Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bomboola. Out of the inexhaustible deeps of Harlem came this musical comedy, less percussive than last fortnight's amazing Hot Chocolates, tending more toward Negro moods of grace and .pathos. High spot: a party scene in which the dancing couples move their feet least of all and become revivalists at the entrance of the police...
Connie's Hot Chocolates is a ramified version of the floor show which is exhibited at a Harlem night club known as Connie's Inn. As in all Negro revues, there are banal scenes on the levee, dingy costumes consisting of overalls with patches on the seats of the pants. Yet for dancing, humor and dynamic showmanship, this is the best venture of its sort since Blackbirds. Best dancing: "Jazz-lips" Richardson (shuffles and sneaks). Best tune: "Ain't Misbehavin...
Theophilus Joseph, Negro, is a Harlem elevator man. His wife Henrietta works in a laundry. She wants their 19-year-old foster-son Ronald to follow his foster-father's footsteps and run an elevator. Ronald is not unwilling, but he hopes that perhaps the world holds for him something more purposeful than an elevator. Ronald's reason: last week he had 60 watercolors, charcoal and crayon drawings ?athletes in action, ships in dock?on exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He had been singled out as the most promising current artist product of New York City...
...Mirror. Many a Winchell reader does not believe all that he reads. Sometimes the Winchell prophecies are right; sometimes they are wrong. But Winchell worshippers have enlarged their vocabularies, learned many a word they never had heard before. Some Winchell Words are: "dotter"-daughter "moom pitcher"-moving picture "Hahhlim"-Harlem "gel"-girl "sealed"-married "Joosh"-Jewish "tome"-book "Horrors Liveright"-Horace Liveright "hush parlor"-speakeasy...
Somebody heard little Walter Winchell sing in a Harlem cinema house when he was 13, found him a sing-song job in Gus Edwards' Newsboy Sextet. That year, "incorrigible," "stupid," he quit school. Soon he was touring with a "gel," applauded by a few and egged by many as he hoofed and sang. As his voice grew deeper, his singing grew worse. After being laid off, in Durham. N. C., he fed chickens on a boxcar to get back to Manhattan. During the War he was Sailor Winchell...