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...work and folk songs a voice of stunning richness and emotional power. A commanding actor, he made his stage debut in 1922, impressing Playwright Eugene O'Neill and beginning a friendship that led to starring roles in a string of O'Neill plays (All God's Chillun Got Wings, The Hairy Ape and The Emperor Jones). Robeson's most spectacular stage triumph after Show Boat (1928), in which he sang Ol' Man River, was Othello, which in 1930 drew 20 curtain calls in London; in 1943 it ran for 296 performances in New York...
...line with unvented 50 gallon drums of gas rolling around loose in the back of vans. That's 200 gallons of explosion ready to go off as these ninny jackrabbits pile through towns. And through stoplights. I could just see it--piling into a school bus, killing fiteen chillun," said the Bolus and Snopes man. This year Brock decided he wouldn't have any of those guys." Yates has set up an elaborate screening system. Potential entrants must send in $5 to Cannonball Enterprises at a P.O. Box near Yates's New York country home. At last count, 159 inquiries...
...CHILLUN GOT WINGS by EUGENE O'NEILL
...Eliot once wrote a review of the printed text of All God's Chillun Got Wings. He observed, "Mr. O'Neill not only understands one aspect of the 'Negro problem,' but he succeeds in giving this problem universality-in implying, in fact, the universal problem of differences which create a mixture of admiration, love and contempt, with the consequent tension...
This is Elvis surveying his domain, complimenting his children. You done good, chillun. I'm the king, though...