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Today Karamu House is a study and workshop for 1,400 youngsters and 800 grownups. Its Gilpin Players have produced 140 plays, rank as the No. 1 Negro theatre in the U. S. They have graduated to the professional stage Playwright Langston Hughes, Actor John Marriott (The Little Foxes}, many another talented Negro. Two months ago 600 Clevelanders, big & small, gathered to celebrate Karamu House's 25th anniversary. Said Play wright Paul Green: "The Jelliffes are the kind of dreamers who have made America great." To play a joke on teacher by falling asleep in class, six Minneapolis...
...miss them. I ask myself, why is this? And then I realize that the men have children's faces." A woman with a raft of friends, Diseuse Oswald got for her debut the sponsorship of such child-faced U. S. men as Malcolm Cowley, John Erskine, Langston Hughes...
...wrote black Langston Hughes on the first page of his first volume of poetry (The Weary Blues, 1926). Last week the same theme ran through Poet Hughes's first play. Mulatto. In the South the dominant white race demands that when a Negro takes a white woman he must pay instantly with his life. On the other hand when a white man takes a Negro woman, the tragedy is often delayed for years. Mulatto deals with the slower tragedy...
Mulatto (by Langston Hughes; Martin Jones, producer...
...attention of millions of Negro tots was directed this week. All over the land black schoolmarms observed Negro History Week by discoursing proudly to their pupils about the life & work of such distinguished living Negroes as Singers Paul Robeson and Roland Hayes, Novelist Claude McKay, Poets Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes, and of such famed dead...