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Waters, Ethel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ethel Waters Vocalist and actress Ethel Waters (1896 – 1977) was a key figure in the development of African American culture between the two world wars. She broke barrier after barrier, becoming the first black woman heard on the radio...
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Henderson, Fletcher
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...backing group for Black Swan artist Ethel Waters on her national tour. It was on...chump stuff that real jazz needs," Waters recalled (as quoted by Magee...it, Fletch began to practice," Waters said. "He got to be so perfect...
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Empire Theatre
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...Frohman's most celebrated stars, such as Maude Adams , Ethel Barrymore , and John Drew . After Frohman's death the...Keane ; Helen Menken ; Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne ; and Ethel Waters . The Empire was also home to America's longest...
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As Thousands Cheer
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...Lynched By Frenzied Mob” provided cues for Ethel Waters 's two great numbers, “Heat Wave”...such as Miller's impersonation of Barbara Hutton, Waters as Josephine Baker, Helen Broderick as Aimee Semple...
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Member of the Wedding, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...father, who ignores her, and Berenice Sadie Brown ( Ethel Waters ), the warm, understanding, thrice‐married...the Robert Whitehead offering a surprise hit, capping Waters's career and launching Harris into stardom. Revivals...
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Mandaeans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...death (as close as can be predicted). Water acts to clean away sins and impurities...earthly world. Because the baptismal river water symbolizes the lightworld, baptism becomes...to be occurring. Bibliography Drower, Ethel S. (1937). The Mandaeans of Iraq and...
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Lee, Canada
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...of the Federal Theatre Project , appearing in its all-Negro production of Macbeth in 1936. In 1939 he played with Ethel Waters in Dorothy Heyward's Mamba's Daughters , and he made a major impact as the chauffeur in Paul Green's outstanding...
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BIBLICAL ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...range of topics such as Noah's Ark , the Tower of Babel , the waters of Babylon , the writing on the wall , and the money-changers...x2019;, and stone rather than ‘brick’ ( Ethel M. Wood Lecture, 1950). Samuel Taylor Coleridge contended...
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Arber, Agnes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...particularly emphasized. It was there that Arber met the botanist Ethel Sargant, who was to become a mentor and lifelong friend, and...in 1927. During that time, she also wrote two more books, Water Plants: A Study of Aquatic Angiosperms (1920) and Monocotyledons...
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Joe Williams
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...which he learned to play a little, and he sang in church. On the radio he would listen to jazz and opera. Jazz singer Ethel Waters was an early favorite. When he was 14, Joe began singing with a gospel quartet, the Jublee Temple Boys, which he...
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