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Latest Graves novel of Rome's slow fall, Count Belisarius, does not quite measure up to these, largely because Belisarius is noble, dull, honest and courageous, where bumbling old Claudius was gnarled with humanness. Purporting to be the work of Eugenius, educated eunuch and slave of Belisarius' wife, it is laid in Justinian's reign, tells the story of Justinian's one capable general. Belisarius defeats the Persians, takes Carthage, conquers Italy, marries a shrewd, level-headed prostitute, Antonina, is blinded by Justinian, who fears him as a rival...
...instinctively fears for the future of democracy in an age of money-chasing, corrupt politicians, of oppressed industrial workers. On practically every social and political question, Whitman tends to diverge within himself. He writes paeans on the equality of all human beings, calls spiritedly to the chained negro slave...
Then in a poem called "Pictures," he describes a Southern slave-gang...
Elena Karam heads the white members of the cast and turns in a creditable performance, although hampered by poor direction and a Swedish accent, possibly derived from too great admiration of Garbo in the Napoleonic film, "Conquest." Alvin Childress heads the Negro cast in the role of a former slave and the father of Miss Karam. His role is very sympathetic and not very exacting, facts which make him the outstanding figure of the drama. Little can be said for the other actors white or Negro, except that they appear clumsy on the stage and give unnatural emphasis to their...
...captured Pirate Stede ("Bluebeard") Bonnet; City Hall, once a branch of the Bank of the United States which Andy Jackson and Henry Clay rowed about; Miles Brewton House (1765), where Lord Cornwallis once stayed during the Revolution. Razed was a row of ancient shells where legend places the public slave market-a matter of sore denial by Charleston historians, who say Charleston's slaves were sold in decent privacy. Unscathed save for their gardens were the mansions along South Battery, many now owned by Northerners. Storm-conscious Harry Hopkins found, when he arrived to direct Government aid, that...