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PAGE srx THE CAROLINIAK SEEIN'STARS WITH l>OI,ORI;ti CALVIN iraw YORK 'CNS) — 'Show Boat" win bt revised early in Dr- cnaber at the Ziegfeid Theater on Broadway it was ofticially announ~- •d by Jerome Kern and Oscar Ham- merlin. composers and MCM. the financial backers. And it has also been ann.'ugnced that Lena Horne will NOT have the Helen Morgan STEPIN FFTCHIT TELLS role In the musjcal. With a basic, U’HAT HOLLYWOOD WILL New York Show fronts RT DON Dft I.Plir.HBIT) budget of $250,000 Kern and Hain- merstein expect to get comp^.tins plans underway shortly. MARVA LOUIS was at a Holly wood dentist when the wire was sant over from the hotel about her father's death. Without returning to pack, she went straight to the air port and fl“w to Chicaan for the funeral. She hasn't decided wheth er she will return to California for her Casa Mana date or stay In her hometown. Radio comedian Phil Baker, friend of the Negro, invited several race artists, including sculp tures Seim.. Burke and painter El lis Wilson to the afternoon affair at his home u'hich marked the ceip- J letlon of a mural decratlon by Y. can Pique. Baker, once invited by Negro artists to a benefit, bought a painting and gave it to W. C. Handy. Earl Wilson 'N. Y Post) re ports: “Now that Ibe war w over, says Cab Calloway at the Zanziz- bar. Superman will probably get a job flying the mall to Washington." BENNY CARTER in town for d day, ready to move out on nighters through the Sou' He opens at the Apollo Septemucr 14. Eknny has revised his whole band which includes only two of the former Carter men. Photographer Earl Griffin, rated one of the best in Los Angeles, is in New York contemplating going into commer cial photog. in « big way. He's form er jwner of the Black Flamingo in L. A. Billy Rose, producer of “Carmer Jones," will produce one in London when he opens a Lon don Diamond Horseshoe branch. Besides Duke Ellington and Louis Jordan for the New Zanzibar show. Ben Carter and Mantan Moreland hive signed for le weeks “AnnH Lu- eggta" will be a year old this week. ETHEL WATERS will open the Apollo Theater which has been rc- modernized to at last suit the Har lem patmn. The entire interior is getting a ‘face lifting" and the show starts this week. Benny Carter In Sports attire and yellow socks, ■ays his new personal manager. Mil REALLY DO ’via Soundies and shoris. Step's d.>- ,inE alrichl too? He has all the work ho can handle, and it is his goal NEW YORK — A fellow told ''Ptuin to Hollywooil a bigger at- .rf,... .u . u .1 j traction than when he left. .he n'her dRj- lh„. Holl.vwond con.snd. ,ha, Ihc 1- t o busy to attempt to solve the reason why Hollvwo, d will never -•are problem on ihc screen. Hoi- make the type of pictures Nogro.b he told mo. is in bu.«ine..s want i» because there is not enough to make money and plays to the Negroes to make such pictures pos- buucsl mr.kM. Thp chap who .old sible. On the other hand, the over, me ihts was the s'-'w-poke of the . whelming majority of white thcater- -ilver .'creen and ...i- original lazy goers would rather 8'e Negroes in man Linmin Sterin Fetchiti Per-,what they call 'character roles." r>. Step, who ha? been out of the The.nc characteristic roles arc ’h.ise oig-lime m.-nies for quite a while involving flunkcy.s. qardboy.s. cooks, is^akin^a^cometack in New York maids, watermelon caters, crap- shooters. razor toiers, rug-cutters, swing band musicians, blue.s sin).'- rr.K. furniture movers, bootblacks, and ne-er-do-wclls. The hope and desire of the Amer ican Negro to see his race portrayed Rv PMti d-An-rpD screen for the rest of the I u/-«t I vttT»-N«rN .-A I world to .Roe in dignified roles such I nuLLY«OOp, Calif. — Hazel'n.s doctors, lawyers, schoolteachers, bcott, u^n whom the gods have'society women, yatchsmen, world- I apparently decide to shower their' travelers, judges, and chiefs of po- j blessings all at once, will for the lice is not likely to come in our I second time m j matter of weeks time Holl.vwood Is the greatest jMome the talk of many towns' disiribut.ir of propaganda in the when the Warner film, 'Rhaps.xly ■ world. The OWi plays a secondary *”d^i *.f soon. I role in comparison. There are more Hiding the crest of the wave, in i people being moulded to think a ims expensive musical production, certain way by Hollywood than by opportunity to any other husines.«. or idea, and 1 exhibit her many talents which in- would venture to ray that includes eludes those of pianist, singer — IrellgiorL » HAZEL SCOTT SHOWS VERSATILE TALENTS PARALLEL SEEN IN ARNER BROS.’ FILM WEEK EN’DINT. SATUROAV. SEPTEMBER 1. Dots And Dashes AI.V Vl.lll 1' VlliriJ. - J , .... Bette Davis p !• the «tory of vsurtely publicizvd it,isu,.i..>, imu-.'s efforts during the nine- Hrllvw.md folk ..re i BY PHIL CARTER HOLLYWOOD. C lif. A -frik- .ng p.irallel I Anie:ic;>n .'.egro life in shown in the Wa.nei Bros pic- ’lire "The Corn Is Green." Star ring ring the nine- le nth ceniiiry to further niral rd'ic.ition. Since the Civil War this likevvisc hn« been one of the most pressing problems in Nejffn ad- •• :;ictmenl In the fill., Mlc.-- Davis ptay.s the I' lrt of an Englishwoman who over- om frcmeudoiis .Kids to being enlichlenmeni to the I’ves of chil dren who slave in the Welsh coal mines. In this country, women like HOLLYWOOD, Calif know that George (it i nw. in' m. ‘h ■-r who IS rtill Ihln.; 'ee Bh..!' ody m Blue'' i> me nf ih.* fina:i .’lal backi BY KILL CHA.VDLER Did > .tc.ed .1, leiulcd In the fact that Ih* following person.'line n.\« ha-.i Ih. '..enetit of higher Ka.nir.g John Dali, co-statnng with Ref. Davis in "The Corn In Oretn' at tended Columbia Uniicrsity; H-i- mut Dantinr, the Nazi badnian fin- .I’.shed at UCLA, a college con:-, -■•tarted In Vienna. Dane Clark, loa- lured with .Tohn Oarfi-. Id iii Ptirii- if the Marines" is an alumnus of M.iry McLcc^j Befhu" ha' e fought and St. Johns. F.iye Enier- ;he same battles in helping to Dicpo State T.Mch- .ai'e the educational level of the College; Alexis Smith giad- q, ,„h uated from Los AngrUs Citv Col- Ona „t Ihc hrc,,ic-!l ..telnr.cs Ron- I '.?«'■ Zachary Scolt :l,i;..hel Te-s.i fronting rural educpt.'r- whether In Missicoipi'i or Wales, is LOUIS JORDAN A "CALDONIA" As Film Actor In ‘Caldonia’ Louie Jordan Proves Great accomplishment guisht. It is doubtful that anyone who has followed films over the ears eftn remember when-a Negro irtLst v'as permitted to display her .4rls And drafts Serve Gl'.s Thru Red ( iross NEW YORK CITY >CNS> - "Caldonia" has 'arrived.' The film featurette. stuffed with four new tunes and adorned wiih the Boboy Soxer's King. Loui-s .Iordan, as its star, make? its initial bow in New York this week at the New Amster- - . . — v...4,c. XN0.1«. «iuie. .VOM*. woiic.' . ,, Thcntcr in Times Square It cultural abilities as does the glam-!every time you enter a show. The!*^ Rivicia n.iw that it tjmr celebrated "rolls Hazel in “Rbapsod; in Blue' insidious part of this propaganda has been turned into u soldier- bandleader has appeared on tho Actually, she speak.s French and; it, most pictures is the absence of Playground. screen in a film aciod In and -at several other languages with the Negroet. but the emphasis Ls on! •'I’i would have the same Hme prtiduced by Nc- same ease with which she handles \ whites and everything they do Is i^t't'infd pleasant and interesting, groes. f^ 'akay. whether crook or king, If couples miHing around the The 28 minute feafiirclie, crap-shooters I^ gives ns rsegro cast a chance The idea of white supremacy has been an age-old functirn of Holly- wood. It overwhelms you in child-1 Nice—-It was rather a .strango hoirf if you art a movie-fan to sec ] wouldn't cxp.ct I white, white, white, white, white,' u .» .u . • “ that H . _ If with couples milling around iht he life of the late George Gersh- Negroes do appe.ar In the.'c pic- IJoor ol the G1 restee-ho- approximately $3,000 to pr - m she interprets GeiThwin's melo- tiirr.s. they appear as crap-shooters it?"'-. ,once-lashiunablo Hotel gives its Negro cast a chnn.. • ^1. French and'and watermelon eaters. ^*^^'.9**^* with corsages prove its talent, besidts intruduciiu r.n^ish: l lesson is obvious. The white ® scrubbed and burnisn .a four hit tunes. Including, of cour.se, This represents a oefinite mile- person is made moie at ease in moving to I h e tea-danc2 the song .Iordan made femous. “Cal- smne in the career nf the girl who the knowledge that he Is still on ‘ or^^hestra donla" through hard work became the mus- top. The Negro is made to feel that . The film story is pimple but car- •cal toast of Manhattan. Whm she whatever hr does counts for naught, floor, m plain view in an pjgg ^ direct appeal. There is no ton Deutsch who succeeds" Carlos Hollywood pctple wonder- b cau'e ho is still In the ernp-shoot-oe the swan^ Up^le Tomism. The actors ACT ^ how she would fare. Of West ing and watermelon eating bracket' could .see a dozen or so parts, not saunter through tndlan extraction, she w,is known in iifo, fac, hi. rol, in American.“n; ' »s much f.ir her insistnncc on What ijfe according to Hollvwood isasi^^®^ seemed obliviou.s to tho he believed were her rights as she binding and stationary as that of ■ as for her fam.ous 'ooogie-woogie ,hp coolies and uni.nichiiblcs Ggstel out in Hollywood, will be a Sreat deal better. Deutsch is here to open a New York office. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Graham laughing over California reports that he will toon marry a L. A columnist. Just back from his trip out there to buHd hii star, Marva Louis. Bill is dtep on making his postwar plans a reality. He's working on a Unit to include Marva that will be one of the greatest to hit the Negro stage ia 2h years. It's to be named “New World A' Coming.” LOUIS JORDAN, after his Ophr- tun Theatre date in the Film City, playing at the piano. Many predict 'll that her business like manner would not fit into the Hollywood Indiana. Of c mrse. realize that thi-' is not so. There Several wer liciiding liver drawing board."*, t iMDies in icouplc were using ousels, olh.r: know .ind v^-orking at tables: weaving, . , -- N«r,wain c,,mpc,t,icn With the,™?',^ “enm';''Ki'xiL'; heme nf things, and that she white man in every pha.se of life, ‘’Ar/MinH hni-.-r..ri fnm- in -ontrnet. Louie stays. RIchai-d Huey, would return to Cafe Scciety in • . . • ' . . Aimmrl them hov.-rorl Inui in- - . New York, a sadder, but wLscr en tertainer. She made several trips to the tinsel city and each time proved Vec ..o'! lower aspects of the Negro whileUnp^a ciirled grav I'nustadio. Th" Ideas, he can elaborate on his Jlnch^ U was her allhty to get reniuatmc the theory that while isketching teacher v/orc u smock equipment. Unfortunately, as is right, ^ hc-pi Th^. hcalthy-louki.ng, Huey's ideas blosom creditors be That is why Stepin Fetchil said b^.jyht.4.yed girl in a colorful pin- Kin removing the equipment, piece ■ ■■ ■' ’■■ ■ r.fore was the sculptor. The place by piece. Last to go is the piano them lazily as "Caldonia" star*, off stepping lively. Caldonia. Jordsn's film sweet heart, is really Nieki O'Daniel whose whole purpose in the picture to . , ■ . Around them hovered four in- j d j . »..ni _ -md many excel in invention, ingen-ij.,. jj|, pi-cnch all 250 pound Broadway star of “Bloom- olf.v. wisdom, and soci.il graces Hut jthe wuv a Girl," convinced Jordan he is a Hollywood does not accept this artist is "suponsed” to Ha*^lem producer of n"tc He hires it.s task to pirtray for the " orld to The painter wa* tall and ^be Jordan band to make a mnv'“ i-eopli''? wn rviisfanc'; to learning. fnstore.1 Cy eiiperstillon and pre- hidire The Warner picture doer rot chance this, as some have done. 1' anv Inn.ife intcHeolual infcrior- ■ i1>. It shows that often as not back- , v'.irdness is enori j aced by the ! land owners who derive thei-^ ' wealth from child labor In the , mines and on tho farms As has been the experience of ■ mrinv rural school teachers, this , Ignorance often rc.solvcs it.sclf in , anl.igonism aiiainsi the one whf 'socks to aid those who have been denied cducatioral i ppnrtunit.v. In "Tho Com Is Green" Bette Davr i suffers ridicule as it only can be ' edministcred in a fmall community which resents the .nlluence of an outsider. The role is a meaty one; as usual, Miss Davis carrie.s it off in •I triumphant fashion. One of the high points in her portrayal is the moment when she threatens t.- kill n braf-liko girl iJoan Lorrlng) whe has inveigled her most promising student info fatherhood, thus Jeo pardizing his chance for entering Oxford, The p.Tl of the student, played by John Dali, is another which will •trike a faniili.nr note :n the memo ry of anyone wh.a has fought off 'he shackles of his environment •Ns in the case of the keen-mindned child miner, manv will rem«»mbei the jibes and insults hurled at the kid from the cotton fields or the tenements who aspires to highci learning. "The Corn I.s Crdon" is not tin kir,d of film ordinarily expected from Hollywocxl It squares up t-; a problem to which great men have devoted their liver It is mad the more convincing by Mi.ss Davl^ who on screen end ofl has a tnti, greatness of character. And .above >11. its me.ssage has behind it the ftarlcsw guidance of Warner Bros -V- i. jj ] University; an i plays Geoige . Oka ... Ul,...- Instead, they emphasize the v.'iiipy with a Vnn Dyke beard hl.s studio where, with his bril- on the screen. stwts fovring back stiHighl through;working a few Texas and on (o New ySiR's Zanzl- i PJrtures than .several top- ^ b«. The Manhattan Debs, of Jor-, stars who spe.U the that Hollywood is too busy to con- da^' Unit are temporarly broken portion of their time befere rorn itself with the Negro problem Op. One of the dancers. Junior Hen- magic lenses, ry'is .-eiiou.>ly ill in her Chicago in New York w’lth her many hot., haxln, to leave Calltornia flvl^nd eul.ural aellv.tles, m Hoi- bkitrr her en^,sements were lin-1 iehed. Bui her parlner, Dinky' Bluiga. is soloin, Budolph Dunbar. 1 ."■"■J" .S'-”- th* l.onHon cnnXis.r ic niunnino „ | assigned her lo a featured role in _V— Art Exhibit Feature Of TAAF 4th Anniversarv v.-as filled with workcr.s, all con- and somebody’s still playing it. erntrating as though there'verun'. All this time, a fru.strated Jordan a diince going on five varcl a'.vny. repeats to beautiful but hard-head- 'ri-v exulanation wa.s simpl.-. It d Cnld('nl;i “All thl« trouble and v/a.s the American Her! Ci Jnc. craft I could he In Hollywood." There's slue u in the Ruhl HoU'l. the setting fur the song hit. How '’’lu iii-ivmg spirit bohiiul this o'-er. h fme the 28 minutes are over, wirh«hnn iu Am('rif>;in Red Grots IKo.- lo inoliidp the love Ella FUz;eraI(l Into Nile Clubs BY TED YATES (Staff C'orre.spondent) Ella Fitzgerald, now touring with 'he Ir.k Spots and the Cootie Wil liams Orchestra, will find her lit tle yellowbasket containing a con tract for several appeninces In stel lar nite clubs In the near f lure. The customers, whe have been and Robi rl Alda wh.i Gershwin in "RItap- iy in Blue" attondeu New York Ui.kVerslty. Eddie Hoywood hit th-: .MOE CAFE SIGNS "TAPS" .WILLf.K One of the newest and most p'pular of the young crop ol bandleaders "Taps" Miller, com poser of a number of hit tunes 'jflole Tight," ''NYham.'* and ‘Ifot Dogs to name a fexv, la.st week signed a management contract with Moe Gale. Miller's Band whammed 'em at the Apollo Theatre last week, in- eldentlv- Overseas Tour Now More E.sseiuial Tlian Ever NEW YORK CITY 'CNS) ~ be- cau.se thousands of buys who will be kept overseas t,> help build the broken countries will feel they ar** mlucky in not gelling home now hat the war l. over, the USO Camp • uiws will continue to send oww he b;?st in entertainment vtliio t-oy can to cheer them. Tlie LouLs Joidan Unit, schi'duled a go over the middle of Septom- .r f.ir a IB week perli>d. returning i:.st one week bef. re Chrislina.c h:us ot .\i*l been definitely cleared hrough the USO Camp-Shows of- ico here in New York Though all !x mi'sician.s in the Jordan band nd Louis himself have passed their !'0>L'aI exam, the USO .still awaits ) K.'s from the men’*' vauous draft •jurds. Since the Jo-dan band i.« ) compact whi-n [ierfoiming th.il \’ery man is vital to its succes.s, if ne I.s unable lo go it may break p the entire unit until perhaps nother can be rehearsed tu taka p til!- job. So far. tho only addition to the 'Jnit has been the Manhattan Debs. ' a of America’s cleverest modern ippi.sts who also dance the finale f "Caldonia" with .lodan. There Is till a vacant 8pM for a featured 'ngir. Meanv'hile, if anything develops ■ prevent ihe Unit from going In September, it Is expected Louie will ippear at the Zanzibar Cafe on 'Sroadway when the now show be- 'ins with Duke Ellington Seplein- bog 11th .'kj. i:-. good fnr’u'T last week He vs.,8 Icarcd f .ill rhaiEis iti . - n.i.c.'sc .Old -im iltsn • w.-ly Mine Crosby r- quest»>d that lie do ,1 sciicy of irciirning' \*ii .\: loy thf> ir cut. “Baby \V n't You 1 Iea^e C* mo H'‘mr." .•nd "Save Yi v. .Sorrow Foi To morrow," Also the Ma x R.-)t)-.er.s v. ignofl the Hevwi-od combo for a fc tured spot in thoir film, N'lghi m Ca««'vlanr.t. ‘ ar.H Bing 'Skod then, to !>♦ on call for his next mu.ical at Panmount R*’tt V. c:irs a >i2e i 1-2 sh.ie And Barbara Stanwyck, who is iuite nuughty m 'rhrisiir.as in Connecticut." once aspi:-pd to be a • i'-l>n;iry Xi China It seems 3S though the Cwt gottine t repu tation for devcl-iplng sm.oll band '■nirinalion'- T the nnmes of 'ML' C'l. ird F.ddi'' Hcyw'.od is now added that o' Joe Liggin's one ( l■|(l|^^l•. Their style defies one lo put the finger .’n the secret of their success Just the same the Ifvnc arm .jf the .-Xpollo Theatre in New Vdik haa reached out and elaimed Ihfir services for a week in November Meanwhile they're barn-storming up and down the Coast. . . Cary Cooper who stars m 'he Warner dim “Saratoga Trunk. " and wh.> is probably very well off financially, got his first Hollywood job working as an “ex tra." . . Interesting item in the local press scene: Leon Harwick Is out ns theatrical correspondent with iho Los .Angeles Sentinel and ia dickering for the po.sition of man- iclng editor for the California Eagle. -And Ethel Sissle joins the staff of Iho Pacific Coast edition of the Pitt-burg Courier as a society col- nmmnist. . . . Bette Davis, now -tarring in "The Com Is Green." really has had a hard time of it on the screen. In more than half .if her pictures in the p.ast ten years, she ha.'i. cither died, bone mad. be come blind, been murdered or been disappointed in love. V--- _ Count Basie To Reopen Club Plantation LOS ANC7ELES. Jallf, — Count I Basie. Ihe "Jump Kmg of Swing." I will reopen the Club Plantation, [which has been closed for the sum- ! mer, when he toes of in a four week engagomcnl at the deluxe Cc..tral 1 Avenue niterv, starting Thursday, ! September 6. This mark.« tho Count's I second location on the west coast in la little more than two months. In July he ..as played three rceord- ; smashing weeks at the Casa Manana 1 in Culver City. : Basie rolled up a near-record gro.ss of $37,000 In a week at the I Orpheum Theater, Los Angeles. I earlier this month, and followed up , this mark vith another tremendous box office .varrage at the Golden Cate Theater n San Francisco. The “Jump King" li currently at the T. I ■ nd n T);e«ter in Gnkland for a ! week's engagement through Labor ! Day. .Sopfomber 3. The Count’s sf y i>n the west roast, his most successful to date, will continue through the middle of Octobc- via a onc-nlter tour through California, following which the Basie cntour.'igc vv'ill head b.ack east on an extended theater tour LOUIS JORDAN, after his Opho- uai Theatre date in the Film City, gtarts towring back stiaight through Texas and on to New York's Zanzi- bag. The klenhattan Debs, of Jor dans' Unit arc temporsr’y broken op. One of the dancers, Junior Hen ry is seriously ill in her Chicago he^e. having to leave California bei^ her engagement* were fin ished. But her partner. Dinky BUtfiga, is soloing Rudolph Dunbar, the London composer, is planning a big eoncert entirely devoted to mus ic by William Grant Still In Paris for October. W. C. HANDY has given a state ment to the pres* that anyone who insist* there will be a Negro musi cal comedy based upon the life of “the late composer of the St. Louis Blues" with a score by Handy to be presented for fall stage produc tion is craxy. Furthermore, he warns such people who thinks him dead. . . Says the Father: "Anyone prer'iming to dramatize my "late” Ufa without permission will be haunted to the full extent of the law.” Frank's Re-stauront, long top eating place for Negroes on 125th Street, was picketed this week in an effort to get the managemnt to hire Negroes. AS a result, three were added to the staff. Bui the Penple'.s Voice } ere reports that many Har lem celebs broke the picket line and went through to eat. Among them were E Franklin Frazier, professor of sociology at Howard University who has written several race books, his wife and two friends and USO Camp Show Director Dick Campbell and his wife, singer Mur iel Rahn. Running the picket cam paign was Ben Richardson of the ft Next Ooor' I he pundit* wrong The thing that I clinched It was her alility to get ' more money for working a few ! week* in pictures than several top- ' notch Negro stars who spent the ^ major portion nf their time hefrre the magic lenset. As In New York with her many . dvic and cultural activities, in Hol lywood, Hazel Scott became knowq for her bouodles em rgy in aiding • orthy cause- When Warner Bros, asaigned her to a featured role in , 'Rhapsody In Blue," they did so! because they wanted whoever play-, fd the role of the one who intro-; duces George Gershwin to Paris tOj ha someone whome audiences would ; credit with real culture. The part demanded that it be done convinc ingly and with genuine artistry. Hazel Scott was tht perfect ans- w»r. In the Paris night club scene she plays the piano, sings, and acts ' mlstres of ceremonial. Regradlesa of what happens to H.*el Scott from now on In her very eventful life, ak Is Indicated in "Rhaps->dy In Blue," whatever she - s — she does It up brown! rv staff. Minto Cato is in London vorki.og with the Red Cross. On the way over on the Queen Mar>. she sang to the boys in several languages and did popular numbers as well. Leopold Stokowski was to play Wil liam Gran’ Still's “Old California" the night peace was declared — only they didn't know It would be that night. The score was late com ing from New York and as Still's wife was driving over to take an other copy, the sirens began and she had to turn back. She says there were many accidents in celebrating. Br ted ^hearer lower aspects of the Negro whileUfjQ'g curled grav luuitache. Tho •eeentuatina the iheor.v that white teacher wore a smock is right, 'ontl a beret. The healthy-louki.og. That it why Stepin Fetchit said ;b; iaht-eyed girl in a colorful pin- that Hollywood is too busy to con-[i-.iore was the sculptor. The place eem itself with the Negro problem ly.-as filled with workers, a'l con- on the screen. ‘centrating as though there veren'. a dance going on five yard a'-viiy. Th. explanation was simpl.-. It ,v/a5 the American Red Crasr, craft istutu in the Ruhl Hot.'l. : ‘Tilt moving spirit behiml thU [wi rk«hop L* American Red Cross TUSKEGEF. AIR Fn-DjJ-;*^,; ’XilracT.',!!. Ala. - One ol the (eautrra of the cap- Fourlh Annlvenary nf "Tuiikegee Arlhui H B.ioth. .• foimer Into Nite Clubs Art Exhibit Fealur,. Of TAAF 4th Anniv:rsarv *‘l wa&l « iltlie i&niethiug that leaver a life ions iir.pr3s„ton! ! *’ Army Air Field, the .-econd annual art exhibit and crafts display has Seen drawing crowds ’o the Service Club at TAAF since the official ob servance of the anniversary on Aug. 9. Continuing far the entire week *he show was plnnne.l bv I.t. Ted Cnrrnll. famed New York commer cial artist and nationally known sport.' cartoonist, and Sgt. Cecil D Nelson, Jr., prominent prizc-wln- nlnc artust of Champaign. Ill In addition to ous’aoding oils by Sgt. Nelson, this well-planned show inelfdod water c lors. black and whites, ceramics, textile prints, metal craft and photograph. A ser ies of ulack and whifi' portrait.' by Lt Carroll include such well knowT) combat pilot returnees as Captains Harold Sawyer. Joseph Elsberry. Charles McGee. Arnold Cisco. John Daniels. Samuel Curtis. Woodrow Crockett. Hen-y Perry. Fred Hutch ins. and Melvin Jacksfm. The ex hibit al.w includes works by Sgt Bill Chase, Sgt. Elcan Ward. Cpl Jacob Beam. F. Sgt, John Hamilton. T.t Rnd Mrs, Harold C. Hayes. Cul. Alonzo Chancellor 'now stationed in the Southwest Pacific' and Sgt. Roy E. LaGrone. ex TAAF artist who sent his entry all the way from Rome. Italy. Among those visiting the exhibit i ipening day wer’ Brig. Gen Clinton B. Vinson. Commander of the 29th Flying Training Wing, EFTC; and Col. Noel F. Parrish TAAF Commanding Officer, who were commendable InDhclr praise*. Gen. Vinson was a '38 classmate at West Point of Col. B. O. Davis, Jr. Commanding Officer of Godman t^ield, Ky.. and the 477th Composite Group. Billy Apollo Efkstine Goe.s To Theater a former chemist who is now chemical warfare officer serving' New Guinea. Before the war fht Booths made their home on Hlckorv Street in St. Louis, where Mr.N, Booth taught school .nnd y.nrked on the P.'irk.' and PH'.'- qround Piograms of the "YWCA, til her spare time she was a Ciirl Sciiut leader, and interestc.4 h* .self in ballet dancinz and -nu i>’. C.'-ptain and Mrs. Booth .or' cao- 'irips o’ I '•'-nln Un'vrrstiv in Jefferson City, Missouri, where they met, , , „ .u When Cap’atn Booth toft the United Stales. Mrs. Booth decid ed to join Red Cros.s. T'nntisands of Negro troops were over'eas and Army had the education the background aiid a rich field of cxpe.rienc'’ in arts and crafts to d«\ote to their service So in Nfav lfj44 -she found herself in Ttalv. and. later she wa« assigned lo Oran, Africa, where she ran the '..lack ha. at the Libertv Club, an American Red, Cros^ installation serving mainlv Negro troops In April, when the Rivieta d'S- ‘■•ict was opened as a Ic.ivc area, and troops of every clas.«ification poured in. the Fed Cross was ask ed to take over information dosk.s. sit up reading and recreation rooms, and sponsor hotel tea danc es in the Armv-run hotel.^ The sindin was Army’s n"sv;er no p- r-national needs in the Ruhl Ho tel. .- "I wondered at first if men eeiild oossihlv be interested in a' ts and crafts while ennovinp lif" at a vacation resort where th'^re were so manv other activillvs avs'lahle.” Mm. Booth «xnlain''d. "Put I shouldn’t have worried. .\1 roost from first, soldiers came drifting in. "The artists were iiist natur.illv drawn »o the studio “ she lontio- lied. “Then W'e found that GT’s t'ke to make souvenirs to send >'ome fh'' ones for sale here being too hieh in orige for their nook- o* hooks Others just o’ain want- -•a somethin" to do n'hih' ••t:!' o»her "rouns wanted to learn sr.o'o eort of )'andc*'oft.’’ Fii-st nf .tII '4rs, Roo'h eonreii- I'nted on ""ttincf cnmrt inarhe-s Thev were o^’'>ilah1p in h-ipp, wood ones. On" hod onl" to then* TVnv d' Hohtrd to hn n-irn. inv a steadv income aenin But v.net nf all. fhnv werp renl French n-Hcts — '•nd lE'-ked ’hn na>-t HfliPhted the «oldicr-s1u- NW YORK -- Bacx east after a tri'imphant swing through the hin terlands, singing maestro Billy Eck- stine and his skyrocketing young lump band will open a week's en gagement of the 123th Street Apollo TTiJater in Harltem on Friday, Sep- teber 7. T^is booking makes up a week Billy was forced to cancel last May when he was felled by a throat 'nfcction. and marks his third ap pearance at Frank Schiffman's fa- mosu "House of Jump” In a little more than a year's time. Mae.stro Eckrtine’s newest record- Ing for the National label, paii'h'k i'" nr-.v- d ‘h.> mo'o hl.s o^wn "Lomesome Blues" with' Vor the Ballad. "Last Mght. is slated nborcoal artist or nen-and. for release this week, following if nnoiiwh. closely on the heels of his current ,^.5,, the craf». disc success. “A Cottage For Sale.' ^..rtnW leather to too! for which already ha.* r 'SEfd the 100,000 framp# Vo” m.-ii'k in sales aiul has been huilvd . f^e-- r.'-irtipr f,yr 've.TN'in'* doe. a.* one of the finest r;-cords of 'the Lhiin'- nl.-yjs!”* c-,lvige l from ai: planes to make hundreds liant loeas, ne can eianoraie on nu film equipment. Unfortunately, n Huey's ideas blnsom creditors tv- gin removing the equipment, piece gy ^atES by piece. Last to go is the piano {Staff CorreapewTem) and aomebody’s still playing it. 1 Fitzgerald, now touring with All this time, a frustrated Jordan 1^1* Spots and the Cootie Wil- repeats to beautiful but hard-head- n^ms Orchestra, will find her llt- d Caldinl i "All this trouble and (jg yellowbasket containing a om- I c?uld be in Hollywood." There’s (fact for several apperances in stel- the setting for the song hit. H>>w nite club* In the near future, "•'•er. h fn-c the 28 minutes are over, ' customers, whe have been •hey manage to include the love standing on line to see the Big 3 «ecene of Jord.an and Caldonia. the while Ella abandoned herself dance team of Taylor and Harris. : ,](tet-;y in the rhythmic swing of cemmedians Genrce Wilshire and ygjj current favorite* as "I’m Mak- Sporty Ode and 3 Sun Tan girls. Believe" and “It's Gotta Be Actually filmed last win’er, A*- This Or That," undoubtedly know lor Pictures Corp., in New York (hy; gjrl. who among other ju.st released “Caldonia" August 1.3. Uhinas, bears the dLstinction of being , f'T the country-wide public ron-| singer to swing a j\ir- •iimptinn. They believe this fcatur [-hyme. ♦tte will be one of many by Jordan -j-jjjg ^^,,5 Tlsket, A Tastket. I •nd that In Its giving unique en-'r.jst My Yellow Basket,” of course tertainmont to the nation. It will _ own composition, which sky- ;'l«o in'tlll a courage in Negro rocketed her to fame, and which , youth to do things for themselves continues In popularity. "here's p.ogres In ♦be theatre as The cust'^mers wouldn't know ral-tnnia" moves on to bec-rme. either, judging from the way Ell."' like Lciih .ford.-ii himself, one of out with such consisten' Ih,-' gr^'etest HtH'’ at ractions in j,p| that sometimes she is “s« i ’-■-P'-s nervous when I start singing I ' — can’t even remember the words " or articles; crap tin and prcciou.^ When this happens. Ella says she niuminum to make into various Just nffs along 'mill. In a man Ei.rtots Most of the lime gc’tinii ner of speaking, she goes out of thb tl:em meant semuncinz a piec*'of world. leather here, a sheet of plexiglass In private and public, smging I ,cK Now an! then there vould,comes first with Ella First, that Is. be a windfall .sueh as captured with the excepti-->n of her kid st»- G-'im.an materials. , ter. who is 18 years o d - who ran Mo.st of the soldier.* who make «lng. but prefers to play the piano, t&d.'vts make them for themselves ; Recalling her own early days or t( send homi as souvenirs of which were in a orphan asylum. t!i»- Riviera But thro t* snmo ‘art FRa says of her .sister: for i-rt’.s sake" w'hich .\imv proud- "She’s always go'-g to have Iv d 'Plav.s either in - glass .show- everything 1 didn't nave. College c:’sr. nr in th ' e.in of dm^ings »nd clothes and a good time If she or pninting-s. by hanging thorn Oii [ w,snls to sing, .she can sing. If *he th" walls, wants to play the piano, she can However. Mrs Booth doe.s a lot i pjay tho piano. Or she can do bo*h inrr'' thm iust run tie stuii:'t at |if gho wants." tlir Ruhl. She ha.s formed the nu- , About that orphan asylum, Ella . ol a smn’’ ''r* in. r .didn't like the accommodations, so posed of both white and Negro 1 „„„ night she slid down a bed sheet rope an dtook French leave. At 18. she wound up as an entrant In an i'mateur dance contest at the Har lem Opera House - which marked the beginning of a career which has hren in ascend.-mey over since. Not because Ella's tcrpslchorcan exhibition caused n »ensatlon On *he contrary, her feet froze, while h’f knees melted, she was that frightened. So she tried to sing The audience was entirely out of svmpalhy with this desperate at- tompt to win their approval, and *he fudges gonged her off uncere- monolo»’*ly Rut. the late Chick Webb, the famed little Drummer Boy. who was in the audience, had heard onough. In rapid succession, he 'icned her to a contract, .and with t-ls wife, formally adopted her lentil Chick's death, he trained El la and fostered her. and prepared her for the career that was bcckon- ipp'sts who alsu da'.re the finale f “CaldonJa" with Jodan. There i* ’ill a vacant sikm for a leatured nger Meanwhile, if anything develepa prevent the Unit from going in September, it 1* expected LouJe will ippcar at the Zanzibar Cafe on Iroadway when the new show ba- "ins with Duke Ellington Septem ber lltb "Jump King" ts currently at the T ; i;d n TiiMt.-- in r.'kUnd for ■ week's engagement through LaMt ! Day. September 1 Th.' Count * stay .n the waet coast, Ms m.?el suece*i»ful to data, will continue through the middle nf October via a one-niter tour through California, following which the Basie entotirage will head bark east on an extended theater lour &,*ist.s. Men who wander into the studio arc greeted, meet one an other. and .ire introduced to thv> ti nehers; often artists are brought in. touch witli one another by the Red Cros.s worker. )iH' do" rerenit\- a Negro nri- !i' s-nintovd in -ind asked a'''''-ut m.nking a kev chain. Hr and ' ■n." slartpd talking nod some r- enu' was made to ballet. Both . .1 Tiirciiitelv '.nouir;.! wha? th^ oth er knew about ballet and dLscov- d t 'nt both were danr-' .stu- d. nis, The nrivu!' -i;,d sturiic-1 in Ni w "york with Pear! Primii* A n*- mvi' d tb- viiuth to ,l♦*^n■^ h> r French ballet rlas- in Nice Hi did. and took nart in the ex- E-rippe pe’oeishin" the other stu dents- with his fine terhnioue. Almost anv time of day ynu'll find .Amy s’trrounded bv Trt..*ts mi’si.’i.ms and writers Th"V so^m I." aneoV n universal l-in.-iuane. sn-t ..'hile the aav life n- the T'o'iera poo.s on .'round then, thi* me p'tractive* eirl and hor s'l'd'o One of Ellas chief .’.mbltlons to- • . rke**.- find re/>.-er*'-in thm art day Is to own “a 'eal h.tme where y. r eon 7o onrt rc*.’' (Judging from »*F.AISF FROM UNION VETERAN the exnloslve vivacity with which Flln outs over a song, vou’d hard- GARY. Ind — The Gary Labor ty think she needed a 'Vest.'’) She P^aren rennrts that Matthew P.arel. Is "saving up" for It. mrrnher of Laborers' Loci’! 81. "had Flln Is a fi'H-fiedgcd member nf ,b*eh nrrise fo*" the American Red ASCAP. which nets her SlOft a (7ros«" on hl.s return fiom overseas, month Ftln thinks StOtl a morth 1.* jH.’ had 1;.-«-n 1 nrisoiier In a Her-' nia-ltv pood — but «he won’t be ' man cair.ii foi -iy nicr.th' and Red 1 rr.r.)e«-,l .iiitll sr.e’s in the $i0.H»fl a Cross was Imporunt. I year bracket. "I always let a boy chase me ‘til I catch him'." tf/y/X/z/gAz J^e^/fa/^cesAr COMPUTE... NOT % MINUTE CUT FROM ITS STUPENDOUS OIAMI! Aleitn««r Knei-CliliUi Cskii*' GtilMm* FiUmM • ThMUi UilcMI Itulli NiliOA' SilCtSlic Htidaiek* ViftCtnl fiiCcWilhim Ephl'Miry Aitfpiies ii4 I cut •! 12.000 HEN^ KING
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