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...hotel. Weird guests arrive-a black man in white tie and tails with a gorilla, a headless man carrying his head, a magician who scares Schenectady by materializing a goldfish bowl on his head, a "Lonesome Ranger" astride a goat, an invisible man who keeps appearing, and Brutus Blake (Maceo B. Sheffield), who holds a mortgage on Schenectady's hotel. Most of the horseplay centres around Brutus, who tears up floors and walls hunting for hidden gold, scares the chambermaid, gets chased by the gorilla, by his wife, makes love to lovely Lady Queenie (Margarette Whitten), the hotel...
...woman customer went into such hysterics she had to be led out. On hand was Producer Zanuck's assistant, Poloist Aidan Roark. But he was blacked out by the burlier presence of the picture's villain, enormously popular colored Cinemactor Maceo B. Sheffield. Also present was Producer Friedrich's Scripter Dana Burnett. The surges of surflike laughter told both scouts that the canny Parson Friedrich had scored again...
Robert Q. Davis -- Miss Sylvia Maceo, Radcliffe...
Harlem on the Prairie was designed to play as many as possible of the 800 Negro theatres currently operating in the U. S. It is in no sense a burlesque. Jeff Kincaid (Herbert Jeffries) is very much in earnest about keeping Wolf Cain (Maceo B. Sheffield) from grabbing the cache of gold hidden many years ago by Doc Clayburn (Spencer Williams Jr.). Doc, now an honest peddler of snakebite remedies wants to return the money to the people he took it from in his outlaw days. His daughter, Carolina (Connie Harris), knows they never will be happy lessen...
...cast is an interesting cross-section of the upper crust of Los Angeles' South Central Avenue (Negro district). Villain Maceo B. Sheffield was for ten years the meanest looking cop on the L. A. police force, now owns a piece of the 41 Club, the 833 Club, the Montmartre and the Last Round. Connie Harris, who works in the Paradise Cafe in Yuma, Ariz., has been described as a streamlined coffeecake; Comedian F. E. Miller once wrote an all-colored show (Shuffle Along), which was better than most white musicals produced in its time, ran two years on Broadway...