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...milksop forced by fate to be a prizefighter. However, unlike Chaplin's Modern Times (TIME, Feb. 17) which would have been nonexistent without Chaplin, The Milky Way might have been a shade funnier if Producer Lloyd had cast someone other than himself in the leading role. Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), a craven milkwagon driver who, in order to preserve his feeble physique, has perfected the art of ducking punches, tries to rescue his sister (Helen Mack) from two drunks. When he ducks a punch from one of the drunks, it knocks out the other, who turns out to be Middleweight...
Score--Harvard 12, Boston Lacrosse Club 2. Goals--Edmands 5, England 4, Bosworth 3, Maddux, F. Martin, Woodward. Substitutions--Harvard: Howe, Clos, Purdy, Maddux, Wood, Hartshorne, Carter; Boston Lacrosse Club: Henderson, Hyerson, Ghriskey, Crawley, Morrissey, Rohn Martineau, B. Martin, Burleigh. Referee--Ward. Time--Four 15-minute periods...
...wrote the book for the show, gathered around him such Negro musicians as N. Clark Smith, son of an African tribesman and an authority on African music, William Vodery, who arranged most of Ziegfeld's Show Boat music. Will Marion Cook ("Ghost Ship"), Harry Lawrence Freeman ("Voodoo"), Harry T. Burleigh ("Deep River" ). J. Rosamund Johnson ("Lazy Moon," "Under a Bamboo Tree"), W. C. Handy. No member of the cast of 5,000 was paid a cent. Proceeds will go toward developing young Negro talent...
Appearing with a bundle of roses, Burleigh diffidently asks where . Speed wants him to put them...
...hilariously happy ending is effected by daffy Burleigh with the aid of a milk distributing project and six St. Bernards...