## THE NEGRO ACTOR

THE Negro has made distinctive as well as curious contributions to the theatre of the white race. In rag-time and eccentric dancing Africa has given our stage those two forms which — ironically enough — are its only distinct and characterizing features. From the spirituals of the old plantations and the songs of the Negroes along the levees sprang a musical art which has spread across America and the Atlantic and throughout Europe. From Cole and Johnson and from Miller and Lyles have come songs that the whole world has sung.

The singers, too, have reached fame, though not a fame so wide. Miller and Lyles themselves, Florence Mills, and the players of "Shuffle Along" and "Runnin' Wild" have made a new vogue for the colored musical show. Almost a generation ago it was the team of Williams and Walker that led them all, and for many years Bert Williams stood level with the best of our comedians. His place in the Ziegfeld Follies went un-

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CHAINS
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CASANOVA
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AREN'T WE ALL
By Frederick Lonsdale

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## NEXT SEASON

THE Provincetown Playhouse will present five subscription bills next season and one or more special productions. These will be selected from the following:

* A New Play by Eugene O'Neill.

* "The Colonnade," by Stark Young.

* "The Murder in the Whistler Room" by Edmund Wilson.

* "The Book of Revelation," a dramatic arrangement by Eugene O'Neill.

* "Beyond" ("Jenseits"), by Walter Hasenclever.

* "Love for Love," by Congreve.

Subscription books for next season are now open. Membership for the year, including admission to the five regular bills and the privilege of buying guest tickets for these and the special productions, will be $11, including tax. For the premiere of each bill the subscription price will be $16.50. Make checks payable to M. Eleanor Fitzgerald, 133 Macdougal Street.

## THE PERFECT ENCORE

To enjoy a good play to the full, read it before or after the performance. Read "ALL GOD'S CHILDREN GOT WINGS," contained in one volume with "WELDED." It is the first volume of Eugene O'Neill's plays in two years. ($2.00)

### All of EUGENE O'NEILL'S

*Plays Bear Our Imprint*

"Beyond the Horizon," (Winner Pulitzer Prize 1921) $1.75. "The Emperor Jones," "Different," and "The Straw." 1 volume, $2.00. "The Hairy Ape," "Annie Christie" (Winner Pulitzer Prize 1922) and "The First Man." 1 volume, $2.00. "The Moon of the Caribbees" and Other Plays of the Sea, in the Modern Library. 95¢ per volume.

Other good plays of the year from our list are "Rain," "The Swan," "Outward Bound," "Husbands and Lovers."

In the Modern Library are representative plays by modern masters of the drama, at 95¢ per volume. Ibsen, Schnitzler, Oscar Wilde, Strindberg, Tolstoy, W. S. Gilbert, O'Neill.

Your postal, or phone (Bryant 6166) will bring you a complete catalog containing interesting information about these books as well as about other books.

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challenged season after season.

Negroes have appeared frequently and prominently on the professional stage of America since the days of the Civil War when the minstrels had their beginnings. Their most notable performances in New York in recent memory include Charles Gilpin's appearance in "The Emperor Jones" at the Provincetown Playhouse, those of the Colored Players at the old Garden Theatre under the direction of Robert Edmond Jones, and Paul Robeson's engagement in "Taboo" by Mary Hoyt Wyborg, in a part that he played later in England opposite Mrs. Pat Campbell.

The most extraordinary stage career of any Negro player was that of Ira Aldridge almost a century ago in England. In 1826 this actor—who was romantically reported as the son of a Sengalese of kingly blood—appeared at the Royalty Theatre, London, as Othello. For the next ten years he played in the tragedy of the Moor, and in "Macbeth," "Richard III," "Hamlet" and "The Merchant of Venice," touring England and Ireland. In 1833 he was invited to appear in "Othello" at Covent Garden, and for thirty years more he was an intermittent visitor on the stages of England and the Continent. Among the addresses who played Desdemona to his Othello was Madge Robertson, later the celebrated Mrs. Kendal.

## Provincetown Playhouse

133 Macdougal St., N. Y.

KENNETH MACGOWAN
Director

ROBERT EDMOND JONES

JAMES LIGHT

EUGENE O'NEILL

STARK YOUNG

Associate Directors

M. ELEANOR FITZGERALD
Manager

CLEON THROCKMORTON
Technical Director

HARRY WEINBERGER
Legal Advisor

STELLA BLOCH HANAU
Press Representative

## From the Collection Of Carl Van Vechten

### MARIARDEN

Peterborough, New Hampshire

*A Summer School of the Drama and Dance
Instruction by distinguished professionals
on a perfectly equipped outdoor stage.*

Advisory Committee

Margaret Anglin

John Craig

Richard Bennett

Ruth St. Denis

Jane Cowl

Theresa Helburn

Ina Claire

Kenneth Macgowan

Mary Young

Samuel Merwin

Adrienne Morrison

Ted Shawn

Stuart Walker

For a descriptive catalogue address

LUCY P. CURRIER, 8a Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass.

Open daily until 1 A. M.

After Theatre Entertainment

Russian Inn Quartet and Soloists

## The Russian Inn

(a cool place)

LUNCHEON — TEA — DINNER — SUPPER

33 West 37th Street

## Pig'n Whistle

A Greenwich Village Dining Institution distinguished from the "common place"

175 WEST FOURTH STREET

*Noted for its*

REFINED CLIENTELE
DELICIOUS FOOD
EXCELLENT SERVICE
EXTREME CLEANLINESS

Luncheon 12-2—60c.

Dinner 5:30-8—85c.

Closed Sunday

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Scene 4—The street before a church in the same ward. A morning some weeks later.

Act II: Scene 1—A flat in the same ward. A morning two years later.

Scene 2—The same. At twilight some months later.

Scene 3—The same. A night some months later.

Stage Manager, Harold McGee; Assistant, John Taylor.

Assistant Technical Director, Samuel Selden.

THE DRAMA, LIKE THE SYMPHONY, DOES NOT TEACH OR PROVE ANYTHING
—John Millington Synge

## TRIANGLE THEATRE

A group of clever, professional actors in unusual one act plays. Every night including Sundays. Curtain at 9:15

YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION $1.00

GENERAL ADMISSION 1.65

Seventh Avenue, between 11th and Perry Streets
Greenwich Village, N. Y. C.
Telephone Watkins 1927

Telephone Drydock 7516

Every Evening (except Mon.)

Opening
MAY 20th

“The Grand Street Follies”

Orchestra $1.50; balcony $1.00, 75c.

Come around the corner to the
SAMOVAR
OF GREENWICH VILLAGE

The oldest and most unique for good food, good music and dancing.

LUNCHEON

DINNER

SUPPER

150 WEST 4th STREET
Telephone Spring 1070

GOTHAM
BOOK
MART

“THIRST”
and four other one act plays by Eugene O’Neill
(first edition, out of print) $2.75

Books Old and New
*Especially about*
The Theatre, Costume, Arts, and Decoration

Catalogue of unusual books mainly First Editions.

51 WEST 47th STREET
NEW YORK CITY

 Songs from "Fashion"
 "Walking Down Broadway,"
 "Call me Pet Names,"
 and "Not for Joe"
 are on sale 25 cents each, at the Box Office and at the Greenwich Village Theatre, where "Fashion" is now playing.

GOLDEN PTG. SERVICE, N. Y.