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I w ^ © The A nod* ted Stwwpattn “KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES”_ The King Was Crowned V=S, MR. M^GiNlS, I NOW, FOR EXAMPLE, I WILL RING ' AM CONVINCED YOU FOR MY MAD - WHEN! SHE APPEARS POSSESS HYPNOTIC FIX HER WITH A PIERCING GLANCE, POWER, AND MOWTHAT MAKE A FEW PASSES, AND WE ARE IN MY STUDIO COMMAND HER TO DO SOMETHING - I SHALL BE WATCHING FROM THE NEXT ROOM | •* i IW i 'rtie^Asiociated Newspapers J j I J B © The Associated Newspapers 'V } ^ H •* _ ' ' 1 . I "'W I L * | “KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES” Yes, Mr. Spumoni, Hov/ About It? - 3^7^= ; WHATA YOU TRYING BUT; MY DEAR MR. MtGlNlS l! > - 1 TO DO, KIO Me ABOUT YOU ALLOWED YOUR EYES w(jatII CERTAINLY !’. I SAW IT ALL U WELL ,YOU DUMB i' HAVING HYPNOTIC To WANDSR AND LOST vvnAA •• IT'S VERY SIMPLE, MR. MS. GINiS~ ISAAC-WHAT WERE POWER, MR. SPUMONI ? CONTROL OF YOUR SUSPECT YOU SAW A GOOD HYPNOTIST CAN POSITIVELY you DOIN'WITH YOUR LOOK HERE-/OUR t WAS WATCHING THE WHOLE CONTROL THE ACTIONS OF THE EYES WHEN SHE --- MAID DID THIS TO MS YOU — /) TFUNG^? AVERAGE PERSON | IF YOU HAD STARTED TO SOCK WHEN I TRIED TO * USED YOUR EYES YOU COULD ME WITH THAT HYPNOTIZE HER (i HAVE PREVENTED HER throwing the vase H ' I j no#, %L^L Green restores at Heme NEW YORK CITY, November 7_ (CNS)-It was with doubt and many misgivings that Howland Stebbins, producer of “The: Green Pastures," Marc Monnelly’s; great dramatic vehicle, upon wuch Richard B. Harr,son rode to lame, contemplated the prospects of a Southern jaunt. • ™me<^a!eIy aftdr that memorable mghc, February 26, 1930, at the Mansfield Theatre when the piece rocketed to sudden fame, the Times Square oracle dinned in his ears the information that it could never be displayed in the South. In fact, they pointed out, the very idea of a tour in Dixie spelled disaster. The South erners those seers added, would not relish the spectacle of a Negro god and dark skinned angels. It was originally intended by Mr. Stebbins to inaugurate the Suthem tour in Richmond, Virginia. Certain interests controlling the theatres of that city, prevented the showing of the play in the erstwhile capital of the Confederacy. Thwarted again when an effort was made to book I the show in Norfolk, it was finally arranged to open the tour in Roa noke, Virginia. following three sold out perform ances there the play moved on to Greensboro, North Carolina, where Richard B. Harrison, “de Lawd,” re ceived a token of appreciation from the city. The presentation was made b£ Mayor Roger N. Harrison and the token signed by city officials and prominent educators of the city. The citation read: “Appreciation to Rich ard B. Harrison for his outstanding contribution to the, cause of educa tion for his understanding inter pretation of Negro life and char acter on the stage and lecture plat form, for his constructive influence in inspiring and preserving harmon ious racial relationships, for his un failing loyalty to his home city and the dignity which has always char acterized his representations of Greensboro abroad, for his kindly personality and enduring friendship.” Mr. Harrison, by way of explanation, was a faculty member at the Agri cultural and Technical College in Greensboro for many years prior to undetaking the impersonation of the Deity in “The Green Pastures.” Ev en that fact, however, in the opinion of certain transplanted Southerners, can hardly account for the warmth of the reception accorded him, a Ne gro, by the executives of a Carolina community. In the South, the newspaper re views reveal, “The Green Pastures” is treated with more reverence by theatre audiences than was the case in the East and North, where the play has been considered primarily a comedy. The critic of “The Greens boro Daily News, for instance, had this to say of the presentation: “Southern audiences, if members of the cast do not already know it, take their religion, the religion of their Negroes, seriously, reverently. There was in the theatre last night what one might term a holy atmosphere; a tribute of silence far more effect ve than thunderous applause. South erners do not applaud in church, and ‘The Green Pastures’ seemed strangely like church.” “The Green Pastures,” aside from re-opening theatres many of which have been dark for a decade, is tak ing the spoken drama to the remot est sections of the territory it is playing. Cities like Durham, North Carolina; Macon, Georgia; Lafay ette, Louisiana; and Beaumont, Tex as, likely have not had a road show since “Ben Hur” tarried in their precincts years ago. NEGROES SLUGGED BY POLICE AT ELECTION RALLY N. E. Whitehead, Negro worker, was mercilessly beaten up and half killed for attending a Communist Party election rally, at 138th Street, and 7th Avenue, on the night of October 12th, Betty Patterson, young Negro woman, was knocked uncon scious by the club of Police Officer 8627 and several other workers were beaten in an orgy of terror indulged in by a dozen white and Negro cops. The police rushed up and down the sidewalk in their cars, an officer on the running board swinging his club viciously right and left, Whitehead, who did not move fast enough to suit the “protectors of law and or der” after being knocked senseless to the ground, was stamped on, kicked in the face and brutally slug ged by the rubber hose and clubs of the police. Even his shirt was lifted up, so his bare back could be exposed to their vicous blows. A white wom an who rushed to his defense was told to “get out and damn quick” by a cop who pulled his gun on her. It is interesting to note that as the bleeding body of the, Negro worker Whitehead, his clothes torn off his back, was being dragged off to the 135th Street Police Station, Mr. Mc Neill well-dressed, gray haired Ne gro was in a high-class restaurant across the street with a party of friends, to whom he several times boasted: “Yes it was I, John R. Mc Neill the Democratic leader of this district, who called the police—and I’ll do it again.”
