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...story is the Bible, as conceived through the eyes of a backwoods Negro minister. Heaven is a place where good little pickaninnies with wings go to fish fries every day; Cain is a mean, no good, sportin' man who shoots craps and stabs his brother...
...Best newcomers: Judith Evelyn, as the harassed, hysterical wife in Angel Street, Avon Long as the brilliantly capering Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess...
Playing the title roles they made famous in 1935, Todd Duncan and Anne Brown acted capably, sang delightfully. Best new comer: Avon Long, who, as the dope peddler Sportin' Life, darted and capered with salamander-like skill...
...Porgy and Bess" is not only this love story with its surrounding characters, Maria the dowager of the community, Sportin' Life the peddler of "happy dust," and the many other finely drawn minor parts. It is really a story of the Negro and the life he leads. Here are all the sudden joys and sorrows, the fear of death, of the white man's law, and of God. Above all here is portrayed the spirit of lazy sunshine and happiness and the native rhythm which enables the Negro to sing of his pain as well as of his pleasure...
...blacks in the cast proved perfect actors. Crown is strapping Warren Coleman. Flashy, irrepressible Sportin' Life is John W. Bubbles of the dance team. Buck & Bubbles. Bess is Anne Wiggins Brown, daughter of a Baltimore physician, who learned to sing at the Juilliard School of Music. Todd Duncan, a rich-voiced baritone who heads the music department at Howard University, plays Porgy in such a way as to suggest that some day he might be a candidate for grand opera...