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| Dallas Express, 21-October-1922 |
I have mentioned before that I greatly admire John Harris, owner and manager of the Grand Central Theater in Dallas, who had a policy of showing race films. On 15-April-1922, the Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, dedicated a monument, “Lifting the Veil of Ignorance,” to its first principal, educator Booker T Washington. Reol Productions made a short documentary about the ceremonies.
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| Dallas Express, 28-October-1922 |
Reol Productions also made The Burden of Race, a feature-length feature film.
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| Birmingham Reporter, 07-October-1922 |
This issue of the Birmingham Reporter contained several small ads for the soon-to-open Famous Theater.
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| Birmingham Reporter, 07-October-1922 |
The Champion and Frolic Theaters in Birmingham advertised themselves as the "Best in the South for Colored People."
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| Annapolis Evening Capital, 27-October-1922 |
The Star Theater, "The only up-to-date colored theater in Annapolis, was showing The Crimson Skull, directed by Richard E Norman. The all African-American cast starred Lawrence Chenault and "Anna Bush, the Colored Cowboy Girl." Kid Canfield was a reformed gambler who appeared in two movies and in vaudeville.
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| Topeka State Journal, 21-October-1922 |
On the stage, Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones was successfully touring the country. Star Charles S Gilpin became popular. "Please Don't Mistake This For a Movie."
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| Topeka State Journal, 21-October-1922 |
Gilpin died in 1930 and Paul Robeson played the lead in a 1933 talkie.
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