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...best players in the U. S. were split up between the four U. S. teams in the Open, but the Hurricanes had at least one of them-tall, noisy Winston Guest at No. 2, and England's only 10-goal player, Capt. Charles Thomas Irvine Roark, at No. 3. No. 1 man and captain was Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford; back, selected after two others had been tried, was Terence Preece, who learned the game at Westbury where his father deals in polo ponies and hunters. Santa Paula had been badly handicapped early in the tournament when chunky Manuel Andrada, captain...
JOHN HENRY -Roark Bradford -Harper...
After Author Roark Bradford gained fame with his negroid Bible stories, Ol' Man Adam an' Ilis Chillun (on which Playwright Marc Connelly based his Pulitzer Prize play, The Green Pastures), he failed to add to it with This Side of Jordan, an unpleasantly realistic, unpleasantly tragic novel of Negro life. Now he is back again on the side of the angels with a rambling, episodic legend of the big black buck John Henry, who is to the Cotton Belt what Paul Bunyan is to the North Woods...
...Author. Roark Bradford, born on a plantation near the Mississippi River, grew up with Negroes, had one for nurse, many for playmates, went to their homes, churches, picnics, funerals. He received a degree from the University of California in 1917; when the War broke out he went soldiering, stayed in the Army till 1920. Then he worked on newspapers in Atlanta, New Orleans. Four years ago he quit work to write. His second published story, Child of God, won the O. Henry Memorial Award...
...GREEN PASTURES-Marc Connelly's splendid hit based on Roark Bradford's Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun...