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THE STATE
October 12, 1935
On the Cultural Side
PRACTICALLY every,
body knows i lint North
Carolina lends in the
production of tobacco, that
Wo have a tremendously
large number of textile mills
and furniture factories and
that we manufacture more
cigarettes than any other
Mate in the Union.
And well they might, for these facte
have been heralded far and wide by
< 'liambors of Commerce, special edi¬
tions of newspapers and other media.
lint there is another side of onr state
which i< not so well known — the cul¬
tural !
We are no longer in the valley of
humiliation (if we ever were). Our
only noed i* more publicity. Thousands
of our own good Tar Heels do not know
of the many brilliant men and women
who are bringing honor each day to
North Carolina. The state is fast
forging ahead in the fields of literature,
drama, art. music and statesmanship.
Three Foreign Ambassadors
Had you stopped to think that at
•hi» very time we have three ambassa¬
dors to foreign countries ? There is
William E. Dodd, Ambassador to
Germany; Judge Robert Biughnm, to
the Court of St. James in London, and
Hon. Josephus Daniels, to Mexico.
When you hear the name of the great
divine, Dr. George W. Truett, did you
know that he was once a North Caro¬
lina mountain hid, and that Dr. Len
G. Broughton of Atlanta, who once
served a great Loudon church was born
in Wake County?
North Carolina claims three Pulit¬
zer prize winners — Hatcher Hughes
who received the drama award in 1021
for his play, •'Hell-bent for Heaven,”
and Paul Green, in 1927, for his, “In
Abraham's Bosom.” Mr. Green is
known from coast to coast for his dra¬
matic work. Then there is Lula Voll-
tuer, born near Kevser, N. C., author of
several plays, who won special fame for
"Sun-up,” first produced by the Prov-
incetown Players, and later in Chicago,
London and Amsterdam, netting over
•S 10,000 to be used for schools among the
mountain people.
De Mille Born in Washington
How many know that William
Churehhill De Mille, the great scenario
HK'VE been boastin*- about our ina-
lorial resources at long time, but you
hear very little said about the work
done by IVortli Carolinians in art.
dramatics, statesmanship, etc. Miss
Stowe gives a summary of some of
these accomplishments.
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writer was born in Washington, N. C.?
Did you know that Antic Preston
Bridgers whose play, “Coquette,” the
rage of the season in New York in 1927,
is a Raleigh woman? When the name
of Sidney Blackmer i» flashed on the
movie screen, remember that he is a
Salisbury man! Shepherd Strudwick
of Hillsboro played in the Theatre Guild
production of Maxwell Anderson’s prize
play, "Roth Your Houses,” starring in
the role of the Nevada school teacher
in Congress. Then there is Elizabeth
Taylor of Morganton who won high
praise on Broadway in “The Little
Angel.”
As for onr state's writers we proudly
claim: Dr. Archibald Henderson, bi-
ographer, historian, dramatic critic;
Gerald \Y. Johnson, writer of biography,
novels and many magazine articles;
Phillips Russell, biographer and novel¬
ist ; Olive Tilford Dnrgan, poet and
novelist; James Boyd, novelist; Wilbur
Daniel Steele, nationally known short
story writer and novelist : Judge Robert
Winston, biographer; John Van Alstvn
Weaver, playwright and poet; Dr.
R. D. W. Connor, Dr. William E. Dodd,
Capt. Samuel Ashe, Dr. J. G. do R.
Hamilton, Dr. Kenneth Boyd, his¬
torians; Jonathan Daniels, novelist:
Anne Blackwell Payne, Benjamin Slcdd,
Jane Groouio Love, Sue M. Whitaker,
poets. With this list of writers the
name of W. T. Couch, himself an author,
should be mentioned for his splendid
work as director of the University of
WINNER OF SECOND PRIZE
This article won second prize
in the contest staged recently by
THE STATE. Miss Rowe is li¬
brarian at the Public Library,
Greensboro.
North Carolina Press. lie
is doing a valuable service
in the state’s publishing
field.
How little has been said
of North Carolina’s contri¬
bution to art! The names
of our artists are known
better in other states than
our own.
Donald M. Mattison in 192S won
Prix do Rome in painting, spent three
years in Europe ns a result, and has
portraits in Europe and America. He
is a Fellow anil Member of the Alumni
of the American Academy of Art in
Rome, instructor nt Columbia, at New
York University, and tho New York
School of Design.
Charles Baskervillc, Jr., horn in Ra¬
leigh, magazine and advertising illus¬
trator, in 1929 traveled 5,000 miles in
Soviet Russia painting. At the New
York Exhibition of Russian pictures
the Soviet government bought a water
color ami a pencil drawing for the
Central Museum of Western Art in
Moscow. He has panels and mural
decorations in two Wall Street clubs
and many private homes in New York
City.
James McLean, Lincolnton, painter
of portrait», landscapes, mural decora¬
tions and figure compositions. His work
is of the modern school of expression.
He was awarded the European Travel¬
ing Scholarship from the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts. One of the
leading events of the year in North
Carolina was the completion of four
large murals placed in the rotunda of
State College Library, a project carried
on under the Federal Public Works of
Art program.
And Still Other Artists
Ellia A. Credle of Rocky Mount, well
known in New York, portrait painter,
for several years did fashion drawings
for Roxy's Theatre Magazine. Tho
Museum of Natural History had her
paint several pictures for the Hall of
Reptiles. She has written and illus¬
trated two children’s books — "Down,
Down the Mountain," and “Across The
Cotton Patch.”
Mabel Pugh, famous for her portrait,
“Little Carolina Bluebonnet,” about
which she has written a book, is an illus¬
trator, etcher, painter, and maker of
wood-block prints. She won the Creson
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