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...least, would say that poetry is untranslatable. Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), whom the late Lytton Strachey called "the Swift of poetry," and who is still the most widely read poet in France, was a well-to-do bourgeois who despised his class, lived most of his life with a mulatto mistress, took opium and scandalized even Paris with his Fleurs du Mal, which combined polish, putrescence and pornography to an inspired degree. Since his death he has been manhandled by many a translator. Last week the latest attempt to transplant his hot-house Flowers of Evil was put on exhibition...
Black Barber. Last week brought the feast day of a humble Peruvian who was beatified and declared Blessed in 1837. He was Martin de Porres (1579-1639). a mulatto barber whose father was a Spanish nobleman and whose mother was a Negro. A Dominican lay brother, Blessed Martin was a "Father of the Poor." The movement to elevate Blessed Martin to sainthood is being fostered not only by priests who give Porres leaflets to Pullman porters but also by 50,000 members of the Blessed Martin Guild, founded by The Torch, Dominican monthly whose editor is Rev. Edward Hughes...
...wrote black Langston Hughes on the first page of his first volume of poetry (The Weary Blues, 1926). Last week the same theme ran through Poet Hughes's first play. Mulatto. In the South the dominant white race demands that when a Negro takes a white woman he must pay instantly with his life. On the other hand when a white man takes a Negro woman, the tragedy is often delayed for years. Mulatto deals with the slower tragedy...
...Mulatto (by Langston Hughes; Martin Jones, producer...
...Negroes give Norwood that queerly affectionate and somewhat frightened obedience expected and received by Southern whites. Without nosing it as a universal occurrence, Playwright Hughes reveals one dramatic consequence of this interracial situation in its full frightfulness. Accepted neither by blacks nor whites, an outcast of both races, Robert, mulatto son of Cora and Norwood runs wild in desperation, chokes his father to death, shoots himself in his mother's bedroom before the lynchers can reach...