RACIAL SEGREGATION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 June 1924, Page 10

RACIAL SEGREGATION.

A THEATRICAL “COLOUR-LINE.”

n.-mT \ olk I s threatened with a negro a dd to its many racial difficulties and conflicts (says the New York StamH7 o l\ dei Ti l Of the London Evening “Cr r d l' J t gl T th of tfl6 so-called du, inf J 1 haS U f n so continuous half S I€ce “t years that there are-now -m i' a ’2°f eil f garters in the eitv, i f | T famil , les constantly are comenoml if lUO r be^ use °f the Hamitic . resentments have ausen on this account. The whites, repeating before the blacks, have patientio °V° I,e,t »E ..CTonl •bo if ™ • ? or al ' e , these difficulties ‘nef yr ffjc T. th . negr °e s in busiDositinnf °+ tlie b acks occupy menial positions in town, or are employed as n°eZ?s Z? lU T 2 - cara * Thefoct that H es Ilve Y 1 their mvu zo »es, bavinfr eoutaff prevents dailv contact with the whites. But the negroes are now developing their talent or acting a way that\ attract^ in e H ot lT f intellec tnal whites. Here" 3 u the theatre, at last a point of com pofsibilßv ll^ I ' 6^l - 6 ? 1 and this Peculiar P ssioility of racial segregation beiim iJ' tlw “*¥«» tolerant Caucasian*. lor several seasons the blacfcs have run their own theatres Hof nuff'f lt6S Wer6 tolerated - but n f td to eomG - Some whites seeking new sorts of thrills and faded a?ricM same ? es ®. of the Broadly tS utucal productions, made occasional . ommeys into the “Congo belt” in Haf lem and reported that a naturalistic school of acting well worth seeing was being developed by the blacks. From thisbeginning the whites have taken an increasing interest in black actors and actresses. The fame of the blacks nas greatly assisted by Eugene O’Neill tie playwright 0 f New York’s • vouim intelligent” who are seeking' a ret turn to primitive motifs and the naive crudities of the simple life as a relie' from the tense and painful efficiency demanded by modern utilitarianism'' But with New York’s negro plays increasing, the problem of seating mixed audiences has arisen. Whites do not want to sit with blacks in America. So the Jim Crow method of the South is now being planned. That is to say, part of the theatre will be reserved for one race and part for the other. Thus it is that New York's melting-pot is turning sooty.