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Waiting for Godot, the event the expectation of which has enabled more than a few of us to take that next step through this winter's slush. Pozzo and the rest of Beckett's boys played by an all-Negro cast. Tonight is the second of ten, at the Shubert. (Mat. on Sattidy...
When the touring all-Negro Porgy and Bess company went behind the Iron Curtain last year (TIME, Jan. 9), footloose Author Capote (novels, stories, plays, movies) decided to try his hand at something new, tagged along with the troupe. The reasons why the Soviet Ministry of Culture gave permission for the Porgy tour are obscure, but Capote's own shrewd guess is that the opera's message about people being happy though they have "plenty of nothin'" conforms to the Kremlin notion of the American Negroes as "poverty-pinched and segregated in the ghetto of Catfish...
...editors found that Mississippi did not live entirely up to Governor Coleman's billing. Items: ¶Mound Bayou, the biggest (pop. 1,350) all-Negro town in the state, votes in every election, Vice Mayor I. E. Edwards said, but the ballots are never counted by election officials at the county seat...
...dispute started when Mrs. Louise Gordon presented her two children (they were later joined by a neighboring child) for admission in the Clay school rather than in the all-Negro Rosenwald School in nearby Providence. Turned away by force, they returned under escort after National Guard Adjutant General J.J.B. Williams arrived in town with 500 troops. Despite an opinion by State Attorney General J. M. Ferguson that Mrs. Gordon had enrolled her children in the school prematurely and illegally, and a demand from Mayor Herman Z. Clark that the troops withdraw, General Williams announced his intention to remain as long...
This week Professor Henry Allen Bullock, 50, a trained sociologist (Ph.D., University of Michigan, '42) and director of graduate research at Houston's all-Negro Texas Southern University (enrollment: 3,000), told, in an 18-month study of his fellow Negroes' earning power and buying habits, how close the Southern city Negro has moved toward economic equality with whites. While his log-page report is confined to the South's largest city, Houston (pop. 725,000), it is a good indication of the Negro's material advances throughout the Southland...