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American Dream (by George O'Neil; Theatre Guild, producer). Unlike Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, Poet O'Neil makes no attempt to evoke the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost with dollar-silver in its saddle-horn, the pure elixir, the American thing. Poet O'Neil's preachment is the sort of cheap claptrap with which a third-rate evangelist might try to impress a young folks' Bible class. That it impressed the Guild's hard-headed production committee is cause for wonder...
...First step was to declare officially that the country contains two kinds of Negroes-poor Southern country Negroes and less poor Northern city Negroes. Northern Negroes show more tuberculosis than Southern Negroes. The Association is attacking Northern conditions first-upon advice of its special investigator Dr. Cameron St. Clair Guild (pronounced Gould), a Nova Scotian who has become expert on Southern U. S. public health deficiencies. The Rosenwald Fund, builder of schools for rural Negroes, is paying for tuberculosis control among the Race. One able Negro, Sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson of Fisk University, belongs to the committee of prevention...
According to Dr. Guild, the country Negroes in 13 Southern States number 6,000,000 (2,000,000 more live in Southern towns and small cities). Psychologically they are very different from the Negro of Northern cities. They have little Race consciousness, "pitifully small cash income. . . . With few exceptions they live in areas which are unable to finance adequate tuberculosis control measures. . . . Several of the States listed make no provision whatever from State funds for sanatoria for either white or colored patients, and in most of the others such service is gravely inadequate...
PAGEANT-G. B. Lancaster-Century ($2.50). 19th Century family life in Tasmania. Literary Guild choice for February...
This course obviously could be of immense value, but as with many of its half-year brothren, its ambitions are frustrated by the limitations of four months. Beginning with a discussion of the Marxian analysis and the minor satellites of anarchism, syndicalism, and guild socialism, Economics 7c goes on to consider tactics and concludes with a hasty survey of the economic problems involved in the creation and maintenance of any alternative system to capitalism. The result is necessarily superficial, reminiscent of the proverbial lick and a promise...