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Porgy. While the Theatre Guild's most highly paid employes* were weaving spells for gratified Chicago audiences and the first road company??? was about to open in Hanover, N. H., to a rapt gathering of Dartmouth undergraduates, the Guild raised its Manhattan curtain on a troupe of Negroes. Meeting the ceaseless mutter that the Guild worships at the shrine of foreign playwriting, the first selection went completely native. It is set at Charleston's docks, written in Negro patois, deals with purely Negro problems (as opposed to most plays and books about Negroes, which struggle with race prejudice and intermarriage...
EAST INDIA AND COMPANY???Paul Morand?A. & C.Boni ($2.50). Perhaps when a Parisian sophisticate visits the Orient he is able to discover there an array of feminine beauty equal to that discovered in Paris, and an aroma of sophistication as pungently delicate as that with which he perfumes his handkerchiefs and his prose. If this is true, the short stories in this book are more than infinitely trivial, infinitely graceful potboilers...
...Manhattan, W. E. Harmon gave $50,000 to endow a cinema company???the Religious Motion Picture Co., which will produce films to be used as religious propaganda. No scenario, studio, actors or plan of action has yet been chosen. These things will come in time," said Mr. Harmon. "We have the money. That is the important thing...
...haughty old men with life's ensign still crimson in their cheeks, journeyed to the Apawamis Club in Rye N. C., to play in the annual U. S. Seniors golf tournament Among them were famed lawyers and financial figures, a retired rear admiral,* the president of a great insurance company???; they played, each according to his fashion, around the Apawamis course. There were inumerable prizes?for men over 80, for men over 75, putting contests, best net and best gross cards for 18 and 36 holes. But the medal for the famed event?the championship for men over 50, went...
...Dubuque, Iowa, there lives, doubtless, an old lady. Her existence is recognized only because certain middle-aged people in Manhattan began some weeks ago to think about her. She came frequently into their conversation and, at each allusion, a leer passed round the company???all spoke in derisive terms of her taste, though the kinder-hearted merely pitied her for being the victim of an unfortunate environment...