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the new york magazine program

who's who in the cast
RICHARD B. HARRISON, who enacts the Lord, scores outstandingly in his first appearance on the Broadway stage. The sixty-six-year-old player is a well-known Negro dramatic reader and instructor who career covers a period of forty years in recital and theatrical performances in schools, churches, colleges, Chautauquas and clubs throughout the country, Mexico and Canada. He was born in London, Ontario (the son of slaves who fled to Canada as refugees) and was educated at the Detroit Training School of Dramatic Art and the A. and T. College, Greensboro, N. C., where he subsequently headed the dramatic department. He is a member of the Lecture Staff of the Greater New York Federation of Churches.

DANIEL L. HAYNES owes his stage career to the printing plant he owns. He was soliciting printing when he learned that Charles Gilpin needed an understudy in the play, "The Bottom of the Cup." He applied for the job. Eventually he played the leading role—and found himself definitely embarked on a stage career. He later played the blind preacher in "Earth," presented by the New Playwrights Theatre; was in the Miller and Lyles show, "Rang Tang," and played the part of Joe in the original production of "Show Boat" when Jules Bledsoe, whom he understudied, was sick. His most noteworthy achievement was his superb rendition of the leading role in the first all-colored motion picture made, "Hallelujah." Shortly after his graduation from an Atlanta university, he went to the University of Chicago to prepared for his M.A., and plans to return to his studies. His ambition is to be a minister.

WESLEY HILL has had an interesting theatrical career. For seventeen years he toured vaudeville with the act, Hill and Hill. His two most prominent engagements were in "Shuffle Along" and "Porgy."

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DIVERTISSEMENTS

Charming little somethings meant for pure enjoyment—like Camels.

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CAMEL CIGARETTES
combine the choicest qualities of fine tobaccos: fragrance, mildness, flavor, taste.
© 1930, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C.

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