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...Author. Born and bred in Charleston, S. C., Author Heyward comes of a long line of planters, impoverished and stripped of their feudal rights after the Civil War. Evidence of his inborn understanding of the Negro was the novel Porgy. With the aid of his wife, a playwright by profession, the novel was dramatized and most successfully produced last year by the Theatre Guild...
...play is based on the eminently successful novel of the same name by Du Bose Heyward (white). Its central figure is a crippled boy. The theme: his love for a girl intermittently addicted to dope. The third figure of the triangle is a towering black murderer who is choked to death by the cripple's steely fingers in the final...
ANGEL-Du Bose Heyward- Doran ($2). Liquor, religion and love all come hard in the Great Smokies. Poet Heyward, who summers there, has tried a distillation of these three, achieving a glorious color but not much kick. Angel Thornley, the hillbilly preacher's girl, bathes at misty dawn beneath a rainbowed waterfall. Her father sets the sheriff on her lover, Buck Merritt, moonshiner, and marries her off to a mountaineer to make her an honest woman. After several years of cussing and slamming the door of their shack, the mountaineer blows himself up working on a road gang. Buck...
...Died. Heyward Hall McAllister, '65, last surviving son of famed Manhattan social arbiter, the late Ward McAllister, who coined the phrase "the 400," by remarking to a reporter, "After all, there are only about 400 persons in Society"; at Mentone, French Riviera. The New York Herald-Tribune concluded his obituary notice with the words: "The name of Heyward Hall McAllister is not in the 'Social Register...
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...