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...Emperor Jones. It is a white man's comment on the relationship between sex and religion, a comment in which sympathy and emotion replace the irony so easy to this kind of writing. After shooting his brother in an argument about a crap game, a Negro named Zeke turns preacher and converts the girl, Chick, who got him in the game. She beats up his rival with a poker, saying. "Ain't no one goin' to stand in my path to glory." This is the best line in Hallelujah, but Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes) has other good...
...this evening and Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. The play is a tragedy of the Kentucky mountains, centering around the attempts of an unscrupulous mountaineer to keep his position as boss of the county. Mr. Ranck is entirely familiar with the life in Kentucky, and his main character, Zeke. Holston, played by S. J. Hume 1G., is not overdrawn with his killings and defiance...
...Andrews 1G.: Jim Long, P. M. Hollister '13 Susan Long, his cousin and divorced wife, Miss Katherine Munroe Mrs. Marjoram, a divorcee, Miss Fanny Phillips Sapphira Long, Jim's and Susan's Maiden aunt, Miss Florence Lewis Squire Jinks, local attorney, R. S. Hubbard '11 Zeke Stebbins, proprietor of the State Line House, H. A. Van Landingham 2G. "Manacles." "Manacles," a play in one act, by H. K. Moderwell '12: Frederick Higgins, a wealthy manufacturer, W. G. Beach '11 Claudia Higgins, his daughter, Miss Gertrude Beard Jinks, a burglar, J. A. Donovan sC. Joe Patterson, his helper, N. R. Sturgis...
...Zeke, a Portrait" is a study in rustic character of some power. The portrait is painted in a careful manner, although the colors are not laid on with that spontaneity of touch which is necessary to a vividness of portraiture...
...Zeke" is an admirable bit of description of a tragic incident. It is impossible to bring any charge of diffuseness or lack of clearness against...