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AFRICAN FIRE DANCE ARRANGED BY OTTIE GRAHAM Ottie Graham, Sadye Spence, Willie Finkley, Sara Pelham, Eltinge Holmes, Arliner Young, Beatrice Walker, Dorothy Gillam, Georgia Washington, and Ethel Jones. THE HOWARD PLAYERS THE EMPEROR JONES A PLAY IN EIGHT SCENES BY EUGENE O'NEILL DIRECTION OF MARIE MOORE-FORREST Persons of the Play in Order of Appearance AN OLD NATIVE WOMAN ------------------ Eunice Matthews HARRY SMITHERS, a white trader ------- Alston Burleigh BRUTUS JONES, EMPEROR ---------------- GEORGE WILLIAMS THE LITTLE FORMLESS FEARS ------------ JEFF --------------------------------- Walter W. Goens THE NEGRO CONVICTS: Harold Bledsoe, Purvis J. Chesson, Frank Monroe, Roscoe Evans, John Erskine. THE PRISON GUARD --------------------- John H. Broadnax THE PLANTERS: Bernard Walton, John H. Broadnax, Walter W. Goens THE SPECTATORS: Marcelle Brown, Beatrice Walker Arliner Young, Clyde Mobley, Ethel Jones, Grace Nash THE AUCTIONEER------------------------ Roscoe Evans THE SLAVES: Harold Bledsoe, Purvis Chesson, Richard Alston Roscoe Evans, C. Riley, Frank Monroe THE CONGO WITCH DOCTOR --------------- Bernard Pryor THE CROCODILE GOD -------------------- LEM, A NATIVE CHIEF ------------------ Purvis Chesson SOLDIERS, ADHERENTS OF LEM: Harold Bledsoe, Purvis Chesson, Frank Monroe, Roscoe Evans and Richard Alston
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