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Transcription: [00:11:40]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
--'cause we don't have any to show them. We had, you know--
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
if we had just made the music--

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
--Mhm.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
--'cause we didn't have any--
we didn't have no talkin' as I can remember on there.
[00:11:55]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
m\Might have been some singin'

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence"}
Mhm.
[00:11:58]
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I know there wasn't any talkin' at that particular time. We had records and they did play, you know, music
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
like, we had to-- I can't even remember. We had Mamie Smith. That was one of the live ones.

[[Cross Talk]]

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Yes. There was Bessie Smith. Yes.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Uh huh. There was another Smith though. Wasn't there? I know it wasn't just the two.
[00:12:22]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I think there was another, I can't remember the name though.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Did you ever see Black performers in the town at the movie house?
[00:12:34]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Uh, yes, uh. You mean back when, in the 30s, back then?

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
In Canton?

[[Cross Talk]]

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
In the 30s, or even in Canton?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Yeah, well I seen a few. It was a few. But most I can remember was white.
[00:12:48]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I didn't remember too many blacks until the later years, you know,
[00:12:54]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
in person. We had them on records, I think, before we had 'em ,you know, in person.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Do you remember the name of the theatre in Canton?
[00:13:09]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
The what?

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
The theatre in Canton? Do you remember the name of it?
[00:13:12]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
No I don't. I sure can't. I can't remember the name.

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Doesn't make much difference if it was the only one in town, right?
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[[all laughing]]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Right. Right. It was the only one there. They might have more than one there today, though I'm not too sure.
[00:13:26]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
But I think they had 'bout maybe two or three down there.
[00:13:31]

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
And was it just films there, or did you have-- did you go there for other reasons? For meetings? or for special speakers? or--
[00:13:39]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Uh, you mean like to town?

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Yeah, to town. And to the theatre.
[00:13:42]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
No. Um. The biggest, uh--
[[coughing]]
[00:13:47]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
We had a few-- a few speakers every once in a while. But the most, uh--
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
most speakers we had were Black speakers.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
We would have, like,what I can remember, most would be like comin'--
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Transcription Notes:
This is Marella and Pearl, and Louise. You can hear Pearl and Louise agreeing or laughing during the tape. But both ask questions. Louise is the younger sounding voice. PLEASE CHECK ACCURACY ON TIME STAMPS, GRAMMAR, PUNCuTIONS, AND SPELLING