Word: heywards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Sir Lancelot Oliphant, 58, tall, dome-headed British Ambassador to Belgium, and Christine, Viscountess Churchill; in London. Viscountess Churchill was divorced last year from Lieut. Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, rich Manhattan bibliophile who in 1927 discovered and bagged the long-lost "Boswell papers...
STAR SPANGLED VIRGIN-DuBose Heyward-Farrar & Rineharf...
Last week DuBose Heyward, who made his literary reputation by sympathetic studies of Negro life in his native South Carolina (Porgy, Mamba's Daughters), did his sympathetic best by the poverty-stricken Negroes of the Virgin Islands...
...Novelist Heyward's principal case history is that of broad-shouldered, deep-bosomed Rhoda Berg, whom squat, bandy-legged Adam Work had deserted five years before. When Adam came back after the crash, she refused to sleep with him, pined for the days when "dere was always something it was time to do ... to tie de canes, to hoist de bundle to yo' head an' feel de good weight press down on you till yo' feet bog in de wet places." Like the rest, however, Rhoda accepted relief, enjoyed its trimmings. Some of them: a local...
Mamba's Daughters (dramatized by Dorothy & DuBose Heyward from his novel; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is not another Porgy. It equals Porgy as a document on Negro dialect and folkways, has some exciting, a few touching moments. But if Mamba's Daughters took one step more it would topple over into sheer ten-twent-thirt...