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Author Bradford, 36, is the son of the late Roark Bradford, whose fanciful Negro folk tales about the creation, Of Man Adam an' His Chillun, were adapted by Marc Connelly into Green Pastures. He obviously has inherited his father's ear for dialect. On his own, he has the spontaneous gait and happy tone of a natural-born-if derivative-storyteller...
Happy Days at the Bostonian and the current revival of O'Neill's All God's Chillun at Brandeis are far and away the two most important theatrical events of the season. Need more be said...
...presented four plays this summer dealing with "social problems." Two earlier plays, All The King's Men and Death Of a Salesman, used specific incidents of political corruption and man's estrangement from society to illuminate and comment on universal moral dilemmas. Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings, which opened at Brandeis Tuesday, is not as successful as its predecessors for several reasons. But a major reason is extraneous to both the play itself and the present production...
...Chillun Got Wings is an autobiographical play which bears a striking resemblance to O'Neill's explicit personal story, Long Day's Journey Into-Night. It is the story of the marriage of Ella, a white girl of bourgeois background and Jim, a Negro; but as O'Neill himself wrote: "The Negro question...it must be remembered, is not an issue in the play." All God's Chillun is about two people consumed by love for each other who at the same time hate each other for their inherent differences. The theme is basically the "love-hatred" relationship described...
Despite all the drawbacks, both the avoidable and the unavoidable, I would still suggest you see All Gods Chillun, which is the final production at Brandeis this summer. If the production suffers because one finds it difficult to transcend narrow concerns, and see broader moral implications, it also provides a valuable commentary on that narrow concern, the "Negro problem," as an example of race prejudice in all forms. Although this summer has been dominated by the struggle of the Negro to gain justice and freedom, the issue usually seems to be a "social" or "political," and therefore impersonal, problem. This...