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the members of Miss Brooks' workshop<br />
ended up as "winners .'' The<br />
famed poet presented the young<br />
writers with copies of two very popular<br />
books by black authors, John<br />
A . Williams' novel, Tl7e Mun Who<br />
Cried I Am, and Harald Cruses<br />
analysis of the black intellectual<br />
On Stage : The year got off to an<br />
auspicious start with the opening in<br />
New York of the <strong>Negro</strong> Ensemble<br />
Company's production of Peter<br />
Weiss' Song of the husitanian Bogey,<br />
which is mentioned elsewhere in<br />
these pages . . . A one-act play by<br />
Wilmer Lucas, Patent Leather Sunday,<br />
was scheduled for production<br />
in Seattle, Wash ., in February and<br />
March . . . A one-act play by Charles<br />
Self, of Kenner, La ., was produced<br />
by the Free Southern Theater during<br />
the February Festival of Afro-<br />
American Arts at llillard University<br />
. . Rob Curry performed the<br />
featured role of Randall, the mesmerizing<br />
murderer, in the Parkway<br />
Theater's production of William<br />
Hanley's Slow Dance on the killing<br />
Ground in Chicago . The Parkway<br />
Theater is one of the branches (the<br />
South Side on'e) of the city's famed<br />
Hull House . . During "Soul<br />
Week," the Festival of Black Art<br />
produced at Lake Forest College<br />
by the college's black students in<br />
January, a student production of<br />
.lean Genet's The Blacks was featured<br />
. There are only 60 black students<br />
among the 1,250 students at<br />
the college on Chicago's rich North<br />
Shore . . . Sidney Poiticr's debut as<br />
NEGRO DIGEST Mo"ch 1968<br />
(Continued from pine ,iQ)<br />
scene . The Crisis of the <strong>Negro</strong> intellectual<br />
.<br />
Meanwhile, Miss Brooks was appointed<br />
poet laureate of Illinois by<br />
Gov . Otto Kerner, as a highlight of<br />
the state's sesqui-centennial celebration<br />
. The previous poet laureate of<br />
the state was Carl Sandburg .<br />
director of Carrv Me Back To<br />
Morrzingside Heights came after<br />
N~cxo DIGfiST had gone to press.<br />
Whether or not the show was a success<br />
should be general news by the<br />
time this is published . Louis Gossett<br />
and Cicely Tyson have featured<br />
roles in the play . . As a member<br />
of the Lincoln Center Repertory<br />
Theater, Diana Sands has a role in<br />
the Center's production of Tiger At<br />
The Gates . Miss Sands' stint as St .<br />
Town brought her mixed notices . . .<br />
The play, The Great White Hope,<br />
will undergo extensive cuts before it<br />
opens on Broadway in the fall . James<br />
Earl Jones, who portrayed the Jack<br />
Jefferson (read Jack Johnson) role<br />
in the Washington, D . C., production<br />
(at the Arena Theater), will star in<br />
the Broadway production . . Josephine<br />
(Baker) the Great laid the<br />
groundwork for a series of spring appearances<br />
during her February visit<br />
to the United States . . . The February<br />
fire that gutted the New Lafayette<br />
Theater in Harlem ended-at<br />
least temporarily-another dream.<br />
Because of financial difficulties, the<br />
directors had postponed the production<br />
of Ed Bullins' In The Wine<br />
Time . Now the future of the theater<br />
is uncertain .<br />
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