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Bowing off stage in a Brooklyn theater, the films' onetime Spirit of Fatigue, Stepin Fetchit, bowed into the waiting arms of two warrant officers. He was booked under his right name, Lincoln Perry, on a paternity charge...
Fair-haired Brooke is an Alabamian, moves with the speed of Stepin Fetchit. To rival golfers last week he became known as the "Virginia Creeper." But, creeping or no, Virginia's Brooke, during six days of rain, swamped one adversary after another. After Burke, went Princeton's Arnold Zimmerman, Mississippi's Gary Middlecoff, Holy Cross's Eddie Foy.* In the 36-hole final, Brooke faced the toughest foe of all: bespectacled Harry Hoyt Haverstick of Swarthmore...
After the first round, however, the greater part of the gallery of 300 trudged around after lanky, woolly-topped Howard Wheeler of Atlanta-watched him tee up on the edge of a match folder, shuffle along the fairways in a Stepin Fetchit gait, plop down on the greens while waiting his turn to putt. A onetime professional whose occupation has been "just walkin' round" since he lost his job at Atlanta's Lincoln (Negro) Country Club in 1933. 29-year-old Howard Wheeler proved last week that he could still teach folks a few golfing tricks. With...
Speeding through Harlem, drawling Negro Comic Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Perry) had a blowout, smashed his Lincoln sedan into an Elevated pillar, cracked his skull, demolished...
...Little Eva's death in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Admirers of the wonder child will be pleased with the talent the youngster displays in this sequence, and those who are not so impressed will appreciate the able acting of Frank Morgan as the grandfather, and he anties of Stepin Fotchit...