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...ROARK BRADFORD Santa...
Wolfe based his story on Novelist Roark Bradford's John Henry, the saga of a Negro Paul Bunyan. In 1936, Wolfe had written incidental music for a play based on John Henry (starring Paul Robeson), but the play flopped. For his first opera, he picked up some of the best of his old music, wrote much that...
Green Features whipped through Boston a while hack, and now the Maro Connelly revival is drawing them to the Broadway Theatre, 53rd Street west of Broadway. The Hall Johnson chair helps out in the striking dramatization of the Roark Bradford approach...
...Green Pastures (by Marc Connelly; suggested by Roark Bradford's Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun; produced by the Wigreen Company in association with Harry Fromkes) still has an appeal after 21 years. Once again a set of Bible stories, as they appear to a Negro preacher conducting a Southern Sunday-school class, is made living and bright on the stage. The Green Pastures has a storybook simplicity, a picture-book vividness. It has the folk imagination's ability to recreate in its own image, to animate with its own sufferings, to interpret with...
...ROARK BRADFORD...