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...Daddy and I'm Craving for That Kind of Love. Looking like an iridescent flapper from the '20s, Ethel Beatty makes Memories of You a heartbreak blues. Just about the entire cast puts sizzling bawdy English into If You've Never Been Vamped by a Brownskin, You've Never Been Vamped at All. Miss Aggie apparently taught Eubie more than he could ever forget...
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...late Robert S. Abbott, publisher of the once-powerful Negro Chicago Defender, was soot-black. His two wives were white as snow. Wife No. 1 went around with her brownskin sister in order to prove that she was a Negro. Wife No. 2-Nordic-featured, with grey-blue eyes and straight chestnut hair-had no discernible relatives, dark or white...
...when Abbott let his pint-sized brother-in-law, a Florida lawyer, take over (1926), the Defender started down the skids. Livelier competitors (the Baltimore Afro-American and Pittsburgh Courier) grabbed a lot of Defender circulation with pictures of barer brownskin and high yaller gals, more chest-thumping against race discrimination. The Defender staff had to be harshly shaken up. The brother-in-law, bounced at last, sued the now-ailing Abbott for $85,000. Mrs. Abbott No. 1 won an expensive divorce suit. Abbott put his favorite nephew in charge of the paper. The Defender went from...
East of Borneo (Universal) is a combination of The Green Goddess and Trader Horn, of Hollywood and the Malay peninsula. Its heroine (Rose Hobart) is imperiled by the lechery of a brownskin potentate in silk leggings and by the lions, tigers, leopards, boa constrictors, crocodiles and monkeys of a jungle which seems to be more densely populated than a stadium football game and to contain an even larger collection of queer pelts and extraordinary noises. As is usually the case in films with which wild animals are intimately connected, the story is both quaint and trivial. A married lady penetrates...