| Show Cultivation of Quaintness Is Found Good Box Office by Ozark Residents If youve you've never been a hillbilly then you cant can't Imagine how rich and full life has become to us native writes Lucile Movies inthe in inthe inthe the University Review After Arter going along all these years yeara struggling to conform to tiresome standards of civilization we suddenly sudden sudden- ly are pounced upon by an excited world begging us to be primitive All AU we have to do to meet the new expectations Is to rock in a split hickory chair from morning until night singing The House Carpenter Carpen ter or Lord Thomas' Thomas Wedding If we can collect a gaunt aunt houn daw dawg or two to lie at our feet and scratch fleas while w we sing then there is Increased applause So youre you're a native they ask us breathlessly Modestly we admit it Then we limp a little That's so they'll know we haven't bavent been wearing shoes very long and that the pesky things still feel powerful We can remember when It t used to tomake tomake tomake make us ua mad if u they asked us So youre you're a native In that curious cu cu- rious tone of voice Our resentment resent men ment however drifted away when being a hillbilly became good box office Now we push our splint bonnet back from our frank countenance smooth out the creases In our store- store boughten calico dress and coyly say Jest call caU me hillbilly If H the stranger prefers to call us runner ridge or baw haw eater eater that's that all right too Were We're getting broad minded Some experts expert say that we feminine are hill MB That one though doesn't get over well So we conform to the vernacular the tourists know best |
