Newspapers / The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) / June 9, 1945, edition 1 / Page 6
Part of The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
PAGESB THE CAROLINIAN -•WEEK ENDING. SATITRPAY, JUNE 9, 194S Warner Brothers Studio Win Interracial Award HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Warner Bros, earned the Interracial Film and Radio Guild's Franklin Delano Roosevelt Award, given each year to ‘the studio having contributed the most toward universal under standing through the medium of the iiiolioii piciure.c." receiving the citation at the organization’s Uni’y Awards Assembly, attended by 4.000 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles Alan Hale received the honor in behalf of Executive Producer Jack L. Warner, fr. rr Charl.s Dennis. Li berian secretary of state, who flew from the Sun Francisco Conference for the occasion. In his speech of acceptance. Halo stated: "I think I'm being very accurate in saying that for a long while War ner Bros, has recognized the over whelming re-«ponsibiliiy incumbent upon those who make motion pic tures, influencing as their product does, the minds and lives of ui»tnld millions throughout the world. "We believe this responsibility i-. first to entertain — yes. But more than that. It is the rc.sponsibility to reflect and give encouragement to that common yearnin*: of all men, to be resp-'cttd and understood by their brothers of other nations, col ors. and creed: Bette Davi; •Ihtrugh eternal viliganhe.’ in my tion of the picture. “El Padre estimation would be to fail to jus- Morcles:" Briti.sh Films, for pro- tify one's existance. duction of "Thunder Rock.’ 'Our.s is the responsibility, not Radio section: Norman Corwin, only, to heal the horrible wounds Bob Borns. Nathan Str uis tWMCA>. inflicted through the furtherance uf Orson Welles, and Bing Crosby, mans' greed and intolerance — but Unity Scrolls: A1 Jarvis. Mantu;i to inspire men toward brotherhood Moreland. Bon Cartel. The Chai- ono to another.” iotcors. Earl Robinson, Eddie Green. Others receiving awards were: James Wong Howe, ace Warncr Unily tn.phies: Lean Horne, for Br,.« camcriiman; The S( uthern- outstanding achievement; Ukrainian aircs. Eddie Anderson, Clarence Films, for production I'f '"The Rain- Muse, and the Columbia Broadca.-*- iv w ’ Miguel C. Toi^es. for produc- ing System 'Pacific Network'. SEEIN’ STARS With Dolores Calvin NEW YORK iCNSi — “OTHEL- Icrday’s neks". A few days later, O 'lO GO OVERSEAS- Paul Rob- “eiue Holiday" closed dours. The cson and company of • Othello" are Manhaltun Debs, Junior and Dinky SPl for an overseas trip of 14 weeks (Louis Jordan’s dancersi a*' fc.i- iu which Robeson may lend his tured in June Ncwsjiic .Magazine voice m concert for the servicemen. in their first set of action shots. The definite date has not been set. The pics were taken in Detroit at i'ut depends upon USO Camp- the Paradise Theatre When the Shows which is trying to find ou; Jordan unit played the Chicago if the conruany can leturn in dv Theatre, business grossed a net $60.- '4 weeks they have set aside to OOO which was a record second only tour. Margaret Web.ster, the com to a previous one of ST5.000 mad* j;any'-- prociucer. i. expected l>> g by a wliito star. ■ iLng. Meanwhile. R-heson. at Cafe ELLA FITZGERALD on Harlem’s Society Uptown, bra’s. on Paul. Jr.. i25th Street in a black taffeta suit ’'•h.» look'; to b'.’ ope of Cornell's and wide Brim pink h'athercd hat also honored brighter stars of the foi tball sea- being stood up. Ruble Blakely and at Apoll'i to .'Oe !irz fr«.m St Louis Dots And Dashes BY BILL CHANDLER would •Jubilee make the Spliinx the Army's "for her outstanding work toward sun. Paul is majrrmg in cleclncal. pjpo back.Mage interracial harmon." ' ongiiu ering "Othello" finishes a Hamp Lou Swa Appealing in a simple untrinimed run at the City Center Theatre this calUnz Sammy Stewart to rehearse black dre.ss. the famous star stated; week. with her for a tryout Decoration "To fail to rallv to the struggle ETHEL WATERS was telling all Day with Lionel Hampton. Rain for the dignity of man. which in or friends that •Blue Holiday" was stopped the Brooklyn Brown Dod?- thc words of Frankkn Delano better than review night and that cr.*; and Pittsburgh Crawfords fr in Roosevelt, can be guaraneed only to say ti.c sow wa-s bad was "yes- playing their first game at Ebbots j Field atul the U. S. I.eaguc's Presi- ! dent. John G. Shackleford from Cleveland, spent the day confer- riir; with Gu-- Greenlee, owner of the Cra'A-fords and 'her officials. Lillian Fitzgerald, petite singer, formerly of "Blue Holiday." will head for the coast next week. BILL ROBINSON wa.“ fi7 years old during the first performnnee of Memphis Bound. The show made S31.000 during the first four days, it is reported. Blue Holiday grossed only S13-000 the 6 days of its exis tence and didn't even make en.'ugh to pay for its costumer. MGM pub licity department in NY peeved at Mlciiac' Carter for the stand be took after seeing a private screen ing of Thrill of a Romance" in the Afro American. Carter said Jerry Scott. 15 year old singer find, was the best thing in the picture and that MGM publicity •thinks" he came from Chicago. A few wecits ngp. MGM sent out n release of V ;-y 4c-(l’'s youn-: lifo. lelliig where he was born and how talent scouts found him. Two were sent to Carter. In the film, Lauritz Mel- choir great Metropolitan tenor, hears Jerr\- singing, offers to teach him lessons. And when Jerry sang ••Because" the whole spotlight w-as focused on him; the story stopped, the stais stopped. T. Dorsey and band stopped, and h'okcd at Jerry That's a rare chance for any young Negro jii.st starting out to get. Bui docs Carter think that rapping an MGM technicolor film can help Jer- Mi'-'s Arnotha Melton, daughter of Mr. a;id M:.'-. ll-'.-loy a;. :..c - ton. l.llO Lawiciice ,S*rfIi, he.-- on a visit fnm New Yi ik City :ih ’ ha.' lived in '.he rr.ct;oj)olitaii city for more th;ui oiiU^t yeais. althouch .she i.-i a f rmer rc.ndcnt of thi.s c:ty. and attended the puo- lie icl.ools of Winsl' n-h-.ilrm. Ml,-; -Melt n has otcii \i..iting here for days during which she ha.s been the recipient of many .social ct.urU'sUs and dinners. Immediately upon her return to New Yuik. Miss MeJtt.n plans a trip to Los Angeles, Cblifornia anu H llywood. It is said that screen te.'ts are in the offering for her ;i' Hollvwood. New York Showfronts ll BRADSHAW "BOUNCE” BY DON DE LEIOHBUD PEN PORTRAITS OF llOKOTHY DONEGAN ^ buildup from Zanzibar, and the ! movie she made with Cab Calloway, I helped to keep thing;? about even NEW YORK — Now we come to | jn-sofar as box office attraction was die most promisin;^ newcomer concerned. Then Tatum slowly among tiic femme exponents of 1 went into the lead as the big noise boogie woogie piano, Dorothy Done-; in the street. gan, the 20-ycar old Chicago wrig-' But Donegan didn't suffer. She gly twig, who so recently .set Broad-1 always had an ever .^rowing circle HOLLYWOOD. Calif. — The I’cst.' story is going the rounds 'with no howl, contraditions to date that Curtis seas variety show had as its guest Mosley will not get a renewal when last week. Danny Kaye, Eddie He ,- the lease on the Club Alabam ex- wood's and Andy Kirk's orchc.s- pires in August. It i.s further re- tras. Margie Hammona, and Verne ported that a syndicate will take Smith Did you know that Joan Lcs- over the spot and operate it along lie's father used to play baseball with a chain of liquor slorsc in the with the Detroit Tigct.'? In her cur-- same neighborhood. Contrary to i rent picture. "Janie Gets Mairicrl." popular belief Mosby is not the sole studio properly m.en found it took owner of the Alabam,. although all representations arc made in his name. With tt:e ink hardly dry on the marriage license, Baeall and Bo gart will soon be separted — that is on the screen. Credit Warner Bros, executive producer. Jack L. Warner, as the homebrcakcr. hav ing assigned the sultry Lauren to star opposit Charles Boyer in "Con fidential Agent." She had Bogy as her man in her first two films, "To Have and Have Not” and "The Big S^cep," which hasn't been re leased yet. . . Mrs. Vada Sommer- viUe .the AKA's far-western legis lative'- representative visited the Warner lot last week with a soror ity siiter, Tessie Daniels, wh ' used to teach at Wilbcrforcc. Zachary Scott has yet to do a Warner pic ture which ends with him still liv- no Ics.s than 11.787 dems inciudi:ig paste and scist.rs to equip a now-- paper editorial room, which will not surprise any city editor. Ail '.'■'.py have to do now i.s to invent some system for finding things when you want them During his sojourn in Hollywood cnrr-tc to Oakland where his wife Muriel 'Carmen Jones) Rahn gave a concert. Dick Compbell. head of the Negro talon* division for USO-Camp Shows, stal ed that the boys overseas are in terested in seeing any goo\ looking gal who can half-way sing, dance, or speak the English Ianguag-\ Willie Smith and Juan Tizol leave with Harry James' band for the East shortly. The Southernaire.s' current tour of the West Coast marks the first time in their 15- year tenure ns NBC iiilists that Record News And Reviews RECORD REVIEWS: - A few months ago Carol Tucker was Chicago high scho i .ii ; T »day ,Mi Tucker, still in he: tern.-, ha., n’.- lier fir.si record with tlie mm. ;' fignered lii.inpi'ie.. H... kins, the Twinlietli ('tntiiiy C:.' - liel and that ri‘ci-rd is a hit Erskine, a kee,. ir.ae. when a comes to seeking ut lalcn: lea.d Carol in Chicago and knew irrme'' lately that she l ad the stufi whi,;. makes a great singer H-r knew, to . that he wanted her t n.; u. hi band. Tehrt wa-. diffjv.nty. ;; ough. V-. ■ Carol was still in i. Er-kinc ; ik the bull bv the h rn-. though Vi'iting the sch(M,l, J.e fonii.. tli.;; there were only two w.'eks of .scl oi ! left and that C.-^rol. an ‘xce!lcn’ student, had complcud her work and c-'Mlfl be vi.-'. • • Carol was graduated and Erskine Hawkins had a new singer. . sim ple as that. And now, but a few months later. Carol's Victor jilatter of "I H-'j To Die” is sweeping the couniry. Hawkins band gives her a >;Tpfrb showcase and Car^i proves herself well worthy of the display, fhe fioover tunc is "Caldonia." ll.t FlHcie Moore fast blues nt-volty. “What makes your biu head so hard?" questions Ace Harris on Hie program last Sunday with Jay Blackton's orchestra. Watch for Ar tie Shaw's forthconiin,; plater. "Lit- Ue Jazz." Billy Kckstine To Play Pre-June German At Ra- leiiili Auditorium RALEIGH — Prom icr Joe Win ters. who for the p.i-'-l eleven yeara has booked some of the leading a.- Uraclions, announced this week, the i.-igniii^ of Billy Elckstinc and his 'ii-st.a to play P’r the Eleventh I'.'ic-Junc Gcrn»an. 1 Billy Eckstiiie. the .handsome lad baritone voice. ray and Fifty-second Street on fire v'.th her 88 barrelhouse meander-1 mgs. La Donegan has since flown' the coop at the Three Deuces m Fifty-second Street where .she haul ed down $1,500 a week for four weeks, and is now on tour. NA-nONAL CURFEW AND T.VTUM Habitues of ttio famous Avenue of Jump arc sure that Dorothy Done- gan’s .ctand at the Three Duces would have been extended for six. maybe eight weeks, had it not been f’r two very potent factors, (1) the naiionwidc curfew, closing overy- flung furnishing amusement or li quor at midnight, and 2i the pres tnce "f Art Tt.ylum at the Down- beat Club. located next door to the Taree Deuce.?. Tatum doesn't like competition, whether near or far, and he ccr- I tainly did not like the idea of Doro- ' they Donegal!, admitted by him to ; be one of the nation's foremwt ' jazz and classic pianists, being so j close to him a.« to constitute a prob lem. In addition, was the report t' at while Duuegati wa.s pulling Idown $1,500. Tatum was getting I only $1,000 from his boss. I Stories were circulated to the ef fect that the mcir.ent Tatum was I told that his next d'/or ncighbo.' I v. oult! be Dorothy Donegan. who I had just finished a long lun at Cafe I Zanzibar on Broadway, Art did the : unusual; he went into stiff rehears- i ojp. cost off and everything. You (ce the blind master of the ivories in dead earnest, or so the folks !• and l!ie street would have it. T.ATI'M TAKES OVER LEAD For the first two weeks, Donc- i)f fidmircrs and between .shows she and her personal friend, Art Tatum, visited one another at their res, oc- live places of emr’oyment. Tatum evidenced keen iiatlon of Doro- they Donegan and freely rated h^r among the tops of his pick of the crop of piano players. Extremely young for the high honors she has won. Dorothy Done gal! has a saner view '-f the hysteria surrounding swing and boogie woogie music than any person I've talked with. She considers herself, first, a clas«ic pianist and holds to tha view that swing music is only a means to an end — a method by which she i.s eaning the mimey to continue her studios of the classics. Yep. De.splte the three or fuor shows she does nightly consisting mostly of boogie wookic, jazzed up classics .'(lid popular tunes, Dorn- they Donegan pursues a rigid sche dule of pr.acticc for her classics. She neither drinks or .smokes. "I must keep my head clear.” she says AVRITIN'G PIANO SYMPHONY “I'm. writing a symphony for tlie piano,” she told me one night, would like to do a recital here in Nc wYork at Carnegie Hall as I did at Orchestra Hall in Chicago wher* J won the distinction of being the only Negro to play to e sellout audi ence there. ”1 plan to retire from the swing music field in two years.” she cou- tinues;" and then I .shall devote myself exclusively to the classic: I have an ambition to tour Europe, and South America doing concerts. Wc got to talking a'oout her ad mitting liking for mathematics and she believes her ability as a pian- . . J . I ist js enhanced by her good matho- itans drawing power, based on the i ,J.^ckground, "That's why 1 .dual piano she play, and on lh« swing." she said. “H Malherr.a I tical thinking is incongnient, my \ reading man is an educated man. ])Iaying would be incongnient. In Purchase your Negro newspapers other words, everything sliould be nd learn what your race Is doing.' even to come out right. Mathema' tics governs our daily llvc.s; It gov erns, what we do and so r'li Thus, piano playing, based on mathem.n- tics reflects to a degree the kind of persons one is." MIND ON LIFE'S ILats off to the Press, . . Negro white. Subscribe to y"ur local Ne gro newspaper as well a.s to yo-ar white paper. Then subscribe to a natolnally known Weekly and be come "Alert" on the happenings of today as well as facts which h.ive j'*‘HE.\TKir.ALS made History. : "Art Tatum is a wonderful man 'tPOTTi.NG 'EM. . Lionel Hamp-! p's 99 to lOO that if you pl.-iy good ton and his orchestra and show at I piano you have a good mind, and 'he Apollo doing an over-ruri^biz! by that 1 mean an understanding because of his great artistry. He ’ mind. My mind runs al' the time on rally packs 'em in. Una Mac Car- ^ the intricate things of life, what I lide, stunning in a green suit with ‘ want lo play next. The faster I hat to mtach the; hat ladden with play the fartherahea d I find myself grapes which looked edible, when, thinking — I mean, ahead of the she was Johnny Kane's special guest- j lousic. i listen to Horowitz re"u- star last Thursday night at thejlarly and to Art Tatum because 1 Bayou on 52nd Street. Una’s piv-1consider them the world's greatest mentation of two "red-hot" numbers | pianists. They both exemplify Ih? was not enough, so the audience j highest type of artists.” kept becglng for “Walking By The; Dorothy Donegan likes the violin River" and "I See A Million Peo- md the organ, which she can pl.iy ■tMtiiu la Tm4 Yata> rmMItattart Tiny Bradshaw and His Orchestra are doing a bang-up Job on the road playing theatres and dance dates. The band after appearing in the far west and southwest is slated fonan eastern appearance scon with dates at the Met Theatre in Cleve- land; dance dates In Philadelphia and Boston—it looks like the be^ by-sock crowd has swung to the Bradshaw Bounce. Yeahe. Yeahell Noted Author Pays Sup- pri.se Visit To (ialif. HOLLYWOOD vNSt — In an unexpected visit to Southern Caji- fornia late in May. Aioa Buntemp.^ distinguished Negro author api present librarian at Fisk Univeisity, was royally feted by old and new friends. It was his first visit slnct 1938, when he and Lankston Hughes came on a point lecture tour, and its immediate purpose was to pci • mit him to work at MGM SludU'S with his collaborators on the plays "St. Louis Woman." soon lo be pro duced on Br'adway. However, his visit h;«d added sig nificance when it was learned that his new book. "They Seek a City" (written In collaboration with Jarir Conroyi w.ll be released by Dou- blcday, Doran and Company on June 7th. It Is an account of Negi-o migration from place to p'-tcc in search of better opportunities a,, various periods in U'.e nation's hiS' tory. In August Mr. Buntempts' book for young ocopje, “We Have Tomor row," will be pi:bhshcd by Hough ton Mifflin Company. This contains biographies of outstanding young rolored people who are making their careers in fields which In the past, have not been opien to Ne groes. More and more of such ca reers are coming into l>eing miJ into public notice, to such an ex tent that Mr. Bontemps found, on {Completing the book, that many ;more instances than he could po.?- slbly cover in a single volume bad , come to his attention. This, speaks well for democracy and for the In- ti'gration of capable colored people , into all phases of American life. Mr. Bontempts, is the son of l^v. P. B. Bontempts. a Los Angeles min ister. and his early life was spent in Los Angeles. While in the city on this recent visit, he was the guest of his sister and brother-in- mg assigneti tno sultry L,auron»io star opposit Charles Boyer in “Con fidential Agent." She had Bogy as her man in her first two films, “To Have and Have Not" and "The Big Seep.” which hasn't been re leased yet. . . Mrs. Vada Sommer- viUe .the AKA's far-western legis lative'- representative visited the Warner lot last week with a soror ity siiter, Tessie Daniels, who used to teach at Wilberforce. Zachary Scott has yet to do a Warner pic ture which ends with him still liv ing oD the screen. He got bumped off in "The Mask of Dimitrios"; and in the Joan Crawford starrer, ••Mildred Pierce," his trifling with Joan and her screen daughter Ann Blyth's affections tnspnPs Miss Blyth to fill him full of lead. For variety sake he'll not be murder3 but he will die In "Danger Signal," in which he co-stars with Faye Emerson. Los Angeles has gone cul tural with both Mary McLeod Be- thunc and W. E. B, DuBois having speaking engagemetns here recent ly. Ralph Bunche who also is an ad visor to the State Department at tli: San Francisco Conference Is sched uled to be heard soon. Two of th-i most hilarious sequences to hit the screen appear in recent Warner pic tures. TTiat take-off on hepped-up boogie-woogie bands in "Thr 'lorn Blows at Midnight." starring Jack Benny, is rolling ’em in the aisles; while the spectacle of Ida Lupino appearing in a war model night- grown (knee length', in "Pillow to wncre nis wuc .minci >v,uiai. * Jones) Rahn gave a concert, Dick C.-impbell. head of the Negro talon*, division for USO-Camp Shows, stal ed that the boys overseas arc in terested in seeing any gooi^ looking gal who can half-way sing, dance, or speak the English language. Willie Smith and Juan Tizol leave with Harry James' band for the East shortly. The Southernaires' current tour of the AVest Coast marks the first lime in their 15- year tenure as NBC aitists th.nl they’ve appe-nred in this .section in concert. For Bill Admonson, man ager. and bas.s smger. it’.s the final lap in a 20-ycar journey back home to Spokane, Wash. Dottie {Dand- ridge blossom.s forth a.« a fop-flight songstress appearing with Louts Armstrong and his band In the Warner picture, "Pillow to Post." She’s cute loo! The short, "Congo." takes its place among a long .scries of subjects emanating from the Warner lot which show the Negro to credit. New Band Comes To Apollo NEW YORK iC.1 — Teddy McRae, new to Harlem, comes to the Apollo Theatre with his band this week on the same bill with Pops and Louie, young dancers and Big Bill, blpes sensatiun. Also new is the Loum‘:i .Morgan Tri.'. night club favorites. ILaiFU CAN BE BEAinm! Bt bill? (Ink SpQta) KENNT W HILE relaxing belwceti shows I glanced thru the Negro pa pers and suddenly realise(i what prefound respect I bold for certain colored newspaper men. Men like Abe Hill and Tommy W’ntkins of the AMSTERDAM NEWS. R.ilph Matthews and Levi Jolly of the AFRO-AMERICAN. These men do a service fos- the Negro people that wotild take too long to explain in this column. A service that seldom knows just appreciation. Men such aa those I've just mentioned use the great power of the press to help better conditions for ail peo ples and not for their own selfisb motives. The remarkable progress of the colored American throughout the past quarter of the century has been stimulated primarily by bis Press. This Press has made it pos- ■ible for Negroes in different parts of America to know something of the living conditions of each other. I firmly believe that the colored Press has always been in some form, and still Is. the nucleus iTom which the many iiupoitant Negro organizations (that we have today) have come to be. In my bumble opinion the Negro press is the most powerful weapon the dark Ameri can has or ever shall have to fight the many evil* (bat confront bim And 8 also a means ci : -••Wlaf th^ Lard to reach indit i ■.i';*.l wlw cause us as a race untuLl auaioCy In our strive to better our '.jviiwt conditions. Thank Ood for jw Negro Press! During my last tour thru tht South I had the opportunity to vieH the lovely home of a man who a respected position in his von> munily. and found that 8omethte,g struck me a.s being wrong with iba* setup. 1 suddenly lealized that ‘twi shacks surrounding bis beautlfnt borne afforded bim no protcctioo whatsoever, but rather showed bow weak was bis foundation of sovv cess. And I knew then more thaw ever that the Negro of America’s complete success In regard to liv ing would come to be only when we realize that only In numbers cau we be strong and keep preju dice. discrimination and the many other cowardly vices of man front touching us. I want no ca.ttle on a hill that I may gaze down on the slums of the town. Rather let me have a castle among ca.itle6 so that when the wind blows strong I may be selfishly protected. Or when the enemy of men and women tanned skin may come we in our numbera may repel them and the strength of our houses keep (hem out. where he was born and how talent scouts found him. Two were sent to Caiter, In the film. Lauritz Mol- choir great Metropolitan tenor, hears Jerry singing, offers to teach him lessons. And when Jerry sang "Because” the whole spotlight was focused on him: the story stopped, the stars stopped, T. Dorsey and band stopped, and looked at Jerry That’s a rare chance for any young Negro just starting out to get. But docs Carter think that rapping an MGM leclmic'lor film can help Jer ry Scott since Jerry uiiGcr MGM contract and has no money to fi- naco a film in which he could sing to his heart's content? ANA BONTEMPS. the author, is on the coast. Mayor LaGuardia is holding a press conference Saturday to discuss the opera "TmulMe Is land" by Willl.im Grant Still, and its producll'in at New Yorks City Center Theatre so«'n. An observer told this story to Mrs. Still, who • was at the San Francisco Confer- I ence. It seems that W, E. B DuBois and South Africas rirh-rr .,i. Smuis. arc. of course, in complete disagree ment as to the methods of dealing with the darker races. At any rate, a {Aolographcr saw DuBois in a San Francisco hotel and said, "I bog your pardon. Sir. may I have your photogr.iph?” Mr. DuBois gra- e'niisly gave his permission and was photographed. Then a reporter walked up to him and said. "And 1 j beg your pardon. Mr. Smuts, but ' have you any comments yni'd like j to make?" Monel Hampton Zooms Apollo Business NEW YORK 'CNS) — It never falls. Whenever Lionel Hampton ar- rh'es at the Apollo Theatre, bobby sockers of all ages line up to hear the great bandleader stomp out his versl^n of Boogie-Woogie and the ever-popular Flying Home. But it was Ham^)ton himself, we were con vinced. who lures the bobby-sock brigade. Tlierc wasn't another per former we saw that evening with the energeticness and fitness in qual ity as Hampton posses.ses. Not even Diriah Washington, his blues sing er. could measure to half the per sonality the vibra-haip specialist displayed. Hamp is fresh from a long run at Cafe Society on Broad way where again, the spotlight rest ed soley upon him Louis Jordan Under goes Tonsillatomy CHICAGO '^CNSl — If anyone has any busines with Louis Jordan, eminent musical man. he had bet ter see him right now while he’s recovering from having his tonsils rcmiwed — because he can’t talk back! Latest reports from Louie's man ager. Berle Adams, said the doctor stated that things wete progressing very nicely and if no unforeseen re action occurred, he would be ab’e to start shouting again shortly. Louie's tonsils had been bothering him for some time, causing .severe throat trouble. Meanwhile, the whole band is being reorganized His first date , without the tonsils r.nd with tiie j new men Will l>e the week of June 15th at the Downtown Theatre in arn"C'.TMirrTir~-; ■ : Carol was graduated and Eiskine Hawkins had a new singer. . . sim ple as that. And now, but a few months lattr Carol's Victor platter jf “I Hop' To Die” is sweeping the country. Hawkins band gives her a superb showcase and Carol proves herself well worthy of the display. The fioover tunc is “Caldonia." tl.e Fldecle Moore fast blues novelty. "What makes your big head so hard?’’ questions Acc Harris on the jvocai. It's a swell c;upling tind jCarol is a lucky girl to be given I such a chance: ! The Four ClcL once a-jain c mr 'to the fore on discs with a new piano, guitar, bass, drum combina tion arrangement of Johnny Creei.'s (swell tune "V-Day Slump" and .Eddie McCants' "Whj Be So Blue"' !Tho band, which found its fame on Hhiebird. has rerorded this pair for the big brother label. Victor. Johnny Green sings his own tune while Gladys Anceletto warbles the Ivrics on "Why Be So Blue." This , Is a nice easy riff couf'ling. St. Louis Jimmy ha.s done a I'plrt.- idid job on "Strange Women" and “One More Break." s crackerjii -k ip.air of original blues. Jimmy is ac- '•omoanied by a swell blues band I and his singing seem:; to spark the instrumentalists inlo oerfocl blues mood. This is a pair of blues that vou won't want to miss. And spe.ak- ing of the blues, let u.s remind you of the Arthur "Big Boy" Cruduo Diatter of his originals, 'R'lrk .Mo Mamma" and "Who'.'; Been F“' li-”; You." Big Boy shouts moan blues ij ttie .simple accorrp.mimcnt of drums and guitar! OTHER GOOD SWI.NC. Don’t miss “On The Sunn.v Side of the Street" by Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra. Charlie Shavers is play ing with th# torrid Dorsey crew now and the band is realt> fine. Need we mention the hilarious Soike Jones record of “Chloi-" and •'Serenade To A Jer' ?" T’;cy’re tops . . . Listen to Ge gia Gibbs, a new gal, as she chants "In Acapu! ro” and "The Mere I See You" or Victor. She's fine. Tonv Pastor’s "Bell Bottom Trousers” and ••Five Sailed Peanuts” is a cute pair. HOT JAZZ' — Have you dug the Victor Hot Jazz albums vet'.’ They contain discs worth keeping for good. Louis Armstrong. Lionel Hamnton. Benny Goodman'.s Trio and Q’j.nrti' Jellv-RoH Morton. Me- Kiney’s Cott> Pickers and the Quintet of the Hot Club of Frame nil eome in fo; an album each Dig such stuff as L 'uis' "1 Got A Right To Sing The Blues,” Lionel’s “Stompology." Teddy -ind Bennv r "Body and So;il." "rhei > no bet ter material on wax! SWING HEADLINES; Phil Moore has moved from Cafe Society Downtown to Cafe Society Uptown. Fd Hall took the trip the other way. Incidentally, Phil’s Victor of "Mv Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time" became the nation's third best selling record last month. Duke Ellington is going plenty big at the 400 Restaurant in Manhat tan. Incidentally. Duke end Johnny Hodges gestarred on "The Music America Love.s Best" NBC network exciting bamone voice, Detroit. His Decca record. My Baby Said Yes and Your Socks Don't Match with Bing Crosby, has been released. Caldnuia and S>>niel>oiv D.M‘e rhan£pl the Lock are msk.ng tn« rounds. BILLY ECKSTINE • Tings his new orchestra to the Ra leigh Memorial Audiiormm on Mon- r.icv. Juno 11th. Eckstine, fix'sh from triumphs in New York City in night clubs, theatres and the radio, Ls such a "natural" to front his own band, it’s a wonder the idea hadn't been thought of long before. Kcl;.-’tinc regislered a personal hit a.s Eiirl Hines' vocalist md duri; hi.s four years with the famou.s Fatha' biiiit up his own p.rsonal following Some of the Hine.s n- cording.s on which B.lly sang — notably "Skylark," "Jelly. Jelly," and "Stormy Monday Biue,-"~were tremendous .';cl1crs. ‘’Skylark’ '.sold more discs than the Ming Crosby version and the other two which inridcntally. were written by Billy, also enjoyed tremendous .sale.s. In New York, Billy made his bow as a "single" at the Yacht Club on 52nd Street. His success was so great, a rival night club, locate'! across the street, hired him the day he clo.'sed at the Yacht Club. Meanwhile he shattered box-officc records at Harlem’s famous Apollo Theatre. To top it all. "Variety." most famous and authorafve trad"- pa|>cr in the world, chose him Irtr their Philco "Hall of Fame" radio show and Eckstine’s voice was heard coasi-to-coasl on the Blue Network So it will be the Eleventh Annual Pre-June German on Monday Niaht. June 11th at the beautiful Raleigh Memorial Auditorium with musicc by Billy Eckstine and his now famous orchestra. I oil Swartz’ Jottings NEW YORK tCNS) ~ An im portant TOPIC OF THE DAY seems tu be in question form. "Is the Negro Press An Asset?" In other words some are qusticning the val ue of our only channel of first hand information about the Negro — the Negro Press I see no reason to dif ferentiate between the Negro and the white Press. The Pr?ss is val uable Period. And most certain ly the Negr • Press is an a.Hset be cause it gives lo its reading Publi" - Negro History — Ancient. Afri- cjii. Modern and Ci'ntemporary— and it gives facts an.-! information about the race which we would not otherwise get If it had not been for the Negro Press we would not have lull tlie opiKirtunity to know what our Men and Women in the Arm ed Forces have done on tne Front 'he Apollo doing an over.run*biz, because of his great artistry. He’ rally packs 'em in. Una Mae Car lisle, stunning in a green suit with ‘ hat to mtach the: hat ladden with grapes which hxiked edible, when she was Johnny Kane's special guest-1 star last Thursday night at the I Bayou on 52nd Street. Una’s pi*«- «entation of two "red-hot" numbers wa.s not enough, so the audience | kept becglng for “Walking By The River" ard “I See A Million Peo- nle." ‘Thus In an Or'ginal medley she gave them both. Lillian Fitz gerald. dickering for an engagement on the coast since Blue Holiday closed. Pretty Othello Slrozicr - former Clcotn 'St. Louis, Mo.) Spoils' Dancer, but now a Katherine Dunham Dancer — a —elcome little visitor last Saturday night. And it was so interesting to hear Othello tell of her pleasant experiencei while touring with the Dunham Tropical Revue since February. K:itherine Dunham, as great a: oveV — in Billy Rose's Concert Va iritics, Many aiixious-l)oking faces -•’t the “Anna Lurasta" Reading for the Road Company where Mr. Orib- ! bic and Mr, Ash- “Tops" in the (i. lds of Producing and Stage Man- . aging — wei^ most kind and re- ; crptive. Bill Grnhom. heading for the coast soon. Joe "ZigK|f" John : son. all .smile since he is definitely ! 2o!ng to produce the Shows at an Atlantic City Club — Leroy W!l- I ljam.« Charles Johnson. I^arry Steele. Owner-matinger-and pr^iduc- ' er are busying themselves with , plan.' for their Atlantic City Spot also, Sammy Stewart, noted pianist, rushing from one studei. to another ; in his Broadway Studio. Thai's what being a good pianist gets you. Fritz Pollard and Hughie Walkc. getting together for on All-Am.er i ican Negro Movie. H:ittie King Reavi.". former songbird and now ANT stenogrbpher. . . making some of the costumes for ANT's last pro- i duction "Henri Christophe" in 'which Fred O'Neal plays the lead. Abe Hill. Director of ANT. . . re- ' reiving the Riverdale Award for ANT in recognition of unselfish and I untiring devotion to the cause of ! Truth. Freedom, and Justice in the fight against prejudice, discrimina tion and Ignorance. Carl Lawrence. [ being quite interested in Political I meeting# all the time, Celebrltiesen I joying refreshing cool-ades (get me) In the Thresa Bar, Palm Cafe. I or the Celebrity Club at 35 East 1125th where Morris Mosley wel- • comes them in person. That grand showman. Bill Robinson in Mem- phis Bound with others he's bring ing to the top of the ladder of suc- I cess. V/ith space too limited to list several others as “Yours Truly" SPOTS 'EM. PEN NOTES . . - Coast lines have it that Valada Snow is tops at the Savoy. Also that Nina Mae McKin ney is in a new flicker. Houston ians tHouston. Texas! enjoyed Ma- ble Sandford Lewis of Chicago in a ' special revue as Hat Designer. Hous- ■ ton Ladies modeled the hats at the Blackshear .Auditorium. . The St ' Louis Chapter of the St. Louts 'Junior I^e.-igue. Inc.. ju.st had a spi cy dance at the Club Rivierera. . . . . AWSO also lust had a Jam Session ! nt another Club in the same city. The Country Gentleman has bought space in 223 Sunday news paper-' t-> Qsai^tt 111 farm labor re- jrniliment. Cimilation of these pap- iers runs about 32 mtUion. j by that I mean an underotandin,'? mind. My mind runs gl' the time on the intricate things of life, what I want lo play next, "The faster T plsy the fartherahea d I find myself thinking — 1 mean, ahead of the music. 1 listen to Horowitz regu larly and lo Art Tatum because 1 consider them the world’s greatest pianists. They both exemplify Ih,? highest type of artists.” Dorothy Donegan likes the violin rnd the organ, which she can play Htflo. She al.so can play the bass fidd’# Art Tatum's private rating ‘f pianists is like this: Teddy Wil- on. Clyde Hart. Mary Lou Wil liams. Marlowe Morris. Dwothy Donegan and Nat (King) Cole. rsrrsnFwiamanF pom.pIetlng the book, that many jmore instances than he could po.?- sibly cover in a single volume bad come to his attention. This speaks well for democracy and for the in tegration of capable colored people Into all phases of American life. Mr. Bontempts. is the son of ^v. P. B. Bontempts, a Los Angeles min ister, and his early life was spent In Los Angeles. While in the city on this recent visit, he was the guest of his sister and brothcr-in: law. Reverend and Mrs, Owen A Troy of Pasadena. He spoke on thft Sweet Chariot Hour Broadiast over KPAS on May 26th and lectured t > the Allied Arts Club of Los Angeles a week later . SO YOU HAVE TROUBLES. TOO Out in the Pa.lau Islands, a Marine me&s sergeant attached to an air unit saw fires sweep his improvised galley twice tn six weoks. ’File second fire destroyed biscuits he had Just made with the gal ley's la.st bit of Hour. The fire alw destroyed a batch of bread puddlng->4nade with the last bread in the ares. I'wo houn after the second fire, a new galley wa.s ready. Then a 50-mlle-aa-hour typhoon swept most of It away. Said tide sergeant. "I think we'va reached the point where we can laugh ofl anything." HOME LEAVE IS FOREIGN SERVICE When a Marine captain, after extend ed service in the Pacific, received a 30-day leave in the states, hLs friends had their own idea of a service flag. HU fcUow-Lcatherueclu placed a flag with one stsr over the entrance to the captain’s quarters. ‘That's overseas service to us," they said. SOUNDED JUST LIKE A NAZI An Army Ueutf-nant with an infantry divUion In Germany ioqk a position in. the cellar of a firr-swept house and prep.-ired to launch a rifle grenade. He felt a tap on the shoulder and heard a voice near his ear. "dbat up,” said the busy officer. "You sound just like a Nazi.’’-Again ramc the lapping and again the voice. The Ueutenaot whirled angrily, thlnkiDg one of his soldiers was playing a joke on him. Behind him sto^ a German, respectfnlly knxlous to surrender. J'|\ SIZING -EM UP IN THE SERVICE According to the A iny Quartermaster Corps, the average berviceman wears a #. * 'P size 7 to 7 hi hat, size 9 glove, size 15 \V j shirt with A 32-iQch sleeve length, sice 2- 1 36 (regular length) Jacket, size 32 *rous- ^ 7rs (with a 31-inch leg length), size 11 socks and size 9-D shoes. 'The average service .Oman is five feet, four inches tall, weights 128 pounds. ha.s a 26'i-lnch waist circiunference, wears size 6-B siloes, size 7 gloves, slu 13 collars on her shirts and size S'* stockings. SAVES LIFE BY SLITTING THROAT A Navy medical corpsman slit the throat of a wounded Marine on Iwo Jlma and doctors say the action undoubt^ly saved the leatherneck’s life. The corpsman held the severed end of the Marine's jugular vein in one hand while he sUt the skin of the throat so he could reach enough of the vein to apiHy a tiemo- .stat. This prevented the Marine from bleeding to death. tNCIDENTAL INTEIXJCENCE we than 100 military chapels ve been built on Gnam since ■ aat island was Ub--ated from (he Japs . . . The oldest univers ity under the American flag is the University of Santo Temas in Manila and was founded in 1611 . . . Appro.xlmately 1,300 Waves and 3,400 Navy nurses arc serving outside tbi of the United States . . Marine buglers are and a first class "music" must know 150 difl‘ fire, night and riding assault boats to shari tilinental llmlU "field mnsics" ills . . . Sniper ;bat order, are causes of the greatest battle strain, according lo a Marino unit.
The Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
June 9, 1945, edition 1
6
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75