Brownsville Weekly News

~SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

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14, 1942

Sings On ~Freedom's People~

Dorothy Maynor, internationally famous soprano, whose crystal clear~

voice -will be heard Sunday when

the sixth in a series -of ~Freedom's |
Feople~ broadcasts is aired over the National Broadcasting company~s
red network. The program comes on at 12 o~clock, Eastern ~War Time.

Cootie Williams To
Branch On Own

By DOLORES CALVIN

FOR CALVIN SERVICE

NEW YORK~(C)~Judging by
rehearsals and talk in -Harlemtowne,- it appears, without a doubt
that Cootie Williams, formerly
with the Benny Goodman band,
will be one.of the most. outstanding bandleaders of. 1942. His whole
set up~is new and his. jump band
is sapping up engagements and
~ bookings set. by managers, William
Morris and Agency as fast ts they
come.

~.,Cootie, considerfd along _ with
Roy Eldridge of Gene. Krupa~s ork
as: oné. of the best trumpeters in

the job and they are: Sandy Williams, trombonist; Louis Bacon,
trumpet,.and Eddie- Vinson, alto.
Roscoe Fritz, guitarist and a Williams find, will handle most of
the arrangements,

Cootie, who ~originally hails from
Mobile, Ala., is set to make records
for the Okeh label, his present
contract still holding up. He.used
to record with pickup units, smaller than his new band. The band

will.debut. the. second ~week of
Feb on 8 location, Cootie
wouldn~t - tell.. ~And we'll be

ready,~ he says. ~I think. the band
will ~surprise~.a lot of the cats.~
But-the: location~ was found~ out: to

tbe ee: Grand: eihanat poets.

~By FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS
THE NIGHT'S STILL BLUE
~The ~title tune from that new

film, BLUES IN THE NIGHT, is
still -with-us. By. far the most elaborate and effective version yet
heard. is the- two-faced Decca by
Jimmie. Lunceford. Profoundly blue,
deeply Ellingtonish in spots, it rocks
solidly through both sides. ~Willie
Smith on alto and Joe Thomas on
etenor:create a thrilling. duet. Gutty
owl: trumpet, a powerful modulazion. and sultry piano precéde +
thythmic glee club vocal -with jive

Renny. Goodman~s newhas a sparkling version
hted by fine tempo and.rhy- thm and the marvelous background

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ty who should: have
hone: to" his lips. Plattermate WHERE OR WHEN, features: gorgeous subtone clary by Ben- ~nyin-a slow beautiful arrangement
with Miss Lee thrushing a haunting, quietiy intense. Weakest ~of the three ~Blues _ in: the
~ Night~ is that -by Harry James on
@Golumbia. It has the James~ hot
horn -and is instrumental all the
way, but there are too many: better versions. The flipover, ALL FOR
LOVE, shows Harry is as yet untouched. by. sugar priorities.

Fats Waller favors helping ~the
war effort, but he suggests you
might as well get CASH FOR
YOUR TRASH on his jumpy Blue~bird.. It boasts a generous helping
of flashy. 88 work. A stronger jump
is the companion piece, THAT
GETS IT, MR. JOE, with 4ll the
~ ~poys cutting loose... Patriotism of
~another type is. peddled by.Charlie
Spivak on the Okeh of D EAP.

MOM, slow ~and sentimental, and

ER.PEARL -HARBOR,
bristling with; trumpet fanfare.
~Meanwhile, we still await a -topnoteh war number....That wacky
novelty, ARTHUR MURRAY
TAUGHT ME.DANCING.IN A

~ Supplies laugh kicks by

Jimmy Dorsey on Decca, backed by
NOT MINE, 2 torchy tidbit with
Bob Bberle -and- Helen O~Connel
putting on their take-your-turn
singing act. Another sweet J. Dorsey ~Decca is TANGERINE, an
Eberle O~Connell.ditto, and EV~
RYTHING I LOVE

You can count on the Count. He
has a jumpy Okeh of * COMING
OUT PARTY featuring powerful
section work-of brass against ~reeds
plus stellar bass:playing by Walter
Page. Basie is in a mellow groove
here. Plattermate:is the easy rocket, HARVARD BLUES; with a talking tenor sax prior to R
vocal. Unfortunately, much of.Jimmy~s jive is meaningless outside the
ivy league; you need to be a Har~vard cat to digit.: The Shep ~Fields
nonsrippling rhythm pleasantly ~fogs
wry SOMEONE'S: ROGKING

MY-DREAMBOAT, Biuebird, ~but
you can: live-without it. ~Paired is a

| Education,~ sixth broadcast in.the

[Ite Rosenwald: and.the.: Phélps
~S | dation, together - with, direction and

Dorothy Maynor

Program to Mark

~Climax of Negro
~History: Week.

~WASHINGTON, D. ~.-(sNs)~
One day in ~1872 a young Negro
named Booker T. Washington artived: in a~tewn near ~Norfolk, Virginia, to.enroll at Hampton Institute: ~He*-had ~traveled by stage and
on foot from his home in the mountains:of West Virginia. In ~his pocket was a 50 cent piece. ~In ~his heart
was the ambition-to teach members
of his race.

| Booker.T... Washington, one of
the great American educators, capitalized these investments to become the. founder of Tuskegee Institute. A tribute to his genius. is
included in ~Negro Contributions to

~Freedom~s People~ series, to ~be
presented over NBC~s network from
12:30 to 1p. m. EWT, Sunday, FebTuary 15. The series is sponsored by
a national advisory committee of
white and Negro educaters with

cooperates.
DOROTHY MAYNOR TO APPEAR
Dorothy Maynor, gifted Negro
soprano, and John W. Studebaker,
U. S. Commissioner of Education,
pre featured on the _ broadcast,
which climaxes observance of Negro
history week.

In dramatized sikh the broadcast will touch upon high spots in
~Negro education history ~ John
Russworm, first Negro college graduate, who received a degree from
~Bowdoin in 1828. establishment of
WCheyney Teachers College in 1832,
first institution of higher learning
for Negroes, and the stimulus to
Negro education of the Freedman~s
Bureau under leadership of Federal
army officers which led to establishment of Howard University and

University in 1867.

DESCRIBES PHILANTHROPY
Work of philanthropic foundations concerned with Negro educa~tion will be described, beginning
with the George: Peabody fund, ~oldest philanthropic foundation in the
South. Others are~ the Slater-and
Jeanes funds~which -have..merged
-with the Peabody fund to.form. the.
Southern ~Bducation ~ Foundation~

Stokes ~funds, the ~Carnegie founda~tion, and the ~General Education

Board.

This broadcast will tell also of
Negroes who have contributed to
their race~s educational advancement. More than a hundred years
ago, Marie Couvent,.a New Orleans
creole Negro, on her death bed asked that her property be. used to éstablish a local.school for Negroes.
New Orleans has named its newest
Negro high school in. her -honor.

The Howard University Women~s
Glee Club and a chorus of New
York Negro school children. will-participate in the broadcast. The.12 -voice de Paur chorus.and the NBC
staff orchestra are regular features
of the series.

Grants ~from the Rosenwald Fund
and the Southern Education Foun
broadcasting facilities contributed
by NBC and its network ~stations,
~make the series possible. ~~Freedom~s
People~: is under supervision of Dr.
5 toe Caliver, U. 8. Office of!

ribute
Sixth In

which the U.S. Office of Education |

Hampton Institute in 1866 and Fisk |

_FLINT BROWNIES NEWS, FLINT, MICHIGAN

~~ Boo cer T.
~Freedom's _

_ CHICAGO~ (ANP) ~

appreciative: mixed audience when.
in the college auditorium. Miss

ra0no dramas wh
tainment.

Fudolph Ganz,~ president of Chicago M

~ Lou Swarz, solo dramatist, won acclaim from

usica] College, and from a most

ghe ~scored ag guest ~artist Saturday

Swarz, a school teacher as well as 40 |

actress and national Epistoleus of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority, presents
ich teach~a bit of Negro history as well as give enter
fe HAMPTON INSTITUTE,
pereent Se erases the 1
Pe

music: epett

Se thie Week,

ro Mm..
* ae programs and projects. are
being worked out by Hampton Institate~in the surrounding communities of the Tidewater Virginia
pehinsula and in nearby army
camps.

Students majoring in music at
Hampton -are already working out
in the field organizing glee clubs
for Negro soldiers -and- sponsoring
community sings in.afmy camps.
The heat Hampton Institute choir;
the Men of ~Hampton, the glee
clubs, and the-many other undergraduate ~singing groups are touring USO Centers, army posts,

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program-of gearing its students

d: Music | is ~ant im
~ (SNS)
baie <aoldiers.

outiininig~ her~ departmen: and staff into. the: defense

hurches, and other orgiodzationh
in ~his ~all-out~ move to ~

morale.

From acti: towns, | workets
from -the shipyards and other defense projects have already been
organized into two singing groups
that have the use of all) Hampton
facilities and Hampton instructors
free of charge. One is ~the Harry
T. Burleigh Glee Club, the other~
the Crusaders. Working with ~Miss
Sanders in this program -are Noah.
F.. Ryder and Charles H.' Flax, both
of the music staff of the institute.

SEEN~

tion specialist in~ Negro edure:,~ snd Wiliam D. Boutwell,
chief. -of the Officer's. Information

dance version.of THE LOST
CHORD in which the band blends
into the sonority.of an organ. In- |
teresting for this unusual effeet..
Sounds as if Sy Oliver arranged
WINTER WEATHER for Tommy
Dorsey on Victor. A vigorous bounce
it features mainly section work.
Other side, HOW ABOUT YOU,~ is
according to the sweet trombone
and vocal chorus formula, growing
quite rhythmic toward ~the end:

Sisters Rosetta. Tharpe, picks a
mean guitar as she ~shouts JUST A
-CLOSER WALK WITH THEE and
I~M IN HIS CARE on Decca, show
lationship between the ~ spirituals
and blués....First cousin to.~Beat
Me Daddy~ is PIG FOOT PETE on

good stomping and neither Freddie |

nor his band slacks up a bit. Flip
over is STRANGE CARGO; a

Strange tune also in b. w. which

~tags tke~ need to hear evened times |
e

GALE GRABS NEWYORK
NEW YORK~(C)~A seven-year |
contract this week, inspired by a
aneress tour which shattered
1 records, went to.Jay McShann,
and his orchestra from manager
~Moe: Gale, better known::

~Tumino,
manager MeShann.' The band~ was
rushed to New York for an immneen nome 3
diate Aor etonndirdiae 14,

Her highness of Holiness Hymne, |

ing among other things the close re-,

Decca by that ofay master of boo- |
gie woogie, Freddie ~Slack. This is |

Service. Scripts: are by Irve ~Funick,
'and musical.arrangements Heed Dr.
Ehepaceis L..Coake.

Artie Signs. Up,
May Be In Army

By DOLORES,CALVIN

| NEW "YORK~(C)~After keep}
~a record date at-Victor and cu~,;
Six sides with his 32-piece soehae
tra, Artie Shaw entered the Roosevelt Hospital here last week to
undergo an. operation which physicians had been advising for several
months.

All of Shaw~s men were sat on
two week's notice. Inasmuch 4s
the band has just completed oné
vacation, the move indicates another. Hot Lips Page, famed trum| peter of the band and the only
| colored too,. is: taking it easy, But; when; -Shaw comes out, Uncle Sam.

|may call him to join up with the
| Army. -He.was.in.draft-classifica-; tion 3-A, past. iat Peesschaneed to

S=BELEE IN UGK? $

With DOLORES CAEVIN

NEW YORK~(C)~LATIN. TOUR
CANCELLED FOR LA SULLIVAN;
LEAVE WITH CARTER CREW
SHORTLY. Maxine Sullivan~s
much~ taiked of-tour to South Amer~
ica has.been.cancelled ~because of
the war, but theatre bookings with
Benny Carter have been put in its
place, according to her -managers.:
Music Corporation of America....
The two are to leave the last of
February to-do theatres in a unit
which features Miss Sullivan -..
Benny~s band will have four saxes,
four trumpets, four rhythms in the
section and no trombones.

THIS IS NEWS. One columnist
of New York says that Fats Waller
looked like a. big, happy, brownskin
~ned bullfrog at his Carnegie Hall

concert..To add: ~Waller himself
looked unnatural in -tails- with white
tie and patent leather shoes..But
his playing was.even more unnatural. It wasn~t the Fats Waller of

the eoncert: halls.~...From Los Angeles comes the report that Cee Pee
Johnson, who just landed a CBS
beer commercial, may be drafted
and is in-class 1-A:.: They are playing at the Sugar Hill Cafe and tf
he has to'go, the drummer boy will
take over~... Count Basie, in ~Phila
delphia, mixed up a drink that was

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jazz. It was the Thomas Waller of

STARS

stage~ and. screen -actress, spent a
week in Chicago from Los Angeles. Her husband, Lawrence Brown, a
Duke ~Ellington trombonist, is playing in the Windy City... Sabby
Lewis'-mixed: combo is-.a--sensation
here at -Kelley~s. Stables on West
~62nd Street.... Lewis came down
with band from. Boston just last
month ~and made debut at the/
Stables... Al] arrangements -are
dene by. ofay Jerry Heffron..:.OQth-~
ers-of-combo are colored. and Sabby
is a:very hot pianist...... They stayed
five years at Cafe Savoy up:.Boston
way
IN CASE YOU DIDN'T HEAR...

Pete Johnson, after three months
on a farm in Mt. Morris, will
record four new. sides. og Decca
this month leading: his Own pickup
band of six pieces...Meade Lux
Lewis,.who.formerly worked..with: Johnson, is still in Hollywood work
ing.as.a single....The ties notes of
Ella Fitagerald and Bennie Kornegay looks as though it will be better for both....But. why,.oh why,
did the first lady of swing have to
matry.a bandleader, when.she is
one herself?....A young up
coming baritone, Lawrence Whisonant, was heard over the.air, WJZ.
A grad from Howard U. last
June, he has been on. the radio
Sevaral times....With Leopold Stokowski last week one (critic says:.~~His full resonant voice Pleased us

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~Duke~ ~Kliston.
-eads.Chorus
At CampLee ~ ~

CAMP LEE, Va~(SNS)~A. man
who can lead & ehakk, write catchy

C.a night club

counted. W ieatiia,

Accordingly, when Ben ~Duke~
Allston, popular Broadway night
club, and radio_ performer, became
Private Benjamin. Allston and
shortly thereafter Sergeant Allston,
few of his friends were ereatly surprised. For.jt seemed natural that
anyone who could hold the attention of blase night club habitues
_ would have little difficulty. in.putting across to trainees the mysteries
cf column-by-fours or military
courtesy.

The Allsto Choir, which Set.
Allston has récruited from his fellow-soldiers of the Ninth Q. M.
Regiment. is already.q popular feature of two of Camp Leé~s radio
shows, ~Q. M. Salutes~ and ~Ninth
Regiment Varieties~ By adding
new: members as older. ones -jeave,
Set. Allston has managed te Keep
the chorus. in continuous existence.
Composed of men -with previous
experience, usually professional, in
singing, the Allston choir makes the
Taost ofthe limited rehearsal time
which off-duty hours allow. and
can fit on short.notice. into the
many engagements -which come
thei;. way.

Sergeant Allston finds additional
occupations ~for his leisure _ time.
As chairman:of the entertainment
committee for the Byrne St. USO
in Petersburg. he direéts his. showmanship to the production of. frequent entertainment. functions for
Camn Lee's: colored soldiers., And,
far from:wéaring himself:out in
these pursuits, he finds time~ for a
little amateur photography, writes
the! scripts for some of the c

radio shows, ~composes _ an~. occaoma song, and assid: ly studies
the. subjects ~ which, through leefr NL Set

re OF aoe
= pit capeclel avieahion 6 to: goer
ects, -

Allston~s:professional. experience
includes personal. ~acquaintance
with mest.of the familiar figures of
the: entertainment -world, especially in radio.and New Nork night
clubs, He ~worked -with Harry.
Richmond for some ten years, has;
appeared occasionally with many
other performers, and_is particularly well known. to habitues -of ~the
Club Riehmond and Hollywood
~Cafe in New York and ~the ~High
Fiat Club in. Chicago,

Sgt. Allston~s parents, -Mr. and
Met AS ate qunabens wal aes
janvi Sonth Caro his er
teaches -Latin. ~The sergéant and
his wife are now living in ~Petersburg, although: their home is at 124
W. 114th street, New. York..

Bennett's Orchestra
Plans Its First Tour

GREENSBORO N. C. sp beg
Plans ~were bein made tase
pad the bc poi Ala ~of ih
mnett ege orchestra, er the
direction of FP. athania taeein
instruetor Of music at ~the cdllege.
The-orchestra,-which ~is: composed of
40 instruments, will give several
concerts at ~high -schools in ~North
-and South Carolina, during... the
month. of March.:
Under -the leadership of Mr, ~Gat- |
lin, the Bennett: orchestra. has.made
considerable progress since it was
first. organized in 1938. Previously
the college -had -sponsered:a small

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0s, was guest ~entertainer at. the Chateau Briand, ~dor own.
on the occasion OF: a pert. sven: by: patty ~MePhall, fey a

several New: York producers, among wien were ~ Olsen. a na is shia
Hellsapoppin~ and Sons 0~ Fun fame, said to be interested: ink plang
Jackson here.) Miinexs in ~his: family and ~pressing~ ~pusiness ~ ont rent
in Atlanta, it wae: learned, called ~him: ~back aierne ~Gate City.

Juniok Raglung when.... 1~~?) 5

section of Duke Ellington~s ~band,

| When Jimmy Blanton was struck
by -illness, -which was really lung
trouble and was. forced to leave
the ~band; last month, Duke ~ hired |:
Junior from ~the Club Alabam to| |
~take ~his plaee.

In. 1939, along with his jobbing ie

in after-hour ~spots, Junior played |
pass.in the Gene i Sher Spa band witich
at the time, |

here. - When |the- Coy naaey laa Jeft |.

dropped rad the pand in Sacramento. ~Later he took over the ~spot
left open py ~Verne Alley at ~the
~Club Alabam in ~Sah Francisco
~when Alley left to go with the).
ages formed: Lionel Hampton
ban ~

SEATTLE, ~Washington i 0 sel _ Seale

two}
ago, he was plucking a ~bass..and- oes atvings itta
phone-booth-sized ~speakeasy on, lower Jackson nythect
From here he went ~tothe top. The ony was in get 4

this territory -Raglund left too, but} pamed Brot

Recently, dunes returned to
Seattle for an engagement and all
the old timers were mighty proud |
of him.. Even Junior said: ~It's |
' wonderful to work in this band... |
I guess Im A ks lucky,~ and he
beamed in his silent, modést way. |;

Pieces in 1941,~ It has also made.year in which he was graduated

instrumental! group of eight pieces

and a piano, but under Mr. Gat-.
~lin~s guidance this group expanded
~to 30 pieces in 1940 and then to 40

marked advances in musical. skill
and me as eee as a stage
decorum.

Mr. Gatlin has been a member of
the Bennett staff since 1938, the

from ~Oberlin College. He is an
accomplished clarinetist, and played

i first chair clarinet with the Oberlin

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Marching Band, Concert Band,

Symphony Orchestra, and Woodwind Quintet while in college.

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