Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Bunyan, to regard life as a pilgrimage through many pitfalls for gay rewards. This is the import of almost every Negro spiritual; it is the import of a morality play called Heaven Bound which has made its appearance in Atlanta, performed by the choir of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. First wide public to hear about Heaven Bound was the theatrical world. Theatre Guild Magazine for August called it "the first great American folk drama" and said: "It should and probably will make Georgia an American Oberammergau." Recalling the power of The Green Pastures, a Negro religion play...
...performances of Heaven Bound, Nellie Davis plays the part of the Wayward Girl. The other actors are members of the Big Bethel, choir supplemented, outside Atlanta, by singers from other colored churches. St. Peter is Henry Mathews, a onetime slave who is sexton of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. He wears white robes, golden keys around his neck and his own long, crinkly beard. Pilgrim of Determination is Esther Jones, a dry-cleaner; Millionaire is Hubert Jones, an Atlanta barber; Devil is George A. Pullum, a railway postal clerk. Reader or interpreter, who also helps guide the action...
Cheap copper has no terrors for the great Mid-African mines of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga, world's biggest producer. At the company's annual meeting in Brussels last week. President Jean Jadot stated that his company can make money on 8? or even 7½? copper. Katanga's 1930 earnings were 270,208,000 Belgian francs ($7,511,000), only about 6,000,000 francs down from the peak earnings of 1929. Elements in Katanga's strength are: tremendously rich ores; cheap native labor; big production of cobalt and radium (over...
...days when the Portuguese were world's greatest sailors, one of their questing ships picked up four handsome Negresses on the Guinea Coast. According to contemporary chronicles (says Author Baptist) the women were to be dressed up "and left ashore at different points of the African coast as emissaries of trade and, presumably, of Christian missionary enterprise: women, it was reasonably argued, being less likely than men to be slain by savage tribes." From this historical thread Author Baptist has spun a highly colored yarn...
...need his warning that his tale "is in no way to be trusted by the seeker after facts;" it is romance from the word Go. The peaceful African village where the four Negresses lived was a good imitation of the Garden of Eden; the Portuguese ship a floating specimen of civilized corruption. The Negresses were surprised, captured while taking a siesta on the dunes. When they had become fairly used to their shipboard surroundings they were given clothes; one of the priests began their education. He taught them to repeat, parrotwise: "Jesus Christ, son of a Virgin immaculate, died...