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...Sept. 28, in Norfolk, at the conclusion of the 1495th performance. Producer Stebbins and Playwright Connelly officially recognized the extent to which The Green Pastures rests on Actor Harrison's aging shoulders. It was his 70th birthday. So they raised his salary and for the first time billed him as the star of the show he had carried so long and so well...
Honors had already been heaped on Actor Harrison. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People gave him its Spingarn Medal as the outstanding Negro of 1930. Howard University made him a Master of Arts. From North Carolina State College of Agriculture & Engineering and Lincoln University he received Doctorates of Dramatic Literature. Boston University presented him its Sigma Key. He was asked to speak at Rotary Clubs, to colleges and congregations wherever the show went, and his most prized possession is the Bible from the Clergy Club of New York, with the names of all its members inscribed. Governors...
Being "de Lawd" is no mere mimic part to Richard Harrison; it is a full-time job, onstage and off. For the members of the cast, he is just short of an actual deity. He arbitrates their squabbles and since they are mostly professional actors from Harlem, they periodically have to be lent money. Actor Harrison is known as "Two Dollar" Harrison to his colleagues because he is always available for a loan to that extent...
Harrison was employed by the New York Federation of Churches directing Negro church festivals in Harlem when Destiny and Marc Connelly caught up with him in the autumn of 1929. On the road Actor Harrison lives with friends he made years ago while on Chautauqua tours, or in Y. M. C. A.'s. He has not squandered a liberal salary. A large part of it goes to the support of an invalid wife, whom he married 40 years ago with his friend, the late Negro Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, as best man. A son, who struggles with a jazz...
With a reputation in the Negro theatre equal to those of Paul Robeson, the late Charles Gilpin and Jules Bledsoe, Actor Harrison plans to open a dramatic school if and when The Green Pastures closes. "The Lord," humbly says "de Lawd," "has showered His mercies...