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...tells the story of a "bad nigger," coal-black, 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, who lives with his pious mother, a mild sister and brother in a one-bedroom tenement apartment on Chicago's South Side. In a flawlessly keyed first scene Bigger smashes a rat with a skillet, frightening his sister into a faint. Sullen and sassy through breakfast, he begs the last quarter in the house, joins his poolroom pals to plan a delicatessen stickup. Instead, getting cold feet, he picks a fight with them. Bigger and his pals play a game of mimic called "white," speculate...
...EAST and Ralph Dumke, were sons of Notre Dame, who appeared on the stage Charles Butterworth, pretender to stupidity, Notre Dame's Walter O'Keefe, later a buffoon. "East and Dumke" are now known as "Sisters of the Skillet." Charles B. has made a in movies and on the Fred Astaire stanza over a work. No promise of seriousness has been Mr. worth's. His has been a promise of madness, and must be accepted for South Bend, Ind., the Brothers, and the U. S. A. in general. The of the Skillet" are now known as the "Quality Twins...
...Jersey chicken run, know what crimes may be committed over his carcass. He and 50,000,000 other chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys from all over the U. S. are shipped to New York City every year. Long before he fulfills his destiny in the pot or skillet, an amazing crime ring has its bloody...
...danced. Apelike Funnyman Dr. Rockwell and Weber & Fields excited laughter. There was deep-voiced DeWolf Hopper, always willing to do "Casey at the Bat." The Wallendas, whom John Ringling found in Cuba, performed on the high wire. The Six Bronetts clowned. From radio came the successful Sisters of the Skillet. From the screen came Taylor Holmes. There were acrobats and jugglers...
Distracted, the rich and pious Shet Arjunlal dashed about like a Mexican jumping-bean on a skillet. When told that one dog had leaped over a barrier, chewed off the ear of another dog and eaten it, Shet Arjunlal tore his garments...