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Three days after Mamba's Daughters opened, 19 notables-including Actresses Judith Anderson, Tallulah Bankhead and Dorothy Gish, Scene-Designer Norman Bel Geddes, Author Carl Van Vechten, and Publishers Cass Canfield and John Farrar -ran a testimonial in the N. Y. Times...
...Mamba's Daughters (dramatized by Dorothy & DuBose Heyward from his novel; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is not another Porgy. It equals Porgy as a document on Negro dialect and folkways, has some exciting, a few touching moments. But if Mamba's Daughters took one step more it would topple over into sheer ten-twent-thirt...
...Mamba's Daughters tells of big, awkward, blundering, childlike Hagar (Ethel Waters) and her passionate, inarticulate love for her daughter, Lissa. Her dream is to make a lady of Lissa. But a misstep on the girl's part threatens her reputation. To keep it intact the frantic mother commits both murder and suicide...
Calm and fearless, the bushmaster is one of the rare snakes (others: African mamba, Malayan king) which will attack a human being without provocation. Though its venom is slightly less toxic than the fer-de-lance's, it injects far more, hence is deadlier. One human victim died in less than ten minutes...
...repeated her vaudeville turn four times a day on seven successive days with an added appearance on Saturday and Sunday. She was, of course, Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink who for four years past has been saying farewell to her public. Her vaudeville debut last week accompanied the showing of Mamba, scenario of which was written by her son Ferdinand. Her recipe for endurance : "I know how to sing now. I don't shout as I did when I was young." Mme Schumann-Heink's 69th birthday speech: "Some day, of course, I shall die. Out on the stage...