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...Little Chillun (by Hall Johnson; produced by Lew Cooper, Meyer Davis and George Jessel) played for a while on Broadway in 1933, has since then had healthy revivals elsewhere. A Negro melodrama of sex and religion (which are made 0 seem much the same thing), its story is inept, long-winded. What has obviously fetched audiences, even if it has not sufficiently rewarded them, is the well-blended Hall Johnson Choir's singing of well-known spirituals and Hall Johnson's own music...
...Well, chillun, we done got us a new "God". 'Matter of fact, we done got us a whole flock of swell new "Gods". Yesterday the names of Brother Pinet, Norton, Schuette and McIntyre were entered in the Good Book. Anyway may they lead us in righteousness through the paths of Heaven and Disbursing, with an everlastin' light from Baker Hall. Seriously, with Sherwood, Swanger, Custer, Smith, Williams, and Prussing on their "staff", we look forward to a semester of military leadership as fine as the "step-downers" have been, and with the benefit of much additional "doing...
...short stories Trend most nearly approaches the undergraduate literary norm. Bowden Broadwater's "Several Blots on the Family Escutcheon" will be familiar to all Advocate readers, and the criticisms for unconvincing artificiality of mood to which it is subject may also be leveled at "Doncha Wanna Dig, Chillun" by Dartmouth's Edward Rasmussen. John Barnes' "But the Bullets Were Real" is a more original and evocative attempt. As a study of a sensitive young couple faced with the draft the tale deals with an important youth problem, while its experiment in form, though not always properly controlled, fits...
...Kollege of Musical Knowledge, wows his audience with a white cap & gown, a bouncing, frenzied jig he performs in front of the orchestra, an irresistible flow of puns, sly glances at his audience to let them know they are in on the horseplay. His slogan, "Yet's dance, chillun, yet's dance," is the signal for his equally rambunctious musicians to don unbecoming hats and wigs, toot their instruments in a spirit of buffoonery. That this form of entertainment would reach the screen was as inevitable as bad weather...
...Likeliest, folksiest of last week's newcomers was MBS's Sheep and Goats Club, an all-Negro jamboree with an all-Negro studio audience (Wednesdays 8 to 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.). Entrepreneur is colored Actor Richard Huey (All God's Chillun Got Wings, In Abraham's Bosom, Porgy), a Harlem big shot who runs a barbecue near Lenox Avenue called Aunt Dinah's Kitchen, and operates on the side a theatrical booking office for Negro talent. As Bossman Huey explained the setup: "Over on the right here we got the sheep. . . . They sing hymns...