Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Religion has led the U. S. Negro, as it led John Bunyan, to regard life as a pilgrimage through many pitfalls for gay rewards. This is the import of almost every Negro spiritual; it is the import of a morality play called Heaven Bound which has made its appearance in Atlanta, performed by the choir of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. First wide public to hear about Heaven Bound was the theatrical world. Theatre Guild Magazine for August called it "the first great American folk drama" and said: "It should and probably will make Georgia an American Oberammergau." Recalling...
...action starts with a parade of Saints. Wearing white clothes and paper crowns, they march to the stage singing a song familiar to all Southern Negro churches, "When the Saints Go Marching By." When they reach the stage, ornamented with posts to represent the gates of Heaven, the Saints sit down, except St. Peter who, bearded and austere, stands behind the gates holding open his account book. The Saints sing "When We All Get to Heaven," and then "Let Us Move Up on the King's Highway." After this, the Saints keep quiet. A woman moves into the aisles...
...pictures. A rapid draughtsman, he painted the same scene over & over again. In Kansas City a department store sold 6,000 original Kays by advertising OIL PAINTINGS BARGAIN PRICE $2.98. Before he died he left a note: "Cremate my body and scatter the ashes to the four winds of heaven. Everything is gone. I have 15? left." ¶Robert Spencer, able portraitist, 1928 judge of the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition at Pittsburgh, blew out his brains last week at New Hope, Pa., crazed by overwork and worry...
Henry Louis Mencken: "If, while the taxidermists are stuffing my integument for some fortunate museum of anatomy. a celestial catchpole summons my psyche to Heaven, I shall be very gravely disappointed, but (unless my habits of mind change radically at death) I shall accept the command as calmly as possible, and face eternity without repining...
...Count, who reminds one of a Japanese Otto Kahn, dresses with extreme care, has exquisite taste & tact, has been thrice Foreign Minister. He has also been a member of the Son of Heaven's august Privy Council. He is above party and by far the highest ranking citizen of Japan ever placed in charge of her Panama Canal...