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rnitheheck\\lt;tscIhcreed eJeh•1 'uniod to ftBy PftT SUTTONhrti-s-r-a!ndifeTds?diaanothliejn‘ PHILADELPHIA. — Extemporaneous rhymmgs during church concerts m JacUiton. ir-Milted in many spanking jTrd1 started Mervdcs GiUvnl.- -tnr-of •‘Mulatto/’ on the road to theatrical success.Miss Gilbert. In piivatc life Mrs. Stevenson, is a Je^istered nurse, ,ranking •nutlfbr, singer in musical comedy .and vaudeville, song writer, metaphysician and poet. • And with these accomplishment*?, is most homefolksy.A tall woman, with a deep voice, penetrating eyes, she h^g mastered the art or .repose, and is the possessor or a self control that is not easily shattered.Although she never had any dramatic training. Miss XTilbcrt performed .fo? the neighborhoodchildren when she- was very young and ledjhpoj in their play.Shr says, MAs_dcep. religion, was horn In me*a-■ - always been tjtfcre'iteclyin - . God and Jesus.”if NtuJftv-rrytlme the churehor Sun- . day school opened Its door*) she was there. Her mother was an active .AME churrh worker. Many of her origl- ‘ nal plays were used In the Sunday school and she composed poems... These caily interests were thebasis of h'T two volumes of poetry, her new book. “Aunt Sara’s Wooden G«'d.“ a book pub-lishrd by' the Christopher Pub-| lushing Company, of Boston.After studying nursing at , Brewster Ho^p tal, In .latkson-I ville, and acting as as.-istant su-!-MS-to 1 h; P • U|P: tr ! to to tc ■ 111
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, Dec 30, 1939
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