Monday, July 02, 2018

"Hey, like I'm working on this 1948 novel based on Dothan called DEVIL MAKE A THIRD. The title comes from Shakespeare so I think it qualifies to be dramatized by the ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL. O.K. so I've 'dissected' the novel https://privatepropertynotrespass.blogspot.com/and I believe the school the protagonist sends his TROPHY WIFE to (circa: 1915 and because of his money, his wife is the ONLY student who is a married woman) in CHAPTER 25 is based upon Brenau.  Anyway, I'm including some quotes from CHAPTER 25 for you and ALL YOUR BRENAU FRIENDS to look at. Even though the time of the action is 1915, the college doesn't want automobiles on campus. I looked up some stuff on student discipline @ Brenau and the #1 expulsion offence was 'NIGHT RIDING.' I'd surely 'preciate any comments or suggestions or ANYTHANG ELSE ya gotta say!Oh yeah, could the road into campus have gone underneath 'a heavy stone arch that was covered with ivy'? BEST! r"

FROM CHAPTER 28 of DEVIL MAKE A THIRD:

...Buck's clumsy two-seater hack rolled swiftly behind a fast-trotting team of roans, through a heavy stone arch that was covered with ivy. Its rubber-rimmed wheels ground lightly over a driveway that sounded in the dark as if it had been thickly padded throughout most of its curving passage under heavy oak limbs."

"Must have toted pine straw out of the woods," Buck thought as the carriage swept stylishly up in front of a large grey-stone building whose white-pillared porch jutted like a firm chin onto a lawn that was still green and thick. The carriage tilted far over when Buck stepped out on the narrow iron footrest and its springs creaked as if they'd never been greased.

(clipping from the July 7, 1920 MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER)

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