But darkest Dixie was New Orleans.

" "All my life, Harry, I've wanted a gold-mesh bag with a row of sapphires and diamonds across the top" "I'm going to make it the kind of show that 'Dixie' was a song" "And a gold-colored bird-of-paradise for a black-velvet hat, all my life, Harry" "With Alma Zitelle in the part" "Is it her picture I found in your drawer the other day, Harry, cut out from a Sunday newspaper?" "One and the same.

Dixie was a slave-holder of Manhattan Island, who removed his slaves to the Southern States, where they had to work harder and fare worse; so that they were always sighing for their old home, which they called "Dixie's Land."