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Helen-Morgan in the full flush of her personality is there to sing "Bill," and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man." There is Norma Terriss as Magnolia. There is the unforgettable undertone of "Ol' Man River...
...daughter of a Negro missionary, had keyed her music to the primitive chants, the spirituals and the modern jazz rhythms of her race. Tom-Tom's costumes, shields and tattoo marks had been designed by 19 Cleveland Negro artists. From London had come deep-voiced Jules Bledsoe, original "Ol' Man River" singer in Show Boat, to sing the part of the Voodoo Man. On a windy, cloudy night last week, second night in Cleveland's open air opera season, nearly 15.000 persons were present, the 25? and 50? seats well filled with Cleveland Negroes lustily applauding. They...
...believe in the Scripture of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired by God . . . supreme and final authority on faith and life. In this belief last week assembled the 15th annual convention ol the World's Christian Fundamentals Association, in Columbus, Ohio. Brothers and sisters they call one another- Christianized Jews, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, all sects represented but the Roman Catholic. The sisters out number the brothers. We believe in that blessed hope," the personal, pre-millemal and imminent return of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. At the door of big Columbus Memorial Hall, stacks ol pamphlets...
...levee theme, developed fully in "Ol' Man River" when the Negro chorus comes on stage, sweating under bales of cotton, is the kernel around which Show Boat's music grew. Composer Kern wrote the song for Negro Paul Robeson. Then around it he wove his melodic fabric to fit the libretto which Oscar Hammerstein II craftily extracted from Edna Ferber's novel. Paul Robeson was to have sung in the original U. S. production but it was delayed. Contracts called him to London. He sang in the London show, had his great success. He was in last...
When several numbers ol TIME were issued without any mention of our book I became a bit vexed because of Stokes having failed to send you a copy of Gun Notches in time, and wrote to them about...