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...colorful" and "primitive" expect of the race, just as people of another class expect vaudeville patter and tap-dancing. The pathos, based upon the low temperature of the ground enclosing somebody named Massa, is repetitious. All is redeemed, however, by the humor of a gaunt, pop-eyed blackamoor named Stepin Fetchit, cast as "Gummy," laziest of blackamoor husbands. The unpretentious story, genuinely moving at its best, at its worst a kind of Bostonian black-bottom, deals with an old Negro's denial and final acceptance of modern medical methods. Best shots-Gummy, whose feet hurt...
...Some of them told their intimate friends during the week before they were initiated into the Society that if they could bring it about after their initiation they would banish 'poppycock' forever. This displacement of the pins from the neckties is looked upon by collegians generally as the first stepin this direction.- N. Y. Evening Post...