Brownsville Weekly News

On Labor Day Broadcast

~SATURD AY, SEPTEMBER 6,

1941

DUKE ELLINGTON, famous band leader,
of international fame, who with Ivie Anderson, his feature singer, the

~Golden Gate_Bovs and others were

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composer and pianist

featured on the hour-long Lahber

Day Broadcast from over the nation. President Roosevelt spoke on the

program from his Hyde Park, N. x.,

home. Labor Day night, Duke and

= Yvie were featured on the iast of the CBS ~Forecast~ broadcasts.

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4.. ~Mamba~s Daughter,~ there is ~.,

* out. For Harlem has come to your

~_ last: week to join the great Eth

third actor is pryine the same

HOLLMWOOD~No lecture this
issue, and no explanation at present as to who are the most guilty

of the sepia Hoilywood Hi-hats
That wili come in due time, but
~just now there is too much to talk
about to spare the time for a bad- Jy needed ink-well spanking for
the culprits. *They know who they
are though and it is to be hoped
they take the hint and_ mend
their ways before the public sits
down on them.

INDEX TO THE NEWS
NEXT ISSUE
Harry Popkin, Million Doliar
Production Head, Tried in U.
S. Court.
-Who~s who, and who's kere new
from the east.
King Solomon~s 335th wife advises movie struck young ~wives--
-Untold story of seven drowning
extras saved in ~Tarzan.~~
Prominent Chicago women
rive to.visit movie studios.
(And a lot other stuff unclassified dot-dashingly.)
~Everything comes to him (or
her) who waits ~so all you guys
-gnd gals who have long wished and
sighed to visi: Harlem can cut it

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docr. With Willie Bryant,- Georgefte Harvey and others arriving

Waters in the coast production of

big dent in the theatrical population of Harlem, ~the city within ~
city,

Here now fully acclimated, and
rapidly becoming ~native~ Californians are Duke Ellington, his
talented~son, Mercer, and the Elligton melody mixers making history at the Mayan. Besides them
there are so many other famous
New. York members of the profesh
here for indefinite periods that i*
would take ail the rest of the Ol
Kolyum to tell about them. Alec
Lovejoy, famous comedian who decided to settle here following the

*close of his long run in ~Cabin
in the Sky,~ has opened a cub: with
a big sign in front ~Alec Lovejov's
~Breakfast Club,~~ located at 45th
and Central. ae

NATIONWIDE REQUESTS FOR
~JUMP WOR JOY~ PROGRAMS
Requests are flooding in from
all over the country- for the beautiful. programs which have been
~ made up as souvenirs of-~Jump for
Joy,~ the musical revue, starring
Duke Eilington, which is now in its
8th capacity week at the Mayan.
Collectors of Fllingtonia....recerds, pictures and stories..._ are
anxious to add this handsome item
to their folios, since it carries pic-'
turies of the Duke, Ivie Andersos.
- Herb Jeffriés and all the members
of the cast as wel! as the orchestra, Which h<s bem so widely
known thro-ch mony ven tte) oo
meerances os vel~ fs tccrsincs

COLOREP PiAye cs ~s THRE~
PICTURES AFOUT CON.
CUSTER.

For the first time in tic

of Hollywood, two piayers ar~
enacting the same character at
the same time at the same studio
The wto ayers are Addison
Richards 2nd Samvel_ S. Hinds.
"Phe character they are portraving is Gener2] Custer. The studio
is Universal. Richard is cast as
Custer in ~Badlands of Dekot.~
Inejiding ~A~ored vlayers, while
Hinds is in ~Rice "Em Cowboy,~
featuring EWVia Fitzgerald.

Incidentally, at Warner Broth--

_ ers-First National studios, less than
a half mile! from Universal, 95

_yole._..Frol Flynn in ~Thev Diced~
"With Their Boots On,~ featurine; Battie McDaniel.

OSIPSMOVE LOTS

~ HARRY LEVETTE. |
S ASCOUAFED NEGRO FRESS -

there are more than 300 ~ distinct
movements per ~minute in the wild
rhumba-jiftteiisug ~sjyndopsitions af
the Congaroos, the New York colored octet just browght to. Hollywood by Universal for ~Hellzapoppin,~ and cal.ed the. fastest.dancing combination in the world.
Needless to say, it is presumed,
~every little movement has a
meaning all its own.~

NOTHING NEW IN

JITTERBUG DANCE EFFECT
Jitssrbugs, who pride themselves on their newness and origina ity, might just as well learn the
fatal facts now. They aren~t new
and original at all.

Way back in the dim, dark ages
of 1919 there was a dance routine
known as the ~Texas Tommy.~ It
is said to have originated in San
Francisco, and it completely
alarmed the so-calHed better element of the nation. The participants jumped, kicked, clawed ana
All cf this came to light when
threw each cther around like a
Japanese tumblirg troupe.

Eddie Prinz, dance director on
Paramount's ~Birth of the B'ues,~
did @ little research for material
for the film.

- Director Victor Schertzinger has
Bing Crosby, Mary Martin and the
rest of Ibis casi, singing and playing
all the tunes famous around 1910.
ne wanted dances to*go with them.
And there~s where ~Texas Tommy~
proved that a jitterbug, at least
is nothing new under the sun.

How To Get Dr, Fred
Palmer~s Dream Book

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There are wlso some interesting
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One of these interesting books
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Foshired On

REVEAL ~CONGAROOS~
COLORED OCTETTE

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and are glad to send it to yoa. |

GOLDEN GATE BOYS

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CBS And NBC E
Include Many Race Stars

FLINT, MICHIGAN

roadcast

An Expensive
Fish Story

Went F ishing And
Boat Was Late;
Hot And Bothered

NEY YORK~(A N_ P)~Eddie
~Rochester~ Anderson~s keenness for
fishing cost him $500 last week
when he was late for the first show
at the Strand theatre here Thursday morning. The Music Corporation of America, for whom he is
working, slapped the fine on Eddie
who was 40 minutes late.

Eddie has been~ going fishing
every night after the show, returning the following morning but this
time the boat was late. MCA asked Kitty Murray, the colored performer also in the act, to go.in his
place and do a single but Miss Murray refused because neither MCA
nor the Strand put her name in
electric lights in New York l| though she got her name in the
marquee out of town. Rochester was
hot and bothered when he finally
panted in. The theatre had~ been
running shorts interspersed with
Clyde Lucas~ band to fill in,

More Fan Mail For
~Chariot Wheels~.

ATLANTA, Ga~(SNS)~

After ~more than a year of continuous broadcasting as a Sunday
night feature of Radio Sation WBS.
~Chariot Wheels,~~ well-balanceo
50-voice chorus may be considered for the network of the Nationa]
Broadcasting Company, with an increase of fan mail.

Accordingly, radio fans. in Atlanta are urged to mail a penny post
card to Station WBS, expressing
their reaction to the program.

The ~Chariot Wheels~ Chorus,
directed by Lawrence Mann, was
organized by the Atlanta Baptist
Ministers~ Union, with Revs. C. N.
Ellis, S. Pettagrue, A. G. Davis,
B. J. Johnson, T. H. George, James
Walker, G. W. Jordan, M. L. King,
~W. W. Weatherspool, Dr. C. DD;
Hubert, D. A. Dixon, Rowland
prone and A. Bell taking the inia
e.

Thursday night the chorus -presented.a fine program in West
Point and has been booked for en
gagements at Newnan on September 1,~ and Austell, September 28.:

Boy Soprano
Singer Heads
Festival Program =

KANSAS CITY, Mo~(A N P)
~Prentice Moreland, 15-year-old

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NEWS OF

RES

"King Of The Jitterbugs

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Tiny Bradshaw and His Orchestra:

Dynamic Tiny Bradshaw, ~king of the jitterbugs~, and his orchestra are tovring ~he nation with Lil Green, 20~-pound recording artist,
whese ~In the Dark~ platter has sold over 50,000 reproductions, The
combination is bringing down the houses in Southern appearanices.

By DOLORES CALVIN

(for Calvin ervice, Exclusive)

NEW YORK~(C)~One look at
Kitty Murray was enough! Another
~found the vast audience _ rolling
over and all but bursting their sides
for laughter. With the short brilliant
red dress, leaving her knees to be
viewed, long braids, a red straw
hat overloaded with red flowers,
socks of the same color and black
baseball shoes, Kitty Murray, wildly chewing gum, stole the show playing a tacit glamour girl opposite
Eddie (Rochester) Anderson at the
Strand Theatre here in New York.
- Backstage, after her numerous
curtain calls, I found Miss Murray~s fantastic taste for clothes does
not extend to her every day wardrobe. Conservatively dressed in ~a
brown and white dress,. figured turban and white sport shoes,
she ~confessed to me a_ likeness
for the soft shades, and never ~a
lot of color! As to her personality,
she~s just like she~s on the stage,
quiet, unassuming and taking her
success in a stride.

boy Soprano from
Vine Streets
stars of the cii
val held at
torium

audi-: last Frida

bi mms of es iar
é in es

ah d Man Stood ~by the

him was pickweq from i for

him, was Dicked from inali
in the raido acts Seema donne.
ed by the city recreation department August 23. The finals were
held at the Faxon school being
Judged by Glenn H. Park. commisSloner of recreation; Les L. Warren, superintendent of public recreation, and Hafoiid Newton ~ recreation division music supervisor.

Taking ~second place was the
Graham band, white, from Heim
Park, While Miska and Sonja Butfinton, white tap dancers, were
rated third. Virginia Johnson won
fourth -place for her singing. The
final contestants were chosen from
an original field of 80- acts.

Simply write to the Galenol Company, Inc.,. Box 264, Department G., Atlanta, Georgia, and
your. copy will be sent to you jmmediately.

Labor Day

| Society Concert at Carnegie

~Right then and there in Rochester~s dressing room (Eddie had
stepped out for a fight at Madison
Square Garden) we launched in a
discussion of her likes and dislikes,
First of all, she hates sweets, and
laughly nodded no, when I exclamed, ~Not even ice-cream!~

' Kitty, whose plumpness in certain parts, is one of the things
which makes her so ~comical, loves
to swim, is crazy about Hollywood
(altho she~s only been there once)
and simply adores jewelry. She
doesn~t liké to drive, probably because she doesn~t own a car, and
doesn~t smoke, either.

Asked if she enjoyed traveling,
she responded, ~I love those airplanes, and that~s how we do most
of our traveling.~ Then I asked her
if she liked hopping on nite planes
after a late performance. To this,
she sipped her drink jokingly and
said, ~I~m never too tired to travel.
when there~s money!!

She~s fond of New York, it~s

Helena Horne
Renews Contract
With Cafe Society

NEW YORK~(C)~The busy,'
blues beauty, Helena Horne, who is:
the mistress of ceremonies of Cafe
Society Downtown has been signed
again by over pleaséd proprietor,
Barney Josephson for another 6
months. Helena has had a phenomenal rise since she joined Cafe
Society~s personnel in early April.

First Josephson put her in Cafe
Hall
where she was a hit. Then Artie
Shaw asked her to sing the cocals
for some band recordings he had
scheduled. On top of that, Henry
~Hot Lips~ Levine of NBC~s ~BaSin Street~ chose her to sing with

his band in making the RCA~Vic-.

tor ~Birth of the Blues~ Album of
W. C. Handy~s songs.
A few weeks ago Helena began a
new coast-to-coast series over
WEAF-NBC-Red, ~ From
Dixie~, in which she is featured with
Lewine~s Dixieland Band. A new
film outfit, B. W. Pictures, specializing in shorts, is starting its career

by featuring Helena with the boogie| Woogie pianist Albert Ammong and
Pete Johnson of Cafe Society
town. Indeed, Helena is one

Upbusy
girl.

| City~s Parole

Fantastic Comedienne
Is Conservative Dresser

brilliant lights and nite clubs, ~~but,~
_she sighs, ~there~s no other city in
the country like Chicago~ (that~s
where she does all of her shopping.)

Kitty~s manager won~t let her
do more than one act a year. But
plans are being made for her to do
a movie short with ~Fats~ Waller
and orchestra this winter. The

ter is the longest she~s ever made,
as it has included 12 weeks of hard
work. ~

Last ~week, Kitty danced the jitterbug with pop-eyed Eddie Cantor,
who was so crazy over Kitty that
he~s angling for her for his radio
show., Coming home to her, room in Hotel
Braddock, on the subway, (she had
her wet stockings, drenched from

exclaimed, ~What are you going to
do with all of these questions; write
my life story?~

| I~m afraid I~d have to write a
book to get in all the things Miss
Murray has accomplished!!

Seein~ Stars

With DOLORES CALVIN
| NEW YORK~(C) ~ GOSSIP IN
GOTHAM:. Harlemites are calling
Promoter Fred Irwin of New York
first all-colored horse show, the
biggest chisler in town..
say Irwin did such good business
in the show that he made a nice
~neat sum for himself, but just ~for~got~? to pay off colored help such as
his secretary, and janitors and care
takers of the horses. which entered the show on the 22nd, 23rd and
24th of August.. But sly Irwin did-.not forget to remember to pay the

dens which he used for the fourlegged animals... They ~say 150
colored folks all tried to get the
late Lou Gehrig~s job as head of the
-Comm. Of course
everyone knows Lieut. Samuel Bat-:

tle landed it!..CHATTER ON THE IDOLS

Eddie (Rochester) Anderson
troupe (comedienne Kitty Murray)

~lis heading for Hartford, Conn. this

Thursday for a 7 day stay and
then he~ll hit Newark, N. J. for. 4
days.. New Yorkers sure hate to
see the ~danruff in Jack Benny~s
thinning hair~ leave 6 ~Tis learned
that the Strand Theatre, to draw the
crowd~s attention from that bad
picture, ~Bad Men from Missouri~
that they produced a strong stage
show with Rochester as the magnet.
A tall, lanky ofay gentleman,

week at the Nat~l Negro Congress
mass meet in the Congress Casino..
You'll remember he~s the Park Ave.
millionnaire who preferred to be
drafted with Negro soldiers.. After his speech, we trailed him with
his girl friend t6 a _ cross-town
street car and to the subway...
shows you what millionnaires will
do!:

I WONDER.. if you know that
immense Hotel Theresa's 333 rooms
were all filled last Saturday and
what~s more, they turned 100 away
if you know that President H. Council Trenholm of Ala. State Teachers
College was in town at the Theresa for a few days.. if you know
that Georgette Harvey of ~Mamba~s Daughters~ fame has opened
& booking agency for Fall productions.

tour she~s now doing with Rochés- |

the rain in her pocketbook) Kitty.

Insiders |

white owners of the Speedway Gar- |

and |

Roger Starr took the spotlight last | |

Featured On
~America In
Transition~

Dr. Reddick Is
Speaker On Role -
Of Negro In U. S.

NEW YORK~(A N P)~The
~America in Transition~ series of
the Columbia Broadcasting system
last ~Thursday devoted a special
program to the contributions of the
Negro to American culture. The
address on the role of the Negro
people in American life and history was delivered by Dr. lL we
Reddick, curator of the Schomburg
collection of the New York Public
library. This whole series of broadcasts which is carried by the network has for its purpose the reexamination of vital, national traditions in the present world crisis.

Amiong such notables who have
appeared on the various programs
are: Stuart Chase, author and
economist: Henry Noble McCracken, president of Vassar college;
Carl Carmer, author and folklorist;
Henry Seidel Canby, author and
contributing editor to Saturday Review of Literature;
Pratt Fairchild, professor of sociology, New York. university.

After summarizing the contributions of the Negro in discovery and
exploration, labor, politics, education, journalism, music, literature,
Dr. Reddick pointed out that the
Negro at the present time was on
the eve of making his ~greatest
contribution of all times~. He declared that in this hour of world
war and human travail, the concept of democracy is cHallenged as
never before.

~The only way we can prove ~,1o
the world and to ourselves that. we
are not hypocritical champions of
the democratic way of life is to
see to it that the Negro enjoys
full democracy~, he said. ~In our
good neighbor policy with~ Latin
America, ~which in itself is a vast
melting pot of peoples, we should
counter-poise our ideology of freedom and equality over against the
~master race~ creed of the Nazi.

Bury Mrs. Tinsley
WASHINGTON ~ (ANP) ~
Funeral services were held Friday for Mrs. Fannie A. Tinsley,
formerly of Richmond, Va., who
died Tuesday after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Tinsley was the mother
of Mrs. Arnetia Johnson Triplett,
one of Washington~s foremost
business and society women. Other survivers are her husband,
Dorsey Tinsley, two other daughters, Mrs. Geneva Eurrell and
Mrs. Ethel M. Palmer cf Phila
-| delphia. Interment was in Rich
mond, fcllowing services at MeGuire~s chapel, conducted by the
Rev. Mr. Coleman of ~ Colonial
Beach, Va.

The Department of Commerce anticipates. construction of 650,000
nonfarm dwellings during the year.

German truckers are required to
load or unload a ton of freight in
a maximum of 20 minutes, the Department of Commerce reports.

and Henry |
Still In The ~

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BENNY CARTER, whose band

PAGE SEVEN

~Big Time~

has been in the bright Nght dis
tricts of the nation fer some time now. Carter~sdrchestra is one of the
foremost sepia outfits cf the ceuntry. ite

RATING THE RECORDS |

TRUMPHETS AND BUUGLE

Two albums of special interest
are now available. One is. ~Hot
Trumphets~ ty Columbia and the
other is ~8 to the Bar,~ featuring
and tehJn Posne ewoog~ ioobgieb.
bougie woogie by Pete Johnson
and Albert Ammons on Victor with
drum accompaniment.

The \trumphet collection consist; of reissues. Most of the numbers are collectors~ items and
waxed from 123 to 1936. Tunes and
horn. blowers are I~M COMING~
VIRGINIA, Bixt Beiderbecke, and
ALEXANDER~S RAGTIME BAND,
Red Nisols; DARKTOWN STRUTTERS BALL, Muggsy Spanier, and
ONE AND TWO BLUES.. Joe
Smith; DEAR OLD SOUTHLAND,
Leuis Armstrong, and BODY AND
SOUL. Red Allen; ECEDES OF
HARLEM, Cootie Williams, and
WHY WAS tT BORN, Buck Clayton.

Look at it from any angle, this
is a mess of the righteous. stuff
The numbers were selected to show
each performer at his best.~
Smiths quiet, sensitive cornet; the
jungle growls of Cootie; the ly
~lrieally beautiful Bix, the: incom
parable Louis, the drive of Muggsy,
the soulfulness of Clayton, the
wildness of Allen and the smootheness of Nishois contrast telling with
each other. If you can~t get kicks
uit of this, you simply don~t like
hot jazz.

A couple years ago, Johnson,.Ammons and Meade ~Lux~ Lewis recorded a three piano boogie called.
~Boogie Woogie Prayer~ which was |
a letdown. Too many instruments.
Rut two pianos are all right~and
incidentally the limti. This permits
the use of two right hands and the
introduction and development of a
wealth of distinct ideas and counterpoint not possible with one Pplano and which becomes just. $80
much noise with three.~ And since
there~s drum, this collection makes
for rug cutting in the good, old
Saturday night hose party manner
as well as for unusal listening. |

The tunes, ranging from fast b-w.
down through jump tempo to me
dium slow blues, are CUTTIN~ THE |

|. -BUTTERBEANS AND SUSIE

On: The West Coast |

POOGIE and BARREL HOUSE
BUGGIE; BOOGIE WOOGIE MAN
and WALKIN~ THE BOOGIE;
SIXTH AVENUE EXPRESS and
PINE ~CREEK; FOOT PEDAL and
MOVIN~ THE BOOGIE. And if you
~Should be amazed some night by the
sight of the Statue of Liberty rock-~
ing, don~t be alarmed. It'll juste be
somebody playing these selections
in her ear on a portable machine.

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

Try a bit of TOASTED PICKLE
served by Cootie Williams on Okeh.
This is a juicy jump with rhythm
and drums especially raising sand
Flipover is TOP AND BOTTOM,
equally fine fare with Johnny Hodges taking a strong alto solo. And
of course, Cootie~s horn all but
melts...Bob Chosby sparkles on
ELMER~S TUNE. for Décca, with
Jess Stacy~s piano walking off with
honors. The number is bouncey but
the performance is not Dixieland.
Other side is a commercial number
THE ANGELS CAME

ever did. They are IT HAD '
YOU, very rhythmic and solid despite the strings and with the Shaw
clarinet at its best, and IF I HAD
YOU, a bit slower and more subdued.:

hsS. izS see

Maurice Rocco goes barrelhouse
on HOW COME YOU DO ME LIKE
YOU DO for Decca, working hard
on the stompbox and. singing while
a drum accompanies. This is probably his best. performance to date.
The flipover, HOLD ME BABY, is
not. equal ~o the other...Harry
James shows himself just another
commercial band leader on the
Columbia of I'LL GET BY and
LOST IN LOVE. Of course it~s a
living but it~s sorry jazzz...Larry
Clinton~s Bluebird of TENTMENT
SYMPHONY is a descriptive piece,
well drawn with yords and music.
Coupled is a killer diller on which
everybody rides, the Scotch song
COMIN~ THRU~ THE RYE....
Here~s another Raymond Scott ori~
ginal that doesn~t get across with
me, THE MERRY CARROUSEL oh

| tinguishedeh ouseinioF the z

Columbia. Scott used to be clever,
now he just shows off. Other side
ic BEAU NIGHT IN HOTCHKISS
CORNERS, an undistinguished version.

Count Basie deserves a hand this
week for BASIE BOOGIE, jump
with plenty of piano, and LET ME
SEE, a topnotch fast tune. The tenJr sax on this plavs like a follower
of Les Young. Basie is also on another Okeh with Sam ~ nahue,
called IT COUNTS A LOT in which
he also pounds a lot of Steinway as

| the white band jumps like his own.
| Other side is LONESOME, a lazy

tune in Lunceford manner...Shep
Fields. on the Bluebird of HUNGARIAN DANCE NO. 5, gets heated to a boil, although there is the
impression his reeds and rhythm
try a little too much to be hot.

_ | Coupled is DON~T BLAME ME, ra
ther enjoyable and a nice tempo...
Johnny Long Decca of KISS THE
BOYS GOODBYE is an exceptionally fine version. The gal and glee
club vocal lend added punch. Companion piece is DON~T ~'TAKB
YOUR LOVE FROM ME, a_ pop
tune.

Tommy Dorsey rings the bell with
4a 12 inch Victor pairing FOR YOU
with a sweltering. groovey version
of SWING LOW SWEET CHA
~| RIOT. The first has excellent bari) shows

\fone sax, and the second

everybody stepping out...The Charioteers have a hot pressing of
ONF, TWO EE O~LAIRY on
Okeh with a gorgecus piano Coupling is IT DON'T WANT TO SET

narmonizing__. The Mills Brothets
with IF IT~S TRUE and THE

| VERY THOUGHT OF YOU. hind

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out YES
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