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AUTHOR'S NOTE·

HE Green Pastures" is an at-

66TH

tempt to present certain as-

An abridged, extract from

pects of a living religion in "The Green Pastures," Marc the terms of its believers. The religion is that of thousands of negroes in the deep Connelly's play of the simple, South. With terrific spiritual hunger and fervent faith of the American the greatest humility these untutored black Christians many of whom cannot even

the

read the book which is the treasure house negro Christians. The film of their faith-have adapted the contents version was passed by

Hongkong censor, but was

of the Bible to the consistencies of their everyday lives.

Scene 1-A corner in a negro church,

Mr. banned in Singapore.

Hongkong Hotel Desher, an elderly preacher, is reading from the

Garage

Bible to a Sunday-school class.

DESHEE: We know that at

Phone 27778-9 Stubbs Rd. one time dey wasn't anything ex-

DEATH,

DAND AT the Government Civil Hospital on May 3, Caroline Louise, wife of A. A. Dand, aged 41 years.

The funeral will pass the Monu- ment to-day at 5.30 p.m.

The

cept Heaven, we don't know jest where it was, but we know it was dere. Maybe it was every- where. Den one day de Lawl make got the iden He'd like to

He made de sun some places.

An' He arul de moon, de stars. made de earth.

MYRTLE: Who was aroun' den, nothin' but angels?

DESHEE: I suppose so. FIRST BOY: What was de

Hongkong Telegraph. angels doin' up dere?"

MONDAY, MAY 3, 1937.

LIBERAL-LABOUR

FUSION?

DESHEE: 1 suppose dey jest flew aroun' and had a good time. Dey wasn't no sin, so dey musta had a good time.

FIRST BOY: Did dey have picnics?

DESHEE: Sho, dey had the nicest kind of picnics. Dey probably had fish frys, wid b'iled custard and ten cent seegars for de adults. God gives us humans lotsa ideas about havin' good times. Maybe dey were things Yes, He'd seen de angels do. sir, I bet dey had a fish fry every week.

miracles,

When you pass one you always gotta r'ar back an pass another.

(There is a hush) Let dere be a place to dreen off dis firma- ment. Let dere bo mountains and valley an' let dere be occans an' lakes. An' lot dere be rivers and bayous to dreen it off in, too. As a matter of fac', let dere be de carth. An' when dat's done let dere bo do sun, an' let it come out and dry my cherubs' wings.

(The lights go up until the alage is bathed in sunlight. On the embankment upstage there is

now a waist-high wrought iron valleries of houses in the French

railing such as one scca on the

quarter of New Orleans.

The cherubs are being examin-

ed by their parents and there is

an ad lib. murmur of: "You all now; Albert ?" "Now you all

right, honey?" "You feel better

angel, who has been gazing in awe at the railings, drowns them

dry. Vangu?" until the arch

out).

ARCHANGEL: Look yere! (There is a rush to the en- bankment accompanied by ca clamations: "My goodness!" "What's dis?" "I declah!" etc.

Gabriel towers above the group. -on the middle of the embankment,

ย

The question of a possible fusion between the Liberal and Labour Parties is again being raised in political circles at Home. There is no indication that the Labourites are likely to link up with the Liberals in the immediate future, but there are developments occurring which

MYRTLE: suggest such a possibility being

Did dey have

Marc Connelly's Pulitzer prize winning play "The Green Pastures" has been made into realfeed eventually. Strangely Sunday-school, too?

screen fable by Warner Bros. and is now showing at the King's Theatre.

God is wrapped in thought,. enough, the revival of the iden DESHEE: Yes, dey musta

Gabriel (lifting his hand); (As the last response ends all has originated in the quarrel be-had Sunday-school for de cheruba.

Gangway for de heads are bowed. God looks at facing the audience. The Choir tween the Labour Party and the MYRTLE: What did God Gangway!

Lawd God Jehovah!

them for a moment; then lifts resumica singing, "So High You Can't Get Over It" softly. The Socialist League. The Labour look like, Mr. Deshee?

(There is a reverent hush and His hand). National Executive has decided DESHEE: Well,

GABRIEL: Little b'lled cus- babbling at the balustrate dies nobody God enters. He is the tallest

away as the people lean over the that from June next, mem-knows exactly what God looked and biggest of them all. He tud, Lawd? bers of the Socialist League will like,

GOD: Thank you very kind railing. But when I was a little wears a white shirt with a white

(He sips Gabriel turns and faces God, no longer be eligible for mem-boy I used to imagine dat He bow tie, a lony. Prince Albert ly. Dis looks nice. bership in the Labour Party looked like de Reverend Dubois, coat of black alpaca, black trou- custard). It don't seem scason- indicating the earth below the There is talk that Sir Stafford He was de finest looking ol' man

GABRIEL: Do you see it, looks at the assemblage. There little bit mo' firmament. Cripps may answer this move I ever knew. Yes, I used to bet gers, and congresa gaiters. He ed jest right. It needs jest a railing with his left hand).

Dat's all right. I'll jest r'ar Lawd? by the simple-process-of-dis-do-Lawd looked exactly like Mr. is a pause. He speaks in a rich,

"back an' pass a miracle.-(Choir GOD (quietly): Yes, Gabriel.

GABRIEL: Looks mighty“ solving the League, thus forcing Dubois in de days when He walk- bass voice. the Labour Party to deal with ed de earth in de shape of

GOD: Is you been baptised? stops, singing). Let it be some OTHERS (chanting): Cer- firmament. An' when I say let nice, Lawd.

God: Yes. members individually. It would natchel man.

MYRTLE: When was dat tainly. Lawd.

it be some firmament, I don't not follow, if this course were

(Gabriel turns and looke ever GOD: Is you been baptised? want jest a little bitty dab o' adopted, that the League leader Mr. Deshce?

OTHERS: Certainly, Lawd. firmament, caize I'm sick an' the railing).

GABRIEL (gazing down): would be without an organisa- DESHEE: Why, when He

GOD (with the beginning of tired of runnin' out of it when

Dat'd make mighty tion, because in the interim he was gettin' things started down might build up, another body henh. When He talked to Adam musical notation): Is you been we need it. Let it be a whole Yes, suh.

mess of firmament! (The stage nice farming country. Jest look composed of all who support the and Eve and Noah and Moses baptised?

has become misty until God and at dat South forty over dere. policy of a Leftist United Front. and all dem. He made mighty

the heavenly company are obscur- You ain't going to let dat go to cd. As He finishes the speech waste, is you, Lawd?. Dat would Such an organisation might well men in dem days. But aldo they become more powerful than the was awful mighty, they always

there is a burst of thunder. As be a pity an a shame,

GOD: It's a good earth. Yes, the stage grows darker) Dat's Socialist League, which actually knew dat He was beyond dem all. has little influence in British Pretty near one o'clock, time fo' political life. The view is ex- you chilun to go home to dinner, pressed that the Labour Execu-but before I let you go I want tive would hesitate to proceed you to go over wid me de main facts of de first lesson. What's against individual members of the League once it were abolish-de name of de book? ed, as it is realised that Sir Staf- ford Cripps is popular amongst

CHILDREN: Genesis. DESHEE: Dat's right. And

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the rank and file, even amongst what's de other name? those who do not share his extremist views. Thus, it is Moses. argued, if the Labour Party

CHILDREN: First Book of

DESHEE: Dat's right. And were to find itself in conflict dis yere's Chapter One (the "In de with United Front committees lights begin to dim).

in the constituencies, it might beginnin' God created de heaven consider it prudent to look for an' de earth. An' de earth was allies, in which event a union widout form an' void. An' de with the Liberals might come darkness was upon de face of de within the sphere of practical deep."

politics. This would be 1 reasonable development once the Labour Party got rid of the

Scene 2-In the darkness

extremists within its ranks. It many voices are heard singing

might

reconcile

OTHERS (now half-singing): Certainly, Lawd. Certainly, certainly, certainly, Lawd.

(They sing the last two versca with equivalent part division).

In you been redeemed?

Certainly, Lawd.

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Is you been redeemed?

Certainly, Lawd.

Is you been redeemed?

Certainly, Lawd. Certainly, certainly, certainly, Lawd. Do you bow mighty low?

Certainly, Lawd. Do you bow mighty low?

Certainly, Lawd.

Do you bow mighty low?

Certainly, Lawd. Certainly, certainly, certainly, Lawd.

+

de way I like it. (Murmurs from I ought to have somebody to (He turns, facing the the others: "Dat's a lot of fir- enjoy it. mament!" "My, dat is firma- audience. The others, save for ment." Look to me like He's the Choir, who are lined up ́in two rows of six on an angle up created rain," etc.).

FIRST MAMMY ANGEL right, continue to look over the (God (when the stage is dark): Now, embankment). Gabriel! look, Lawd, dat's too much firma- steps down from the embankment ment. De cherubs is getting all two paces).

GABRIEL (joining him): Yes, wet.

Lawd

GOD: I don't wanna bust up de fish fry. You angels keep quiet an' I'll pass another miracle. Dat's always de trouble wid

WHY THE CHINESE SELL

CHILDREN

Mr. Robert Bruce, late of the Malayan Civil Service, now HD- ing at Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire, contributes the accom- panying comments on the mul tsai custom in a letter to the Manchester Guardian, in reply to

GOD: Gabriel, I'm going down dere.

GABRIEL: Yes, Lawd. GOD: I want you to be my working boss yere while I'm gone.

GABRIEL: Yes, Lawd. GOD: You know dat matter of dem two stars?

GABRIEL: Yes, Lawd. GOD: Git dat fixed You know dat sparrow dat fell a little while ago? "Tend to dat, too.

up!

GABRIEL: Yes, Lawd.. GOD: I guess dat's about all. I'll be back Saddy. (To the Choir) Quiet, angels. (The Choir stops singing. Those on the ent- bankment circle down stage. God goce to embankment. Turns and nese are more cruel and callous than faces the company). I'm gonter we are? Can it be said that Chinese pass one more miracle. You all

a leading article in that fournal,

poverty is eliminated mui tsals has, of course, to be kept in mind "Rise, Shine, Give God TT is a problem of poverty and until that both Liberals and Labour-Glory" They sing it gaily and will continue to find a price and be- ites have thus far set their faces rapidly. The lights go up as the come the slaves of the buyer.

The chorus Registration of Mui Tsals and against fusion, but altered cir-second verse ends.

is being sung diminuendo by a adopted daughters, which prevails in cumstances

mixed company of angela. That Hongkong and Malaya, does not stamp out the evil; it only restrains them to such a move. One thing is, they are angels in that they the cruelty of wicked masters; it seems clear, namely, that the wear brightly-coloured robes and limits but does not put a stop to the Labour Party-has definitely set have winge protruding from system. itself against any bargaining their backs. Otherwise they The Chinese Government itself has parents love their children less than genter help me an' not make a with Communists. The Trade toole and act like a company of made the traffe illegal, but it is easy we do and that they are so unloving soun caize it's one of de most

that they will even sell their children

Important miracles of all. (No- Unions have already begun on happy negrocs at a fish fry. The to circumvent the law.

It is done in this way. Instead of for monetary gain? a process of expelling "undesir- scene itself is a pre-Creation directly buying the child the intend-

These suggestions are obviously un-body moves. God turns, facing ables" from district committees, Heaven with compromises. Ining owner will adopt It

It or accept

tenable. The answer is found in the the sky and raises His arms and are tightening up discipline the distance is an unbroken as a gift. Later on he will make an extreme poverly of millions of the above His head). Let there be

Recurrent Bloods all round. Their leaders have stretch of blue sky. Companion- other "gift" to the previous owner. Chinese.

Thus there has been no salo-only drought, with consequent

(There is growing roll of clearly shown that they intend able vari-coloured clouds billow two gifts have made made. And so leave thousands of families so re- to have no understanding with down to the floor of the stage the practice continues within the law. nced that they literally are unable thumler as stage grows darke, to feed their children. Rather than The Choir bursts into "Hallelu Communists or friends of Com-and roll overhead to the branches munists, a circumstance which of a live oak tree which is up

Why are these children bought and let them slarve to death the parents jah," and continues until the (Continued on Page 2) lights go up on the next scene). sold as slaves? Is it that the Chi-.-. is all to the good.

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