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...with the Soviet version. Although his first show used liberal excerpts from Russian broadcasts on the Soviet superbomb, it is not all somber stuff. He points out that Radio Moscow, for reasons of its own, goes in for such novelties as the American folk song All God's Chillun Got Wings, sung in phonetic English by Russian schoolchildren ("They are just trying to be folksy," he believes...
...about to be married, have adopted the orphan and his dog, and have also put to rout a pack of crooked politicians responsible for lamentable conditions at the orphanage. Spotting this confection at intervals are some pleasant old songs, e.g., Oh, Suzanna and All God's Chillun Got Wings, pleasantly sung by Dailey, Chet Allen and "Scat Man" Crothers...
...Green Pastures (by Marc Connelly; suggested by Roark Bradford's Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun; produced by the Wigreen Company in association with Harry Fromkes) still has an appeal after 21 years. Once again a set of Bible stories, as they appear to a Negro preacher conducting a Southern Sunday-school class, is made living and bright on the stage. The Green Pastures has a storybook simplicity, a picture-book vividness. It has the folk imagination's ability to recreate in its own image, to animate with its own sufferings, to interpret with...
Died. Roark Bradford, 52, Tennessee-born author (Ol' Man Adams an' His Chillun' was dramatized as The Green Pastures) who specialized in Negro dialect stories; of amoebiasis (contracted in World War II); in New Orleans...
...onetime Broadway actress, onetime wife of Litterateur Edmund Wilson (the first of his four); of tuberculosis; in Pittsburgh. Leading lady in several Eugene O'Neill plays, she created a furore in 1924 when, as Negro Actor Paul Robeson's play-wife in All God's Chillun Got Wings, she nightly kissed his hand onstage...