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AUTHOR'S NOTE
HE Green Pastures" is an at-
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
Connelly's play of the simple, fervent faith of the American
The film
that of thousands of negroes in the deep South. With terrific spiritual hunger and the greatest humility these untutored black Christians many of whom cannot even read the book which is the treasure house of their faith-have adapted the contents of the Bible to the consistencies of their everyday livės.
Scene 1.—A corner in a negro church. Mr. banned in Singapore. Deshee, an elderly preacher, is reading from the
Bible to a Sunday-school class.
DESHEE: We know that at
Stubbs Rd. one time dey wasn't anything cx- 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 Lawd make got the idea 'He'd like to some places. He made de sun An' He and de moon, de stars. made de earth.
MYRTLE: Who was aroun' den. nothin' but angels?
DESHEE: I suppose so. FIRST BOY: What was de angels doin' up dere?
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MAY 3, 1037.
LIBERAL-LABOUR FUSION?
DESHEE: I suppose dey jest flew aroun' and had a good time. Dey wasn't no sin, so dey musta had a good time.
FIRST BOY: picnics?
Did dey have
DESHEE: Sho, dey had the Dey nicest kind of picnics. probably had fish frys, wid b'iled custard and ten cent seegars for the 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.
MYRTLE: Did dey have Sunday-school, too?
Christians. negro version was passed by Hongkong censor, but
the
miracles.
When you pass one you always gotta far back an' pass another.
(There is a hush) Let dere be
a place to dreen off dis firma- ment. Let dere be mountains and valley an' let dere be oceans an' lakes. An' let dere be rivers and bayous to dreen it off in, too. As a matter of fac", let dere be de earth. An' when dat's done let dere be de sun, an' let it come out and dry my cherubs wings.
(The lights go up until the stage is bathed in sunlight. On
the embankment upstage there is
now a waist-high wrought iron railing, such as one sees on the galleries of houses in the French quarter of New Orleans.
cherubs being examin-
he their patents and there is
an ad lib. murmur of: "You all
right, honey?" "You feel better
now, Albert?" "Now you all dry, Vangy?" until the Arch- angel, who has been gazing in awe at the railings, drowns them out).
ARCHANGEL: Look yere! (There is a rush to the cm-
was bankment accompanied by ex-
(Hc. sips
clamations: "My goodness!" "What's dis?" "I declah!" etc.
Gabriel towers above the group on the middle of the embankment.
Gabriel turns and faces. God, indicating the earth below the
GABRIEL: Do you see it, railing with his left hand).
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 suggest such a possibility being realised eventually. Strangely enough, the revival of the iden has originated in the quarrel be
Marc Connelly's Pulitzer prize winning play "The Green Pastures" has been made into a tween the Labour Party and the
screen fable by Warner Bros. and is now showing at the King's Theatre. Socialist League. The Labour
God is wrapped in thought, DESHEE: Yes, dley musta
(As the last response ends all Gabriel (lifting his hand): National Executive has decided had Sunday-school for de cherubs.
Gangway for de heads are bowed. God looks at facing the audience. The Choir that from June 1 next, mem-
MYRTLE: What did God Gangway!
them for a moment; then lifts resunies singing, "So High You Lawd God Jehovah!
Can't Get Over It" softly. The bers of the Socialist League will look like, Mr. Deshee?
(There is a reverent hush and His hand). DESHEE: Well, nobody God enters. He is the tallest GABRIEL: Little b'iled cus- babbling at the balustrate dies no longer be eligible for mem-
He tud, Lawd?
away as the people lean over the knows exactly what God looked and biggest of them all. bership in the Labour Party.
like. But when I was a little wears a white shirt with a white GOD: Thank you very kind railing. There is talk that Sir Stafford boy I used to imagine dat He bow tie, a long Prince Albert ly. Dis looks nice. Cripps may answer this move looked like de Reverend Dubois. coat of black alpaca, black trou- custard), by the simple process of dis- He was de finest looking ol' man
looks at the assemblage. solving-the-League, thus forcing I ever knew. Yes, I used to beter, and congress gaiters. He ed jest right. It needs jest a the Labour Party to deal with de Lawd looked exactly-like-Mrs a pause He speaks-in-a-rich, Dat's all right. I'll jest r'ar
Dubois in de days when He walk- bass voice. members individually. It woulded de earth in de shape of a not follow, if this course were natchel man.
MYRTLE: When was dat, tainly, Lawd. adopted, that the League leader would be without an organisa- Mr. Deshee? tion, because in the interim he DESHEE: Why, when He might build up another body was gettin' things started down composed of all who support the heah. When He talked to Adam policy of a Leftist United Front. and Eve and Noah and Moses Such an organisation might well and all dem. He made mighty become more powerful than the men in dem days. But aldo they was awful mighty; they always Socialist League, which actually know dat He was beyond dem all. has little influence in British Pretty near one o'clock, time for 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 wan tive would hesitate to proceed you to go over wid me de main against individual members of facts of de first lesson. What's the League once it were abolish- de name of de book? ed, as it is realised that Sir Staf- ford Cripps is popular amongst the rank and file, even amongst those who do not share his extremist views. Thus, it is argued, if the Labour Party
DESHEE: Dat's right. And were to find itself in conflict is yere's Chapter One (the with United Front committees lights begin to dim). "In de in the constituencies, it might beginnin God created de heaven consider it prudent to look for an' de earth. An' de earth was allics, 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 a
reasonable development once the
CHILDREN: Genesis.. DESHEE: Dat's right. And what's de other namo?
CHILDREN: First Book of Moses.
Labour Party got rid of the Scene 2-In the darkness extremists within its ranks. I many voices are heard singing'
It don't seem season-
There little bit mo' firmament.
Lawd? back an' pass a miracle. (Choir GOD (quictly):-Yes, Gabriel. GABRIEL: Looks mighty GOD: Is you been baptised? stops singing).. Let it be some OTHERS (chanting): Cer- firmament. An' when I say let nice, Lawd..
God: Yes. it be some firmament, I don't
(Gabrict turns and looks over GOD: Is you been baptised? want jest a little bitty dab o' OTHERS: Certainly, Lawd. firmament, caize I'm sick an' the railing).
GABRIEL (gazing down): GOD (with the beginning of tired of runnin' out of it when
Dat'd make mighty mess of firmament! (The stage nice farming country. Jest look musical notation): Is you been we need it. Let it be a whole Yes, suh. baptised?
has become misty until God and at dat South forty over dere. 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 there is a burst of "thunder. As be a pity ar a shame.
GOD: It's a good earth. Yes, the stage grows darker) Dat's
OTHERS (now half-singing); Certainly, Lawd. Certainly, certainly, certainly, Lawd.
(They sing the last two verses with equivalent part division).
Is you been redeemed? Certainly, Lawd..
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.
to
de way I like it. (Murmiers from I ought to have somebody the others; "Dat's a lot of fir- enjoy it. (He turns, facing the mament!" "My,dal 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.).
ANGEL right, continue to look over the FIRST MAMMY
Gabriel! (God (when the stage is dark); Now, embankment). look, Lawd, dat's too much firma- steps down from the embankment ment. De cherubs is getting all two pacce).
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 do trouble wid
WHY THE CHINESE SELL
CHILDREN
Mr. Robert Bruce, late of the Malayan Civil Service, now liv ing at Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire, contributes the accom- panying comments on the mul tsal custom in a letter to the Manchester Guardian, in reply to a leading article in that journal
.
COD: Gabrig, 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 up! You know dat sparrow dat fell a little while ago? Tend to dat, too.
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 em- bankment circle down stage. God goes to embankment. Turns and faces the company). I'm gonter pass one more miracle. You all'
has, of course, to be kept in mind "Rise, Shine, Give God The is a problem of poverty and until poverty is eliminated mui tsals 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 Mul Teals and against fusion, but altered cir- second verse ends: cumstances might reconcile is being sung, diminuendo by a adopted daughters, which prevails in them to such a move One thing mixed company of angels. That Hongkong and Malaya, does not the cruelty of wicked masters; it seems clear, namely, that the is, they are angels in that they stamp out the evil; It only restrains Labour Party has definitely set wear brightly-coloured robes and its but does not put a stop to the nese are more cruel and callous than
have wings protruding from system.
we are? Can it be said that Chinese itself against any bargaining their backs. Otherwise they The Chinese Government itself has parents love their children less than with Communists, The Trade look and act like a company of made the traffic filegal, but. It is easy we do and that they are so unloving/ Bonter help me an' not make a Unions have already begun on happy negroes at a fish fry. The to circunvent the law,
that they will even sell their children soun' caize It's one of de most
impo'tant miracles of all. (No.. a process of expelling "undesir-scene itself is a pre-Creation It is done in this way. Instead of for monetary gain?
body moves. God turns, facing ables" from district committees, Heaven with compromises,
In directly buying the child the intend- These suggestions are obviously un-
ing owner will adopt it or accept if 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 maite an- extreme poverty of millions of the above His head). Let there be all round. Their leaders have stretch of blue sky. Companion-ather "gift" to the previous owner. Chinese.
Recurrent foods and man. clearly shown that they intend able vari-coloured clouds billow Thus there has been no sale only drought, with consequent famine (There is growing roll of to have no understanding with down to the floor of the stage the practice continues within the law. duced that they literally are unable thunder as stage grows dark..
two girls have made made. And so leave thousands of families so re- Communists or friends of Com-and roll overhead to the branches. munista, a circumstance which of a live oak tree which is up
loft. Is all to the good.
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to food their children. Rather than The Choir burats into "Hallelu Why are these children bought and, let them starve to death the parents jal," and continues until the- sold as slaves? Is it that the Chl- (Continued on Pago 2.) lights go up on the next scene)..
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