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...Langdon Marvin...
...Langdon Warner '03, Curator of the Oriental Department of the Fogg Art Museum, sailed from Seattle Tuesday to remain in Tokyo for three or four months as the only civilian member of the Commission for Arts and Monuments which will attempt to locate and identify Oriental are lost or stolen during...
Died. Charles Waldron, 71, character actor, veteran of 400-odd roles (among his sinister creations: Edward Moulton-Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Senator Ellsworth Langdon in now-playing Deep Are the Roots); in Hollywood...
...homecoming of Lieutenant Brett Charles, a colored infantry officer and the most decorated member of his small community in the Deep South, calls forth the souls of each type introduced in the first act, but dynamic conflict of reason with intuition appears in only one person. Alice Langdon, the Senator's oldest daughter whose noblesse oblige gets Brett a college education, hysterically succumbs to her father's feeling of white aristocracy when Nevvy, her younger sister, reveals an honest love for Brett...
...performs against the backdrop, of a well-proportioned cast. Senator Langdon's genial culture is made to evolve into inbred race hate. Cousin Roy Maxwell, sensitive only to political breezes, declaims the rationale of the modern South to Howard Morrick, enlightened Yankee author, and defender of Nevvy's naturalness, which alone succeeds in surviving its environment. Brett's intelligence and experience with unprejudiced white folk in European towns leads to actions which arouse in his mother, Bella, the Langdon housekeeper, a fearful wrath at his flaunting the law that "White is White, and Black is Black...