Brownsville Weekly News

FLINT BROWNSVILLE NES*S, FLINT, MICHIGAN

in a new picture on the life of the world~s greatest

pianist, has just been signed for the lead role as | trumpet player, which is soon to go into production

Lil Armstrong, the pianist-wife of Louis Armstrong, | on the Paramount lot. She leaves for Hollywood this
week, Ameetians is already on the coast. _

Elasator Boy Appears
In Baritone Concert

Miss Hazel Scott, famed singer, entertainer and

By CARL DITON it is surely one of them, for there
YORK~(ANP)~The...Ne-}is a ~persistent tendency of its Real Estate
~gro ~yace may not be the most |meémbers"to cxpiress themselves in
wonderful race in the world, but|/art no matter how great the eco- ~Fi irm Backs
Formal Debut

Hollywood In Bronze

nomic hinderance!

Adams and Cumpany, Inc., a

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Cigaret Dance

-Earl B. Dickerson for some 500 Ne
real estate corporation, employs
an elevator boy. His name is
John Branch. Mr. Branch gave a
baritone recital Sunday ~ afternoon in Carnegie Chamber - Musical hall that offered: no ayology
whatever for the singer's humble
calling, for he has undoubted sing-.
ing ability.

This the Adams fitms - fullyrealized for the.employees occite
| xfmd every seat: includijig those [

By RUBY BERKELEY GOODWIN

HOLLYWOOD, Calif~(C)~BEN
CARTER IN NEW MAJOR PICTURE-~Ben Carter, who just finished a role out at 20th Century-Fox
in Jane Withers~ new. picture
~Young America~ is being set for a
role in the new Metro-GoldwynMayer picture ~Young American~
When Ruby Elzy and Jack Carr
choo-chooed out for New-York to
join the cast of ~Porgy and ~Bess~,
I had to read of their going in ae
Smallwood~s column, and I di
like it! But here~s best wis to oh
grand friends anyway. ~Po and
Bess~ brought Ruby and Jack back
to Hollywood. Ruby sang the role
of Sorena in the Gershwin opera
and Jack played the villian Clown
who pursued Bess. While Ruby was
very poular as a concert singer,
Hollywood was slow to pick hef up
until Ben Carter cast her in ~
of the Blues~ as Rochester~s wife.
She will be a definite hit when this
pictures starts getting around and
I hope Ruby won't be gone too, long.

HATTIE NOEL HAS FINE
- PART~Hattie Noel has a very good
role in ~Lady for a Day~ in the
Joan Blondell picture, which also
stars Lew Patyon who has been absent from the screen too long and
turns up at Republic studios as
~Napoleon..Elsie _ Emmanuel, Hattie McDaniel~s nephew has been
added to the cast. Jesse Graves, Ed
Allen and Herbert Skinner have bits
as waiters.. George Reed is working in another ~Dr. Kildare~ picture as: the personal servant of
Lionel Barrymore who plays the
famous Dr. Gillespie..~Hot Shot~
Henry Thomas, another Henry
Thomas, Henry Hastings and
James Addison are also working on

entertained many peopl: but the
thrill of her life came the other
day when she had as a vis~tor Mrs.
Ruth C. Dermondy, successful business woman from Fort Collins, Colo.
They were classmates together when
Hattie was in the first grade, and
Mrs. Dermondy proudly told directors and stars on. the Warner lot
that Hattie had tulighs her how to
play ~jacks~~? when they were classmates together.

TAINS~Miss Hattie McDaniel Has

Hampton To Play

GHICAGO ~ (ANP) ~ Lionel
Hampton and@ his orchestra will be
featured artists at the gala ~Night
for Soldiers~ ball; sponsored by Ald.

gra-troops and ar expected 500 |
south siders Saturday night at the |
8th regiment armory.

Hampton. skilled vibraphonis*,)
recently at the Hotel Sherman
Panther Room, will join with
Dickerson in acting as host at the

-panetlede and. ~Saws: slaekiy inion waiving teats, efi~ ~Los
| Angeles for; New York: City last week to open a Week's engagement ~at
the Apollo theatre. The couple liked Southern California se much they
Plan another trip to the coast next summer, and may make their home
in the West.

ne dance will be a pack of cigar-.. r e

trombonist. guitar player and pian
_wére not released to the press for

They Bid The CoastGoodbye|sie (Det Composes

Two New Ones

| by Miss: Lottie MeCoy, ~42, presi| dent of the Bennett Student Sen
representative of the talents of
| Dr. Dett, who Has~

] | ably only 9 tinge of the metalic.

palit hv Siprag gad

lation. of a real

In

Piney Woods Band
Turns ~Em Away

By JOHN THOMPSON
' HOUSTON~(ANP)~Prof. L. P. Jones, etkdea of
the Piney Woods school, who fathered the~ idea of an allgirl orchestra and lived to see his ~International Sweethearts
ot Rhythm~ become a name band in the entertainment
world, has hit it again with his newest aggregation, ~The
Rays of Rhythm~~, an all-girl band of 17 pieces.

' The present band, called by
Jones the ~best orchestra -yet turned out at Piney Woods~, consists of
117 girls whose ages range from 12
to 19. On tour for the past six
months, they have been acclaimed
by. dancers and music critics everywhere as one of the outstanding
orks of the year. Playing Houston~s
El Dorado ballroom this week, a
capacity crowd turned out to hear
them, became entranced with their
music and forgot dance.

HAILED BY PRESS

On their tour which covered

Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Michigan,

Ilinois and Wisconsin, they were
hailed by the press as hetter than
their predecessors, the,~Sweethearts~, who broke away from the
school this year. Traveling in a
streamlined sleeper bus, they are
accompanied by Mrs. Minnette
Kennedy, wife of Harold Kennedy,
business manager of the orchestra.
* Their last two engagements in
Texas included a date in Lufkin
where they drew one of the biggest crowds ever turned out in that
rural city. People from miles
around came out to hear them, remained to acclaim them, although
Armstrong and his ork had played
that section recently. They play the
homecoming game at Texas college
the end of the week and then hie
themselves to Piney~ Woods and
school.

Asked how the girls fared on the
road, Prof. Jones replied: ~They
drew one of the biggest crowds ever
to pack Pilgrim temple in Dallas
during the AKA dance while the
fair was going on. I formed the
first orchestra five years ago but
this actually is the best one I have
ever heard in this section of the
country. The band idea helps the
girls from the delta region earn
enough money to have better
clothes for themselves and also acquire a~ few luxuries during their
school term.

SIX SAX PLAYERS;
~We at the school are anxious to
turn-out cultured women: and
therefore teach classical music as
well as jazz~but jazz is bread and
cake to th~ girls and a means to
an end with officials of the school,~
he said.

Included in the preseat baiid are
six sax, four trumpets, two trombones, a drum, bass fiddle, guitar,
pianist and singer. Of the 17 girls,
the bass fiddle player, is rated the
highest although the first trumpet,

ist rate a high score on their performance. The pianist may develop
info 2 second Mary Lou Williams or
Hazel Scott, local musicians s&id.
~Names of the orchestra members

special reasons, Prof. Jones said.. Prof. Jones is a graduate of the
University of Iowa and came to the. GREENSBORO, N.-C.~(SNS)~
The musical compositions by Dr.
R. Nathaniel Dett, famous composer, conductor, pianist, and poet,
were sung for the first time during the Dedication Week-End at
Bennett College which came to a
conclusion ~today with the formal
dedication of the new chapel and
theatre building there.

Writte., as Air for the dedication festivities the first of these
new compositions by the internationally-known musician was sung

ate, during a pageant presented at
the college on Saturday night. It
is entitled ~Hymn To Parnassus,~
and in addition to the music, Dr.
Dett wrote the words of the sec
end stanza.

~The second new composition 4 | Pe
x. Dett i, an pi Moss, written to
the words of Isaac Watts~ ~When
t Survey The Wondrous Cross,~.
which the Bennett choir sang at

the dedicatory
Both: tions are highly

opie

became bend~ of th the
usic department four years ago.

on the stage.
hie. Riedie tne.ak- wale: ok. ieee
quality ~and. resonance, with.prob
His stage bearing is most polished:|
and gave a noticeable aristocratic -. He

can sus the breath to great
ah t he henge interruptfor no rea
winbooever. Lp aed also 28

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Was peculiar: The auicat Bes

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scholarship will be left with the
schoo] authorities:

ee

Starting the school on the proverbial shoe string, he has seen it grow
into a $250,000 plant with 350 students on an average. This summer
a new hospital building, fireproof
in every way, was constructed as
was a new dining hall which wiil
seat 500 persons.

Don Dunbar is the music instructor at the s:hool.

Gives Scholarships

~I~ve been doing so well ~
knock wood~-I~m going to give a
music scholarship for some deserving young lady at Tuskegee
Institute,~ was t way Maxine
Sullivan, the little Loch Lomond
girl, put it last week. The decision as to.who will get the

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Booked On Mutual

the Great)

(Jimmy
Lunceford is one of the nation~s

James

leading bands selected to

~spotlighted~ this week over the
Mutual Broadcasting System~s
Coca Cola program. Jimmy and
his aggrégation will be heard

~Gay. Nineties~.

ional Sweet learts
Sensational

Famed Frankie
And Johnny
Suit To Tria!

$200,000 Is
Asked of Film
Studio Officials

ST. LOUIS~(S N S)~The f:mous Frankie and Johnnie Suit will
be aired fo the public.:

That much was decided Friday.
November 31, when Officials of the
St. Louis County Circuit announcad that the $200,000 sui: against
Republic Films and others would
be heard on January fifth.

And that means that, for the
first time in a quarter. of a century, Miss Frankie Baker, of Portland, Oregon, the original of ~the
famed: Frankie and Johnny ballad.
will make a_i visit to her Home
town. She, of course, will be present
at the hearings which haye been
so vigorously fought by Republic
Films for the past two years.

In August, Judge Robert M. Aaronson, Division No. 1 of the Circuit Court, who some months ago
issued a writ of attachment, tieing
up the assets and pictures of the
Republic Pictures Corporation ~ of
New York upon the motions of attorneys Robert L. Witherspoon and
Joseph L. McLemore who represent Miss Frankie Baker, the famous figure in the -~Frankie and
Johnnie~ episode, overruled demurrers of various out of town ~defendants who are endeavoring to prevent the case from coming up for
a hearing, and. orders that the case
be set for trial.

Miss Baker is suing. Republic
Pictutes for $200,000, for the casting, ' roduction and showing of

Johnnie~ which
Morris and other outstanding screen
stars. The other case.which has
attracted nationwide interest, has
been pending in the Circuit Court
for more than two. years, During
that period, various mofions, depositions and pleadings have been carried on by both sides, one step involving briefs on both sides.

One of the highlights of the depositions was the testimony of the
late George Britt, who was the
father of the famous John Britt,
well-dressed ~young man of the

Jove
~affair with ~Miss Was the
~basis of the intérnationally famous
ballad, known as ~Frankie and
Johnnie~ which contains the unforgettable lines ~He was Her ~Man,
But he done Her Wrong~, to. be
heard.

Much difficulty was experienced
in the attempt to bring the parent
Republic Firm, the New York company, into the jurisdiction of thé
Missouri Courts and acting upon
the motion of Attorneys Witherspoon and McLemore, who,: last
winter, issued the order: tieing up
the Republic films which are distributed to'a number of _ states.
Seeing that their films would be
tied up and many film spots tied
up, many theatres were darkened
with a reported substance of radio.
The trial, it is said, will doubtless, require some 25 or 30 witnesses
in addition to the depositions of
witnesses taken to perpetuate their
testimony. In the latter class, in
the deportation of the late -=Mrs.
Tillie Griffin, who was a member of
the Old, Targee street group and
the young gang bothered here.

The legal effect of o
this demurrer filed on Republic behalf is that the defendants must
now prepare to face a court battle
before the answer.

EX-SLAVE DIES AT. 12
CHICAGO, Ill.~(A N P)~Death

claimed Burton Roy, 102-year-old
fotmer slave, Wednesday night

q

| here jn. the home of Lis daughter,

Mrs. Mildred Greeley. Formerly.
a deputy sheriff, alderman and
Sunday School teacher, Mr. Ror
lived in Pulaski, fll., where he
owned a farm and a cemetery. He
had moved to Pulaski from Atlanta shortly after the Civil war.
Surviving Roy are 79 direct, descen
Thursday night at 19:48 * EST

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RATING THE RECORDS |

ile WAS:
~S REST i
Best.biscuit of the week is on
Decea by Jimmie Lunceford, Who
seemingly wants to set the wor!
with MY SPOOK and

boasting his typical rh

swing like Di Maggio aimi,

BAe eek n. we the me to the = a
of ~phrasing and ideas cn both
s'des~ Only Letdown is a few bars

winecessary skyscraping trumpet by Webster~ qn *~. Will
j tudicy builds u & goad ~beat
it.~ Coumbia of POPs AND a

JMEBODY which has 9 few bats
ef crarinet ii the manrer and the leader~s trombone in
~cagarden style. But for the- first
time I don~t like qa Ray McKinley
vical Coupled~is a soft and suave

waxing of APRIL IN PARIS. -
Two bands offer totally different

yersions of BLUES IN THE
&.GuF Pic Victor it~s by~ Artie~

Md Schone DAVIS

biting, powerhouse nope ps Bo -mainly

on trumpet.
real blues teeing exe for a short
passage which ae -

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anew~ BD og ~BAYS WHO? = SAY

YOU SAYS I by Cai, is much mors | F

than 2 fill-in.
The new Earl Hines Bluchird ~of
I HAD TO BE YOU should te a$

will continue to keep his regular Sunday night spot with Jack Benny. ~

NEW YORK, N. Y.~(SNS)~in |
a~ sensatiomsl deal: that is about
to be closed, Count Basie and his
orchestra will soon be signed by a
legdine soft.drink manufacturer
for a series of coast-to-coast commercial radio programs, which
will mark the first time a sepia
band has had 3, sponsored network show to itself,

~ According to the latest information from radio town sponsors
are beginning to recognize race
bands as smart jattractions
through which to sell their wares.
Two years ago Basie landed a onetime shot on the NBC Fitch
Band-Wagon, the only sepia mae-!
stro to have heen given this program since it started on iy: air
four years ago. ~

Another thing sponsors. see ot
the Count is his tremendous popularity on recstds, Basie right now ~
ranks with Vaughn Monroe and i
Jimmie Dorsey #s one of Ameri
Finally gaining the recognition he!
has long deserved, Basie is landing
numerous spots that in the past
have gone SE sag to. white bands.
Business business, evel
radio executives and sponscrs are
climbing} aboard the Basie BandWagon.

Under the guidance of Milton
Ebbins and Willard Alexander of

COUNT BASIE.

Dy #

your-turn solos.. As. coarse ~tee

ca~s three top sellers on discs.;

Sign Count Basie~
For Commercial.

the. William gti Agency. Basie
has reclly hit the top. Through
the eifcrts of his press relatious
chief, Jim McCarthy, the i"
has:eceived numerous national
publicity breaks that have made
the ~Junp King~ a familiar ~
throughout the nation.

Basie is set to oe cate
Society Uptown in | Bas ake

through Deember 20, broadcasting
coast-to-coast four times - er -9 J
on the major net-works, Basie is
heard Mondays and Fridays at ii
p.m, (New York Time) via the Columbja Broadcasting System~ ~and
Tuesdays end Thursday via the
Mutual Network at 1 at,
~York. Time).

FOOTLITE ~

FLICKERS

By ALVIN MOSES
NEW YORK~(A N P)~ ~
(Rochesti). ANDERSON, &
lot of important people, will ty to
make some ~important money~ for. Anderson! Rochester
head his own radio program with
a sponsor who~li stay with per ~
ter....hope this mezns a job
real pay for....ex-Pathe newsman
Collins, Ancerson~s pute relations aide...... That MARGARET
BECKETT affair that ~we've ef
cussed in this column pring
summer is just sbout -
gesture the theatre has uk
a non-big name pz~former that
we can think of since were wete
= kid.. BENNIE BEN.
(yes, that~s the way he speils it},
oe like a veteran orator over
~WE THE PEOPLE~

pr
- fortnight ago-_he ~ is
for one of the best song hits -
~I Don~t Wnat To Set The Wi

Herlem playboy.. will | any

TAP-TAP and TOE. On: that..i<..
~3ousce-Sermericjn~ trip, and is

he lucky amigo....1). yer!?
~ UCE~s

~1 On Fire.~:

~Slim~~ Wise (Roy),

novations: Mary, rates among~
~best teachers of her art in

ation atten. Bae THR

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