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Devil tempting St. Peter, scene from the morality play "Heaven Bound," staged by the Big Bethel African Methodist Choir, at the Atlanta Theatre (23 Exchange Place), Atlanta, Georgia, August 1937

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Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers (Atlanta, Ga.)

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A roll of film from 1937 found in the Lane Brothers Collection. The Federal Theatre Project and the Atlanta Studio Group invited the Big Bethel to perform the pageant at the Atlanta Theatre. The play opened on August 10, 1937 and ran for a week. The play returned in January 1937, and again in 1938. For several years, the devil was played by Henry James Furlow.

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Georgia State University

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Choirs
  2. African Americans
  3. Atlanta
  4. Atlanta Theatre
  5. Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
  6. Choirs (Music)
  7. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.). Atlanta
  8. Georgia
  9. Heaven Bound (Morality Play)
  10. Moralities
  11. Religious Drama

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