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...hang an innocent and friendless Negro. Honest, stubborn, self-respecting, acutely conscious of her social and moral responsibilities, Mary has already made enemies by her interference with those who have lived by petty exploitation of Negro ignorance and fear, does not shrink from the more hazardous task of defending Mose Southwick against his influential persecutors...
...widely famed a gambler as a horse owner, Colonel Bradley lives up to his reputation. He will bet you it will or will not rain tomorrow. All bets are recorded by his personal commissioner, Mose Cossman, 30 years in his service, for whom he once named a horse Bet Mose. At Saratoga, when the yearlings are displayed, Colonel Bradley habitually offers even money that any horse you name will not win a purse the following year. In 1932 some one picked The Triumvir, for which Mrs. Payne Whitney had paid the highest price of the year, but Colonel Bradley...
...bill were two U. S. acts, many British. Juggler Rich Hayes (British) drew royal smiles. Blackfaces Alexander & Mose (British) caused Lady May Cambridge to titter. Xylophonist Teddie Brown (U. S.) realized his ambition of some years to play at a "command performance" and thus swell his British gate. But with a gobbet of chewing gum, Broadway's robustious Al Trahan stopped the show, rocked the Palladium with mighty mirth and convulsed the Royal Party...
...Meek Mose. Prevalent opinions among the hordes that hurry to the theatre include the firm feeling that each Negro is a great actor. All you have to do is put a string of lines into his head, point out the stage and let him live the part. This theory, arising from the efficiency with which Negroes strut in musical shows, was crystallized when the Theatre Guild made its first furore of the season with Porgy, played by an uncanny troupe of colored folk. There were murmurs in the shrewd recesses of the Guild at the time that a good deal...
...into the limelight for posterity. Mr. Keezer, who claims to be even more expert in the matter of the philosophy of clothes than Carlyle himself, was pouring over a volume of "Sartor Resartus" when approached by the scribe in his Emporium yesterday. "Lasciate ognisperanza vio chentrate," said the original Mose of second hand clothes by way of greeting, but he was soon turned in the direction of reminiscences...