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...anti-Negro practices of the South. Such fiery Southerners as Fielding Lewis Wright, governor of Mississippi, forthwith raised the cry of secession-from the Democratic Party, not the nation. When President Truman urged Congress to enact his committee's recommendations into law, the outcry could be heard from Charleston to Little Rock...
Strom, then 44, and catching his breath for the moment, had time for other matters, particularly pretty Jean Crouch, 21-year-old daughter of an old family friend. He appointed her "Miss South Carolina," to preside over Charleston's Azalea Festival; he brought her to the mansion to serve as his personal secretary. One day he dictated to her: "My darling Jean . . . Loving you as much as I do ... I want you to be my wife without too much delay . . ." She retired to the next room and typed out her acceptance...
...lets his lust for personal power overcome his honest conviction that he is sent from God to set his people free, and turned it into a more familiar setting, with interesting if not startling, results. Behind its exterior shell of the failure of a Negro uprising, "Charleston, 1822" stands as a probable explanation of why before 1863 the slaves were not ready for their freedom...
While ostensibly Denmark Vesey (the part taken over by Juano Hernandez after Mr. Ingram's unfortunate collision with the Mann Act) is the leading character, actually he and his large-scale plans for the overthrow of the Charleston Whites are only a set-up. The man to watch is George Wilson, head slave and loyal friend to Captain Wilson, Charleston's wealthiest planter. Played adequately by John Marriott, George Wilson stands out for his inability to choose between the call of his race and the family which has reared him from birth in slavery. Educated, responsible, George, like Faust...
...slip by telling them that she was going shopping in Topeka). When the 53-year-old actor heard that he might be taken back to Kansas City for trial, he cried: "But I don't want to go to Kansas City. I've got a new show [Charleston, 1822, a Theatre Guild production] that must open on Thursday." Next day he was out on $2,500 bail, but would not open in the show. A Guild spokesman thought things were "too confused," and the Guild hired a replacement. Back in Salina, the girl was being packed...