Word: israels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Israel Dubois, a New Orleans blackamoor, has fought bravely through the War in the Foreign Legion. Therefore he gets the notion that he is qualified to marry a pretty French barkeeper, which he does, after romancing to her of his vast estates in the U. S. Not until his old master, Major Edward Powell, stumbles into the café and explains to Lise just what a Negro is, does she understand that her husband has been lying...
...waiting for Major Powell to face his old servant after sleeping with his wife but, using the one-two punch that can be as effective in a play as in a prize-ring, Author Rideout does more than answer his suspense. The prancing Senegalese is a faithful friend to Israel Dubois; seeing that his friend and the officer have bad blood between them, he starts for the Major with his knife, and Israel Dubois, who has drawn gun to shoot his white master, feels the tug of an ancient loyalty and kills his black friend instead...
...play closes weakly enough, neither answering nor emphasizing the problem on which it is constructed. The Major, compelled to recognize his servant as a man, explains the circumstances of the murder to a French official who is full of stagey gallantry. Then, taking Israel Dubois with him, Major Powell starts going home...
...peasants in other people's fields, predatory hideous money-mad then to your tents, O Israel! After hearing Keynoter Bowers, a colyumist quipped:* "This is not a convention. It's an elephant roast." The New York Times, than which the Democracy has no stauncher supporter, welcomed subsequent aids "to the process of forgetting Mr. Bowers." The New York World apologized: "Certainly one thing may be said. ... It was . . . scorching. . . . Mr. Bowers had no ordinary task. . . . He faced a special problem. . . ." Tolerance. During the Bowers bow-wow there was a well-organized "demonstration" by delegates from Western states when...
Ernest Bloch's symphony Israel, as played last week by the Cleveland Orchestra in Manhattan, was full of the woes of "a pious and sinful people." Full of fear of Jehovah, despair of stricken souls, anguished groping for light, the music was illustrated upon the vast stage by figures in tan and black flowing robes. Men of the priestly order (among them Dancer Michio Ito), mourning women bearing lighted candles, suppliants in prayer shawls, a pilgrim, the Ba'al Tokea, moved against the austere background of the enormous Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, achieved the spirit of Isaiah crying...