Brownsville Weekly News

20, 1941

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
In New Picture

LOUISE BEAVERS, one of _ the
~ mest popular member of Hollywood~s sepia colony, is
working on the
Mayer {ct in ~The Shadow of the
Thin Man,~ which stars
Powell and Myrna Loy. The picture
fis to be ready
around the middle of October.

currently
Metro-Goeldwyn.

William

for distributior

Theatre on Monday. will do
sale was terrific. Plans now
held-over..

Last week before leaving New
York, Lee, who recently was embarrassed when notes of his ~gift~

car came due received notice that
his salary was raised to _ fourhundred and fifty dollars per week,
which indicates that the much
publicized B~way play of sex in
that ~nter-racial manner is now
out of the weliknown red that
caused it to come to a sudden stop
in New York.

in an adaption

Jolson
Spangled Theatre. Lees performance topped that of Jolson.

Ellington~s ~Joy~
~Jumping To Fame

By TED YATES

NEW YORK ~ (TYP)~Skyrecketing two of his latest tunes,
~Flamingo,~ and ~Take the ATrain,~ Duke Ellington deserted
the East jumped to the Coast
and there starring in his own re
Mayan in Los Angeles, has won
the praise of both press and public.

Last week ~the Duke~ mopped
the airwaves, appearing on an
East-West hook-up of ~Jubilee~
(all-Negro) with Ethel Waters,
the Hall Johnson Choir, Comedian
Hamtree Harrington and many
others. It was CBS~s adieu of the
swelegant Forecast program.

~Native~ Moves
Out Of Th

On last Sunday Lee was heard |
over WINS (New York) 4:30-5 p.m. |
of ~Uncle T>m~s |
Cabin,~ the same radio script that |
recently found mammy singer Al |
in over MBC in the Star |

vusical, ~Jump for Joy~ at-the |

| Horace Henderson

Now ~Sw

NEW YORK ~ (ANP) ~Horace
Henderson, brother Fletcher Henderson, noted orchestra leader,
composer and arranger, has recently organized a new band to play
~sweet~ music designed exclusively
for the dancing set and~ is making; tour of a dozen or more~ band=
stands along the eastern seaboard.

Much skepticism is going~ the
- Younds as ~to whether he will be
able to realize his ambition to create one of the nation~s distinctive
sweet bands, or whether his brain
child will be a flop. Either way, he
will hold the.distinction of being
the first colored: band leader to
cater to the public~s taste for sweet
rhythm.

The band is composed of artists
who have at some time or other
been connected with one or more
bands as hot or jazzmen. From
Jackie Fields, who handled _ alto
sax in Coleman Hawkins outfit,
down to Willie Beason, who replaced the late Chick Webb, the organization reads like a page out of
who's who in the world of music.
The combine is under exclutive
contract to - Amusement Booking corporation.

_ Henderson, himself a graduate of
Wilberforce university where he re
eet Band

ceived his A. B. degree, entered the
music profession in the footsteps
of his illustrious brother,. Fletcher.
His entrance into the music world
brought to light that he was a
personality in his own right and

not~ trading upon his brother~s popularity: ~
Using essentially the same instru
mentation employed by Basie and
Lunceford, Henderson~s aggregation
has the distinguishing feature. of
striving for sweetness_of tone, a
blending of sections that is commonly associated only with ranking
white bands.

He points out that music of this
nature is the ~inherent. preference
of colored people~? and that commercialism and various. exploitation
motifs alone are responsible. for
the mistaken idea that no colored
band can do justice to a sweet tune.
He further avers, that no attempt is
being made to copy the Miller or
Dorsey style. In some quarters, it
) is held that his new venture will

} be a remarkable success, with. opin- |

ions based upon the superlative ballad arrangémefits madé by Horace
while acting as chief arranger for
~Charlie Barnet~s orchestra for over; @ vear.

RATING THE RECORD

By FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS;

ELDRIDGE BLOWS
HIS TOP:

If you listen to a pair of new
Okeh platters by Gene Krupa~s
band, you'll understand why _~itthe
great Louis Armstrong ranks Roy
Eldridge a: one of history~s finest

_ trumpet stars. The tunes on which
~Little Jazz,~ the only dusky member of Krupa~s crew, struts his stuft
~Rockin~ Chair.~

The first is ~ breakneck speed
after a jive intre. Eldridge then
gives his*brass a phenomenal workout, making unbelievable runs from
the stratosphere into the low register at Jesse Owens speed. This is
Show stopping stuff. Couple is
KICK IT a jump and jive tune
with more hot horn and good bit
of hide handling by Krupa....ON

IN~ CHAIR, Roy improvises
at a much slower pace and his
ideas and phrasing are sensational

except for one clinker. The ech

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ending is~exeelleiit, aid in identally @ little reminiscent? of Arm
strong~s old work. The companion

~flat except fer a chorus of
clarinet. _ ~

On Decca the Ink Spots revive
the Andy Kirk tutie, UNTIL THE
REAL THING COMES ALONG
and give it the wce.cks with their
Success formula. The ~song fits
them perfectly and it sounds like
@ best seller. Flipover is KEEP
COOL FOOL, slow and smoky in
the ~Java Jive~ manner. However,
Ella Fitzgerald has the best pressing of this number.... Matty Malneck, the salon syncopation specialist, draws rays for his Columbia
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top

to devotees of sophisticated swing. ~
' Bob Eberle ~and Helen O~Connell
team up on the season~s No. 1 tor
commercial success is just about assured. Other side is A NEW SHADE

a fancy intro and rather intricate scoring behind Eberle~s vocai... Benny Goodman~s Columbia is
strictly soft lights music. He pairs
two pop tunes in a slow and mellow manner with Tommy Taylor,
his new vocalist, heard on both.
They are FROM ONE LOVE TO
ANOTHER and ANYTHING |__|

Boasting gutty, rhythmic. accompaniment by piano and harmonica,
Peetie Wheatstraw comes up with
a Sparkling blues double, SEEING
IS BELIEVING and I'M A LITTLE
PIECE OF LEATHER, the latter
gentle boogie woogie.

Mme. Garner To

LOS ANGELES, Calif. ~Mmusi>
lovers of the Angel City will have
An opportuniiy hardly bargained
fcr, if not undreampt of the aft.
ernoon of Sunday, October 12, when
tke Rev. Walter L. Bryant, pastor
of the~ Birch Street Christian
Church, presents baritone artist.
Tod Duncan in concert at. the
Mayan theatre, but, will have the

Mme. Netta Paulyn Gardner. internationally famed concert pianist
on the same program.

as guest artist, however, since she
must prepare or her own concert
season. Both she and Mr. Duncan
are appearing in this concert in
order to assist raising. the Organ
Fund for the chureh, Some of the

OF BLUE, a smooth tune boasting |

Aid Todd Duncan

Piece is TUNIN~ UP vest described.
a5 a musical jike tnat to me falls |

Pleasure of hearing and seeing |.

Mme. Gardner will appear only |

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BOSTON~ (TYP)~Preparations in staid Boston indi- |
cate that ~Native Sov,~ which opened here at the Majestic ~

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Negro Artists
Booked For Air
Show Sept. 21

F reedom~s People
~To Be Aired Over
| Nat~l Networks

By HAROLD JOVIEN |
ICHICAGO ~(ANP) Joshua
White, famous singer of spirituals:
W. C. Handy, composer of ~St.
Louis Blues~; Paul Robeson, ~ the
great baritone who was just signed
by Columbia records; the De Paur
Chorus and either Noble Sissle~s or
Jimmy Lunceford~s orchestra, will
highlight the program, Freedom~s
People, Sunday, September 21, at

NBC Network.

The program, depicting the Negro~s contribution to American music, will present dramatizations of
| the origin of spirituals andj of the
blues: and interview with W. C.
Handy, who will tell how he came
to write the ~St. Louis Blués~~;
demonstrations of spirituals and the
blues by White, Robeson and the
orchestra, with the De Paur chorus
finishing a choral background,

Fight coverage of the NBC Blue
network now includes bouts staged
by the Chicago Stadium, the
world~s largest indoor boxing arena.

Addition of Chicago now gives exclusive fight rights in four fistic
top arenas, the others being Shibe
Park, Philadelphia;
dium, Washington, D. C.;
bets Field, Brooklyn.

Another important boxing bout~;@ 10 round lightweight match be| tween the sensational ~Ray Robinson and Maxine Shapiro, white, has
been added: to the Mutual network~s

and Eb
| impressive roster of pugilistic
| events.
| The Robinson-Shapiro contest

willbe aired Friday, September 19,
from New York~s Madison Square
Garden.

Two other. bouts will be heard
over Mutual this month, On Friday,
September 12, ~Sgilor~~ George Abrams faces Tony Zale, N. B. A.
Middleweight champion in a ten
round contest from the Garden.

| Set for the eagerly anticipated bat| tle for the world~s heavyweight
| championship fray between
Louis and Lou Nova. The broad
Pork~s Polo Grounds.
165,000 LEARN ABC~S

WASHINGTON~ (ANP)~ According to a report made public last
| week by the educational section of
WPA, there have been 165,000
adult Negroes taking training in
their various projects.

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Eddie ~Rochester~ Anderson
17-week personal appearance tour
September 19, it was announced

nation~s most prominent people ar

cher, JIM, by Jimmy Dorsey on
Decca. This means the platter~s

listed as patrons,

10:30 p. m. New York time over the |

Griffith Sta-|

Monday. September 29, is the time |

Joe |

cast, scheduled to reach listeners all |
over the globe, will ~come from New |.

He's Ending 17-W

FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICHIGAN

She's New Honey. With Louis| P peter

For New Revusical.

hiking, will be heard in Atlanta,
~Ol Satchmo~ plays at the City

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NEW YORK CITY~(S N S)~
| Another testiinonial attesting ~ to
| the. popularity of Cab Calloway
Was received this week when the
| Burrelle Press Clipping Bureau, one
| of the largest services in the world.
wrote Cab and stated that His account was the most active one on
their lists.
The letter stated in part:

~In going cver or records, I
thought you would be interest-.
ed in knowing that one of our
accounts on which we were able
to produce the most number of
clippings is that of yours, for
whom we have been furnishing

| press clippings from: all papers
throughout the country for the

Past ten years.~. ~In all of our experience in

| the press clipping business, this

| is one of the most active

| theatrical accounts that we
have ever handled.~

Calloway recently celebrated his
j tenth anniversary as u band leadler. The Burrelle Burenu represents
about 70 percent of the nation~s
outstanding stars and band leaders.

| Calloway completed an engage~
|}ment at the State-Lake Theatre in

Chicago last week and despite the

bak Tour

is scheduled to end his current
at Providence, R. 1., the week of
this week. Rochester is scheduled

te return to his home in California te resume his duties on the air

as the dandruff in Jack Benny~s thinning thatch, (C),

Charming new singing honey with Louis Armstrong and his
orchestra is Ann Baker, pictured here. Miss Baker, whose favorite
forms of recreation are horseback riding, swimming. skating and

ing, she also plays *he piano and dances.
Sn a a ar nn

On Clipping Front;
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Thursday evening, Sept. 18 when
Auditorium... In addition to sing
Record

fact that it marked the ~fourth time
within 24 months that he has played the Loop playkouse, Cab, who
holds the theatre~s attendance record, smashed his Own mark.

In Epic Of War

Photo by White Studio, N. Y. 0.

/eral difficulties.~ put in this: un
m~-|..We added that the. $30,000 cos
Pal bt

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Miller Will Be
in Lead Of New
Army Musical

~Private Biscuit
Jones~ To Be
~Farce On Army

By BERNICE and DOLORES
CALVIN

(Exclusive fur Calvin Service)

NEW YORK CITY~(C)~Maceo
Pinkard, ace composer of such hit
tunes as ~Sweet Georgia Brown,~
~Sweet Girl,~ the famous ~Here
Comes Showboat~ end etc., revealed to us his plan. to do a musical
farce _on Broadway this season
when we visited his comfcrtable |,
studio at 767 St. Nicholas Avenue
this week. Cleverly titled ~Private
Biscuit Jones,~ this satire of Army
Life was originally intended for an
all-white cast, but it was later
thought a Negro cast could do it
better justice.

Mr. Pinkard plans to have
Flournoy Miller in the lead. ~This
show will give new talent a chance
to appear before the public and
new faces for the auditorium to
see,~ Mr. Pinkard went un to
explain, relaxing on a soft red leather chair, but ~~plans are yet premature.~

Then the conversation drifted to
the filming of Pinkard~s Symphonic Fantasy, extravaganza on
the 18th, 19th and 20th century
composers. There's been much talk
on several major studios dickering
to put the masterpiece in the
movies and it~s all true.

~The only thing, there are sev
and most calm gentleman! ~First, the company we want
doesn~t have a very good _ studio
here. You know the studios are in
Hollywood where climate and all
are suitable, I~d rather not take
the 75 members of, the cast out
there. And what's more, it~s technicolor equipment is on the coast
and we do hope to have the picture
in color, it would look so swelt.~

tumes would look grand in~ te-chnicolor. Nonetheless contract signing ought to commence in about
two weeks, as scon as all difficulties are ironed out. Once shooting
starts, it'll] only take about a month
before you~ll'oe seeing right in
your nighborhood theatre Pinkard~s
Symphonic Fantasy.

DELAY SCHOOL OPENING

CHATTANOOGA, 'Tenn.~(ANP)
~The opening of school was delayed here until September 15, due
to prevalence of infantile paralysis
in the community.

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Planning New Revusical

| Maceo Pinkard, ace composer,
musical farce to open on Broadway

ly titled ~Private Biscuit Jones.~ the show will be
of a draftee in a Southern army camp.

has_ revesled plans to do a new
during the current season. Clevera satire on the life

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Eye Racial Issue

In. Movie:

By LAWRENCE F. LaMAR_
~HOLLYWOCD, Calif. ~ Word
seeping out of the Hays Office, of
the Association of Motion Picture
Producers, Inc.. indicate the seriousness of the charges made by
Senator Nye, John J. Flynn ~ and
others, that the great film industry with the connivance of the
Roosevelt administration is busily
engaged in the making of propaganda pictures designed to get the
U. S. into the present. world war.
Wendell L. Willkie, former Re
HOLLYWOOD, Calif~lq a moving drama depictiny the changes in
the ordnance and motive power of
the armed forces of the U. 8. Army,
Ernest Whitman, famed actorsinger has been cast as Carteret, a
faithful friend Sergeant ~Hap~
Dean (Wallary Beery), in the current ~~Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio
production ~Steel Calvary~.

Hattie:loels In.
New Film Role

By LAWRENCE F. LaMAR

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. ~~ To
Hattie Noels, buxom sepia cinema actress, goes the largest
femme screen role handed out to
a sepia screen-actor since the
memorable ~mammy~ role in
~Gone. With The Wind,~ played
by Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel. Miss Noels will essay the role of ~Dora,~ a lovable
governessmaid in Republik, studio~s current production, ~~Lady
For A Night,~~ starring Joan
Blondell and Ray Middleton.

Miss Noels since her arrival
here nearly four years ago for
film reles after a_ sensational
~success as the sweepstakes wining laundress of Eddie Cantor~s
radio broadcast, has consistently
risen to newer and loftier heights
via the celluloid screen, ~

Jimmy Lunceford
Booked For Films

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. ~What
with Duke Ellington, Erskine Hawkins,-and Earl (Father) Hines orchestras already gathered here on
the coast, come now news that
Jimmy Lunceford and his classy aggregation are enroute here for another fling at the films.

At writing it is not definite
but, ell enough

this

the rumor seems wi
grounded, that the Lunceford orchestra will report for their film
assignment at the Warner Brothers
~studio in Burbank. Enough later
will be reported on the subject,
when the band arrives here,

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STARS

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With DOLORES CALVIN

NEW YORK ~(C) ~ Exclusive!.
Exclusive!!~CANADA LEE SIGNS
NEW CONTRACT FOR $400. A
WEEK!!.. Canada Lee, in a big
leap from his measly $75 weekly,
vhen ~Native Son~ was at its peak
on Broadway, has signed a new
contract this week to draw $400
every 7 days.. In the contract,
also, ~Bigger Thomas~ of the stage
receives a percentage on the side.. Insiders tell me that ~Son~ has
just about retrieved the $36,000 i!
lost when the show went into the
red here on Broadway.

Right now, ~Son~ is paying repeat performances in surburban
theatres near New York and is expected to do wonderfully well on a
sigantic tour this Fall... And
right now, too, our Canada Lee 1s
believed to be the highest paid
colored dramatic actor in the business, "

PATRIOTIC STREET SCENE..
A chic colored~ girl, most likely
from Harlem, socked an >sbnoxious
ofay woman and then once agai

Girls~ Orchestra
Is Hit In Harlem

NEW YORK. (TYP)~ Members of the ~Sweethearts of Rhythm~ orchestra, the all-girl aggre-.
gation, domiciled at the Hotel
Theresa, completed a popular en
t here this week at the |

gagemen
Harlem famous Apollo Theatre.

The girls are: Sadie Palsey; Cor-;
rine Palsey; Johnnie Rice; Bernice
Rothchild; Iva_ Bell; Evelyn
Thompson, Mae Wang Williams,
Edna Williams; Evelyn McGhee, |
Helen Jones, Pauline Lora,
McGhee; Annie Garrison and Reecé
Mae Jones. | i

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RODRIQUEZ JOINS FACULTY |

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.~(ANP)
~Edward R. Rodriquez, former
state director of the NYA of Fiorida. and recently the area director
of Negro affairs of the NYA in
Chicago, has joined the faculty at
Bethune-Cookman college to serve
in the capacity of 2 minister
and instructor in the of sociai
science,

alike)

the wealthy 4 Ink Spots, each with
@ valet and plans in their pockets
for a new home, are finishing up at
ithe Brooklyn Flatbush Theatre? it.
vou knew that the Nichols Brothers
fare a smash hit on taps in ~Sun

merged with the crowds.-. Al] this
was bravely done this week.. ~The
annoying woman was prarading on
a street corner calling America to
join Lindbergh, ~in his herioc. efforts to save our~country.~..- After
the blow, which presented her: wita
5, heautiful black eye, the woman
appealed to a. near-by policeman tc
escort her t, her home, a few
blocks off the main avenue.
The cop~s answer was a thing of
beauty, ~Lady, I~m not a Aryan!~~.
(Meaning they didn't think

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I WONDER if you knew that!

Sonja
at the.

starring
Payne...

Valley Serenade~
Henig and John
Roxy Theatre?

In Famous Door |

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publican presidential candidate, as
counsel for the entire motion picture industry in defending its
policy during the debate on Resolution 152 before the Senate subcommittee, charged in a letter to
U. 3. Senator D. Worth Clark, coauthor of the resolution, that the
measure was a broad attempt to
smear the motion picture industry.

Negro actors here on the scené,
who have long urged the industry
to give a fair and more __ accurate
airing of their more advance social
and economic position in the American scheme of things without avail
sense in this investigation an opportunity to be heard and séen.
Wilkie nas stated the motion pic.
ture industry is opposed to the
Nazi program of racial ~discrimination, His letter to Senator Clark
regarding the proposed investigation in part read:

~If the committee feels that the
racial and geographic background
of American citizens is a condition
to be investigated, there is no néed
for the investigation, We frankly
state that the motion picture industry there are in positions, both
prominent and inconspjcuous, both
Nordics ahd non-Nordics, Jews and
Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,
native and foreign born. This industry, with mony others in our
country, demonstrates that neither
race, creed nor geographical origin is essential qualifications
participate in American business.
This facet illustrates a basic principle of American life, as we have
known is over 150 years. The motion picture ~industry, composed
like other industries of loyal
patriotic Americans, despises the
racial discrimination of Nazism and
is devoted to the cause of freedom both in this country and
abroad.~ |

Negro actors and _ interested
theatre-goers, may select one of
their own number who will appe3r
at the committee hearings as an
~observer~ with authority to seek
an insertion of question calculated. to properly boost their position
in the vast motion picture indus:

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DANCE FOR~ SOLDIERS
RALEIGH, N. C~(A N P)~The
recreation t of.

girls with chap-rones to attend the
affair. Soldiers were in complete

~| khaki uniforms ani the girls dressted formally.

Among those preesnt at the
rites was Walter White, NAACP
secretary,

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