Word: mamba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week DuBose Heyward, who made his literary reputation by sympathetic studies of Negro life in his native South Carolina (Porgy, Mamba's Daughters), did his sympathetic best by the poverty-stricken Negroes of the Virgin Islands...
Margaret Webster finds Broadway much more exciting than London, though she protests that Broadway still reveals "an awful hangover from what the Shuberts did in 1910." Her favorite U. S. directors are Guthrie McClintic (Mamba's Daughters), Herman Shumlin (The Little Foxes), but she. has no desire to be, as they are, a producer as well. Acting, directing, adapting plays, writing a book about her family keep her pleasantly occupied...
...After protesting the ban on Negro Singer Marian Anderson's appearance in Washington, Mrs. Roosevelt pointedly attended Negro shows two nights running: Harlempress Ethel Waters' Mamba's Daughters, the all-Negro Mikado...
...After protesting the ban on Negro Singer Marian Anderson's appearance in Washington, Mrs. Roosevelt pointedly attended Negero shows two nights running: Harlempress Ethel Waters' Mamba's Daughters, the all-Negro Mikado...
...undersigned feel that ETHEL WATERS' superb performance in Mamba's Daughters at the Empire Theatre is a profound emotional experience which any playgoer would be the poorer for missing. It seems indeed to be such a magnificent example of great acting . . . that we are glad to pay for the privilege of saying...