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...Satan (by Donald Hey wood; Shillwood Productions, Inc., producer) is a Harlem composer's idea of Roark Bradford's idea of a Negro's idea of Biblical history. Playwright Heywood, author of dance tunes for Blackbirds, makes no effort to conceal his attempt to paraphrase super-successful The Green Pastures. Instead of having an old darky and a Sunday school class of pickaninnies to introduce the various scenes of his mystery play, he employs a Negro mammy...
Sued for Separation, Roark Bradford, author of Louisiana Negro stories from which Marc Connolly wrote The Green Pastures; by Mrs. Lydia Sehorn Bradford; in New Orleans. Charge: abandonment. Mrs. Bradford lies abed with tuberculosis in Arizona...
...Other ten-goal players are Capt. Charles Thomas Irvine Roark (No. 3) of Great Britain, Lewis Lacey (back) of Argentina...
...fortunate meeting. A mutual friend introduced Producer Stebbins and Marc Connelly, onetime newspaper man and co-author with George S. Kaufman of several successful plays (Beggar on Horseback, Dulcy, Merton of the Movies). Writer Connelly was trying to sell a play he had written around some Negro stories by Roark Bradford. Producer Stebbins read it, liked it, bought it and produced it forthwith under the name The Green Pastures. Directed by the author, the play opened in February 1930, played 640 performances in Manhattan, grossed $1,203,000, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 1929 (TIME, May 19, 1930). With...
...Farrell, a young man with social connections in Manhattan, protégeé of Sir Thomas Glen-Coats. They had no trouble in finding such powerful patrons as Mayor James John Walker, Financier Francis Patrick Garvan, Lawyers Dudley Field Malone and Frank P. Walsh, Critic Ernest Boyd, Sportsman Aiden Roark (of the British International Polo team), Actor Dudley Digges, the widow of Author Donn Byrne (now Mrs. M. M. Willoughby Craig) and Socialites like Mrs. Walter A. Burke, Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey. By the time the Museum opened last week, several non-Hibernian names often connected with Culture...