Harlem

Harlem With the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, ending Prohibition, honorary Harlemites such as Van Vechten sobered up and turned to other pursuits. Locke's letters to Charlotte Osgood Mason turned increasingly pessimistic in the winter of 1931. In June 1932, he perked up a bit to praise the choral ballet presented at the Eastman School of Music, Sahdji, with music by William Grant Still and scenario by Richard Bruce Nugent, but most of Locke's news was distinctly downbeat. The writing partnership of two of his protégés, Hughes and Hurston, their material needs underwritten in a New Jersey township by "Godmother," collapsed in hurston, hughes, godmother, turned, music, locke's, locke, ending, dispute, written, writing, winter, william, wife, wallace, vechten, van, until, unperformed, underwritten, undermining, two, township, took, tie, thurman, three-act, thompson's, thompson, strong-willed, sobered, side, seems, secretary, school, scenario, sahdji, richard, result, repeal, renaissance, remains, relationship, pursuits, protégés, prohibition, principal, presented, praise, played, play