The green pastures
Contributors: Johnson, Hall, 1888-1970; Jones, Robert Edmond, 1887-1954; Bradford, Roark, 1896-1948; Mansfield Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1930
Language: eng
Description: Mansfield Theatre, Forty-seventh Street, west of Broadway, operated by Irwin S. Chanin and Henry I. Chanin, Harry D. Kline, managing director, Elbert Severance, general press representative. Laurence Rivers presents "The Green Pastures," a fable by Marc Connelly, production designed by Robert Edmond Jones, music under the direction of Hall Johnson, play staged by the author, Pulitzer Prize play, 1930. "The Green Pastures" was suggested by Roark Bradford's southern sketches, "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun".
Notes: Mansfield Theatre, New York, N.Y., week beginning Monday evening, May 26, 1930. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Charles H. Moore, Alicia Escamilla, Jazzlips Richardson, Jr., Howard Washington, Reginald Blythwood, Joe Byrd, Frances Smith, Homer Tutt, Anna Mae Fritz, Josephine Byrd, Edna Thrower, J.A. Shipp, Wesley Hill, Richard B. Harrison, McKinley Reeves, Daniel L. Haynes, Inez Richardson Wilson, Lou Vernon, Dorothy Randolph, Edna M. Harris, James Fuller, Louis Kelsey, Collington Hayes, Ivan Sharp, Tutt Whitney, Susie Sutton, Milton J. Williams, Dinks Thomas, Geneva Blythewood, Emory Richardson, Freddie Archibald, J. Homer Tutt, Stanleigh Morrell, Edgar Burks, Alonzo Fenderson, Mercedes Gilbert, Reginald Fenderson, George Randol, Walt McClane, Arthur Porter, Billy Cumby, Jay Mondaaye, Leona Winkler, Florence Lee, Constance Van Dyke, Mary Ella Hart, Inez Persand.

Color illustrated covers. Color illustrated advertisements on p. [2], [3] and [4] of cover.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).