Word: lawd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British playgoers have never been allowed to see the complete Victoria Regina, Broadway hit of 1935-36, because some of its characters represent living royalty. They missed the Negro miracle play, The Green Pastures, because its chief character was De Lawd. Officially, they never saw Manhattan's long-running Tobacco Road because of its shady morals...
...Ingram, Negro actor who played "De Lawd" in the movie version of Green Pastures, was picked up in Manhattan for violation of the Mann Act. The charge: importing a 15-year-old white high-school sophomore from Salina, Kans., for a weekend in New York (Rex had made the plane reservation for her, and she had given the family the slip by telling them that she was going shopping in Topeka). When the 53-year-old actor heard that he might be taken back to Kansas City for trial, he cried: "But I don't want...
...publicity emphasizes the presence of "Rochester," but the real star is Rex Ingram as "De Lawd." His sincerity and gravity is a lesson in acting to better known Hollywood lights. Indeed, the whole picture is a model of what Hollywood can do if it tries hard enough...
...could be. His be-winged opponent in the contest over Little Joe's destination after death, the Laws's General himself, is sung and acted, with the experienced touch of Todd Duncan. Little Joe, the wayward, crap-shooting husband of Petunia and object of the struggle between the Lawd and the Devil, is a happy-go-lucky masterpiece in the hands of Dooley Wilson. Katherine Dunhan heats up the atmosphere with every step as Georgia Brown, a Dixieland Danger who makes Little Joe forget the Devil. When she and her troupe dance the Egyptian Ballet, stoking boilers in Hades...
...colored gentleman who has spent more than spare time with a lovely hussy, she prays for him, on his deathbed, gains for him a six-month reprieve from death while the forces of good & evil wrestle, in plain view of the audience, for his soul. Ethel is on the Lawd's side. On Lucifer's is the hussy. The husband, as Actor Dooley Wilson irresistibly suggests, is somewhere in between. Lucifer is further abetted by a sort of diabolical advertising agency where hellish "idea men" plan new campaigns of temptation. Their idea for Dooley Wilson is a winning...