Joseph Hirsch "The New Masses", following the July 1946 lynching of two black men and their wives in Monroe, Georgia. "The Burden" (1947) depicts a hollow-eyed American GI installing white cross gravemarkers in a military cemetery, while in the background a second GI unloads yet another jeep-full. Hirsch's poster for the original 1949 Broadway production of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" depicts a beaten-down Willy Loman trudging onward with his heavy suitcases. Hirsch was of German-Jewish heritage, but occasionally explored Christian themes. In "The Crucifixion" (1945), we see a close-up of the cross from behind, and the thick timbers block any
Harry S. Miller Eccentric Character and Comedy Sketch", a two-man play. Miller married his wife Levina and moved to Tyrone, Pennsylvania, where they gave birth to their daughter, Gladys Lucille, in 1905. Most of his music was published by Edward Taylor Paull (and the E.T. Paull Co.), a New England publisher at the time, who also composed "He's Goin' to Hab a Hot Time Bye an' Bye" for Miller. The date of Miller's death is unknown, but he was apparently still alive in 1908. Many of his songs have been lost, along with their date of publication, including: Harry S. Miller Harry S.