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Gaunt Old Dr. Francis Everett ("The Plan") Townsend told Detroit's Recorder's Court Judge Edward J. Jeffries a joke: "The President went fishing once and forgot his bait. He looked over the side of the boat, cleared his throat, and said: 'My friends-.' A thousand...
Harlem on the Prairie was designed to play as many as possible of the 800 Negro theatres currently operating in the U. S. It is in no sense a burlesque. Jeff Kincaid (Herbert Jeffries) is very much in earnest about keeping Wolf Cain (Maceo B. Sheffield) from grabbing the cache...
If the cast kidded this plot the effect would have been tragic, but they play it straight, with frequently hilarious results. In Negro theatres it will be a conventional Western, and it can play the artier white houses as a parody. Best parts of the picture are the tunes, Harlem...
Hubert S. Shaw 1G, a Jeffries Wyman scholarship.
Beside the student committee there is also a faculty committee appointed from University Hall. The three men on it are: Raphael Demos, assistant professor of Philosophy and tutor in the Division of Philosophy and Psychology, William S. Ferguson, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, and Jeffries Wyman '23, assistant...