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This week Evans and his partners (Saylor and three other Record men) brought out All-Negro Comics, a 48-page, 15? monthly, the first to be drawn by Negro artists and peopled entirely by Negro characters. Its star: "Ace Harlem," a Dick Tracy-like detective. The villains were a couple of zoot-suited, jive-talking Negro muggers, whose presence in anyone else's comics might have brought up complaints of racial "distortion." Since it was all in the family, Evans thought no Negro readers would mind...
Arriving with all the polish accumulated during its long Manhattan run, "Anna Lucasta" combines enough punch and discriminate pacing to present a mundane theme in an engrossing manner. With an all-Negro cast that has added the experience of a long run to its initial first-night spark, this comedy-drama successfully handles the story of a prostitute who for the first time is loved for what she is, not for what she represents; and does this by neither patronizing the subject nor burlesquing it. The story is realistic without being objectionable, and includes just enough finesse to slip...
...from Joe's pants while he was taking a bath, but Joe didn't seem to mind. Said he: "Money ain't everything, unless a poor guy ain't got it." Once when a crony told Joe that he wanted to put on an all-Negro show, Joe reached mechanically for his checkbook, asked his friend, "Will...
...changes in stage method and technique, and only a very brisk and inventive production-such as Broadway got 16 years ago with Miriam Hopkins, Ernest Truex and Sydney Greenstreet in the cast-can make Lysistrata's joke funny enough for a whole evening. Last week's all-Negro production never even got off to a promising start...
...customer also arranged Ellabelle's first professional appearance in an all-Negro opera at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, Dec. 22, 1941). In subsequent concerts touring the U.S. Ellabelle sang arias and German lieder, but no spirituals ("in New Rochelle I've never even seen an old-fashioned revival meeting...