Word: marc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro as storyteller, at one remove from his own concerns; in Bradford's tales Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit appear in their own black skins, without disguise. Negrophiles and educated Negroes may object that Author Bradford simplifies too much, sentimentalizes too often, but plain readers like his stories. Marc Connelley's The Green Pastures, founded on Bradford's first book, Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun, was the Broadway hit of 1930, won the Pulitzer Prize that year. Let the Band Play Dixie, his latest collection, shows that his pastures are still green...
...Marc Antony (Henry Wilcoxon) is a dog fancier. He arrives in Egypt with two hungry Great Danes which sniff contemptuously around Director DeMille's lavish furnishings. With Antony, Cleopatra's technique is less subtle than with Caesar. She inveigles him aboard what the newspaper advertisements of this picture titillatingly refer to as her LOVE BARGE, gives him fancy hors d'oeuvres, wine in silver cups and clamshells full of pearls, served by classic chorus girls emerging from a fishing net as naked as Censor Joseph Breen will allow. During dinner, there is entertainment, with dancers dressed up like leopards...
...last installment, has a woman as hero. (Other volumes: Annette and Sylvie, Summer, If other and Son.) Even if 67-year-old Author Holland should not live to complete his plan, readers will find The Death of a World integral in itself. Annette Riviere and her only son Marc do not join in the rejoicing with which Paris greets the Armistice. Annette's warm heart fears what will happen to Marc in the post-War maelstrom, but her cool head warns her to keep her hands off. They are very poor, and Annette steadfastly refuses to take money from...
KINGDOM COMING-Roark Bradford- Harper ($2.50). Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (from which Marc Connelly shaped his 1930 Pulitzer Prize play, The Green Pastures) effectively pigeonholed Roark Bradford as a writer of humorous Negro dialog. But Author Bradford, not content with his niche, has made manful attempts to emerge. This Side of Jordan, a serious novel, was a far cry from Ol' Man Adam; most readers found it sordid and sinister. John Henry was a little consciously folk-tale-ish. But now, in Kingdom Coming, Author Bradford has turned the trick: neatly sidestepping the hoodoo...
After Playwright Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures) & wife were refused permission to enter Russia with a group of tourists which included Edna Ferber, Ralph Pulitzer and Sugar Heiress Dorothy Spreckels, the Soviet Foreign Office investigated, admitted a misunderstanding, ordered the Connellys be let in at once...