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Theatrical Sketches of Black Life in "Did Adam Sin" by Black Dramatist Lew Payton 1937

1937ref. 221321937. African AmericanTheaterLiterature Payton Lew. Did Adam Sin Also Stories of Negro Life in Comedy Drama and Sketches. Los Angeles: Lew Payton 1937. First edition. 132 pages. Original yellow wrappers printed in red and brown featuring an abstract graphic of a seated classical figure and a prominent red question mark in the background. A scarce self-published collection of dramatic sketches. Did Adam Sin represents a significant contribution to African American theatrical literature during the Harlem Renaissance's waning years. Written by actor playwright and vaudeville veteran Lew Payton the book offers seven stage-ready works that explore the lives struggles and humor of Black Americans in the early 20th century. Titles include A Bitter Pill Two Sons of Ham and Who Is De Boss blending satire pathos and social commentary with vernacular expression and period-specific concerns. Lew Payton began performing as a child in West Virginia and came of age as an entertainer during the height of Black vaudeville. Here Payton archives both the legacy of African American popular performance and his personal experience in street parades cakewalk acts and Hollywood film roles. The introduction recounts Payton's early experiences with minstrel circuits and his Los Angeles school for Black stage actors. This context situates the collection not only as literature but as pedagogical tool and cultural preservation. The plays foreground the racial dynamics resilience and humor of Black life offering roles that resist the demeaning stereotypes endemic to Hollywood and white theater. Contemporary scholarship increasingly cites Did Adam Sin for its historical value and its intervention into the politics of representation in American drama. Minor edge wear and light toning to wrappers; interior clean and bright; spine uncreased. Overall very good condition. A scarce and important work in the canon of African American theater notable for its authorship self-publication and its insight into Black performance culture during the interwar period. unknown

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Lew Payton; African American Film & TV; VaudevilleABAA

Theatrical Sketches of Black Life in "Did Adam Sin" by Black Dramatist Lew Payton 1937

Max Rambod Inc. · Estados UnidosUS$ 150,00≈ € 133,75

[African-Americana – Vaudeville – Minstrelsy] Black Patti's TroubadoursBiblio.com

Two Clipped Magazine Advertisements for M. Sissieretta Jones’ “Black Patti’s Troubadours”

1899ref. List2923Portland Oregon 1899. Two double-sided clippings measuring approximately 7 ½ x 4 ¾ inches both put together with tape. Slightly wrinkled and toned; excellent. Matilda Sissieretta Jones 1869–1933 was an African-American opera singer from Portsmouth Virginia. She studied at the Providence Academy of Music and the New England Conservatory in Boston. At the start of her career Jones sang solo or in small groups touring North and South America the Caribbean and Europe. Jones’ talent was renowned; she was the first Black artist to sing at Carnegie Hall and she performed for multiple US presidents and the English royal family among many other accomplishments.1 In 1896 she formed Black Patti’s Troubadours—Jones was given the nickname “Black Patti” by a critic after famed Spanish opera singer Adelina Patti. The Troubadours would perform comical vaudeville and minstrel skits without Jones followed by Jones performing her “operatic kaleidoscope” of musical excerpts. Offered here are two magazine clippings—based on the advertisements these were printed in Portland Oregon—promoting two Black Patti’s shows: “A Rag Time Frolic at Ras-Bury Park” and “Jolly ‘Coon’-ey Island”. The latter was written by Ernest Hogan a musician widely credited with creating the ragtime genre; he would become the first African-American performer to produce and star in a Broadway show 1907’s The Oyster Man. Jones’ kaleidoscope pieces include excerpts from Faust Pirates of Penzance and others; both shows also feature an audience-judged cakewalk. Of interest to scholars of M. Sissieretta Jones and African-American entertainers at the turn of the century. 1 “Jones M. Sissieretta ‘Black Pattiâ€™” in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience ed. Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Basic Civitas Books 1999 1064. unknown