Word: jake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are in New York only about a dozen really important producers. Their names remain fixed while those of actors shine and grow dark. David Belasco, Lee Shubert and his brother Jake, Sam Harris, "Ziggy," the Selwyns, George M. Cohan, Winthrop Ames, William A. Brady, A. H. Woods, George White, Dillingham-everyone who sees plays or reads about them has heard of these. There is only one new man among the first-line producers. Younger than the rest but equally successful, he took it easy last week while others were in a ferment of excitement, getting their new offerings ready...
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...
...unmistakable contempt for all things white. Many Caucasians will call it a lewd, crude book. It is certainly lacking in inhibitions. That is why it is more convincing, and hence a more significant work, than Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven. "Liquor-rich laughter, banana-ripe laughter," says Jake. That, plus sad rolling eyes, is Harlem...
...subject, and beneficiary, of last week's articles was one Joseph ("Jake") Pensendorfer. The press "discovered" him at the head of a woodworking factory near Camden, N. J. He and his 15 employes are all ex-convicts...
...block of billiards played yesterday in the Main Living Room of the Union, Jake Schaefer, world's 18.1 balkline champion, defeated Welker Cochran 250 to 69, and in a game of 3 cushion billiards he won over Cochran by a score...