Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Religion has led the U. S. Negro, as it led 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...
...housewife who follows Satan and wears his flowers while singing "I'm on My Way to Heaven." The Devil keeps her dancing. Finally, the Pilgrim of Determination marches past the Devil, singing "I'm Going Through." When she reaches the throne, the Negro audiences at Heaven Bound shout loudly. The choir of Saints, Angels and Pilgrims sing more songs-"Great Day," "Going to Shout All Over God's Heaven," "Every Time I Feel the Spirit"-easing down the wild excitement of the play before the audience goes home...
...Heaven Bound was performed publicly for the first time at the Atlanta City Auditorium last October. Eight thousand saw it then, 5,000 more failed to get in. Subsequently it has been performed in Savannah and Macon, copied by other Negro churches. In September it will be presented at a church in Philadelphia...
...originated in the fervent head of one Lula B. Jones, onetime member of Big Bethel's enthusiastic choir. She told her idea to the choir leader, Mrs. Nellie Davis, Atlanta night-school teacher, a graduate of Atlanta University in 1922. Nellie Davis built the idea into Heaven Bound, a play that is part pageant, part revival meeting, part spiritual charades in which the only part not sung is the sob of the Wayward Girl, "Too late...
...Texas' opening the free bridge until such time as the Legislature authorized them to sue the State for $180,000 in damages to their property. Obedient to the injunction Governor Sterling had the Texas end of the free bridge barricaded. Wearied by this red-tape delay and not bound by the injunction against Texas, Governor Murray fortnight ago ordered his highway workers to clear away the free bridge's barricades and plow up all approaches to the toll bridge. Incensed, Governor Sterling dispatched his Rangers to the Texas bridge head, curtly informed Governor Murray: "You have exceeded your...