Word: blackamoor
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Rhapsody in Black. Producer Lew Leslie, who used to put on an annual Blackbirds review with colored chorus girls, funnymen and blackouts, has evidently become very serious about the Negro's part in the art of the theatre. Rhapsody in Black spurns the traditional habiliments of a blackamoor review, presents instead "a symphony in blue notes and black rhythm." That is to say, the show is not very amusing. It is not boring either...
...More successful was another novillero, a handsome 19-year-old boy billed as Liceaga. Liceaga's first bull was small but excessively pugnacious. Stepping in the ring he displayed great showmanship by flourishing his muleta, dedicating the bull and throwing his hat to George Godfrey, huge U. S. blackamoor heavyweight fighter, who sat in a ringside...
...Chocolate's short, clean punches, went down for a count of eight, tottered when he arose, apparently hopelessly beaten. But he lasted out the round, was stronger in the next, soon began to pile up points, crowding Chocolate all the time, whipping clumsy but effective hooks to the blackamoor's kinky head and antlike thorax. After 15 rounds of it, referee and judges agreed that "cheese champion" was a real champion but the crowd, liking Chocolate's style, booed, tore up programs...
...Frankfort some evenings later the "Son of Heaven's" brother attended a Negro opera, Mahogany, rushed hastily into the street when objectors to this blackamoor performance broke it up with stink bombs. -Foreign Minister Dr. Julius Curtius is famed for continuing the late, great Dr. Gustav Strese-mann's "line" or policy of peaceful co-operation with France...
...Johnson, scrofulous sage of the 18th Century; BEN Jonson, Elizabethan playwright: JACK Johnson, blackamoor pugilist. *In a floppy felt hat and a pair of khaki trousers, Markswoman Foster turned in a card of 280 out of a possible 300 at 300, 500, 600, 900, and 1,000 yards on a windy day. Runner-up was a ''man in skirts"-Lieut. Alexander Eccles, Seaforth Highlander, with...