Brownsville Weekly News

; FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT. MICHIGAN.

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Plan Entertainment For

Participation of Negro entertainers in the nation-wide program of Camp Shows, Inc., new affiliate of the United Service Organizations, is being arranged by the group above. Seated, left to right, are
Noble Sissle, famous orchestra leader and member
of the board of directors of Camp Shows;

Dowling, president, and Lawrence

vice-president, Standing behind them, left to right,

Eddie
Phillips, executive

YMCA leader and

Welfare and Recreation, and
member of the USO Board of directors, Mr. Sissle,
who was- named to the Camp Shows board at the
request of the USO~s
has been asked by Mr. Dowling to organize immediately a unit as one of the theatrical projects which
wil] tour the country, presenting entertainment for
men in the armed forces.

~af 2
member of: the Joint Army and Navy Committee on

Hubert T. Delany,

Negro service committee,

are Channing H. Tobias, national

Noble Sissle Forming Show

Unit To Tour Army Camps
Silas Green Wows

5,000 Atlantans

nhc ers Ga.7-(SNS)~,
ter than streak lightning, funnier tnail ~the most
hilarious jive you have ever heard, and with more gorgeous
girls than you would ordinarily see in a month of Sundays,
Charles Collier~s streamlined ~Silas Green from New Orleans~ show hit town Thursday night and after a two-hour
stop at the City Auditorium sent more than 5,000 customers
home not at all sorry that they had paid out their hard
Top Negro Stars
To Be. Selected
For Production

YORK CITY~(S N S)~. Organizations for National Defense,
has been achieved through the
g of Noble Sissle, noted orchestra conductor and showman, to
the- board of directors of _ Camp
Shows, it was announced today.

Mr. Sissle~s selection as a board
member was made at the request
of the Negro Service Committee of
USO, which met with Walter Hoving, chairman of the USO board of
directors. ~

Immediately upon becoming a
member of the Camp Shows Board,
Mr. Sissle met with Eddie Dowling,
president; Lawrerice Phillips, executive vice-president; Channing H.
Tobias, national Y. M. C. A. leader
and. member of the Joint Army and
Navy Committee: on Welfare-- and
Recreation, and Hubert T; Delany,
member of the USO boardiof directors, to map plans for Negro participation in the activities of Camp
Shows.

At the requést of Mr. Dowling,
he at once began organizing a unit
to tour the country, presenting -entertainment for the men in the
armed services. Top-ranking Negro
theatrical stars and acts will be
included in the unit, which will appear at 186 Army camps and Navy
Stations throughout the nation and
off-shore bases.

Camp Shows~ was incorporated
~last week as a non-profit agency
to provide entertainment for service men and was admitted to the
USO as an affiliate at the request
of the War and Navy Departboa Funds for its operation are

ig provided by USO.

Nora Lee King
New Disk Artist

NEW YORK CITY~(SNS)~
Nora Lee King, dynamic blues
singer, a former. student of Selma
University, Alabama, and daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James J. ~King
of that city, also a graduate of the
Detroit Conservatory of Music, is
now claimed by coin machine operators to be one of the best sellers on Decca Race records.

Miss. King~s latest releases are:
_~Love Me,~ ~Why Don~t You Do
Right,~ ~Da Da Da,~ and ~Let~Me
Rock You Home.~

~She is the writer of the ~Army
Camp Blues,~ ~You Ain't Been
Doing Right,~ ~Let: Me Rock You
Home,~ all by Decca. Nora Lee
King has appeared on Many neiwork shows. Fred Allen, Kay Kyser, and others; bésides having her
own local radio program. ~She is
writer of her script and does the
announcing on the programs. Miss
' King is now appearing at the
Chateau Maderne on East 50th St.,
in New York City. She is under the.
management of outr Martinez,
1587 ~~

earned money to see it.

Adapting the flash style, ef modern. stagedom, S. H. Dudley, Jr.,
the producer, started. the revue
moving at. a mile-a-minute pace
and never for a single seccnd allowed things to lag on the massive
auditorium stage.

Correctly holding the choice next
to closing spot was the nation~s
only Negro pantomime artist,
jovial Johnny Hudgins, whose skating antics, his makeup impersonation and solo jive, had the paying public literally rolling in the
aisles. =

Getting equal ~billing on this
reviewers~ chart were those charming Edwards Sisters, whose dancing was more than superb.

Others who should come in for
favorable mention were, of course,
Ford Wiggins as Silas, keeping up
a 33-year old reputation of- making them laugh, aided and abetted
by such fun-makers as Atlanta~s
own Dinah Stott as Lilas and Fairchild and Julia, well-known to At
~~

lanta) Top Hat habitues.

And then there was Kid Lips
Hackett, truly a rhymic ~sensation on the drums, the Gaines
Trio, possibly the only great Negro acrobatic act'on the stage today, and Arthur Smith, whosé
voice more than pleased his hear-.
ers.

This paragrapher would be falling down on his duty to the public
if he failed to hand those proverbial bouquets te the tadies of
the ensemble, twelye more charming, more able and~more precisionlike in their execution of) difficult
routine not to be seen anywhere.

Yes, Silas Green was really a

| great show, a clean show and a
~ well-costumed

one. Capable musical accompaniment was furnished by Sergent King, well known
to Atlantans, and his twenty-two
piece orchestra.

If you stayed: home this - time,
please don~t make that mistake
when Silas Green comes this way
next. yeat~CLIFF MCKAY.

SEEIN~ STARS)

By DIELLORES CALVIN

NEW. YORK~(C) ~ ~SUNNY
RIVER~.wih ~Jegro Stars to be
cast Decembe; ist?...Newest addition to the Hammerstein-Romberg genius is the gusical ~Sunny
River~ with the Negro stars Oscar
Polk and Richard Huey which will
have a New York appearance December first.

GOSSIP IN GOTHAM....Author
Arna Bontemps, staying at the
Hote! Theresa stepped out and I
followed him féur blocks..,.to 4
public library~s reading room where
they had his ~Pope ~and Fifina,~
children sensation, on view......
Una Mae Carlisle and husband had
a spat this week, ~tis rumored....
Helena Horne is to have gone to
Pittsburgh to make up with hubby, also comes from Dame Rumor..Cab Calloway is now under
new management, Ivan Black, who
is credited with sOme of the "fame
of Hazel Scott..Cab is not putting thumbs down on his hi-deho... Why, if he dd, what would
be unique and original left withcut that energetic Calloway style?
INCIDENTALLY....~~Rochester~
Andersen is posing proudly in his
Holloywood: home. for ~Look~
who are coming back to the Apollo
again, are being congratulated for

their fine work in ~~~Lady Be Good~....Now that Ivie Anderson, Duke
Ellington~s song bird, is suing Willirib Johnson for a divorce, we
hope it won~t interfere with~ the
~Jump For Joy~ show.... The most
popular short story among the
theatrical folks is ~Best Short
Stories of 1941~ complied by Edward O~Brien which includes the
1940 Opportunity mag~s_.. story,
~Color Trouble~....Its one of the
cutest stories with a colored girl
on a bus who won~t sit in the
back and argues with the white
guys....All theatrical row is sympathetic to Count Basie over the
loss of his mother of Red Bank,
N. J: The Count is playing at
Cafe Society Downtown while John
Kirby moved into the Uptown extension this week _

ELLA IN THE MOVIES

HOLLYWOOD~(TYP) ~ ~Ride
"Em Cowboy,~ in which Ella Fitzgerald plays the role of a cowgirl
will be released early next year.
Abbott and Costello, sensational
stars of radio, stage, screen and
nite clubs afe featured in this
~Universa] thriller..It will be a
cinematic debut for the ~TisketA-Taskit~ thrush,

~| ~Great, Camp Meetin~ were. about
~the-best:

Helen Thigpen

|Pleases Harlem
Music Lovers

By CARL DITON

NEW YORK~(ANP)~Believe it
or-not, some of the recitals given

pirants among Negroes are better
than some of those given in the
downtown district. This is especially true of the Helen Thigpen recital held in St. Martin~s Community
theatre Sunday afternoon under the
management of Marc Albert.

Miss Thigpen~s light, dramatic soprano voice of considerable range,
served her well in a list of songs
comprising Frescobaldi~s ~Se laura
spira~; Handel~s ~O Had I Jubal~s
Lyre~ and ~O sleep why doest thou
leave me,~ Hydn~s ~My Mother Bids
me Bind my Hair~, followed by
Schubert~s ~Gretchen am Spinnrade~, Gounod~s Jewel Song from
~Faust~, and a group of spirituals
by William Grant Still. Mrs. Beach~s
~Ah! Love But a Day~, Osburn~s
manuscript ~Where Thou Liest~, La
Forge~s ~Cupid Captive~ and
Gershwin~s ~My Man~s Gone Now~
from ~Porgy and Bess~ brought the
program to a close.

Very few singing teachers seem to
achieve complete success in~ developing high tones, Miss. Thigpen~s
vocal mentors appear to be no ex
~| ception, though it must be admitted

that her head tones were frequently quite effective. Moreover, her
interpretive personality solicited
well-deserved appreciation from the
large audience that greetea her.

As to the spirituals, her voice is
hardly suited. Of the six, ~Gwinter
Sing All Along de Way~, ~Keep me.
From Sinkin~ Down~ with-its mod-.
ernistic chord treatment, and

erence ary spre
e

It is refreshing these days to see
a Negro accompainst. Here Mr. Albert, stepping aside from his duties
as impressario, presided at the keyboard withperhaps undue reservation but with evident marks of full
technical equipment.

FOOTLITE
FLICKERS

By AL MOSES

NEW YORK~The death of popular ~CHU~ BERRY, saxophone
All-American late with Cab Callo-.
way~s orchestra, has struck the
profession like a bolt from the blue~
we salute you, Leon, as you carry
on in..Greener Pastures.~Floyd
Smith, guitarist with Andy Kirks~
Clouds of Joy, not only looks forward to being called to the colors
during the month of January, but
Floyd says he expects to be fighting somewhere in the Pacific by
April, 1942.

Al Sears dropped in to tell us
that he was sorry to leave Benny
Carter~s troupe to take over Dickie
Wilson~s spot in the reed section

the pulse of the orchestra world,
devotes a nice plug (written by
Mike Morales, the ~Vine Street
Vulture~~),
on JAY McSHANN, of Kansas City...Morales says in one portion~ of
the article: ~McShann, from Oklahoma, plays piano a lot like Mary
Lou Williams, but with a little heavier touch. frequently brief bursts of
Hines and Art Tatum out in
his treble.... He came way to
make records with this phenomenal

result.

81,000 copies (Decca Records) bf
~Confessin~ The Blues~~. In several
cities he attracted more patrons
than..Earl Hines, Les Hite and
Lionel Hampton,~and he did this,
despite these better known (big
name) bands~ highly managed and
plugged by experts...Count
says~Jay is one of his favorites...
Al Killian, who is a Count Basie

selection in Any Band Poli;. Killian~s widely advertised performance
of double high C and over for a
trumpet range should serve to make
him eligible for such nomination..
add to this the fact that he ~ plays
sweet and low, when the octasion
demands it,

mine, fh oe a

in Harlem by the new musical as- |
~1 Dramatic

with Kirk~~Down Beat~ magazine /

in its ~November issue, |":

On October 15, icShann had sold

Basie |.

trumpeter, is our choice for first| *

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Program Slated ~
For November 23

es _ WASHINGTON, D. C._~(SNS)~The first name among:|Negrves in sports~Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe.|.
Louis~will be featured in the third broadcast of the ~~Free}}dom~s People~ series over the National Broadcasting Com- }-.
pany~s Red network from 12:30 to 1 p. m. EST November 23. |

~Freedom~s. People,~ ~a once-amcnth series~sponsored by a national advisory committee with
which the U. S. Office of Education cooperates, dramatizes Negro
4cCntributions to American Life. The
November ~program. fentunes Negroes in sports.

_Jesse Owens, who ~showed body.
worshioping Nazis something in

way of physical ability when
re captured three first places in
ithe 1938 Olympics at Berlin, wil!
2 Stern, ace sports. commentator, will interview Owens; Ken
Carpenter will question the tactiturn Louis.

Owens holds world records~ in, the 100-yard and 200-yard dashes

and the running broad jump. He
won the 100 and 200 meter and
broad jump events a3/Berlin and
also ran on the American team
which wen. the 400-mcter relay.
After a professional tour and
various other jobs, Owens has
returned to Ohio State University to complete his studies.

Louis, undefeated in the ring

since he won the heavyweight title
in 193%, will probably speak from
California where he _is__s residing
while awaiting a call from his
draft board. ~

-Cab Calloway, whose ~hi-de-ho~

has betn a jazz trademark for
years, will lead his orchestra in
one of the musical numbers On

the more classical side the broadcast will present the Golden Gate
Quartet, well-known to radio and
concert stage audiences.

The ~Freedom~s People~ _ series

is made possible by! giants from
the Rosenwald Fund and _ the
Southern Education, Foundation,
together with broadcasting facilities offered by NBC network stations.
Acting for the %?. ~. Office of
Education in cooperation with the
s\fecial committee are Dr. Ambrose Caliver, Serior) Specialist in
Nego, Education, and Willism D.
Boutwell, Chief of the Radio Service. Irve Tunick, veteran radio auther, writes the scripts. Original
music. and arrangeménts are prepared by D. Charles Cooke.

22 RE ETS Aract* =

Starts Winter Tour

BOSTON~(ANP)~After spending the past summer in'Los Angeles, where she took special work
in the school of sneech at the University of Southern California.
Marie Joe Browne; nationally
known dramatic artist, will begin
her fall and winter tour Nov. 23
with a recital at the Coloho Club
of Hartford, Conn.

Miss ~Browne, who annually ap- |
pears before white and_ colored
audiences in all parts of the nation, will be presented at Downmington Industrial - and Agricultural
school at Downington, Pa. on
Nov. 28 and at Virginia State college on Dec 3 after which she
will give dramatic recitals ait
schools in Alabama, - Mississippi,
Missouri and Texas before going
back to California next March.

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HOLLYWOOD, California~(C)~Eddie ~Roches
lywood at his home with Mrs. Anderson.

Pictures of

fer~ Anderson was interviewed for the November | typical Rochester party, his ~mansion~, his cooking -
18th issue of New York~s Look Magazine here in Hol- | 2nd home with the missus are features of the great
~ ~Benny comedian,

Lucky Millinder And Sister
Tharpe Clicking At Savoy

Alabama Boy and Arkansas
Girl Set New York on Fire

By DELORES CALVIN
NEW YORK~(C)~Never in the
history of music and ~there has
been another team to rival the
Chick Webb-Ella Fitzgerald: combo
which was a sensation until the
little drummer blasted away for
the last time, but now we have in
the making a newer and _ greater
team of swingers, Lucky Millinder

and ~Sister~ Rosetta Tharpe.
Arkansas~ Rosetta, who made a
record at N. Y.~s Cotton Club by
staying over 22 weeks, sings spir
Fats s Tops;

"y.

and His Augmented Orchestra and
revue, featuring Apus and Estrellita, the Four Kit: Kats, Myra
Johnson, Eugene Sedric, Albert
Casey and Slick Jones, broke all
records at the Colonial Theatre
last week.

On Sunday the crowds were -so
great that the police were called
to keep the crowds in hand. Even
in the rain there has been, a constant Waller! line at the box office window.

Topa in b.o. appeal Waller~s
battd continued its terrific dollar
and musical sense pace that has
made ~the show truly dynamic~

playing to terrific applause every-'

where.

Waller opened the Regal Theatre im Chicago on Friday before
one of he largest theatre ~firters~
the Windy City has seen in a decade, His newest Victor Bluebird
recording ~The Bells of San Raé
~quel~ is a best seller.

And She Sings Too!

dai nicpeoar! NG ssdottione te the othe tes
| at Atlanta~, City Auditorium Thanksgiving

| straight from "Vine Street,

ituals with a rockin~ rythm. The
little religious lady started all this |
when nly five jyears old, she~s
just 26, when a visiting ~relative
left her a guitar at her house. She
traveled with her mother who was
an evangelist and got her big break
during a convention in St. Louis
~Sister~ Tharpe is now considered
as America~s greatest spiritua!
singer. It~s just her voice and her
guitar.

But Lucky Millinder is an Alabama boy. And when he conducts,
he does everything but climb the
ceiling with his baton,~ says Art
Franklin, Director of publicity for
the team~s manager, Moe Gale.
Millinder~s band is hotter than a.
five alarm Harlem fire headed by
a brand new determination (to

Priends ~insist he picked it

Lucky, but Millinder knows it~s
hecause of his luck with the ladies.
Right now, Dynamaestro (Lucky)
and Sister Rosetta are making the
stars look down at the~Savoy Ballroom, where they all but carry the

Harlem spot away.

Dvorak

Honored

Sp from |.
his Tuck at dice, I mean ~the hame ~late a en ee
_NEW YORK, N. Y~,-~ Aubrey ~:

Pankey, Negro baritone, was the
featured soloist at the Anton
Daorak
held at, the Studios of Music Eduas" 9 West 82nd Street, November

RATING THE RECORDS

Evy FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS

JUST SWINGIN~ ALONG

Pull on your hipboots and start
wadin~ because the. stuff bubbles
from Duke Ellington~s new Victor
of ROCK IN MY BED a_ blues,
and BLIP BLIP, a jitbug~s delight,
both from ~Jump for Joy.~ Following a wailing Hodges also and
Bigard~s fine clarinet, Ivie Anderson comes in to moan ~ém low. The
other side features Ray Nance on
vocafi, somje odd {musical effects,
and Blanton moving that bass
around like a wild man. Not the
Duke~s best platter, but this guy is
good every time..Om Decca the
Andrews Sisters have the best version of ELMER~S TUNE yet waxed.
This is grand rhythm singing in
slow tempo. Flipover is HONEY
but it has to bow to Teddy Powell~s
rendition,. Andy Kirk got his whole band in
the groove for 47th STREET JIVE
and BIG TIME CRIP on Decca

has June Richmond selling the jive
while Mary Lou = Williams. picks
some gorgeous piano. The second
side, a tribute to the: dancer of
that name, is also socking and in
the band~s famous ~Little Joe From
Chicago~ style. This stuff is
Kansas
Citv.-. Charlie Barnet~s Bluebird of
BLUES IN THE NIGHT is a disappojntment. except for the fine
trumpet behind the vocal. This
band could have done a lot better
With this tune.
TSLE OF PINBS, our Charlie pe

dles schmaltz with violins, pa gs No
meat at all.

DRAWS APPLAUSE
Harry James~ arranger draws
oop os for what he did to RECSESSION cn
bse geee j Both. are
a they. Sei. ~the: join
Hear James~ trum; ge: ia

The first, a poogie woogie blues,,

On the ges

is heard on @ pair of new Vietor.

~6 set Ae

NOTHIN~ on/,
strictly not | BD

Decca, 0) 4 E
AND I and ~'D LOVE YOU AGAIN,

Centennial Celebration ~

MY FOOLISH HEART

which are. all Het if you like the...

tunes.

A molt interesting number is
WATER BOY by Earl Hines on
Bluebird. The Fatha takes this

tune, gives ~it a super duper rhythm ~

twist and the beys romp away

behind Billy Eckstein~, contrasting.

vocal which he sings straight. The
coupling, WINDY CITY JIVE, is
a ride tune which is competem but

not memorable...Louis\Jordan plays _
good alto and his little band jumps
on ST. VITUS DANCE for Decca
but. ndthing else much takes place,
including the vocal
its BOOGIE WOOGIE CAMF TO
TOWN, somewhat better and suggestive of Yankee Doodle, with a

jive vocal and enthusiastic ~music -
| making.Una Mae Carlisle has 2

The flipover |

Bluebird of MY WISH and MOON
LIGHT MASQUERADES in which
She succeeds in sounding sincere.
They~re both slow and quiet with
a long piano interlude on the first
and aed S hoys behind her on, the.
second

Por his second Decca, Lucky Miljinder combines BIG PAT MAMA
With TROCUPLE IN MIND. Thevor

Sribes~ the heavy hen he
while the band jumps and bounces,

Bacon, aided by the glee club, de- = at
~wants

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The companion piece piece is ese =

pécially netable since. it a
Sister Rosetta is Tiere ot fone 1B

singér and aad Be tvaleg them. vigorously as you probably. expected ~ner her
holy roller singing...