Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the concert did demonstrate is that the best U. S. Negro music is not all produced in Harlem and on Broadway, but that some of it comes from towns of the South and Middle West. From them the concert's manager, Swing Pundit John Hammond, had imported eleven hand-picked Negro musicians. Of these the most musically interesting were four lean, earnest-looking Negroes from Kinston, N. C., who call themselves Mitchell's Christian Singers...
...Faithful Mary" (Viola Wilson), Father Divine's onetime chief female angel, who quit last year after declaring: "He's just a damned man-he ain't no more God than you're God," returned to his Harlem colony from Los Angeles when he sent her a diamond and sapphire ring. Said Faithful Mary: "He really...
...generation ago Shaw put the fable into play form as a droll picture of the early Christian martyrs and a juggling act on religion. Last week the Federal Theatre, seeing in Shaw's play "a pertinent dramatic discourse upon the problem of world minorities," produced it in Harlem, as a Negro problem play, with an all-Negro cast...
Before the third and fourth Rockland patients died last week, Dr. John Robert Ross, superintendent of the Harlem Valley State Hospital at Wingdale. N. Y., re ported that Nurse Arthur Sandberg had absentmindedly given a patient one-and-a-half ounces of poisonous bromide and chloral (an effective sedative in small doses), instead of a half-ounce of epsom salts, which had been prescribed as a daily laxative. When the patient died three State and local investigating committees promptly descended upon the hospital...
Selected and captioned by Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior psychiatrist in the children's division, and hung in the Federal Art Project's Harlem Art Center, the exhibition last week embraced two clinical extremes: drawings by moronic children, unable to complete even primitive images, and monstrous figures drawn by patients with ''general paralysis of the insane." In between were works by children and adults of varying aptitude, suffering from various disorders...