Word: roark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ROARK BRADFORD...
...Died. Roark Bradford, 52, Tennessee-born author (Ol' Man Adams an' His Chillun' was dramatized as The Green Pastures) who specialized in Negro dialect stories; of amoebiasis (contracted in World War II); in New Orleans...
...week stay ... should be sufficient." Variety was dreadfully wrong. Alexander Woollcott, guessing better in the New Yorker, said it was "the highest peak in the range of the American theater." Brooks Atkinson, in the Times, called it "the divine comedy of the modern theater." The Green Pastures (based on Roark Bradford's stories) won a Pulitzer Prize, ran for five years, played 1,779 performances in 203 cities to nearly two million people, grossed $3,000,000, was turned into a movie, and attained the status of an American folk-legend...
...ELDON ROARK...
...TIME'S cattle editor, "a little sissy collar of flowers"; to Reader Roark a view of Phoebe (212 Ibs.) and Allen (150 Ibs.) (see cut) in a brand-new position...