Word: goin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Hughie, the leading philosopher of Friendship, put the whole thing in one of his characteristic nutshells last week. Said he: "I hain't a-goin' to vote fer neither one. I wouldn't vote fer that cereal man. An' if it takes two Smith brothers ter make a package o' cough drops, 'taint likely one's goin' to do much to run th' country...
...GOIN' HOME-Colored soldiers and white officers embroiled against each other in the last moments of the late War (TIME, Sept...
...Goin' Home. Negroes make fine figures for the drama. Their emotions, less obscure and tangled than those of Caucasians, are also less controlled. Theirs, too, is a tragic and extraordinary position in a white man's world. In his admirable play, which won the Longmans, Green Drama League prize, it is this theme, not the entirely black disasters and delights of Porgy, which Ransom Rideout builds upon...
There are plenty of flaws in the construction and direction of Goin' Home-enough, perhaps, to prevent its being the success that its vigor and perception deserve. It seems unfortunate, though it is a minor point, that a black rascal should be required to use so frail an expletive as "he can kiss my foot." Richard Hale, in blackface, does a sympathetic though slightly sing-song interpretation of Israel Dubois...
...GIRL-Vina Delmar-Harcourt Brace ($2). On a Hudson River Sunday excursion boat-jazz under bright lights, petting in the shadows-Dot of the Bronx picks up Harlem Eddie (not colored), gets goin' with him steady, falls for him (i.e. is seduced) and thus becomes a bad girl. But she marries him next day, and soon enough has a child. Simply this and nothing more-but what more is there...