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...Sense. As a Negro convict in Mississippi, Arthur could look forward to little more than sympathy, and not much of that. But the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, composed mostly of young attorneys from the North, brought a damage suit in the U.S. District Court in Greenwood. They did not bother to serve a summons on Williams, who by then was out of prison and living in Chicago. Instead, they served ten white officials, including Leflore County Sheriff John Arterbury, superintendent of the prison farm at the time of the shooting...
...Jane Greenwood's costumes and Thomas Skelton's lighting are always fitting. There are at least a dozen widely known translations of The Three Sisters, but none of them was selected for this production. Kahn is using a version by Moura Budberg, of whom I know nothing at all. Her translation is viable enough, though there are a few things she has not got quite right, and at times some dictional touches that seem a bit too modern for a late-nineteenth-century milieu...
...performances of Coup Landing. The morning Telegraph will publish his most recent dozen races in the Saturday's August 2 paper. The horse is to run in the feature race at Rockingham Park. In his last ten races against second-class sprinters found at the likes of Fort Eire, Greenwood. Hazel Park, Woodbine, Rockingham Park, and Detroit Race Course this horse established an admirable record of nine wins in nine attempts...
...exercise this contractual right to seek transfers to schools in white areas, which means that less experienced and black teachers are assigned to pre dominantly Negro districts. It also means long waiting lists for assignment to desirable white schools. The waiting list for transfer to the 31-teacher Mount Greenwood School, in the white southwestern section of-Chicago, is 107 names long; some names have been on the list for seven years...
Throughout the show the eye is ravished by a constant series of breathtakingly beautiful Renaissance costumes, designed by Jane Greenwood. For the men, the colors run largely to browns, with a healthy admixture of white and black. The women wear very wide farthingales, which are the sources of a good deal of comic business. And one must not overlook Thomas Skelton's helpful lighting...