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...House to sing a long rigmarole called "That's Why Darkies Were Born." In the final throes of this extravaganza occurs a glimpse of Heaven in which the audience is led to imagine that Producer White imagines that Negroes imagine they will all turn, on the other side of Jordan, into beautiful, naked white chorus girls...
Died. Dr. David Starr Jordan, 80, Chancellor Emeritus of Stanford University; of apoplexy after a long illness of arteriosclerosis and diabetes; in Palo Alto, Calif. Rugged, tall, white-maned, shaggy-mustached, he was Stanford's "Grand Old Man." He had made his influence felt throughout the world: as pacifist, ichthyologist and educator (TIME, June 28). He was chief director of the World Peace Foundation (1910-1914), president of the World's Peace Congress in 1915, vice president of the American Peace Society. He feared and worked to avert the World War, but said later: "Our country...
After Author Roark Bradford gained fame with his negroid Bible stories, Ol' Man Adam an' Ilis Chillun (on which Playwright Marc Connelly based his Pulitzer Prize play, The Green Pastures), he failed to add to it with This Side of Jordan, an unpleasantly realistic, unpleasantly tragic novel of Negro life. Now he is back again on the side of the angels with a rambling, episodic legend of the big black buck John Henry, who is to the Cotton Belt what Paul Bunyan is to the North Woods...
...Shortridge must typify Dr. Jordan's ideal of ignorance...
...clipping. Dr. Jordan was hailed by Stanford's 1931 class orator as one of the three great U. S. Educators of the past 50 years. The other two: the late Charles William Eliot of Harvard, the late Andrew Dickson White of Cornell...