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...March he will return to the U. S., to be discharged from the service. Now 35, shrewd, reticent, he will be adopted by a wealthy man in Florida. Soon to be published is his book The White King. From Haiti he will bring with him cinema films of Voodoo cere monies, wild tribal dances, mystic sexual rites which his friends fear no censor will pass...
Religion. Although urban Cubans are mostly Catholic, Voodooism flourishes in small towns and "up country." Within the fortnight Mayor Miguel Quintana of Pueblo Nueva has confessed that he and three other Negro townsmen recently sacrificed eight-year-old Martin Perez to Voodoo Goddess Chantong...
...cure for disease, advise a poultice of live ants as a disease prevention. One chief gave Explorer Holdridge some vegetables from his garden. He explained that the vegetables were good because recently he had cast out all evil spells from his garden by killing his brother-in-law, a voodoo priest. Explorer Holdridge also saw a new mountain range, two uncharted rivers, a waterfall 260 ft. high...
...platform. Again he was a great success. He had had no voice training, thought he needed none; but at a concert in Boston a bad cold made his voice "tight and hard and unrecognizable." After that he took lessons. He has been abroad three times: to play in The Voodoo, in The Emperor Jones, to sing "Ol' Man River" in Show Boat. Now he is in London playing in Othello. The Robesons like London, have decided to live there permanently, have taken a house on Hampstead Heath. Fortnight ago U. S. radio-listeners heard Actor Robeson broadcast from London...
Hearts in Dixie. First of several Negro cinemas scheduled for imminent release, this picture has only one white actor in its cast-Richard Carlyle, who plays a doctor. Spirituals, nicely sung, occur, as advertised, 30 times in the hour and ten minutes Hearts in Dixie takes to run. The voodoo doings, the cotton pickings and Bible-shoutings are just what a certain class of people, educated to consider Negro life "colorful" and "primitive" expect of the race, just as people of another class expect vaudeville patter and tap-dancing. The pathos, based upon the low temperature of the ground enclosing...