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Selections from the Pi Eta and Hasty Pudding shows, arranged especially for the dance by Reeves, added to the colorful occasion which was staged largely under the cover of a small-scale circus tent set up on the roof of the newspaper building...
...Georgia this month an all-Negro troupe pitched its tent for a ten-month road tour. As familiar throughout the South as a statue of Robert E. Lee, Silas Green from New Orleans claims that this is its 51st year on the road; oldtimers can remember it for at least 38. Part revue, part musicomedy, part minstrel show, it tells, season after season, of the adventures of two Negroes, short, coal-black Silas Green and tall, tannish Lilas Bean. For years the show never bothered to change its plot. When the public finally started to yawn, Silas and Lilas found...
After marching through Georgia, Silas Green will circle the South, winding up in Florida next February. His big tent, holding 1,400 people, is usually filled at prices up to a dollar. Negroes in the audience outnumber whites about three to one. If the show has any trouble with whites, it never plays that town again...
Although Circusman North was out to beat his uncles at their own game (the tent this year is blue and the prop men wear berets), he was not so inexperienced as to change the basic rules of that game...
...Dreyfus, but an exceedingly tenacious gadfly, the famed fugitive of Devil's Island (Dry Guillotine) here adds further smelly details about life in the French penal colony. He also deals with allegedly innocent fellow convicts. Typical is Chariot Pain. His crime was setting fire to a $5 army tent during a sun-struck moment in Africa. Legally amnestied by French law in 1925, he is still at Devil's Island, 32 years after his original sentence. But not all Belbenoit's fellow convicts were such martyrs. From their fugitive ranks, for example, was recruited the international white...