Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PORGY?A crippled Negro's love along the docks of Charleston...
Atlanta, Ga. Asheville, N. C. Biloxi, Miss. Brunswick, Ga. Charleston, S. C. Chattanooga, Tenn. Cleveland, Ohio Corpus Christi, Tex. Dallas, Tex. Detroit, Mich. Erie, Pa. Greensboro, Lakeland, Fla. Los Angeles, Calif. New Orleans, La. Norfolk, Portsmouth...
PORGY-The bitter adventures of a cripple in Charleston's Negro quarter...
PORGY?A crippled Negro's love along the docks of Charleston...
...about to open in Hanover, N. H., to a rapt gathering of Dartmouth undergraduates, the Guild raised its Manhattan curtain on a troupe of Negroes. Meeting the ceaseless mutter that the Guild worships at the shrine of foreign playwriting, the first selection went completely native. It is set at Charleston's docks, written in Negro patois, deals with purely Negro problems (as opposed to most plays and books about Negroes, which struggle with race prejudice and intermarriage), is played almost wholly by a company colored without burnt cork...