Word: chillun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill happened to attend. So enthusiastic was O'Neill that he went backstage and begged Robeson to act in Emperor Jones. His law course finished, Robeson consented, and made a name as a big actor in Emperor Jones, All God's Chillun, Black...
...possessed has been balanced by hard-headed business methods, which have made the Theatre Guild of New York succeed where other artistically minded organizations have failed. And the flutter of disapproval, though less pronounced than that which greeted "The Birth of a Nation" in Boston and "All God's Chillun Got Wings" in New York, piques attention in Cambridge even outside the Liberal Club...
...artificial tricks of expressionist drama. As in the Fifth Avenue scene of "The Hairy Ape", so here in the funeral scene masks are used to intensify the impression of stifling conventionality. As in "The Beggar on Horseback", newsboys rush in selling extras. As in "All God's Chillun," the plaintive sound of the grind-organ and the hurdy-gurdy suggest the flavor of the times through popular airs. As in "The Adding Machine", the singing of "My country 'tis of thee" marks the culmination of an outburst of intolerance. The phonograph which played a poignant role in "Rain...
...smote the Book with his barrelhouse fist. The cadence of the cakewalk, wild plantation revels, darktown strutters' balls; the frenetic hallelujahs of jubilee revivals where hundreds of Negroes, drunk with ecstasy, wash in the blood of the Lamb, the shifting, subtle rhythms of such spirituals as All God's Chillun Got Wings and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, all are part of that Dark Music. Mississippi roustabouts, limber blackamoors on sunbaked levees hummed it, strummed it; prancing shadows in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans heard it and humped themselves, their feet running wild...
...chillun got shoes...