Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marquisa de Pontejos, No.1 Goya in the U. S., is a portrait of a lady with a bouffant skirt, a single rose and a lively little pug dog. It was last seen publicly in Madrid in 1928 when Mr. Mellon lent it to the great Goya Centennial Exposition. Carman Messmore of the Knoedler Galleries calls it "probably the finest Goya in the world...
...Vanya (TIME, April 21, 1930). Producer Crosby Gaige also turned down the Connelly piece and the Theatre Guild would have none of it. But the play interested Rowland Stebbins, an inactive Wall Streeter who was having a fling at Broadway under the name of "Laurence Rivers." The character of "de Lawd" in Connelly's Negro miracle play pleasantly reminded music-loving Mr. Stebbins of Wagner's "Wotan." There was some difficulty about getting a theatre. The première at the last minute was postponed four days. But on Feb. 26, 1930, The Green Pastures was finally presented...
...financial Heaven on earth. Marc Connelly had put a little bit of everything dramatically good into his white man's idea of a black man's idea of the Bible stories. Audiences split their sides laughing at the play's account of Genesis, in which "de Lawd," wanting to provide "firmament" for the custard at a celestial fish fry, makes too much, has to create the Earth as a place to "dreen it off." Spectators were thrilled at the Battle of Jericho, titillated by the sins of Babylon, touched by the implicit faith of Moses. The excellent...
...recommends his play so strongly, Marc Connelly has God leave Heaven four times ("I'll be back Saddy") in an effort to make Man do right, finally substituting Mercy for Might when He suffers with his Son on Calvary. Prior to one of his unsuccessful visits to Earth, "de Lawd" confides to Gabriel, his Pullman porter-like secretary: "De whole thing rests on my shoulders. I declare, I guess dat's why I feel so solemn and serious. . . . You know dis thing's turned into quite a proposition...
...Being "de Lawd" is no mere mimic part to Richard Harrison; it is a full-time job, onstage and off. For the members of the cast, he is just short of an actual deity. He arbitrates their squabbles and since they are mostly professional actors from Harlem, they periodically have to be lent money. Actor Harrison is known as "Two Dollar" Harrison to his colleagues because he is always available for a loan to that extent...