Her songs were ???a form of art new to Broadway??? for as the carvings of Dahomey and the totem poles of Alaska are art, crude, even repulsive tho it is at times, so the ???blues??? are a form of art, an expression of the moods of a certain class of individuals.??? The New York Sun???s Walter Kingsley similarly typed Gray???s blues as ???the little songs of the wayward, the impenitent sinners, of