The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-03-25
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the place OF Negroes and Negroes
IN the place Of white people, has
started lot OF folk to thinking.
chief among them Wcstbrook
p elcr. irascible. crusty ScrIpps-
Howard syndicate columnist
II IS To be suspected that count
less black folk have spoken TO
themselves on countless occasions
and said II wish were white"
And then would come the thoughts
about what such a one would do
If he or She could change The
color 90 the skin. Ia texture OF
ihe hair and the contour OF the
features
II was not TO b. suspected that
white folk had been unduly con-
cerned about swapping their ra-
clal identity fo~ that Il colored
folk. and save for the wayward
white men rrd women who haunt
Harlem after dark. and those who
deep IN fhci, their hearts admire
the smooth. rich comnleNicns Of
their Negro sisters and try 70
look as Neercid rs possible
through the libcral application Of
ccriain dark face powders and so
forth. Tho white race has been
perfectly content 20 let things
stand as ihcv arc
Priest writes PLAY
However The Row = Father
Thomas McGlvnn Catholic
Priest got an idea about writing
play from hearing about and
reading about the plight o. the
darker brother. and his play was
lnredicai on theoretical prc-
sertaiIan " what The said darker
ihsoihcr woula do II be were on
ion md tie liahcr brother on
tho d tom ts such. "Caulkg.'
hts hrain-child has heen PLAYING
for Tie HIST 'Nrcc weeks az the
plackfriars Guild theatre On
broadway 70 surprised audi noes
Who for ihe first tmc PERTAINS
re wonacrlpr y after an Tho
negro IS absolutely no different
n 10 IN NllHc man IN his ipcli-
nations and psychological makeup
With mixed cast "caulkcy'
iclls The story az ihe Wentworth
clan. wealthy Nerroe7- who OK
nloit the Wits around thcm
There IS rent llccilns hcnch-
man who makes things miserable
fsr the moor waite femily living
on Wentworth prop riy There
ere The rcsiened witc mother;
The hollrerenf and omhiit rcd
son: Tho educated savc-ihe-race-
THROUGH. 'ucail n son The hope
loss rlrl friend and otNor char
actors However MI Tho Rev
Fatber Ntclynn rave his char
actors io work with IS swap IN
racial ~ uti,y with plenty q corn
in a, weak llimo einaiisc plot
borrowed From Pcrler
Westbrcok rcplcr. whose cycur-
slons along tho racial front have
quit frequently brought ltm FUR
Their into public dlsiasic tho 9TH
or week went into his scraphoak
to show ilai Father McGynn
isnt Of an ORIGINAL IN his en-
dcavor
Visiting from kansas CITY Pee
lr said II 500 VS. tho New York
ronefs that Father tn mas Me-
Glynn Catholic reesi has
written play presenting TIE
wliic man as The lnineritv and
Inc y gro as the majority IN our
country in appropriate rcyersals
az mo equation Jack Chapman,
Tho drama reviewer % the New
York Times. recalls that some
wears ago happened on a sim
ilar idea IN sketch FOR The
Dutch Treat show
TN my play called Old white
Joe. Tho old family r-tainer was
u crinrlnr white man Who was
iailcd into hich-suhnrban draw
ing room of Tho Negro arisio-
eracv md commanded TO bring
In The neld-hands end sing An
old folk.sanr for the rentlem
who we're all IN dinncr-iochefs
and hqeing their brandy while
Tho ladies' pqwd ared mp
Mr. Chapman SAYS that Mr.
Fordvcc. tho master Or Tho manor.
snarlcd 81 old Joe. "comc here
Won old whit bastard' That IS
not correct. What he said was
You. joe. come here. Won old
white rascal Thcn he asked him
how nlanv hams no r,ckoncd he
had stolen IN al, tho vcors. boy
and mar. that no hid been IN
Tho Fordvcc family and old White
Toe. said he reckoncd he didn't
never stole none lessen you could
call toxin stealth
Whlfo Problem Not Same
"AmorS the Negro guests"
wrote Pegler OF the Negro host
there was radical reformer from
New Orleans who kept saying that
nevertheless white men were hu-
man children OF the same loving
God. He was hollered down by
Negro clergyman who explained
that Down South they didn't have
The same white problem. Down
South the Negroes ware IN 81.