Word: gabrielic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are 18 scenes, between each of which Hall Johnson's magnificent Negro choir intones a spiritual. The all-Negro cast perform with a combination of spontaneity, vigor, and accomplished artistry which exemplifies the race at its dramatic best. You will laugh at the ebony, tinsel-winged Angel Gabriel and at many of his heavenly associates. Other things may well make you cry. In any event you will be overcome by a reverence which can only be construed as a tribute to fine art, if, indeed, it is not a manifestation of more inscrutable religious impulses...
...right hand of His Majesty sat the new Prime Minister of France, spruce, go-getting André Pierre Gabriel Amédee Tardieu, and next to him the shaggy, great old man who started the idea of the Briand-Kellogg peace pact, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, dozing with a deceptive air of inattention next to Minister of Marine Georges Leygues...
...splinters, was only a little lumpy. Eyeing each other shrewdly sat the two young statesmen, newly great, between whom the chief issues of last week lay: Dr. Julius Curtius, successor to the late great Dr. Gustav Stresemann as Foreign Minister of the German Republic; and M. André Pierre Gabriel Amedeé Tardieu, famed as "L'Americain," successor to M. Aristide Briand as Prime Minister of the French Republic...