Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HOME TO HARLEM-Claude McKay-Harpers ($2.50). Jake, a Negro, home from the World War, picks up a warm brown girl in a Harlem cabaret, gives her his last $50, spends the night with her. Next morning, after leaving her, he discovers in his pocket the $50 with a scrawl attached: "Just a little gift from a baby girl to a honey boy." But Jake had lost her address. So he finds new women, old drinks; becomes a longshoreman, a third cook on a Pullman, a quiet enjoyer of metropolitan fleshpots. In the end-Negroes, too, like it happy-Jake...
...such comic melancholy through Shuffle Along, are again on hand. They organize the Equal Got League, a millennial society which is even funnier than the Knights of the Green Forest; Mr. Miller is its cunning and listless leader, Mr. Lyles his henchman. There are also more strenuous Bedlamites from Harlem who break into loud melodious ululations; there is a skilful and frantically energetic black and blues orchestra and marty lively tappers and prancers of whom one, name unspecified, brandishes her mahogany limbs with incredibly vicious abandon...
...deal of patient teaching had gone into that performance, more perhaps than was normally expended on the most colorless cast. But these murmurs were not news. Knowingly expectant people let themselves into the tiny Princess Theatre for the opening of a play written and performed by Frank Wilson, onetime Harlem* mailman, now title actor in Porgy. Otto Hermann Kahn was there, Max Reinhardt, Sculptor Jo Davidson, able Actress Thimig from the Reinhardt troupe and Mayor James John Walker. Between the acts Mayor Walker ambled nimbly to the stage and praised the piece prodigiously. Which may get him the Negro vote...
...Instructions for appeasing a terrified Negro who is sprinting down the street with his clothes on fire. Lacking this data, Officer Rhodes of Manhattan did the next best thing: tackled 23-year-old Negro Edward Burnett, extinguished the flames with his own uniform overcoat. Negro Burnett, taken to the Harlem Hospital in a critical condition, said that he had been sleeping quietly on a doorstep until another Negro poured a pail of kerosene...
...largest Negro city in the world is concentrated on the eastern upper tip of Manhattan Island. But Harlem is by no means exclusively a Lincoln-loving land. That is, its inhabitants have learned, like their Jewish neighbors in the nearby Bronx, to vote wlth the Irish democrats of Tammany Hall; to admire Democratic Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith...