Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debut at Grand Central Palace...
...Negro had actually been a member of the grand jury which swiftly reindicted Patterson. However, it was one thing to allow a Negro to participate briefly in such a routine ceremony, and quite another to permit one to serve in the body that actually decided Patterson's fate. Every Negro in Alabama knew this. Therefore, the twelve black veniremen in Decatur last week were thoroughly uncomfortable. Judge Callahan was in no mood to put them at their ease. He had a few chairs placed outside the jury box for the Negroes to sit on. When one stage-struck blackamoor...
...Room In Red & White (by Roy Hargrave: Dwight Deere Wiman & George Kondolf, producers) is a one-act Grand Guignol melodrama about a family poisoning inflated to three acts. The facts that the play was written by Roy Hargrave (House Party), acted by Chrystal Herne and set as for a durbar by Jo Mielziner, do not prevent A Room In Red & White from becoming tedious. Silliest scene: the one in which a fiendish father (Leslie Adams) manages simultaneously to knock flat both his wife and their grown...
...that, on his trail to lure him back to gambling. But she falls in love with him just as he falls in love with her. They have an awful todo when they discover the real identity of each other but get married anyway and apparently Joan becomes a Grand Duchess. While the whole thing is rather amusing, it is time Coleman were allowed to do the character parts for which be is so capably fitted rather than these musical comedy bits...
...Lord! this business doth chill my spine and I did wish the over with it lest I show my heart over much. Indeed, methinks the actor Hampden did employ the grand manner too much and unlike the little leaf which a breath of wind doth cause to fall, he did go down more like a log. But all in all this play did bring me great pleasure...