The Knights of Mary Phagan. by Achtung Juden

RIP Mary Phagan and F you sorry POS MFer’s who are still trying to claim her killer was innocent! Information that the ADL doesn’t want you to know. Learn WHY?The Dark Side of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. This is a Jewish group which stems out of the Masonic Order of B’nai B’rith. This group exerts much influence in government & media to combat what it perceives as: ‘racism, anti-semitism and hate’. The 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, convicted of murdering 13-year-old Mary Phagan, is the stuff of books, movies and now a Broadway play. None of them, says Mary Kean, get it right. “The inaccuracies bother me,” says Kean, who has been a student of the infamous case since she herself was a 13-year-old girl named Mary Phagan after her great-aunt. The first Mary Phagan was found strangled to death at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta on April 27, 1913. Leo Frank, the factory’s manager, was convicted on the testimony of janitor Jim Conley, who said Frank ordered him to hide Mary’s body in the factory basement and plant a note on the body blaming the crime on “a light-skinned *****.” In August 1915, days after his death sentence was commuted to life in prison, a group of about two dozen men from Marietta snatched Frank from the Georgia Work Farm Prison in Milledgeville. Frank was lynched from an oak tree on Frey Gin Road in Marietta. The 1986 pardon of Frank cited by his modern-day defenders, Kean says, was granted without attempting to address guilt or innocence

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Parade Musical Come Up to my Office

McCallum Fine Arts Academy Fall 2012 musical. Connor Barr as Leo Frank

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Mary Phagan Murder case, Leo Frank

How the ADL got started in honor of a Child Molesting Murderer!

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All The Wasted Time – Parade

Sarah Pauley (Lucille Frank) and Lee Nishri (Leo Frank) 3rd Semester Show and Tell Duet Performance, 2011

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In the midst of mass hysteria, Leo and wife Lucille fall in love, maybe for the first time.

Bravo, Cygnet Theatre! Their largest production to date easily ranks among their finest. Cygnets doing such a magnificent job with Parade, its hard to believe the musical had an iffy track record.

Although it earned Tony Awards for book (Alfred Uhry) and score (Jason Robert Brown), Parade ran for only 84 performances. Some said the book was too bulky, others that Broadway is allergic to serious musicals. Both may have been accurate. A trimmed version now tours the provinces even Atlanta with great success. And Id stack Cygnets up against any of them.

Confederate Memorial Day April 26, 1913 Atlanta, Georgia: 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found dead in the basement of the National Pencil Company. Shed been raped and strangled. When he paid her wages, superintendent Leo Frank may have been the last to see her alive. He became a magnet for suspicions: he was nervous when police interrogated him in the dead of night; and he was a Yankee, educated at Cornell University, and a Jew.

Of the witnesses who paraded through Franks trial, several young women alleged that he violated them. Inflamed with anti-Semitism, itching to rush to judgment, Atlanta condemned Frank long before the judge sentenced him to death by hanging.

Like the infamous Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s (a Jew, wrongly accused of treason, condemned to Devils Island), Leo Frank ignited an international debate. When the governor commuted Franks sentence to life imprisonment in 1915, vigilantes snuck him out of prison. They drove to Marietta, Georgia, near Mary Phagans home, and lynched him. None wore masks or hoods. Some took photographs.

The tragedy prompted the return of the Ku Klux Klan and the birth of the Anti-Defamation League.

Two songs set the tone for Parade. Although it ended almost 50 years earlier, in 1913 many Southerners still referred to the Civil War as the recent unpleasantness. A full chorus belts out the prologue, The Old Red Hills of Home. They yearn for purer, antebellum times. The anthem recalls the eerie Tomorrow Belongs to Me in Cabaret.

Enter Leo Frank, alone: eyeglasses and frumpish-brown Yankee-style tweed suit (Shirley Piersons costumes are fingerprint-precise). When Leo sings a soliloquy, How Can I Call This Home? the excellent Brandon Joel Maier performs with his body and his strong, often pleading voice. Ticks and restless hands establish Leos nervousness long before the police arrive. Maiers every move sets him apart from his surroundings.

From afar, Parade sounds like yet another injustice of the month musical. Uhry, who wrote Driving Miss Daisy and The Last Night of Ballyhoo, re-creates the horror but also transforms his subject. In the midst of mass hysteria, Leo and wife Lucille fall in love, maybe for the first time. They commemorate their bond in a knockout duet, All the Wasted Time.

Played by Sandy Campbell, at first Lucille just wants to assimilate. Shes so sheepish and afraid, she may not attend the trial. Then Campbell does an amazing thing: almost imperceptibly Lucille expands and deepens and takes charge. She sings You Dont Know This Man and Do It Alone with such conviction its hard to imagine anyone else in the role.

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With “Parade,” Cygnet stages a powerful musical and makes it sing

Parade Cygnet Theatre

When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays-Thursdays; 8 p.m. Fridays; 3 and 8 p.m. Saturdays; 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays. Through April 29.

Where: 4040 Twiggs St., Old Town

Tickets: $39-$59 (discounts available)

Phone: (619) 337-1525

Online:

cygnettheatre.com

With its excellent production of Jason Robert Browns Parade, Cygnet Theatre has taken a dark, challenging musical about bigotry and not only made it sing, but made it scarily relevant. If you want to understand the sudden resurrections of Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum from their respective political graveyards, turn off the television, head into Old Town and see Parade.

Though the score and book won Tony Awards, the musical had only a brief run at Lincoln Center in 1998 and had to wait to find regional life after it was streamlined for London and L.A. in slightly amended form.

Parade tells the true story of the Atlanta trial of factory supervisor Leo Frank, a Jew convicted in 1913 of strangling teenage Mary Phagan, who worked there. A jury believed the D.A.-bribed testimony of African American convict Jim Conley and a bevy of gossipy factory girls over the apparent innocence of a religious outsider this Southern society feared.

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Playhouse Merced presents Parade

Running March 9 .- March 25, Playhouse Merced presents the beautiful, and powerful musical, ‘Parade’. ‘Parade’ concerns the true story of the 1913 trial of a Brooklyn-born Jewish factory manager Leo Frank who was accused of raping and murdering a 13 year old employee, Mary Phagan. The trial, sensationalized by the media, aroused anti-Semitic tensions in Atlanta and the state of Georgia. This amazing bit of history, combined with sensational acting, and a truly unbelievable musical score will keep you entranced as you watch, and is sure to spark a lot of talk and debate! Don’t miss this show!

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Author to lecture on 1913 killing, lynching

The events surrounding the 1913 murder of young Atlanta factory worker Mary Phagan and the subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, a transplanted northern Jew who was her employer and accused killer, prompted the founding of B’nai B’rith’s Anti Defamation League and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan.

Steve Oney, author of “And the Dead Shall Rise: the Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank,” will be in town Thursday to discuss the case and share his conclusions.

The lecture, sponsored by Chabad of Charleston and the Low Country, will be at 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Mount Pleasant, 250 Johnnie Dodds Blvd. Admission is $10, $5 for students, $180 for those interested in co-sponsoring the event. Sponsorship includes a pre-lecture cocktail reception at 6 p.m.

Oney’s book won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for best work on the nation’s legal system and the National Jewish Book Award for history.

For more information or to RSVP, visit info@southernspirit.org or call 884 2323.

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Meditation By Candlelight

Music from fifth CD “Where The Rainbow Ends” Copyright 2009 Music written and recorded by Leo Frank

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