Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 45]

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1947

PIANIST RETURNS FROM; her Kimbell -hall- comcert. in ChiFRENCH: CONCERT TOUR -+'| cago.-Critics acclaimed her playAnne deRamus, talented, concert ing.:: Philruth,' Inc., ~interracial
Pianist: just, ~returned rom | group: devoted to-the encourageStudies at Fontainbleau, France,;ment of young Negro musicians,
scored.a, tremendous success in| presented her.

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Nite Life in New York

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~DAWN PATROL CAPSULE~ |

~NEW YORK -~ ANP ~ On our agenda at this meeting
are many things on the sad, as well.as the distaff side of life.

Roby Roy, really born Jasper.C. Thompkins at Savannah,
Ga. is desperately ill at a swank hospital that has never before
been known to have a colored lying-in-patient! Roy will be remembered by many Harlem sportsmen as the lad who tickled
numbers backers for 4: $55 hit on a single afternoon back in

192 7, whfch at the current rate of pay (6 to.1) would check
in atgome $33,000 ~- a medest Jettuce crop, we. venture to

Say.

Argument Department ~~-Nightepotstermed: by~ me seven
Hears-ago as thestewn halls of owr growing as well as spreading
ghetto ~ is divided into two schools of thought on the subjecz
of Canada Lee, ex-prizefighte: 2nd actor. Following the recent
Amsterdam News editorial which characterized~ Lee's part in
the ~Duchess of Malfi~ as a freak performance or words to thet
effect, we have had no rest from quizzers.

On the one hand Lee is p4ajsed for accepting the role well
known by now to most of us. The other college of hard knoiks
fee] that ~money makes the world go round~ and that Lee's
role puts him in the same Uncle Tom bracket these same thinkers place Jimmy Baske~te of ~Song of the South~ fame ~ but
they say infamy. Please send in your views cn this subject enclosing stamped and addressed envelope should you desire a
more detailed reply than the geneial one we'resort to:

MAIL NOTE: No better spot than right here to drop ina
line o. tnanks-to the 548 letiers we received in 1946 dealing
with questions about colored immortals of the thestre and
nightcluL Wo.iG, We never expected to receive a fif'h of the total and we snail strive through '47~ to render the service you
have d:-rcniwated briagqs ~you joy; information and vital sta_tistics. his total comyéared favorably wtih the mail-pouch we
yearly receive (since 1926) in our ~Beating the Gun~ space
with ANP, where '700 letters or an average of two-a-day reach
the sport deék of your. favozite correspondent. Thlonks Americans.

Hollywocd Restaurant is not out California way, it is located at. 133rd St. and 7th Ave. ~ Tom Tilghman owns the
place; it is quite decorative but even more so when you take
enough time from: the drink you order to cok into the limpid
pools that are the eyes of buxom and curvacious Rose, genia]
barmaid there; each week we highly recommend Jimmy Mordecai's jam sessions at the Hollywood, they ére outstanding believe me: You might run into Art Tatum, wizard of the ~88~
there, need We say niore, lads and lassies? ~

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Did yeu know Dept. ~ Despite the roaring succecs Beggar's Holiday is alleged to behaving at the box office. most
important station in the theatre world, ~it was a dismal failure
during its stay out Massachusetts\way? If you like low comedy
by ail means get a load of Zero Meera; we expect to see him
for the second time in the Ellington-LaTcuche opus next week.
Clyde Turner, who holds down an important song spot in Annie Get Your Gun featuring mizdcap Ethel Merman, is the former director of the Negro Melody Singers and starred in the play
This 1s the Army? The city of Chicago produced Peul Robeson s singing d'scovery of the late '46 season namely ~~ James
C. Lapslez, i:n artist with a voice of operatic propo:tions?

We don~t hear Joe Bostic these Sunday morrin-s on the

Buckley-Newhall Radio hour, and for the past two w-sks, writ.
evs have asked will waxings feature the Negro Sings ~ir time in
the future ~ we'll have to ask Bostic when we happen to run
into him; so it still qualifies for a ~did you know" item. Creed
Johnson, popular man about town and weekly frequenter of the
Willrose Musician Club, is the husband of shapely and talented
Mary Bruce, dancer, director, talent scout who once operated
h, dancing schoel in Chicago (1938) moving to New York
where her studio operates at 125th street near St: Nicholas avenue.
_ Johnny Otis, the bandsman whose orchestra~ has been fea
tured at,Chic2>z0's swank E] Grotto Club, is considered by
many musicians as the top. developer of young band talent in
the nation? Ben Carter, (God rest his soul) was due back in
cinima capitol this month? Miarian Andetson, who last October
started her [ Ith national concert.tour, gave her first New York
concert on Dez. 30, 1935; she has appeared in. more than 940
concerts; traveled @pproximately a quarter million miles; heard
in:about-450 cities; holds honorary degrees from many noted
colleges thruout the world; has plenty of money.

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NEW YORK All-Negro
motion pictures will be produced
in Brookiyn in 1947 at the new
Federal Studios according to an
annotincement made
Goidberg, president. of He2rak
Pictures Inc., of which Federal
Studios Ine., is a _ subsidiary
company. Federal Studios Inc.,
has acquired ~the former home
of the Brooklyn Elks. in the
heart of down-town Brooklyn,

by Jack].

~All-Negro Films to Be Madeat
~New Federal Studios, Brooklyn

-and will start work immadiately

on the conversion of the property into) an ultra-modern mvo~ion picture* studio.

The buildimg is an imposing
y.ve-story structure on a_ plot
160x115 and is adjaceui to the
Fulton Street station of New

York's IRT enu 8th Avenue suba full- | ~

ways. It will includ>
scale modern preview theatre.

WASHINGTON ANP
Despite.liberal provisions of the
GI Bill of Rights, colered vet~rans of World War II are not
taking advantage of the many
opportunities the bill offers, it
is reported here.

While a large number of colored veterans have availed them
selves of the educational privileges accorded under the bill,
'all too f2w are utilizing the other phases, oe

Few colored vets are taking
advantage of the loans to built
or buy homes and even fewer
are using loan guarantees to enter business. ~

Even in the liberal areas
where veterans are not entirely
handicapped by virture of th?ir
race, colored veteans are not
eluctant to take a chance on
home ownership or business.

Both are pretty risky adventures in spite of governmental

Report Most Negro Vets Fail
To Take Advantage of GI Bill.

gyped. Immediately,he rushes
to the VA with his complaint,
seeking his money back. VA can
do nothing about it but ask for
the corftract~ then, it shows
the veteran where he has made

to a grind-stone,

Not a3 much of this is prevalent among colored veterans as
it is among~ whites. Goughing
landlords and anti-Negro lamd
owners have too big a market
confronting them to bother with
the small opportunities the Negro market~ offers, when compared with che other larger
field.

It has been noted that present day home owners are cortsiderably younger than heretofore. Youths in their early 20's
are buying homes now. They are
receiving the guarantees irom
the government and investing it
in homes. Taken into the army

precautions. Especially, the matter of buying a home. Veterans
are being fleeced right and left
by unscrupulous real estate
dealers and builders.

No veteran should buy a home
or attempt to built until he
has had the expert advice and |
opinion of a competent-lawyer.
Veterans administration is being flooded with letters from
veterans who have been inveigled into signing corttracts which
they did not read and now find
themselves saddle with a burden
for the rest of their lives.

With home prices being what
they are and the demand for
homes -still ~exceeding the supply, -veterans are being forced
to buy it they want a house. This
offers opportunities to jack up
prices, sell inferior houses and
get the veteran entangled in an

affair from w there is no
relief..:
Veterans a istratior is

anable to rescue,a veteran who
aas plunged into a deal of this
sort.

However, the administration
ts advising to go slow in this and
look before they leap. Hidden
rlauzes in cortracts which the
veteran signs are as binding as
any other clause. For instance.
in ohne contract, the veteran
signs to take over the house as
is, im the case of a new house.
In six months or less, he begins
finding that there are defects

which call for expensive _ repairs. He feels that he has been

in their teens, they quickly
matured ~and now they are off
in the right direction, provided
they don~t fall afoul of triakstors,
Even the most repuable firms
are chiselin gin some cases.
Short cuts in building, saving

-rraterial to- make. -it-.stretch ~is

a common practice. One example is shown in some recently
built houses, which are shingled
on the outside. Properly dorre,
shingling with the wedge shaped pieces of wood. about 15 inches long allows only about five
inches of shingle to show, 11
inches. are hidden beneath the
shingles which overlap. In the
grand gold rush of building,
nowadays, some contractors allow nine inches to be exposed
with only seven inches hidden:

This four inch difference does
not méan much ir one shingle,
but in a carload of shingles, it
furnishes enough to almost completely sheathe a house So
what happens to the house? Instead of lasting and enduring as
they. should, the shingles begin
to wafp and curl up at the ends.
This is caused by the drying out

~process after heavy rains have

saturated the shingles. The sun
acts as a heater and the ~shingles
begin to pull away from the side
of the house, mecessitating an expensive reshingling job in about
five years. Ordirfarily, properly~
shingled houses withstand the
ravages of the weather for five
times as long.

Morehouse
Student Named
~Man of the Year~

ATLANTA, Ga. William
Clark Jefferson of Orlando, Fla.,
has been named the Man of the
Year at Morehouse College by
the Business and Law Club, arr
organization with approximately 50 members, Jefferson, a senior, is the first student to be so
honored by a campus organization. High in scholastic achievement, he has wor the admiration, confidence and support of
his schoolmates throughout the
three and a half years he has
spent on the campus.

Jefferson, who teaches physiology at the Atlanta College
of Mortuary Science, is vicepresident of the Morehouse student body. He served as president of?both his sophomore and
junior classes and at one time
was polemarch of Pi Chapter
of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
He is a member of the YMCA;

the NAACP, and a charter mem
pa Chi, scientific society. Jefferson is also president of Sigma Mu, the Science arfd MatheMatics Club. At the December
meeting of the Kappa Alpha Psi
Fraternity in New York, he was
elected a board member of the
Grand Chapter.

~Announcement of the ~Man
of the Year~ was made at the
Morehouse Chapel Service on
Wednesday by Paul A. Green,

~48, of Durham, Nerth Carolina,
who is president of the J3:1sine:s
and Law Club,

Nail Snails ~

In the fall beans and pea stems
should be pulled carefully and
watched for slugs or snails which
burrow under the plants. They are
found usually; on damp ground under the stems during the day and
can be destroyed with hot water,
stepping on, or dusting with lime
or sulphur. Old boards, rubbish
and stones should be removed also
because these pests congregate under such material during cool fall
days. They may live through the
witner in these places too. Slugs
and snails can be traced to their

ber, officer and member of the
board of directors of Beta Kap
hiding places by the trails of slime
they leave during the daytime.

qa mistage an dtied himself dzwn!

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DeTROIT, Mich.~ (APNS)
Music in the Ellington marner will be presented when
America~s greatest Composer,
Duke Ellington re-opens the
Paradise Theatre, Friday, Jan,
24,

~He has corttributed m.ore to

melodic material, and arranging
~technique, than any other contemporary. His manner of writing in enigmatic mood and
quicksilver rhythms has for subtle by-lay of reeds against brasses, and plano against orchestra remained an individual
~art. His songs are~ as fresh today as the day they were writ
ten,

Most musicians agree that one
of the reasons the Duke~s music
is aS provocative today as when
it first was beaten out in. a
night club, is that. an Ellington

tune is always ahead of its
time.~ Solitude, ~ Sophisticated
Lady, Mood Indigo, are still

fresh on the lips of the public,

and right down in front with
his more recent ~Don~t. You
Know I Care?~ and ~~I~m Be
ginning To See the Light.~
BROADCAST FROM STAGE
On Saturday, January 25th,

modern music, in originaiity,.

DUKE ELLINGTON
BAND AT PARADISE
THEATRE FRIDAY

~}famous Jazz Concert Broadcast

~last Duke Ellington Jazz Con
Duke Ellington will present his

featur:mg all his great arrangements he recently played at the
Masonic Temple. The Jazz Concert will. ba broadcast over
CKLW at 4:30 p.m. Larry Gentile, Detroits leading radio announcer, " z

(Note from the management
of the Paradise Theater. Come
eariy and obtain your seat. The

cert Broadcast was sold out: by
4 p.m. The Box office opens at
12:30 p.m.)

Duke Ellington has miade a
considerable contribution to
American music via that he is
the donor of three annual musical scholarships to famed Juilliard School in New York City.

These scholarships are awarded to outstanding students musSicians, Last year the prizes were
won by three teen-agers: Elaine
Jones, pianist; Paul Rudoff,
French~ Horn player, and Warren Norward, blutists, after: a
series of competitive auditions
conducted among students of the
Nork York City high schools.
Duke hop2s to present his protegos as guest of honor during
his annual concert tours.

Howell and Bowser and Fr2ddy Douglas completes the stage

show.

The Intest
American News
featured om the screen at the
Paradise theater: ~~Rio Grande
Raider~~ will be the ~feature
sereen attrahtion.

AMATEUR NIGHT

Amateur Nigit at tne Paradise theater will again be scheduled every Tuesday. night at 7:30
p.m, $100.00 in cash will be
awarded to the winners. $50.00
first prize; $25.00 second prize;
$15.00 third prize and $10.00
fourth prize. Amateur Night
will be under the personal direction of Rollo S, Vest, discovof stars.

issu2 of the Allwill again be

erer

By Helen Frazier
COLOR BLIND, by Margaret
Halsey. Simon and Shuster,
1946, 2.50.

In a style that defies adequate imitation, Margaret Halsey, has written honestly and

clearly about the ~color problem~. as it affects Negroes in
the United States. Her book

should be read by every person
sériously interested in the brotherhood of man.

Miss Halsey frankly admits
that whén she began to work at
the Stage Door Canteen, she

believed in ~the canteen~s~yantidistrimination policy, ~and succeeded in spreading her ideas
through a memorandum to the
junior hostesses. That memorandum may well be used for
the guidance of school teachers,
social workers, employers and
employees in~ their relations
day by day with Negro men
and women,

COLOR BLIND~ emphasizes
that people develop or deteriorate because of economic and socia} pressures, By illustrations
too numerous to quote, Miss
Halsey proves how irrept is the
stress of color. Says she to the
junior hostess: ~If color were
important, you>would be much
less. ~esirable and attractive persons in the summer when you.aré sunburrfed than in the winter when you are not.~

knew little about Negroes. She |,

BOOK REVIEW

ent from other people.

In biting and effective words
she shatters the myth of white
supremacy and mocks the old
southerr shibboleth about the
need to protect the honor of
white women. But she knows
that persons who live by cliches
and stereotypes, as many do
everywhere, must be taught to
see the danger of such an existence, and must be given time
to recover. equilibrium wher
they - meet. conditions different
from those to which they are
accustomed. This is. true not
only of the white southerner,

but of the southern Negro as }

W2ll when each enters for the
first time such a place as the
non-discriminatirg. canteen.
Miss Halsey feels that normal
social contact between groups
will smooth rough edges and
cause fears and prejudices to
disappear, She is working for
a wider, deeper, more humane
education in America. She accepts the country as it is. but
wants to make it better. She
knows that while ~democracy~
has produced a man like Bilbo
with siich an inferiority complex
that he must shout his superiority to 57,000,000 persons in minority groups in order to have
strength to sit up and eat breakfast, it also has created such
men as Abraham Lincoln and
George Washington Carver,
whose achievements have a p2r
-his musical group

Doraa Finley, known as the
~China Doll,~~ recently appeared at Apollo theatre with great
success. Detroit will get a
chance to hear their own hom?2 -town girl in ~the néxt few
weeks,

AT THE PARADISE

The Rentie Booking Ag2ncy
has added George Dawson of the
~Chocolateers, Teddy Buckner,
Hank Warren, an ex-Serviceman
and Lanky Bowman, leader of
Paradise Theatre Orchestra, to
his aggregation.

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MISS A séas BY FOUR

Baby Ruth, four feet two inches of solid entertainment, is
a sweet swing and blues singer.
She is known by mahy as Miss
Two By Four and is appearing
at Club Vogue.

Writer Claims
Credit for
Trio~s Juke Hit

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ Bud
Allen. noted songwriter, announced this week that his attorm2y was conferring with
Johnny Moore of the Three
Blazers and a California record
firm prior to filing suit for allegedly using one of his tunes
and not giving him writer's
credit.

Now a juxcbox favorite acrges |
the country, ~You Won't Let;
Me Go~ was recently d'sced on |
Modern records by Moore and:
and alto
marks the second time that it
has been in dispute. In 1940 Al- |

Langston Hughes
Joins Faculty of -
Atlanta U.

ATLANTA, Ga. ~ Langston.
Hughes, internationally know?
poet, whose writings have been
largely
ing Negro life in America, w-il
be visiting professor of creative
literature at Atlanta Urciversity
for the second semester of 19-5 -47, President Rufus E. Clh~men

hes announced,:

Mr. Hughes, who is completing a Mid-Western tour, is tne

author of eight books and num-.

erous articles, stories and po2ms

which have appeared in Esquire,:

The SaturCommon

The New Yorker,
day. Evening Post,

Ground, Asia, Travel, Th? Na
tion, The New Republic, Sur
vey Graphic, Poetry, Theatre

Arts and many antholog~es.
His works have been trans
lated into French, Spartish, Rus- -

sian, Chinese, Japanese, Gt
man, Dutch and other languages,

Other than Mulatto, Mr. Hugnes has written a dozen plays.
His published songs include
Freedom Road, Songs. to the
Dark Virgin, and African Danee
from the motion picture Stormy
Weather. He wrote the lyrics for,
Street Scene ~ a musical play,
which opened a week ago on
Broadway. f

Mr. Hughes~ weekly column,
Here to Yonder appears in the
Chicago Defender. His books include The Weary Blucs, The
Dream Keeper, Shakesp are in
Harlem, poems; Not Without
Laughter, a novel; Th? Ways
of White Folks, short stores;
and The Big Sea, an autrbiography,.

A graduate of Lincoln University in 1929, Mr. Hug?es was
honored by his. alma r2ater iff

1943 with the degree of Litta. ~

D. He received the Harmon
Goki Award for Liter~ture in
1931, and since that time has

held fellowships from t?2 Gug
genheim Foundation end the
Rosenwald Fund.:
Dr. Charles A. Beard included Mr. Hughes ir his. s2letcion
of America~s twenty-fiv: ~mest
interesting personages wth @
socially conscious attitucc.~

Chicago Pianist

Presented in
Benefit Recital

NEW YORK ~ ANP > -~ Fur
doria Ashburse Robinson, i3 -year-old pianist and. ~ramatic
reader of DuSable high schovl
of Chicago, was presented here
in recital Sunday at the Com.
inunity center for the. berfefit,
vf children~s daily activities>
She was accompanied by her
mother, Dr. Ashburne Robinson
well. known physician of South
Parkway in the Windy City. ~

Tt:2 talented lass haf won

severe] medals for her work at

the Chicago Conservatory df
Music and took first prize in thé
citywide piano tournament at
Chicago. Pe

She thé.

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is. accompanist for

\junior church of Greater Betheg=

da Baptist church in Chicago.;;
Miss Robinson was spor:or:~
vy her cousin here, Perelope
Johnsor -vho recently appeared
in K~rba~ hall in Chicago i
violin rec tal.

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f -~~s Nylon Laciats

Many American cattiemen end
other stoclimen are. findi:g nxion
useful.~ Cowhands, rticulariy on
the ranges of the west and sauthwest, are beginning to rope with

éoncerned -with depict--~;manent place in history.

In measuring the 2ffort necessary to abolish the ~~color problem~ M~ss Halsey insists we
have only to accept thos2 two
time-worm documents, the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution of the United
States. Color Blind should help
greatly in making Americans
aware that truly democratic
responsibility of

The status of the Negro as a
**second class citizen~~ is a disgrace to the white Americans
who have created that status.
Nowhere in this book does Miss
Halsey pull punches when placimg responsibility _ for the
deplorable corditions under
which Negroes live and work in
the United States, but she makes

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is th

len sued bandleader Buddy John ' nylon, now being fabricated igto sus

son for supposedly claiming full perior lariats. An increasing num
ber of the horses on which the cow:
punchers ride will also become th
| beneficiaries of nylon~s strength oan
abrasive resistance when they fing~
| themselves girded with nylon girths;
They already have proven superior

credit for writing it and was
backed up in a court decision
that~ awarded him half of the
royalties accuring from it.

for saddles on racehorses. with widg

definite suggestions for improving the conditions. In her memorandum she stresses that emphasis on color ig maintained so
that Negroes may continue to
be -paid. less than other workers,

and not because they are d:ffer
livirrg
the individucl citizen, and
should d-cr-ase public indifferepee to +e problems of onetenth rf the n-tinn by making
nine-ternihs cco~stious of what

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ure.

thete prosicms

Cut Pasture! acceptance from jockeys ~

Bs the years since 1920 more than {ers Seneae 208
8 million acres of crop land and ~*
many million acres of pasture land. m
have been released from production Working Aids

of feed for horses and mules and One person in seven in the male
made available for production, for | working population of the United
the market. The ~land released from | States ig disabled to the extent of
the growing of feed for work ani- | requiring physical or vocational remals in this period would be suffi- | babilitation or special placement ag:
sient to feed mure than 18 millice | sistance aids if they are to be sue
wad of cattle cessfully employed.:

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