Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Their hero is a man whom even Jazz Pianist-Composer Ferdinand ("Jelly-Roll") Morton, a notoriously uncharitable critic, acknowledged as "the greatest ragtime writer that ever lived." In a book packed with the high-sounding names of old ragtime wizards and composers ("Blind Boone," "Jack the Bear," "One-Leg Shadow"), a quiet-mannered, softspoken, scholarly little man stands out above them all: Scott Joplin, the composer of Maple Leaf...
Boris Aronson's sets are wonderfully faithful to the Odetsian scene. The squalor of a one-room flat is accented by a flowering red plant, an empty stage by a dramatic shadow. In a Broadway dressing room there is a feeling of glitter. Mr. Odets has directed the play himself, and except for a slow paced first act, his staging is effective...
Died. Michael Williams, 73, Roman Catholic author ( The Shadow of the Pope, The Catholic Church in Action), founder and first editor (1924-38) of the Commonweal; in Hartford, Conn. Onetime free-thinking crony of Socialist Upton Sinclair (they wrote a book together, Good Health and How We Won It), Williams returned to the church in 1915, became one of its ablest lay spokesmen...
...Benjamin J. Anderson of a local Presbyterian church told a fellowship meeting that Princeton is "Jim Crow" in many ways. "Built in the shadow of the University," he said, "the town is as backward in opportunity for colored people as any town I know...
...Shadow & Substance...