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...Warner). First love of dreamy Julia Ashton (Kay Francis) is an aviator who disappears at sea. That loss she mourns until she meets and marries Colonel John Wister (Ian Hunter), who takes her back to his small British Army post in central Arabia. Second in command is Captain Denny Roark (Errol Flynn) for whom, as cinemaddicts will easily anticipate, she burns at first sight. Only satisfactory way out is for the noble colonel to fly away on an Army mission and dutifully disappear in the desert...
...THREE-HEADED ANGEL - Roark Bradford-Harper...
...Roark Bradford has already added his bit to U. S. letters in Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun, the book from which Marc Connelly made The Green Pastures. Author Bradford has never quite recaptured the careless rapture of his first book, but he is now well established as a legitimate heir of Joel Chandler Harris. The Three-Headed Angel is a new departure for him, not only because it is not laid in the deep South but because it has only one Negro character. Most readers will consider that his Hoop Pole Ridgers make up for the loss...
Negrophiles are constantly poking fun at the names of Negro organizations in the stories of Octavus Roy Cohen, Harris Dickson, Roark Bradford et al., saying such names are gross burlesque. Following are the names of some Negro societies in Mississippi, transcribed from the records of charters of incorporation in the office of Secretary of State Walker Wood at Jackson...
When Marc Connelly, under the influence of Roark Bradford's Ol' Man Adam An' His Chillun, had finished The Green Pastures, he took it to Producer Jed Harris. Producer Harris was busy with Uncle Vanya (TIME, April 21, 1930). Producer Crosby Gaige also turned down the Connelly piece and the Theatre Guild would have none of it. But the play interested Rowland Stebbins, an inactive Wall Streeter who was having a fling at Broadway under the name of "Laurence Rivers." The character of "de Lawd" in Connelly's Negro miracle play pleasantly reminded music-loving...