Word: chilluns
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...been started, last fortnight was added New Orleans.† Like most of its contemporaries, The New Orleanian candidly follows The New Yorker pattern. Its first issue showed care of preparation, uncommon taste in typographical layout. Most famed contributor: Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford, author of Ol' Man Adam & His Chillun (source of Marc Connelley's Pulitzer prize play, The Green Pastures). Instead of "The Talk of the Town" (New Yorker), the New Orleanian's first pages were headed "Uptown-Downtown-Back of Town." Instead of a "Profile" (New Yorker) the New Orleanian presented a biographical sketch called...
...four seniors "who most truly and fully represented the finest ideals and traditions of Rutgers"). At Columbia Law School, too, he did well. Then, waiting for something to turn up, he got the part of Jim Harris in Eugene O'Neill's play, All God's Chillun Got Wings. Critics liked...
...Green Pastures, stage smash hit now playing in Manhattan (TIME, March 10), was based on Author Bradford's Ol' Man Adam and His Chillun, might equally well have been founded on Ol' King David and the Philistine Boys...
...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...