'Thaddeus and Slocum' tries to smile through pain of racial inequality
In the Chicago of 1908, a couple of comedy song-and-dance men named Thaddeus and Slocum are trying to break into vaudeville at the 2-year-old Majestic Theatre and perform somewhere other than on the streets. Young Thaddeus is African-American. Young Slocum is white. They're good pals. Surrogate...