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...famed brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, popular song writer (Under the Bamboo Tree, Nobody's Lookin' but the Owl and the Moon), collector and arranger of spirituals, onetime musical director for Oscar Hammerstein, now (at 69) a minor actor in the revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. The Johnson brothers thought little of their song after finishing it, but Jacksonville children continued to carol it, passed it on to other Negro schools. Since then it has sold half a million copies, exists also on countless thousands of typewritten pages pasted in the backs of hymnals and school...
...season did best with musicals (Let's Face It!, Banjo Eyes, Best Foot Forward, Sons o' Fun) and with revivals (Macbeth, Porgy and Bess, Candida). Thoroughly revived also, after a long, troubled sleep, was vaudeville...
...Best newcomers: Judith Evelyn, as the harassed, hysterical wife in Angel Street, Avon Long as the brilliantly capering Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess...
Conductor Wallenstein pored over 120 operas, picked what he thought were the most artistic, entertaining, representative. To start the series, he shrewdly selected the best-liked U.S. folk opera: George Gershwin's jazz-flavored saga of Charleston's Catfish Row, Porgy & Bess, now a smash hit in its Manhattan revival. To get the Broadway cast, headed by Anne Brown and Todd Duncan, arrangements had to be made to hold the theater curtain until...
Porgy and Bess. Brilliant revival of Gershwin's warm, Negromantic folk opera (TIME...