Word: mayfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alcoholic steelworker, appropriately named Tank (Julian Mayfield), is rejected by his white employers and his black power-hungry companions. When one of the rebels murders a man during a holdup, Tank, blinded by resentment and fumes of booze, turns him in for $1,000 in reward money. Assailed by guilt, he abruptly endows a sidewalk preacher and a bunch of barflies with $20 bills. Militants spot the trail of green and run Tank to earth. Almost gratefully he accepts their revenge: a bullet in the stomach...
...original, Victor McLaglen played the informer as a wounded bull. Mayfield portrays him as a dray horse, faithfully clopping to the fadeout. The Informer was consistently Irish. If Up Tight's cast is Negro, the script is in straight blackface, with such lines as "Nonviolence is a self-defeating mother." Its bogus climaxes are reminiscent of the '30s' group-theater lyricism, as when Tank wails at a smeltery, "You noisy beautiful bastard, remember me?", or when he roars, "The city is killing me ... it's killing both of us." Because Up Tight was filmed...
...Sara Mayfield's chatty account of "the Sage of Baltimore" is another link in the seemingly endless sausage of Menckeniana. Miss Mayfield, an Alabamian who was a close friend of Mencken, is most revealing on Mencken the professional bachelor who finally gave in at the age of 49 and endorsed monogamy as "comfortable, laudable, and sanitary...
...CONSTANT CIRCLE: H. L. Mencken and His Friends by Sara Mayfield. 307 pages. Delacorfe Press...
...Rochester and New York. "What's all this white trash doin' round here?" asked one Negro woman as she made way for the Romney cavalcade in Washington. Nonetheless, the response in the slums was generally enthusiastic. "I think he's a cool dude," said Rufus ("Catfish") Mayfield, head of PRIDE, a Negro self-help organization in the capital. "I mean...