Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, the Earl of Cromer, Lord Chamberlain and official drama censor, politely, regretfully announced that The Green Pastures, Pulitzer-prize-winning Negro folk-play by Marc Connelly (TIME, March 10), might not be produced in London. Reason: since God is impersonated on stage, the play is sacrilegious. Playwright Connelly's comment: "I am mildly surprised to find the Lord Chamberlain's office unable to distinguish the difference between orthodox sacrilege and a simple miracle play...
...Provincetown Playhouse in New York this year and was abandoned only when the organization disbanded its production activities. James Light, Director of the Provincetown Playhouse, wrote of the play: 'Honey Holler' is a play of high quality. The characters and their speech constitute a new field in American folk lore. Compared with O'Neill's and Glasspell's beginning its author, Keith Mackaye, is already in the middle of a development and the quality of this play, I am sure, will produce very great works...
Gold Braid is an unambitious little play which has to do with U. S. Army folk quartered in the Philippines. Playwright Ann Shelby, reported to be the wife of an Army officer and apparently wishing to give everyone in the audience at least a smattering of his or her favorite dramatic cliche, has incorporated in her play a half-caste harlot with a heart of gold, a funny Chinaman, a courtly and misunderstood Castilian, a miserly husband, a disillusioned wife, a black-hearted Moro and various species of parade-ground fauna. Plot: Major Rodney, an Intelligence Officer, believes that...
Through the generosity of Muneyohsi Yanags, N. Miura and P. Yamamoto, there is being held at the Fogg Art Museum a loan exhibition of Otsne, a type of Japanese folk painting made at the village of Otsn near Kyete. This early peasant painting is rare even in Japan...
Down Chicago's unsavory South Halsted Street one afternoon last week went citizens of high and low degree: clumpy immigrant folk, soiled and happy children, dowagers in their motors. They were all going to Hull-House to celebrate what Founder Jane Addams called the institution's "twice twentieth anniversary" (actually the 41st) and also to signalize Founder Addams' 70th year...