do not understand

316 <u>filling case</u> - what is it ?

317 <u>hit play and latest musicals</u> - what is it ?

<u>Sadko</u> - what is it, by whom

<u>Little Show, Berkeley Square, Blackbird</u> - what are they, by whom ?

320 <u>Manhattan Transfer</u> - what is it &

322 <u>Peacock Alley</u> - what kind of street is it ?

<u>Junior Leaguers</u> - who were they ?

323 <u>Cert murals</u> - what are they ?

334 "I called up the young man to tell him <u>I meant to beat the hell out of him</u>"

I don't understand the meaning - please explain

A question concerning the quarrel with Miss Hurston:

Why did you want that A.Locke speaks for you with Miss Hurston?

You have received the Medal for <u>No! Without Laughter and the quarrel was about the Mule Bone. Please explain the connection between the two.</u>

The circle ... now ended in Green Pastures <u>with De Lawd</u> - what meaning has De Lawd here - was it a hero in the play ?

as prepared for Eng Zdenko Alexey,
Společenský dum, Hattwold, July 9, 1951
Czechoslavakia, July, 1951 in
answer to his questions

QUESTIONS ON "THE BIG SEA". SLOVAK TRANSLATION

July 9, 1951
New York, New York

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3. SANDY HOCK: A lighthouse on a sandbar off New York Harbour. The first bit of land sighted by steamers coming into New York.

4. "YOU SEE, BOCKS HAD BEEN HAPPENING TO ME": My life had been largely influenced by books up to that time—I had read a great deal rather than lived. Vicarious experiences in books. So I threw the books away preparing to live through actual experiences.

5. PIG-LATIN: A kind of inverted use of syllables in English used by children to confuse other children.

7. BLUES: A real folk blues is a Negro song, three line verse, the first line repeated, and the third line rhyming with the first two—as on page 209 of "The Big Sea". Blues are usually about unfortunate love, or else poverty, no money, no home, etc. Word "blues" is also used now to denote any popular song in that style.

12. JOHN BROWN IN HIS HISTORIC RAID AT HARPER'S FERRY: A white man, John Brown, gathered together a group of Negrees and whites before the Civil War to start a revolt designed to free the Negro slaves. It began at Harper's Ferry, was unsuccessful, and John Brown was hanged, a martyr to the cause of Negro freedom in the United States. (See any good history of U. S.)

15. JIM CROW: There is still a great deal of Jim Crow or racial discrimination in the U. S. Origin probably is that since a crow is a black bird, Jim Crow is a black man, and term grew to mean to separate the black people from the white. There was also an old ministrel of this name, very popular in 1800's, still used when white performers appeared on the stage in black face makeup imitating Negroes.

16 & 167. HORATIO ALGER: was a very popular author of children's books in the early 1900's in which the little hero always began poor or as a motherless child, and ended up rich and successful. An Alger boy would be a boy who became successful in life.

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47 XOGHIMILCO:
A beautiful parklike district near Mexico City of canals and floating gardens where boating parties and picnics are held and many people go on holidays and Sundays.

52 DRILL CORPS:
A group of people, usually military or semi-military, who drill and march together. In this case attached to the school, for military training of the students.

52 PUTTEES:
Leather leggings worn by members of a drill corps, or by mounted police.

LONGWOOD GYM:
A school gymnasium in Cleveland at Longwood School.

53 POEMS:
A poem is a serious emotional effort. A verse is more rhyming without poetic meanings. A jingle is usually a humorous verse, a funny rhyme.

VERSES:
(See above)

JINGLES:
(See above)

62 SHUFFLE ALONG:
A Negro revue in 1920-21, a big hit on Broadway for more than two years, then toured on the road across the U. S. A. Florence Mills became a star in this show.

64 TAMALES:
A Mexican food, a kind of roll of corn meal and meat boiled in a corn shuck. Very cheap but very tasty.

68 EMILY DICKINSON:
A very famous American woman poet of the 1800's.

70 CHARITY OF LA GAVADONGA:
An annual festival, bullfight for a charity fund called La Gavadonga.

BANDERILLAS:
—the colored darts stuck in a bull to tease and madden him.

71 DUESENBERGS:
—a foreign mark of passenger automobile, I believe, German, very expensive in America.

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80: GYP-JOINT HOTEL: A hotel in which the guests are over-charged, cheated. Where strangers are taken advantage of, made to pay too much.

81: #1 REGISTERED AT THE X." The Harlem Branch Young Men's Christian Association, Y.M.C.A. with several branches all over New York City, and throughout America. Negroes usually are not welcome at the white Y.M.C.A. branches. Y's usually have dormitory sleeping rooms for young men, gymsnasiums, game rooms, and pool.

83 "WHEN I TRIED OUT FOR THE SPECTATOR, THEY ASSIGNED ME TO GO GATHER FRAT HOUSE AND SOCIETY NEWS, AN ASSIGNMENT IMPOSSIBLE....": The Spectator is the student paper at Columbia University in New York. Since Negroes and white students have very little social life in common in America and do not belong to the same fraternities, for me to be given this assignment meant that it was one I could not fill, given me to discourage me from trying

85: RAND SCHOOL: to be on the staff of this paper. A famous Socialist School with very good lectures, etc. and courses in the evening for teachers, working people, etc.

108 UNITED CIGAR STORE COUPONS: Coupons given with cigarrettes by these United Cigar Stores (chain stores with many branches). If you saved a thousand or so, you could get a prize—electric toaster, pair of ice skates, or something of the sort, free.

124 WINDJAMPER DAYS: A windjammer is an old sailing ship. In the days of the windjammers—-is meaning of the phrase, before steam ships.

161 "...A BLACK-EYED SUSAN FROM THE UNHEARD-OF-ALABAMA JARDIN DE LUXE, WHERE SOPHISTICATED DARKIES GROW.":

She was like a flower, the black-eyed Susan (name of a flower) from a theatrical and unreal de luxe Alabama garden such as never existed.

163 "MAN, YOU GONNA BUST YOUR DIAMOND STUDS IN A MINUTE": Swell up with pride and delight to the point where the diamond buttons in his tunzeo burst from an inflated chest.

164: "BOB USED DOPE": Dope is any kind of narcotic drug, morphine, heroin, etc. I don't know what kind this fellow used.

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175: "CHERIE, YOU TAKE THE CAKE": "You are O.K., all right with me, the best ever." A phrase probably originating from a dance of slavery days called the "cake-walk" in which the best dancers won the cake.

179: TUXEDGES: Formal full dress male suit, white in color, with black satin lapels on the coat and a ribbed black satin stripe down the length of the trouser legs. A dinner suit, not as formal as hails.

180: BOJANGLES: A famous male Negro tap dancer, recently dead. His real name was Bill Robinson.

185: MR. BARNES THE ARGYROL MAGNATE: Argyrol is an antiseptic drug widely used in medical practice.

202: RAIN and WHAT PRICE GLORY: Both were originally stage plays but were later adapted for the cinema. RAIN written by W. Somerset Maugham and WHAT PRICE GLORY by Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings.

206: DIXIE: An idiomatic designation for the Southern part of the United States, usually that portion below an imaginary line called The Mason & Dixon Line, including such states as Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, etc.

Dixie means the Southern part of the U. S. in general.

209: BARREL HOUSES: A low class dive, a drinking house, low saloon.

216: MAE MILLER & HALLIE QUEEN: Black women, Negro women school teachers in Washington. Mae Miller is also a poet and daughter of famous Negro leader and newspaper man, Kelly Miller.

218: CINNAMON TOASTS: Toast bread with cinnamon on top and sugar, often served at tea time.

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223: CHARLES GILPIN: A famous Negro male actor who originated the role of the Emperor Jones in the Eugene O'Neil play of that name. Dead.

TOM-TOMS: American Indian drums.

WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION: The government organisation during the depression of late 1920's and early 1930's to furnish work for unemployed citizens.

224 A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT: A dramatic play by Clemence Dane.

224 THE VERGE: A dramatic play starring Margaret Wyncherly, famous actress.

M. WYCHERLY: a famous American woman actress.

226 LINDY-HOPPERS: Those who danced the Lindy hop, a famous dance originated after the Lindberg flight across the Atlantic in 1927, started by Negro dancers at the Savoy Ballroom, a public ballroom in Harlem.

227 HEYWOOD BROWN: A famous white American newspaper man and writer, now dead.

PENTHOUSE: An apartment or small house on top of a skyscraper. Usually very expensive to rent.

228 HIT PLAY ON BROADWAY: A successful long-running play. A hit.

CHAUVE-SOURIES: A Russian revue that came from Paris to New York in the 1920's and was a hit.

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**HOUSE RENT PARTIES:** Parties given by poor Negroes in Harlem and elsewhere to which admission is charged, maybe a quarter, and the refreshments are sold, in order to raise money to pay the rent.

**229: GRILLE OF ELEVATORS:** The grill on the doors of elevators.

**230: SOUTHERN MAMMY STARLIGHT:** Somebody's nick-name or soubriquet—Mrs. Southern Mammy, or Miss Starlight. Fortune tellers.

**"REFRESHMENTS JUST IT":** Very good refreshments.

**1st Card**

"IF SWEET MAMA IS RUNNING WILD, AND YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A DO-RIGHT CHILD, JUST COME AROUND AND...."

**2nd Card**

"BLACK WAX, SAY CHANGE YOUR MIND AND SAY THEY DO AND HE WILL GIVE YOU A HEARING, WHILE MEAT HOUSE SLIM, LAYING IN THE BIN KILLING ALL GOOD MEN."

**1st Card**

"IF YOUR WIFE IS OUT HAVING A GOOD TIME WITHOUT HER HUSBAND, AND YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ANOTHER GOOD WOMAN WHO WILL DO RIGHT, JUST COME TO OUR HOUSE RENT PARTY".

**2nd Card**

"A MAN NAMED BLACK WAX SAYS GET IN THE MOOD FOR A GOOD TIME AND YOU WILL HAVE IT HERE WHERE A MAN NAMED MEAT HOUSE SLIM IS DEALING A CARD GAME WHERE HE WILL WIN YOUR MONEY" (PERHAPS THIS IS THE MEANING, I can't be sure myself. It is deep Harlem slang.)

**233: GARLAND FUND:** A fund given by a wealthy man to help radical causes. Garland was a white man charitable toward Negroes and leftists.

**234: GHOST WRITER, GHOSTED BOOKS:** Books written by someone else, not the name on the cover. A ghost writer is one paid to write a book for another person, but does not put his name on the book.

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THURMAN'S "THE BLACKER THE BERRY": Title of a novel taken from a jingle:
The blacker the berry
The sweeter the juice.
Meaning the darker the woman the sweeter she is.

235: "....CONSIDERABLY DISTORTED FOR BOX OFFICE PURPOSES...":

The meaning of the play changed around to please Broadway
audiences and make money at the box office.

236 FRANK BOAS: A famous anthropologist at Columbia University. Now dead.

237 GREEN AND PURPLE STORY: "Purple" prose is artificially colorful writing.
"Green and purple story" means a very high-flow of imitation
poetic style of writing.

239 ZORA HURSTON: "WHO DID NOT LET COLLEGE GIVE HER A BROAD PASS?" (1941) way of
Some o' located people in America require an English (American) way of
pronouncing their words with a broad a which they think is "cultured",
but which sounds affected and false to many people. Although Miss
Hurston had been to college, she did not "put on airs" in this way,
in other words she still talked like the common people.

240 VILLAGE: Referring to Greenwich Village, a section of New York City
where many artists and writers live.

242: DUBOSE HEYWARD & JULIA PETERKIN: Heyward, male author of PORGY, a
Famous play from which the George Gershwin musical, PORGY AND BESS
was made... JULIA PETERKIN, woman author of novel and play,
SCARLET SISTER MARY. Both authors wrote much about Negroes, although they
were white.

243: PARK AVENUES GALORE: Glamorous wealthy people from Park Avenue, the
New York avenue where the very rich people live.

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287 PLAY THE DOZENS:

A vulgar verbal game in which for fun very bad things are said about one's female relatives, usually the mother. Such as, "Your name don't wear no drawers".

288 THE NEGROES...HAD HORRIFYING TALES TO TELL OF FORCED LABOR AT THE POINT OF A GUN ON LEVES THAT FINALLY GAVE WAY.

Forced to work building levee protection against floods by white men with guns who made the Negroes do all the hard work.

290 "THAT LITTLE ONE YONDER, THE MERINEY, BELONGS..."

That little child over there with the kinky reddish hair (meriney).....

BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON:

A famous blind Negro male blues singer. Dead.

VOODOO SHOPS:

Shops selling roots and herbs and black candles, etc. for use in mystic voodoo rites.

292 FOLE'SLE:

The part of a ship where the crew sleeps.

LICHEE NUTS:

Chinese nuts, served with Chinese dinners in New York restaurants.

296 DR. W. AND HIS DAUGHTER LUCY ARIEL:

Ariel is her given name, like

Lucy. Not her family name.

299 UNCLE REMUS:

Joel Chandler Harris, a man. White, is the author of

306 REDBUGS: A series of stories about the Negro slave, Uncle Remus.

B. Cinches, a small bug that bites people in bed, common in very poor dirty homes.

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STUDENTS AT HEART: A very deep interest, a sincere interest, in their students.

308 CHERIcular activities: Activities relating to studies.

309 ALUMNI, STUDENTS: ALUMNI—graduates, those who have already finished their studies in a school.
STUDENTS—those still in school.

313 ABOUT STRAWBERRY STEMS: "SINCE THEY WERE ALL ALLERGIC TO THEM": "Allergic" means unable to eat something without becoming ill.

315 BUDDING MARIAN ANDERSON: A budding singer is one just starting out on a professional career, just beginning.

316 FILLING CASE: A file, a case or box in which listings are kept, or addressed are filed.

317 HIT PLAY, LATEST MUSICALS: Hit—a successful show.

SADKO: A ballet by Rimsky Korsakoff.

LITTLE SHOW, BERKELEY SQUARE, BLACKBIRDS: All titles of successful shows, authors I've forgotten.

320 MANHATTAN TRANSFER: A novel by John Dos Passos, man, white.

322: PEAGOCK ALLEY: A corridor in the old Waldorf Astoria Hotel, a renegade for fashionable people.

JUNIOR LEAGUERS: The Junior League is an organization of rich young white debutantes.

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323 CERT MURALS: Famous mural paintings by the Spanish artist, Gert, in Waldorf Astoria Hotel, also some in Radio City, New York.

334 "I CALLED UP THE YOUNG MAN TO TELL HIM I MEANT TO BEAT THE HELL OUT OF HIM."

To beat somebody very badly.

CONCERNING THE QUARREL WITH MISS HURSTON:

Alain Locke was friend of both myself and Miss Hurston and I felt should have taken my side in the quarrel. Dr. Locke meant that since I had just gotten a famous literary prize, the Harmon Award, I should be happy and not worry about Miss Hurston and the play we had written together.

THE CIRCLE...NOW ENDED IN GREEN PASTURES WITH DE LAUD:

De Land, (The Lord) was the leading character in this play in which a Negro actor, Richard B. Harrison, impersonated Jesus Christ, The Lord, as imagined by illiterate folk Negroes. Green Pastures was a kind of Negro religious play, a great hit. But it ended the ten or twelve years of Negro actor hit plays on Broadway. Ironic that they should end with The Lord!

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Neither did most of the Italians at that time.

I worked my way back to New York and had a quarter when I reached my native shore. A winter in Paris and a summer in Italy on $6.75. I bought two hot dogs and went to Harlem with the quarter.

I sold my first article, a travel sketch, to the CRISIS, a Negro magazine, for $20.00 and I went to Washington, I wanted to see the Capitol. That was twelve years ago, when I bought this typewriter out of my salary as a bus boy at the Wardman Park Hotel where ambassadors and cabinet members used to dine. Here I saw not only roast chickens, but squabs, pheasants, ducks and cavair. But it seems like the help almost everywhere always eat hash. I didn't quit though, until I'd paid for the typewriter. By that time, I'd won a prize for a poem called the WEARY BLUES. And ever since then, I've been writing my way around the world. And I ain't done travellin' yet, as the old Negro spiritual says. In fact I'm almost on my journey now, Mount Zion!

And I wouldn't take nothin' for my journey now! The next time I'll tell you how I went to see Christoph's Citadel with just enough money to buy a good suit. (I didn't buy the suit.) Don't let anybody tell you it's expensive to travel. It isn't, if you just like travellin'.