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Word: maceo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotel. Weird guests arrive-a black man in white tie and tails with a gorilla, a headless man carrying his head, a magician who scares Schenectady by materializing a goldfish bowl on his head, a "Lonesome Ranger" astride a goat, an invisible man who keeps appearing, and Brutus Blake (Maceo B. Sheffield), who holds a mortgage on Schenectady's hotel. Most of the horseplay centres around Brutus, who tears up floors and walls hunting for hidden gold, scares the chambermaid, gets chased by the gorilla, by his wife, makes love to lovely Lady Queenie (Margarette Whitten), the hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Laughter | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...woman customer went into such hysterics she had to be led out. On hand was Producer Zanuck's assistant, Poloist Aidan Roark. But he was blacked out by the burlier presence of the picture's villain, enormously popular colored Cinemactor Maceo B. Sheffield. Also present was Producer Friedrich's Scripter Dana Burnett. The surges of surflike laughter told both scouts that the canny Parson Friedrich had scored again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Laughter | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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