Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sissle wrote the book for the show, gathered around him such Negro musicians as N. Clark Smith, son of an African tribesman and an authority on African music, William Vodery, who arranged most of Ziegfeld's Show Boat music. Will Marion Cook ("Ghost Ship"), Harry Lawrence Freeman ("Voodoo"), Harry T. Burleigh ("Deep River" ). J. Rosamund Johnson ("Lazy Moon," "Under a Bamboo Tree"), W. C. Handy. No member of the cast of 5,000 was paid a cent. Proceeds will go toward developing young Negro talent...
Over station WMAQ, Chicago, on the night of March 28, 1928, the nation first heard the radio blackface comic strip team of Amos and Andy. Amos (Freeman F. Gosden), the patient and long-suffering one, was discovered plaintively complaining about having to do all the work on their Georgia farm while dumb, blustering Andy (Charles J. Correll) loafed under a shade tree. Amos and Andy soon went north to Chicago to find work...
...President was not taken to task for allowing his children to throw off their marriage vows so lightly by Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman, Bishop of Washington who is far too politic to antagonize the White House. Nor did Rt. Rev. William Thomas Manning. Bishop of New York, in whose diocese lies the President's own Hyde Park, speak out as he once did against the divorce of the late Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont. The letter-writer to the Living Church who said what he thought needed to be said was Rt. Rev. Charles Fiske, 66, Bishop...
...Secretary of the Navy. This church has since been jampacked every Sunday by worshippers hoping to see the President again, but not until March a year later was their curiosity satisfied. His only other appearance in church in Washington was on Easter 1933, when he attended Washington Cathedral. Bishop Freeman and the Cathedral dean gave communion to the President in his pew while Mrs. Roosevelt partook kneeling at the altar rail. On Easter 1934, President Roosevelt held regulation naval services on the Nourmahal on which he was cruising with Vincent Astor...
...president Dr. George Sidney Arundale, 55, rugged onetime bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church in Australia. Long a student of Theosophy which at some points duplicates the occult tenets of Liberal Catholicism, Dr. Arundale has been a pedagog in India, a member of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers, a Freeman of the City of London. He once tutored sallow Jeddu Krishnamurti whom Mrs. Besant hailed as a messiah. Year ago Dr. Arundale brought his pretty Hindu wife to the U. S. on a lecture tour. In stalled in office last week with much cere mony, he seemed unafraid...