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With DuBose Heyward as his librettist, Composer Gershwin kept his work faithful to the play. The Negroes of Charleston's Catfish Row live in the same rickety tenements. They still quarrel and kill over their crap games, still shout their religion, their love and fear of ''Lawd Jesus." Porgy, the crippled beggar, appears driving his seedy goat. The simple love story is his. Bess belongs to the murderer Crown. According to the neighbors she is "a liquor-guzzlin' slut," a "Happy Dust" addict. Porgy gives her shelter, buys her a divorce although she never has been...
...women of Catfish Row lull their babies, keen over their dead. The men have their fishing, their crap games Saturday nights. Both cringe before the white folks' laws, the ill-omened buzzards, the lashing hurricane which provides the play's great climax. There are such numbers as A Woman is a Sometime Thing, Bess, You is My Woman Now, A Redheaded Woman Makes a Choo-Choo-Jump its Tracks, It Ain't Necessarily...
...many readers trouble, for it reads throughout like a complete travesty of the author's previous method. Journeyman is the story of an itinerant preacher. Semon Dye, the "potentest" man that ever drove a ramshackle remnant of a Model T Ford down a Georgia turnpike. Semon is a crap-shooting, corn-guzzling, philandering highbinder with a gimlet eye and a ready pistol...
...driving into the yard one day and demanding food, lodging and female solace from one of the "high-yallers" down the road. Horey is glad to comply until Semon makes a play for his 15-year-old wife, Dene. The novel bounces riotously from lecherous high jinks to a crap game in which Horey loses money, new car and spouse to the all-powerful Man of God. The book reaches a tropical heat-wave climax with Sunday's revival meeting in the schoolhouse, where the inhabitants of Rocky Comfort roll on the floor, beat their heads against the walls...
...first query was naturally: "What about the high hat?" to which Mr. Lewis gave a long and interesting explanation. It seems that 17 years ago while playing at the famous Rector's cafe on Broadway he became engaged in a friendly "crap" game with a little colored cabby who was an institution around the place, and in the course of the evening won from the latter his most prized possession, a shiny silk topper. That night Lewis wore the hat during his performance at Rector's--probably for laughs--and it caused so much comment that he's worn...