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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cast is practically the same as that which held sway on Broadway for almost a solid year in '42. Tod Duncan acts and sings a human, impressive Porgy, and Etta Moton, while lacking some of the physical characteristics needed to show Boss as the walking bundle of sex the composer intended her to be, has the voice and acting ability to make up for her weaknesses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 10/19/1943 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Robert Russa Moton, 72, famed Negro educator, great & good friend of Booker T. Washington, whom he succeeded (1915) as president of Tuskegee Institute; exactly five years after his retirement; in Capahosic, Va. He annually compiled national lynching figures, widely publicized them. His score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 10, 1940 | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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