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HIS PEOPLE
He recently introduced another lovely ballad, enttiled "Alley Way of My Dreams." In addition to this, Muse is completing an exquisite number, "I'm Spiritual," which he hopes will be honored by Lawrence Tibbett in the latter's next concert program.
Clarence Muse, who created the title role in DuBose Heward's play, "Porgy," names Paul Robeson, Bill Robinson. Roland Hayes, and Charles Gilpin as the greatest quartet of Negro players who have ever lived, modestly leaving himself out. Yet Gilpin, for whom O'Neill wrote the classic "Emperor Jones," was a bit player in Muse's company, the famous Lafayette Plavers of New York.
Muse, alone of the five, had found success in talking pictures, although Gilpin, just before he died, was to have played in an early talkie. The colored star has survived in the talkies where others of his race have fallen by the wayside for obvious reasons. Black or white, the varied requirements of the sound films are such that only those with a full and complete background of accomplishment and talent can emerge on top.
"It is impossible to over-emphasize the importance of experience," Muse contends. "The ability to troupe in most any kind of role, to invent characters, to portray unheard-of individuals with sincerity, all comes with repeated appearances on the boards. One learns more than just ease. He finds his tongue, he discovers an ibility to create characters out of words — personalities that walk and breathe and life
strongly," he declares, "The importance in my life of the years I spent barnstorming up and down America with vagabond Negro troupes. My experience with the Lafayette Players in New York, with my school in Chicago, where I taught youngsters the rudiments of the drama, of the great fund of experience I derived from producing, staging and enacting a leading role in "Thais," in St. Louis, with 190 amateurs in the cast of characters.
"These," he says, "have formed so rich and complete a background, that no role, simple or difficult, can worry me. I give it the best in me, my complete, natural and understanding interpretation, and usually I find this to be the required thing. I have no ego, but my faith in myself, in the experience I have piled up over a quarter of a century of trouping is strong."
He has a stucco home in Los Angeles, well guarded by a huge police dog . . . a present from Sam Bischoff, production head of Tiffany Studios who is Muses good friend. His wife, a cultured, slender woman, ranks as one of the finest cooks who ever blessed a man's table with luscious edibles. Muse also has a son, Dion, who is a promising writer, and a daughter. May, who sings with him over KNX.
A college man, cultured and well-read, Muse nevertheless plays illiterate parts with finesse. His understanding of human nature runs deep and full — he wanders knee-deep in the stream of Life. At the right, in the white cap, is Clarence Muse in the comedy character of "Jackson." the singing cook with Bill Sharpies Breakfast Gang on KNX.
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