Word: heyward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PORGY-DuBose Heyward-Doran ($2.00). Straightforward story-telling in a poet's prose is always rich reading. Poet Heyward's province is South Carolina-Negro life along the waterfront of old Charleston, with the atavistic rhythms, religion and animalism firmly rendered, the dialect perfect, the antics convulsing. Porgy, a purple-black beggar with crippled legs and a pungent goat, croons to his scampering dice, prays with his neighbors in Catfish Row, contemplates the insignificance of man. In a shadowy triangle involving Crown, a cinnamon stevedore with a chest like a cotton-bale, and his big wench Bess, Porgy...
...play is the Harvard prize winner for last year in Professor George Pierce Baker's so-called Workshop. The authoress, Miss Dorothy Heyward, resident of Charleston, S. C, has a gift for dovetailing into her work pretty little tricks of playwriting prestidigitation. But the first act in the aristocratic home is dull and stuffy, and suggests the awful thought that the drawing rooms around Harvard can't be such a much...
Miss Dorothy Kuhns Heyward, the author of the play, studied under Professor G. P. Baker in English...
Standish Hall.--Robert Soulter Jr., E '24; Lawrence Coolidge, D 21; M. W. Philbrick, B 33; Reginald Porter, C 33; F. W. Abend, C 42; R. F. Heyward, Shepherd Hall; John Bradley 9 Story Street...