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...bare, dusty stage of Manhattan's Guild Theatre last week 75 Negroes sang, swayed, rolled their dice, exultantly prayed to "de Lawd." In the darkened pit lean Rouben Mamoulian, cinema director, tapped on an old-fashioned schoolteacher's bell, interrupted them constantly with "All right, children. . . ." His stage pictures grew steadily in beauty while the tempo of the acting rose to fever pitch...
Left. By the late Richard Berry Harrison, "de Lawd" of The Green Pastures (TIME, March 25); an estate of some $20,000; in Chicago. To the intestate actor's ailing widow, Mrs. Gertrude Harrison, Probate Court granted a claim for $2.056. cost of funeral services in Manhattan and Chicago...
Died. Richard Berry Harrison, 70, "de Lawd" of The Green Pastures (TIME, March 4); of acute coronary occlusion, after falling ill three weeks ago just before his 1,658th performance in the play; in Manhattan...
Sirs: Hats off to TIME for reproducing the very excellent photo of "De Lawd'' and on the cover page at that...
After playing "de Lawd" in The Green Pastures for five consecutive years without missing a cue or a curtain call (TIME, March 4), Richard Berry Harrison was found in his Manhattan dressing room "in a state of super-weariness" just before the spectacle's 1,659th performance. The 70-year-old Negro actor was hospitalized for rest. Into the part stepped his understudy and friend of more than 40 years, Charles Winter Wood, 69, longtime teacher at Tuskegee Institute. Understudy Wood had traveled 40,000 mi. with the show since 1930 without having a chance to walk...