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AFRO Critic Says Oscar Micheaux, Harlem's Shoestring Producer, Could Have Turned out a Better Job; Race's Supposed Simplicity Given as Excuse for Making Cheap, Shoddy Production.Pastures'’ makes out with n score I of bedraggled, non-descript per- j formers, who look like they were 1 recruited out of the wash tubs. ;Where Ben Hur” used a thou- jsand gladiators in a battle beforeNero. “The Green Pastures usestwelve soldier* in one of the great battles of Biblical history.Even the colored brother’s vaunted simplicity c!oos not pre-Thc scene depicting the fall of the walls of Jericho, which could have boon built into a mighty and impressive spectacle, was dismissed witli the sound of drums in the distance.The scene showing King Pharaoh on his throne, which! could have been done with finesse ■ against a background of Egyptian 1 splendor, was glossed over with a ; handful of laganuiirtns in a barn j that would have done credit to a S la blown lodge room—but all this Marc Connelly and his cohorts I will tell you is the colored race’s isimplicity.”There isn’t a colored man bom 1 who doesn’t think of heaven as a place a million times more gaudy than anything the white man ever conceived and the more “s;m-FRIDAY TO MONDAYBEX INGHAMwGreen Pastures in the Movies Is Called Insult to De Lav/d
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, Jul 25, 1936
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