Word: burleighs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote the book for the show, gathered around him such Negro musicians as N. Clark Smith, son of an African tribesman and an authority on African music, William Vodery, who arranged most of Ziegfeld's Show Boat music. Will Marion Cook ("Ghost Ship"), Harry Lawrence Freeman ("Voodoo"), Harry T. Burleigh ("Deep River" ). J. Rosamund Johnson ("Lazy Moon," "Under a Bamboo Tree"), W. C. Handy. No member of the cast of 5,000 was paid a cent. Proceeds will go toward developing young Negro talent...
...James R. Ullman, producers). Besides skunk cabbages, Spring also produces here & there a bright-hued crocus. It was only to be expected that, somewhere within last week's vernal jungle of rank theatrical growths, one amusing piece would pop up its head. That piece is The Milky Way. Burleigh Sullivan (Hugh O'Connell) was a weakly child-"a Sagittarius baby," he recalls-who only survived his school days by his gift for adroit ducking. This talent he uses to good effect one evening when tipsy Speed, world's middleweight champion, and his trainer simultaneously swing...
Terrified at first, Burleigh gets to like his new job, does not realize that his string of one-round victories has been framed. Besides, he has acquired Mazie, a ponderous St. Bernard in a pink bow whose pupil-less eyes look out with uncanny wistfulness across the footlights. When reporters ask him if he is any kin to John L. Sullivan, Burleigh asks "Is he a fighter, too?" He is certain, however, that the championship is "in the bag." This piece of impudence so enrages Speed that, although he has about decided to foreswear the match as a favor...
Appearing with a bundle of roses, Burleigh diffidently asks where . Speed wants him to put them...
...hilariously happy ending is effected by daffy Burleigh with the aid of a milk distributing project and six St. Bernards...