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...Stebbins invaded Broadway under the name of Laurence Rivers, a character from his favorite book, Malet's The Gateless Barrier. His first two productions. Merry Andrew and Maggie, The Magnificent, were both failures, though not expensive ones. Then came a fortunate meeting. A mutual friend introduced Producer Stebbins and Marc Connelly, onetime newspaper man and co-author with George S. Kaufman of several successful plays (Beggar on Horseback, Dulcy, Merton of the Movies). Writer Connelly was trying to sell a play he had written around some Negro stories by Roark Bradford. Producer Stebbins read it, liked it, bought...
...history of the liberation of the artist. The steps by which the Impressionists and Post Impressionists established this freedom, and its particular adaptation by the Cubists, the Expressionists and the Post War Group are outlined in the exhibition. Monet, Seurat, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, Marc, Villon, Leger, Cocteau, Lurcat, Hugo are a few of the artists shown. A statement of the chief interest and contribution of each will be printed under the paintings...
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...
...MARC T. GREENE...
Birthday. Col. Edwin A. Parrott. Age: 100. Date: Nov. 30. Celebration: a party at his Princeton, N. J. home, to which came his brother H. Eugene Parrott, 92, his son Thomas Marc Parrott, 63, professor of English at Princeton University. Colonel Parrott chanced to be in the Governor of Ohio's office when President Lincoln called for volunteers, believes he was the first man to enlist. He became Colonel of the 1st Ohio Infantry, won medals, was later made provost of Ohio. From 1866-67 he was Speaker of Ohio's Lower House. He went to Ohio Wesleyan...