Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With DuBose Heyward as his librettist, Composer Gershwin kept his work faithful to the play. The Negroes of Charleston's Catfish Row live in the same rickety tenements. They still quarrel and kill over their crap games, still shout their religion, their love and fear of ''Lawd Jesus." Porgy, the crippled beggar, appears driving his seedy goat. The simple love story is his. Bess belongs to the murderer Crown. According to the neighbors she is "a liquor-guzzlin' slut," a "Happy Dust" addict. Porgy gives her shelter, buys her a divorce although she never has been...
Achilles Had a Heel (by Martin Flavin: Walter Hampden, producer) is a distressing piece of mumbo-jumbo showing Tragedian Hampden as a Negro elephant-keeper in a zoo. Mr. Hampden and the invisible elephant love each other for being big. strong, noble. When a high-yellow wench, urged on by a jealous monkey-keeper, saps Mr. Hampden's integrity, the elephant, outraged, knocks his friend down with a blast of dusty air. The monkey-keeper gets the elephant job. makes a mistake, is promptly killed...
...stable relationship in Gloria's life was her friendship with Eddie Brunner. The relationship that finally destroyed her was her love for Weston Liggett, who met her in a speakeasy, became involved with her after Gloria had stolen his wife's mink coat. Eddie was tall, searching, goodhearted, a Stanford graduate who had become well-known as an illustrator in college, then starved in New York. Gloria turned to him when she was in trouble, which was most of the time, lied to him about her dissipations, confided in him, but Eddie, unlike a great many others...
...early years of the igth Century, U. S. social thinking was concentrated on the abolition of Negro slavery and the formation of experimental Utopian communities of the character of Brook Farm. Strangest and strongest of these colonies was the Oneida Community at Oneida, N. Y., stronghold of "communism of love" and of experiments in birth control, prosperous manufacturer of steel traps and silverware, centre of scandal for more than 30 years. Founded in 1847 with a handful of converts and a few hun-dred dollars capital, the Community in 1880 owned property valued at more than $500,000, divided among...
Last week Robert Allerton Parker recounted the complex history of the Oneida Community in a biography of its founder, John Humphrey Noyes, shrewd, enlightened fanatic who expounded his theories of free love with passionate moral fervor. Carefully documented, A Yankee Saint is a mine of information on a significant development in U. S. history, succeeds in giving a comprehensive account of the ways of the Community without exploiting its absurd or sensational aspects. The Oneida Community was a serious economic and ethical experiment. Noyes, who held it together throughout his life, was a courageous and resourceful man, well-informed, sufficiently...