Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blackbirds (by Nat N. Dorfman, Mann Holiner and Lew Leslie; songs by Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols. Ned Washington, Joseph and Victor Young; produced by Sepia Guild Players Inc.) is the third of Lew Leslie's anthologies of the cabaret talent in Manhattan's Negro Harlem...
...Madison Square Garden was being built and again in 1914 at the beginning of the War, no shows were held. Preceding, as it has survived, Stanford White's tower, the first horse show was held in Gilmore's Garden, a name applied to the old Harlem Railway Terminal as soon as the tracks were torn out. Dutch White was at that horse show too (he rode a Belmont mount then) and he has been at every horse show since. So has his assistant, lean, wrinkled Eddie Bauchard who trotted round the galleries in 1883 telling the gentlemen that...
...Manhattan appeared the first issues of the second U. S. Negro daily newspaper,* the Daily Citizen, published and edited by bald, brown William M. Kelley, onetime editor of the weekly Amsterdam News. Publisher Kelley got his paper started by selling stock at $5 a share to Harlem notables like Bishop R. C. Lawson, Alderman John W. Smith, Mortician Rodney Dade; white politicians like Tammany District Leader Thomas F. Murray; and to ordinary residents of Harlem reached by door to door canvass. In appearance, the tabloid Citizen looks like a compromise between the dignified Evening Post and the blatant Daily Mirror...
...from Ol' Man Adam; most readers found it sordid and sinister. John Henry was a little consciously folk-tale-ish. But now, in Kingdom Coming, Author Bradford has turned the trick: neatly sidestepping the hoodoo of black-face minstrel-showmanship and the voodoo of Harlem, he has written a grown-up novel about Negroes of the Old South. Grammy (full name: Telegram) knew that his daddy, Messenger, and his mother, Crimp, were superior slaves. He could not figure out why their master should have sent them from New Orleans way up to his plantation on the Red River-especially...
...alone, the Bahama troupe shifted abruptly from sober interpretations of spirituals to the frankly orgiastic frenzy of native Bahaman dances. Against the high yellow paling which divided them from the orchestra their shadows were enormous and fantastic. But in spite of claims that their dances were independent of Harlem influence, the Bahaman dancers displayed merely conventional abandon, little rhythm and no reason...