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NEW YORK CITY~(S N S)~
Nationwide attention was focussed

on the un-American way Negro
workers are being excluded from
the naticnal defense program Sunday when, through the facilities
of the Columbia Broadcasting
System, a ~big broadcast~ of ~< the
world~s leading Negro artists was
staged.
} The broadcast was arranged and
staged by the National Orhan
= as the concluding feature

Nenana

MARIAN 2 chor a

Un-American Labor Practices
Flayed. In Sunday Broadcast ~

} Marian Anderson, Joe Louis, Canada Lee,
~Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, Bojangles
Robinson, Duke Ellington, Others Heard

of its ninth annual Vocational Opportunity Campaign.

* Canada Lee, star of the) Broadway success, ~Native Son,~ served
as narrator and announcer.

Given the next to closing spot,
Marian Anderson, recent winner of
the.coveted $10,000 Bok award, was
heard to good advantage in. two
spirituals, broadcast from Ontario,
Canada, where she is now appearing on concert tour.. McDaniel of the films arrived
Mtown this week after an eventful cross-country trip, What was
to be a quiet marriage with her
friend of ten years, James Lloyd
Crawford, ailer a piane journey
| from Lo, Angeles to Tucson, Arizona last Friday was turned into a
~gala occasion of congtatulations,
flowers and good wishes from several hundred townspeople and admirers.

Intending to get married Friday
morning, the coupie discovered that
the bridal bouquet had been left
behind in~ Miss McDaniel~s home
and decided to await its arrival on
the next plane. Meanwhile the
couple stopped in the home of Mr.

|

they were intrdouced to: the. Rey.
P. B. Cornelius, Baptist minister
and brother of their host. The quiet,
civil cererhony was definitely out

pon Rev. Cornelius'~s discovery
that Miss McDaniel~s was the
daughter of a Baptist minister.

NG AT CEREMONY

the couple were married, but not
$0 quietly as word~ of the occasion
had winged its way throughout the
and. brought a throng of peoto witness the nuptials, Mr. C.
" Cornelius, noted Tucson insurman, dnd his wife stood up
h the bride and groom as Rev.
~ us performed the ceremony.
Before leaving Tucson the couple
' the invitation of Mr. Maxwell,
ipal of the Dunbar High school
ited the student assembly where
McDaniel spoke briefly of her
is, admonishing the young
people to ~Give the best you have
6 life and the best will home back
pu~ Her speech ended, over four
fred students gave her an ova|, Shapped into a welcoming arc
faving arms through which the
idle and groom were led in triumph
ie "made the assembly room's rafta Ting with congratulatory cheers.
faking the Golden State Limitec
fof Tucson, Mr, and Mrs. James
d Crawford left for Kansas Cit;
~ they were greeted by a con:
mittee of welcoming friend, headib cam David and his, charming
ite 210na. (the Davises and
out in Denver. some

id. Andy Kirk and severil
~the nation~s top enter
NEW YORK~(SNS)-~Genial Rat

~and Mrs. C. D. Cornelius, where

And so at 5:30 Friday afternoon |

J

| Forgotten Bridal Bouquet

Saipber of the platen ~Gaatinta ~Rho
Sorority, St. Louis chapter, immediately spotted in the welcoming
crowd a score or so of her sorors
come to felicitate her..
GREETED IN HARLEM

The journey eastward was with
out further incident until tae
couple arrived at Harlem~s Hotel
Theresa Tuesday morning and were
warmly greeted by admirers who
were expecting them.

Miss McDaniel~s appearance and
Eddie Cantor~: ~ Wednesday. night
radio show was her second appearance with h:m in the last - two
months, having guest-starred on
the. Cantor show a few weeks ago
from Hollywood.

After the Cantor show, last year~s
Academy Award winner left New
York for Chicago where she appeared on the Greek War Relief
program Monday night.

Mr. and Mrs. Crawford say they
are trying to combine a smail
amount of werk with the pleasure
of their honeymoon.

Before leaving Hollywood, ~Miss
McDaniel, who is under contract to
Werner Brothers, completed work
in two picturesisoon to be released.
~The Great Lie~ with Bette Davis;
and ~Affeotionately Yours~ with
Merle Oberon~ and Denis Morgan.
After stopping in Denver, her home
town for a visit with old friends,
Miss McDanie! wili return to Hollywood to begin work in the forthcoming production, ~Reap the Wilc
Wind~ for which Warners has loaned her to Paramount.

Mr. Crawiord, the groom, is a native of Ottumwa, Iowa, and lived ir:
Butte, Montana and _ Sheridan,
Wyoming before moving to Los Angeles. He has been engaged in real
estate for many years. The couplé
plan to purchase @ small ranch outside Los Angeles where Miss McDaniel can get back to the good
earth she ves between pictures,

sat

URGE AGRICULTURAL
SCHOOL

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo~tANF)
~A delegation of.educators from
southeast Missouri urged establishment. of a Negro agricultural and
industrial school in their section of
the state before a house commit_tee Friday. afternoon.

PROPOSE PLACEMENT
SERVICE

WASHINGTCN~ (ANP)~Leaders of national religious, educational, civie political and other
groups: have expressed their approval of a plan advanced by Paul
A. Strachan. white, of this city to

aa Oe federal font ners oak

=. te endeavor to. omy em

| ploment. jac tnenty ined ah

men drafter for selective wetted

JOE LOUIS

Joe Louis, world~s heavyweight
champion, in an interview from St.
Louis; where he is now training for
the" sixteenth~ defense of his title,
served as a living example of the
potentialities of Negro skilled: labor. He described his experiences
while working on the metal: lathe
and assembly line of ah automobile
factory 1n Detroit.

Eddie (Rochester) Anderson in a
cleverly written skit delivered a
sermon in few words as.to the injustice.of American employers engaged in. national defense production, who persist. in barring. American workers of color. His... message was-heard from Los Angeles.

~ Also heard in the West. Caast
portion of the. broadcast was. Duke
Ellington and his famed orchestra.
The band, whick is rated tops in
(American ~dance music, played
Duke~s new. composition,. ~Flamin
Pon

Serine ~Georgia. é

Others given top billings on the
hour long show heard from five until six (pm.) eastern, standard
time were the sterling trumpeting
of Louis Armstrong and his orchestra, the golden yvyiolim. of Eddie
South, playing. ~Dark Eyes~; Eddie

commie?

of John Kirby and his orchestra;
the fine tapping of Bill (Bojangles)
-Robinson, who during his bit referred to his appearance last week in
Atlanta; Edward Matthews, bariton soloist,jand the Strong choir.

Brief messages dealing: with the
plight of the- Negro American in
the defense setup were delivered by
It. Governor Harry Poletti of
New York, an officer of. the National Urban, League, and Eugene
Kinckle Jones, executive secretary
of the league, who. was responsible
for the broadcast; and Hubert T.
Delaney, New York commissioner,

~Americans must wiske, democracy @ living thing,~ Mr. Poletti, in
a, stirring address, told the millions
of: hearers throughout. the country. He pleaded for fairplay for
the thousands of American. Negro
workers, recalling that the Negro
has: stood steadfast his loyalty
to the American flag from the
time. of the nation~s birth to the
present.

An address scheduled to have
been delivered by Mayor F. H.
LaGuardia of New York City, was
read by Mr. Delaney in the mayor~s absence., The message placed
the mayor~s endorsement.on the
campaign being staged by the
Urban League to. secure fairplay
and justice for Negro, workers..

The program was produced and
directed by Phil. Cohan. Before the
last notes had been sounded. telephones in CBS stations throughout
the country were ringing bringing
praises to the network for its fine
example in Americanism shown~ in
its, offering facilities to g*t across
the toe mesenge of ~ Negro worker.

itention

DUKE ELLINGTON

with a. vocal. being performed |

Green, the ~close-knitted rhythms |

lanta~s

rector,

Deep River Boys Fly: High:

* Louis~ astro

BILL ROBINSON Eee ~

The Deep River Boys, famed National Broadcasting Company quaetet after singing to asrecord-breaking audience Thursday night at AtMunicipal Auditorium are shown as they boardeg an airliner
early Friday morning fcr Washington, D. C., where they were scheduled
to Open a week~s engagement at the Howard Theatre.
peared here with Bill Robinson, under the sponsorship of the Southeastern Artists Bureau of which J. Nea] Montgomery ig managing di
The boys ap
WASHINGTON, D. C~(A N P)
~-Paul Rohkeson, barred from singing in the D. A: R.~ Constitution
hall, finds himself in another
dilemna, not because of any action
on his part, but because the sponsoring group has decided to hold
the concert in which - the noted
baFitone is appearing at the new
Uithe arena.

(Considerable agitation has been
spread through the city on/account
of an alleged jim-crow _ policy
adopted by the management of ~the
arena when it first opened.

There are those who say. they
went:to the arena, and there are
those just as positive who say they

Now, the sponsoring group ~ will

find that there is a definite antipathy. on the part of Washington

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Hartley Toots, Orchestra
Leader, Killed In Crash

fingers in the wreck and three other members of the orchestra ani
fered slight injuries.

~The bus was. en route from
Vicksburg, Miss., to Florence, Ala.,

~~) where the band was scheduled to

play for a dance Tuesday night. |
Toots, considered a wizard on the

s- | ~string bass,~ was a native of Nas- | ~
le.|sau Islands and @ graduate-of Tal-} -
ladega had

College.
The orchestra will continue its
present schedule under the. direction of one of its me

Robeson Still On The
Spot In D.C. Recital

were refused acmission to the place..

Negroes toward going to the arena

because of this unfortunate ~misun
derstanding, as the management

neon on the policy of segregaon.

~Advance notices of the event
Were being sent around this week
by ~the group headed by Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, a committee to aid
China, which believes Mr. Robeson
will fill the place.

Robinson~s Mimo
Club Changes To
Night Show Spot

NEW YORK~(A.N P)~The
change of policy of the Bill Robinson Professional club, _ better
known as the Mimo, ~has brought
with it one of the more divertinz
and delightful floor shows to be
seen here.and about for some time.

A few weeks ago the club com
pleted the change-over from one |.

of tie better bar and grill type
night: spots to a moderate quality
nignt club with all the fixings. Until. now what enteftainment the
warious ~after-dark _ establishments
~Were. dispensing~ was. done. in capsule form~a song or-a dance by
one or two principals, ea bit of low

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"New. Of The ~Theatres _:

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Called Biggest
Drama Of The
Current Season

NEW YORK ~(ANP) ~ Drama
critics of the metropolitan dailies
were unanimous in. their acceptance and vraise of the Pau] GreenRichard Wright adaptation of the
latter~s best-selling novel, ~Native
Son,~ following the recent. Broadway opening here.. Such ~ rave
notices, barring unforseen antag
play as ~a taunt and. almost con=

~| fortably.close to the ugly truth in

tive Son~ the ~biggest. drama, of

onism. and pressure from _ bigoted
seein min pee
ard- Watts, ~dp, in the
Herald-Tribune referred. to the}

stantly. arresting drama, uncom
its outspoken. forcefulness, and
pluyed to the hilt by a first-rate
cast.~ The New ~York Times~ Brooks
Atkinson, ever a keen observer of
the American theater, galled *Na
the season~ and referred to it as
~drama and theater with mind
and style of its own,~

GIVEN. FOUR STARS

Four stars was thé rating given
by Burns Mantle, the Daily News~

exacting critic. ~The result (of
welles~ direction)~, he wrote, ~is
the best, and likewise the most

sensational, of ~*'this. -season~s
dramas... It is he (Welles) who
has seen that. most of the acting
is slow and impressive ih tempo;
that. the speech is clear, the arguments sharply pointed, the.sympathies of a receptive audience effectively played upon.~

Unstinting, too, was the praise
for Canada Lee in the featured
roles of ~Bigger Thomas~. As Mantle said: ~Canada: Lee is a- perfect selection for Bigger Thomas,
modest, reticent, simple-minded,
fumbling, yet fired with a fixed
conviction and. eloquently pathetic~

Atkinson~s comment was: ~In
Canada Lee, the authors and producers have an actor for. whom
they should. be devoutly thankful, iAs Bigger Thomas, he gives a
clean, honest, driving performance
of remarkable footie. As an
actor he is superb.~;:

PRAISE CANADA LEE

Watts had the following to. Say:
~As for Mr. Lee~s: performance in
the leading role, it is so ~honest,
moving and generally impressive
that it gives the play not only
force but dignity and a wry sort
of pity. ~Miss Anne Burr, a new
young actress of much promise,
plays with ~difectness and ~entire
lack of any appeal for sympathy
in the role of the rich girl who, in
her well meaning drunken arrogance, leads Bigger to a crime
he never intended~.

will

be held in Houston, May. 4, 5, 6, |
it Was u is week by Mrs.
Atble F. demisth, pesdaek othe | 2 2~
- of the

of Several of the

New Yo rk Critics Rave Obed:
Canada Lee~s ~Native Son~

In Lady From New Orleans

Dorothy Dandridge, petite sepia euiie is shown as she ap
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pears with Ora Munson in ~Lady from New Orleans.~ In. addition

~to the lovely Miss Dandridge and Miss Munson, who i is cast in the:
title role, the Republic film stars John Wayne and. features Ray

Middleston, Henry Stephenson, Helen Westley, and a talented: ar
ray of Negro artists.

Hattie mache, Berry

Brothers Wi

By LAWRENCE F. LAMAR

CULVER. CITY, Calif ~(N.P B).
~Hattie Noels: ~buxom sepia~ artist
of stage, screen and. radio- fame,
was signed last week to appear in
an all sepia s@quence of. the MetroGoldwyn-Maysr studio production,
~Lady Be. Good.~ The production
features the famed Berry Brothers,
in theiratest special dance numbers,

Miss Noels~ recently connpiien a.
aiqeable comic role in a Universal

Hearst Dailies:
~Together In Slap
At ~Native Son~

By, NELL DODSON
NEW YORK~(A N- P)~The
Hearse ~papers apparently resentful

of Negro. dramatic accomplishment |

~on Broadway, were alone in their
adverse criticism of the stage production of ~Native Son~ which re-, without
an intermission, the play, ~given by
the theatre under the pro
ition of Orson Welles. snd. Jobn |

studio picture ~Cracked Nuts.~ She
is due to repeat at that studio
-whety she~ fifiished her current assignment at- MGM studio. In the
mfsical sequence Curtis Mos~zy~s
famed Blues Blowers ~ orchestra
from the Club Alabam Theatre
Cafe, Ben Carter~s singers, Troy
Brown, Jr, Paul White, the Three
fRock=ts and several other sepia
players will appear.

ay

American gave Canada Lee~s performance due, credit, but thought
~the play ~overwrought with a -sort
of monotonous hysteria, phony~ in
ite apiupent, and ~finally tiresome.~ The article also the

tempt to cover the critic~s accushtion that the whole thing was, 2
propaganda affair.

The Daily Mirror, also & Hearst

paper, agreed with the Joumat:
viewpoint,' saying: ~Native Son is a

Red-racii2: theme, making ~no. at