Mr. O'Neill Writes a "Revolting" Play
"Is you a nigger, Nigger? Nigger, is you a nigger?"
One adolescent Negro, in a play by Eugene O'Neill, takes another adolesscent Negro by the throat, asks those questions, and is answered in the affirmative. There is drama in the affirmation.
It is a drama of miscegenation, called All God's Chillun Got Wings. A black man marries a white woman. The marriage fails.
The dramatic miscegenation will shortly be enacted in the Provincetown Playhouse, Manhattan, by a brilliant Negro named Paul Robeson and a...
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