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Arriving with all the polish accumulated during its long Manhattan run, "Anna Lucasta" combines enough punch and discriminate pacing to present a mundane theme in an engrossing manner. With an all-Negro cast that has added the experience of a long run to its initial first-night spark, this comedy-drama successfully handles the story of a prostitute who for the first time is loved for what she is, not for what she represents; and does this by neither patronizing the subject nor burlesquing it. The story is realistic without being objectionable, and includes just enough finesse to slip...
Wildberg's productions include such noted hits as "Porgy and Bess" and "Anna Lucasta." A pioneer in the "eighth lively art," he predicts that "the very immediate future will see a boom in television which will make the sudden expansion of motion pictures and radio in the late 1920's seem like a mere echo...
Romeo & Juliet turned out to be the victims of color prejudice. Broadway Director Harry Wagstaff Gribble saw it that way, and so prepared to produce the tragedy with colored Capulets and white Montagues. The new Juliet: beauteous Hilda Simms, currently the title-role streetwalker in Anna Lucasta...
...week signed an all-Negro company to do a 13-week series of radio dramas, starting Sept. 16. WNEW said that it hired the group because it was good, not because it was Negro. One proof that the company, the American Negro (repertory) Theater, is indeed able: its Anna Lucasta is now in its second year on Broadway...
...Ladies, starved in short order. Most of the smash hits were mere entertainment, but entertainment with some freshness and taste. There were no electrifying experiments during the season, but a good many successes - the Pulitzer-Prizewinning Harvey, the Critics' Circle Prize-winning Glass Menagerie, I Remember Mama, Anna Lucasta, Dark of the Moon - had more than a touch of novelty...