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THE MAROON TIGER
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JOSEPH R. JONES, DRAMATIST. PRESENTED BY
MOREHOUSE STUDENT BODY
A complimentary advance presentation during the
regular chapel period on Thursday, May 4, was so well
attended with keen interest and enjoyment as to assure
the Activity Committee of a representative audience on
the following Friday evening, at which time Joseph R.
Jones was presented to the public in full recital assisted
by the Morehouse Quartet.
The first portion of the program consisted of a group
of Negro Sermons, Creation by James Weldon Johnson,
Judas Iscariot by Countee Cullen, and an exegesis on
Goodbye Christ by Langston Hughes. After very fit
ting introduclions of his own composition, the drama
tist went into ihe readings with such a dramatic finesse
as to hold the audience spellbound. His interpretations
of the Negro minister were quite suggestive, and of
course, equally as amusing.
Part two was taken up with two of Dunbar’s sketch
es, In the Morning and Encouragement, also an origin
al dramatization, The Country Lover. For pure entertain
ment, this portion of the program excelled as was re
flected by the healthy laughter which greeted practically
each line.
A more serious strain pervaded the third portion of
the program as scenes from Shakespeare’s Richard III
and O’Neill’s Emperor Jones were very well enacted.
Condemned To Death, the dramatist’s own one-act
play, was very well received.
The audience, although somewhat small, was well satis
fied with the evening’s entertainment and we of More
house heartily endorse Joseph R. Jones as a high-grade
entertainer of unusual ability.
IN THE TIGER’S PAW
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return games with Talladega and took both of them by
a 26-22 and 20-18 score.
This ended the season for Morehouse College.
The track season was brief and consisted only of a
trip to Tuskegee to compete in the annual track and
More Spice
Gratitude
“Are you the man who saved my boy from drowning,
yesterday?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Well, where is his cap!”
Obedient Wife
Young Wife: “Mother, I can’t live with Bill. He made
faces at me and told me to go to the devil.”
Mother: “And what did you do?”
Young Wife: “I came right home to you.”
Baseball
“Smith, it says here that Mr. Jackson pelted the pill
for three sacks. What does that mean?”
“Be it known, Helen, can’t you understand plain Eng
lish? It means that he slugged the sphere safe and land
ed on the third pillow.”
Darkins said that Allen is dumb enough to think that
a cod fish ball is some kind of a dance.
field meet held at that school. As brief as it was, it
proved disastrous. Only one place was brought back
and that a third in the two-mile relay. Somehow, “Josh”
and the rest couldn't get going. It took a complete
Freshman team, composed of Wideman, Baugh, Adams,
and Merriweather to bring in a medal for Morehouse.
Thus ends the athletic season for Morehouse—Three
wins and four losses in football; six wins and ten de
feats in basketball; a third place in one event for the
track team. Let us, for the sake of brevity, call it,
“bad breaks.”
MOREHOUSE AGAIN PLEASES ATLANTA
WITH SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA
After several hours of tedious work by a well-organ
ized staff, the many yards of unbleached muslin were
so artistically decorated as to transform again Sale Hall
Chapel into a veritable Shakespearean theatre. In this
very suggestive atmosphere the Shakespearean drama,
Richard III, was presented by the Morehouse Student
Body, Monday and Tuesday evenings April twenty-fourth
and twenty-fifth.
The spotlight fell first upon the villanous Richard,
then Duke of Gloucester, who in masterful sililoquy,
introduced the intrigue which was to follow.
The success of the production is not attributed to
any one department; but, rather to the splendid cooper
ation of all participants, the entire cast, the directress,
the stage designer, his assistants, and the many others
whose work insured a smooth-running presentation.
As one thinks of the acting, the excellent portrayal
of Richard as given by George Smith comes immediately
to mind. None the less was the fluent coercion of Ra
phael Mclver, as Buckingham. Much favorable com
ment must be passed upon the supporting casts: Ra
phael Mclver, as Buckingham; Erostine Coles as Mar
garet; Willie Dobbs, as Lady Anne; Millie Dobbs, as
Queen Elizabeth; Curtis Miller, as the Duchess. The
outcome of the plot brought forth an unusual display
of talent from the rest of the cast.
The stage sets were designed by Wilmer Jennings.
The play was ably directed by Miss Anne Cooke.
Chicken thieves broke into Socialist Norman Thomas’s
chicken houses on Hunting, L. I., and took 50 of the
100 hens which Mrs. Thomas raises to supply eggs
for her Manhattan Tea Room. Socialist Thomas, who
favors equal distribution of wealth, put a stout lock
on the chicken house.—Time.
It Is Shakespearean, Anyway
Two campus aesthetes recently overheard:—•
“You know, I feel what Hamlet did when he said: ‘0
Death! Where is thy sting?”
“Hamlet didn’t say that.”
“No? Well, who did?”
“Otnello said that.”
“Well, what did Hamlet say?”
"Hamlet said, 'My kingdom for a horse’.”
“Well, that’s nice, too.”
English Prof.: “What figure of speech is ‘I love mathe
matics’?”
Stude: “Irony.”