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PAGE SIX THE CAROLINIAN HTXK ENDING, SAT., SEPT. 22, 1945 New York Showfronts BV 'MIS »K UEHiHBt'i NEW YORK — Sii5pjc jn is rifle White, a crariuate of exclusive In Harlem theatre circles that Jo«e Smith C illegc in 1944. where she rerrer. ttgo in Paul Robeson s por- m'^ern dancing and had trayal of Shakespcarc-s ••OthelJo* distinction of being elected has pulled a -wav bud: play" m sc- Student Council, lecting Walter ’white* dauRhler I'xiianrdinjinly high back- j«ne, for the rolc of Nonnie in the « colored g-rl is now to pity, •■Strange Fruit," The plav furthering the idea en- an adaptation from Lillian Smith'.'^ best-seller n .vel hy that name "hether they “went Into rehearsal here in New S''‘'‘duale from Vassnr or are pnxli- York last week Con'roversy ha* broadly typed as fitting raged among ihinking persons over •‘‘"d the matter. ma;iv contending that eUndesnne relationships; “Ste^nge Fruit" will duplicate its flower of colored woman- accomplishment on the stage as in i usually ready to stoop to the novel of Putting educated Negro associaf nns m lieu of normal womanhood in a bad light. Sclec-, '’'np‘ ''»>«-''hips with men of hei tion of Jane White daughter of the race, preferring n white man executive secretary of the NAACP ® Negro In any manner In which is thought to have been made lo be cairied on. (julet criticism of the proposed play. A« they did m "Uncle Tom’s Cabin,'* the "Uncle Remus' 'tales, and more recently, in "St. Louis Woman." which is to star Lena Home, thos who see issues more clearly than those who look to tem porary appla.ist and a little gold along with It, have .sharpened their pencils, their tongues, and their daggers to cry down 'Strange Fruit" on the stage. Since Ferrer, as pro ducer and director, plans to *tick close to the text of the novel in his dramatic version, theatregoers arc In for a good dose of the love of a Nepo girl, graduate fr^m college, and pretty, also, for a weak-willed, white youth, son of a leading imall- towm Georgia family. This love af fair is poriniyed as typical, showing how white men carry on after- dark romance with Negro women and then attempt to avoid cense- quemces by niarying white women Drama in "Strange Fruit" is height ened by a lynching u£ the wrong man who was accused of slaying Nonole's lover. The tituation in a nutsell is this: The condition o* the American Ne gro today, socially, economically, and morally, is at such a low ebb that all thinking persons are devot ing time and enerb'iv *0 helping him climb to his proper place in Amer ican life. Impressii>...s are para mount in Ihh effort and when the white majority secs Negro perform ers on the screen, stage, or night club, or hears them over the radi> in crap-sho-)ling. watermelon eat ing, chicken-stealing, razor-toting and loud and wrong characteristics, it does the cause of the race no good at all. It has been found that white producers, both in Hollywood and on Broadway, have suddenly done an about lace in the type of colored women they pick for thea trical or screen roles The trend to day is away from the Hattk Mc Daniel, Louise Beavers. Ma Rainey type, big black and buxum, to slim trim, peachhued beautk-s of the L ma Horne or Hilda Sims variety Where they employed the McDaniels, the Beavers, the Ma Raineys ‘she wasn’t in pictures, hut on the sUige) to portray "mammy" roles dr part- calling for blackness and a whole lot of white shinny, teach, they have found a new use for the Lena Homes, the Hilda Sims, the Edna I Walter While, as the leading spokesman of his rnee, would do writ to study the implications of allowing hlf daughter to be used *0 further a conception of white su premacy that is built on the tearing tiown of the noble attributes of Ne- cro womanhood Of course the idea of a Broadway leading lnd.v part f r his daughter would make any father feel proud But sometimes it 1- a iiood thing if a closer look at he vehicle be taken so that everv- hinp is brought info the open. l/oui.s .Iordan: \ Niim- licr One In Many Wavs f lGHT MO.VTIIS OF HARD WORK ARE BEHIND HIS ZANZIBAR DATE BY DOLORE.S CALVIN NFW YORK CITY CNS)-Whvn Mr. Louis Jordan comes to the Za.. zibar Cafe Wednesday eve to begi' an 8 week engagement, it will mark the dapper 36 year old music mak- r's first .ippearance in a Broad 'vny nitecUib. In fact, the last time Nfr. Jordan appeared in a night- not anywhere in New York was ai "e Flk's Rendezvous back in l93f! when hi was just riganizing hii ■ vnipany Fiv- But -ince then, Mr. 1 rd.nn has rnme a long waj* Til' tiie la't eight months, for i: .nice In that short time, work iig every d.iy exccpl for about 'wo w-eeks in May taken off to h.ave his tonsils yanked >. Loui* Iordan's agenda has run like an Ernie Pyle diary - events popping ip .en often and so outstanding as insure the title the T.vmpany 'ive are lagged with; America' 'nvorite little band A month after the New Year. •H.ie made his first appcaranco at he Paramount Theatre in Timer 'qiiare and found the managers nnxlous to get him hack within 3 1*2 months. Instead of returning tot.red the Sotith. played the •\|»ollo for about the 5th time in ht last 2 1-2 year*, .ourod again, then made an initial ippearanre at the Chiengj Theatre for 2 weeks It was an oceasinn because acros.* he street L* the Capitol Loungi where the original Jordan bov- Dots And Dashes BY BILL CHANDLER HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Arllc Sh.iw lent Eddie heywood two ol nis men when the Iati\;r'.s saxaphon- ist i.nd biii-s player wue indispus- ed. So for the past couple of weeks. Eddie’s band has strictly been of an inter-racial complexion. . , -lohiiny Maloney, manager of Cen tral Avenue's Lincoln Theatre re- mebers when he and Robert Aldit. star of "Rhapsody in Blue" wr.re making their livings in burlesque ■hows in New York. . . Dane Cluik who co-stars with John Garfield in "Pride of the Marines " will get his role out of a uniform •vhcii he .starts work in Warncr'> "Her Kind of Man." Faye Emerson and Zachary Svotl will be hi.^ com- pank'n stars. . , Incidentally, those who ucl.evc truth Is stronger than liction are supported in the film ' Pride of the Marinos ’ which is 'he true story of the experiences of .•\1 Schmid the marine hero. Fifty !cco>-ds of the new King Cole re cording, "Shy Guy" .and "I Tho’t Y.:u Ought to Know" sold within to hours at a local music store. Mary Martin will sing the si ng Ilia, made her ftimous," My Heart Be- IRA GERSHWIN TALKS ABOLT HIS BROTHER Erskinc Hawkins )i.«tcns alfon- lively to the hvmn his wife. Flos- -io. »s playing in Ihi .r sumtuoiis New York apartmen* The Haw kins attribute their nine years of succesful marriage to the fact that their likes and dislikes al most always parctlcl. They bowl, play tenir. ride a bike, go to the movies, always together. —iCNSt Mrs. Erskine Hawkins Puts In Full Day At Home MR. JORDAN recorded with Bing Cro.-by "My NEW YORK CITY iCNSi — To FLssic Ki-wkins, being a wife of a leltbraied bandleader .a a full day's work. It means caring fi>r a spacious 3-roum ap.-irtmcnt. thinking of new di-hes for a husband who's pre dominately a vegetarian and always worrying on week ends about count less Iriends who "just drop in and stay days." And of course it means I ever tjeing ijo tired to listen to an orchestra leader's problems Tall, fragile like Flo.>-si and hus ky. deep-voiced Erstkine fir.-it met at .1 football game at Daytona Beach exactly 13 years ago. She .-.as aiiout to begin i or freshman year at Beihune-Cookman College and he was in his third year at Ala- hania Stale College. The Alabama Cats liked the Bi- ihune-Cook.’Tiim Tigers and the ’ : rdloiider of the Alabama State C JlegiunK won the heart of Flossie who says that then she was “just a -lirt" E'.ur years intervened before 'hr.v were married. During that time, .she finished Junior College and majoiing in educa.ion, taught or a v, .11- in a liotous eighth grade class. Erskine. a Birmingham boy. finiJhed 3 years at Alabama State and was teaching in the music de- eat and go m another. They feel gyped if they doin' see double feu- lured shows. On most of his long trip.', dimple.-- Fb-ssie is right there •viih him. But since h r (.urrcnl in- ' ’erst in the American Negro Thea tre, .she's ci.l out a ioi of travel- mg. Vet, bhv still packs his bug j Reign an old lumd at it, he doe.*n'l cony whafs in them, t Gracious and with a model'.* fig ure. Flosk Hawk ns naturally has ;a flair far clothes. Ib-r llollywood- like wardrobe is .-^peiiaHy created ■ for her Shi- in for lounging pa- , jamas and dics->mnkcr suit.* and .^ncps minutely for extreme styli- in iiarrom-l’.rrled --hoo* Her {)ei name fo:- him is ju.st "darling” but when .she's angry it's "Ers-kme"! He cull.-- her "appl*- dumplin" which she doc.-.n’t like nienti'Uied before company As his numocr om- critic, therein lies .Mrs. Hawkins' chief job. She iiears every new voralLst and her .'pinion is the deciding one. She never ’ires of hi.v music ;ind can stand his practicing hours on end. Thvre's n lot to the job of being .•n orchestra leader's -.vife but Flos- .'ie Hawkin.s has no intention of giv ing it up! ! SEE/N’ STARS WITH DOLORES CALVIN NEW YORK iCNS) — IN THE NF.WS: Benny Carter's band will be CL-stnrrcd with Fddie •Roche.stert \i.iler-on and his stooge. Kitty Mu-.-- • ay who .lo a hilarious comedy to- i,eih'.r at the Apollo. . . A Popular woman's mazaginc in New York is considering using n story of u young N'egro flier, who, flyinp over Ger many, thinks of his girlfriend and ;ne things he loves. . The Unit Bill Graham has together featuring Marva Louis. Peg Lep Bates and Joe Ziggy Johnson will debut in V.'a-hington in October and may go •ve,- to F-urope as the first Negro -'i’.ow in thi.* post war world. . . Griih.im is angling to get the Jetter- P.liars band. . . In Deanna Durbin's new picture, previewing here this week "Lady On A Train," she secs a millionaire murdered from a train window at the l25th Street station in Harlem. "PAPFiR MOON" recorded by Ella Fitzgerald and the Delta Rliy- Ihm Boys — a rave . . . Todd Dun can. seneduted for "il Pagliacci" at the City Center, caught on Broad way in beige garbardine and no tie. Kenneth Spencci at the new mod ernized Cafe Society Uptown with native daners staged, and directed l.y Kafy Dunham. . . A ci tic no tices that .Marian Anderson has very beautiful legs, seldom observed. . . FJrskmc Hawkins planned a Euro- pean tour . Typographical error made when appr.iximate cost was BY PHIL CARTER quo'ed of film featurette "Caidonia'' HOLLYWOOD. Calif. — Ira '.-'taring Louis Jordant. It was $30,- fjcrshwin. br.Aher of the late O’lf) instead of $3,000. . , The studio ^^corge Gershwin, whose life .story alone cost S4,000 lo rent! . . . Lena Is lold in^ the Warner Bros musi- Hornp, Duke Ellingt.in, Andrews f‘^1. "Rhapsody in Blue." has some Sistir>. W'lody Herman and others inte. csling things to say about at the 400 Club to welcome Tommy Oeorge's us.sociaUon with Negro Dorsey and Band . . nui.sicians. "George knew everyone." he THE ZANZIBAR gives out with .stated. "I used to v.vnder how he a cute ad d.iy before the new show oiuld krep so manv names in his pens saying; Notice! This space head. Me. . . . well' I sort of stay was reserved lo annoiuue the cast - a m the backgroumi. I figured of the new .show opening tomorros^. George was the genius of the fami- however. as a gesture of coopera- ly so I spoke only when it was nec- Uon with the Police Department wc s.sary." in -h' picture "Rliap-'ody are witholding IhLs Alcmic Array of m Blue" Ira Gershwin is shown to Explosive Entertainment to avoid be just that — a retiring follow the near-riot that would follow if 'sho alihiugh a prc-it lyric writer, everybody knew who was g .ing to always let his brother lake the spot- open at the Zai -ibar. . . Wo could light. not slop the ” from comment-- Ira now lives with his wife in ing upon thi. tnntlc Treasure- Biverly Hills It will bo remv.nbe-- Trove of Talei.i. . . , but there is i-d that it was at their home that no use for us to add fuel to the fire, 'he garden party for Brig Gen. Anyway, while wc may be speech- Benjamin O Davis and Trum-m les.s right inw. Ihis .show will be Gibson was held during their Hullv- the talk of the town — Tliuisday. . , wn-:d visit Not a my.stery — just a miracle, . "George used Ui say to me." h- Not only the greatest cast ever as-, continued, "Ir:!, what vou need Fombled in a C.-ife. but the ri. is to gel out more. Get around most unusual cumbinatlon of Pu- with the boys.' Onlv it Just wasn't lent N;imes ever huokid lo appeal .i.v -vay, 1 look funiiy -itling up iii together on one state, . . It's so night clubs and those kind of .-ens.ilionjil you wouldn't believe it, alaev.- ' even if we told you. and further-: Regarding Negro m-asuian.- he re- more. . . Docs Macy Tell Gimble'.’". ve:iled that there wa.* one artist on The secret is: Duke Ellington anJc.vhom George bunked at lot, Th.it Band, Louis Jordan and Tympany , was the ia' - Will Vudrey The., had Muntan Moreland and Ben -n interesting experience when Carter and the new “glamour noise" as Frcdi Washingten of PV put is. Sa\annah Churchill all done up in new hair-do, new gowns and sup posed-to-be new name. . . She’s io be the .second Lena Horne. NOT ONLY does Randolph Dun- bur conduct the music by William Grunt Still in Europe riid cuu.. all the daily press to look around, but Louis Kaufman out ir. Kolywood, brilliant American violinist, who is equally well known a.s an interpre ter Ilf the elasftir masters and as a Genige White was staging his "Scan dals of !9'J2." the .«how that fea ti.red Ger.'hwin's famous hit tune. '•'Lady Be Good." Ferde Grofe comj>oser of the fi- "Grand Canyon Suite” was orchestrating some of the music When George Gershwin heard his orchestration of “Fasrinating Rhy 'hm" he knew it wouldn't do. So he went uptown to Harlem and got Will Vodrey who produced -m .or- '•angernenf suitable to the synco pated tempo of the song. After that longs to n.iddy" m the fiim "Night and Day" now being fllineo. The Peter Sisters, that triumvirate of tonnage have taken the Ciuh Ala- bam by storm. . . Ana .speaking of NigJi'. .anJ Day." Cary Grant who plays the part of Cole Porter had to stay indoors two weeks to lose his sunburn. Now he has to wail ii v.it aunda-'.T to go swimming. , . What should have happened Iqng ago has finally ct-me to pass. Artie Reed. Last reported as riading her self of hubby Leonard, emcee at Chicago's El Groto, breaks into the show at She; p's Playhouse doing a featured modern dance with s male partner. . . Things to look forward t.c Ida Lupino will sing '"Die Man 1 Love" in her next pic ture now sho. ting at W'arners , , , Leigh Whipper now m New York won't cherish the rv-shooting of ecit.tin scenes in Columbia's "The Negio S:.iler. " It seems the produc ers didn't like Bill Gillespip’ voice as narrator and decided to do ft over using Jim.ny Baskette. This mean.s the scenes where Leigh plays a newspaper editor have to be done over and since Leigh is in New York, another actor wns hired to take his jilacc. . . Mark Hcllinger who produced pirturcs for Warners for eight years moves to Universal, 'il' la.si wa.s "The Two Mrs. Car- r ills" starring Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwych .and AlcxLs Smith. . . Lil Cumber informs that he's planning to beam her mag. “Sepia Hollywood" K. the natoinal m.irkel. . . . Gertrude Gibson has one fcot on the train She’ll hit Chicago and continue on lo New V irk ; nd New Jersey which is the family homestead. She insists that '“olumbus. Ohio, is not on her itin- trary. How .ipouf that Columbus! carmenJones The Chicago premiere of "Car men .Tones Augu.st 2.5. marked the ■■nd of a swift trip to the Coast and return. Ninety six pcrforn\ances were given in a span of 86 davs to a gross — after taxes — of $464,377 - 02. The largest week was garnered It Phiihatmonic Auditorium. Los •Angeles, when $49,819 was record ed. Sacramento accounted for the ■>'0 .single performance with $9,315. Bi'fui-e re.aching Chicago $22.31R was ‘he take in three nights and a mat- nee at St. Paul. Di-spile transportation stringency no performances were lost on the uiiket which included El Paso, San 'iogii T.os .Nugelp*-. S.’.n Francisco. San Jo.so. Sacramento. Stockton. '-oatiK-. Vaiicoover. A'.akima. Spo kane .and St. Paul. F.Kistern key cltl'^ '•ith three exceptions have not yet • ‘•■n visited by the outfit. There may be a sec. nd company f "r*iiimen Junes " after all. A few montlis ago Billy Rose vowe'* that 'he original troupe would not he 'luollcated Now that the war ia ver. transporation and man-pow er condition; eased, fabricating an other ca.st appevB less difficult In Chicago for the premiere Rose. Oscar Hammer.dein II. Hnrf.*fr- Short and Charle.s Friedman mulled ■ i;:«“a of a ri-pllca when that pro- ‘iii>’*ir>n goes to London in the spring. I* has been the or^einal Intention "f .sending the present company on day Is away from the HatUv Mc Daniel, Louise Beavers, Mb Rainey type, big black and buxum. to slim, trim, peachhued beauties of the Lena Home or Hilda Sims variety. Where they employed (he McDaniels, the Beavers, the Ma Raineys ‘she wasn't in pictures, hut on the stage) to portray "mammy” roles dr part' calling for blackness and a whole lot of white shinny, teach, they have found a new use for the Lena Homes, the Hild.-i Sims, the Edna Mae Harrises and the Katherine Dunhams These advanced types of Negro womanhood are almost exclusively portrayer’ on the screen or on the stage as fallen women, concubines, "hot” lovirs. glorified street-walk ers, etc. This. then, is the idea one gets at the choice of pretty Jane White for the role of Nonnie! It is out of the question, at least so far. for a Negro woman with looks, education, and background like Hilda Simms. Katherine dunham or Lena Horne to be seen in digni fied. cuiluial roles that show Ne gro womanhood at its highest lev el. No. the door is closed there The unspeokahlr lowness of Nonnie's relationship with the while you.h in Lillian Smith’s novel is now about to be glorified and made authori tative through the employment of the daughter of one of the leading Negroes of the work engaged In the business of advancing his race! To make it all the more emphatic and ahove-board. Ferrer and his aasociates have picked in Jane ' rn.lc made his first appearance at he Paramount Theatre in Times ■quart* and found the manager.- ’’nxioiis to get him back within 3 1-2 months. Instead of returning he toured the South, played the A|>nIlo for about the 5th time in ‘.hf last 2 1-2 years, toured again, then made an initial appearance at the Chlcagj Theatre for 2 weeks It was an occasion bocau.se across 'he street is the Capitol Loungr where the original Jordan bov- were on the bill with the Mll!^ ’■‘rntheis and where the famous '!)• .Tordan drew'a salary of $14 p week, paying his musicians mosl!.> out of his own pocket. And that's, where he met his manager. Berlt* Adams, then 23- But back to 1945, the tonsils came out after the Chicago Theatre dale and Louie recuperiited in his Har vey. Ill., home (while revising the ntire handi before another middle- '-e.si (uur which brought him back lo the Paramount In July, There they ru.shed three weck.s lo make pictures in Hollywood. "Swing Parade of 1916" and "Breakfast In Hollywood." In "Swing Parade. * Louie sings hi? new tune "Don't Worry Bout That Mule." written by his new pianist. Rill Davis. On the r*Next Door“ MR, JORDAN recorded with Bing Crosby "My Baby Said Yes” and the combina tion "(xplodvd the music indus try." He gave special altcrnoon con- ert.s lor teen ugen- at their Teen Age Clubs. As a result, he became heir King of the Bobby Sox Bri gade. Hi7 transcribed radio-show Here Comts Mr, Louis Jordan" ij ■ne of the first all-Ncbro transcrib ed radio shows ever *o be prcscni- cd on the airlanes. On each show he has a gue.si star, a Dccca record- ng artist such a> Ella Fitzgerald. Mills Brothers. Della Rhythm Boys, Ink Spots, etc. One of the best things Jordan did recently for Jordan fans wr.j to give them "Caidonia." the juke box favorite. It was I illoweri by the film fcriturcttc bn.sod on the same name "Caidonia." The picture itself after acting and singing, the; is filled with the maestro's unique entire crew working nn the picture, treatmcnl nf jive tunes, comedy and broke out to npplaude Jordan'.- tal-jthe love stuff Costing $39,000 to onts. 1 produce. "Caidonia" is now touring From California tc his annual theatres over the country and 1* Texas four and then *o New York vying G") exceed the popularity nf for the Zanzibar opening. Rut those the song hit. ar** just facts On ’he side. Jordan So with these arcomph'hments in ——— the background. I.ouis Jordan steps ^ I ahead fo .sandwich in even bigger By deeds before the New Year is here I; gain. And so its seem true that' good ‘hings come in small packages and the bigger tittle package rf music and pt’'''''tainment world usually exp* fs a. Louis Jnidan'.' Tympany hits. ' . . V- . - ‘ The Alabama Cat.s liked the Be- thi ne-Cookmun Tigers and the • . rdlender of the Alabama State C.'llegianf won the heart of Flossie who lays thal then she was "just u -lirt " F'c.'ir years intervened before 'hey were married. During that lime, she finished Junior College and mujoilng In education, taught ■or a V! ar in a l iotou.s eighth grade class. Erskine. a Birmingh.-im boy. ftnithed .3 years at Alabama State and was teaching in the music de partment when he organized his own band The Hawkins’ eloped tn New York where they wire so quiet ly married that not even the fami ly knew of it for a year :»*• had no more than I had ' 'vhen we married." tells Mrs, Haw kins, "and that was nothnlg. But when you're young, you'll take any kind of chance.” Before the band got its first break, thejf had to eat. It was Flos sie who came to the rescue as hat- check girl. When Hawkins’ hot crew opened at the hist iric Har lem Oiiera Hou.se. the two celebrat ed and “we're still celebratin'.*!" B'- being good comrades, their lov, nns lasted these 9 years. Flos sie prides herself op liking the same things ho docs. They bowl, pl.ay tennis, ride a hike together and they go in one'movie, stop tn fie a native Californum will cov er the cinema field and .also dis patch general features and new.* It T"d Yates Piihlications from that point. Last month IP.S extended Its coverage In While publications which natur.-illy means that IPS is ^tho only news gathering in the ‘ielri thal has no color bar. "Ers-kine"! He culls her "apple dumplin" which she doesn't like mentioned before company. As his number oio critic, therein lies Mtk. Hawkins' chief job. She iiears every new vocalist and her 'pinion is the deciding one. She never tires of his music and can stand his practicini! hours -in end. There’s a lot to the job of being an orchestra leader's wife but Flos- fie Hawkins has no intention of giv ing it up! Hampton liistiliife An nounces Musical Art Series I HAMPTON INSTITUTE,. Va. — ! “Rigoletto." Giu.s.seppe V'erdi's fS- , mous epera. will open the 1943- I 1946 series of the Mu.'ica] Art So- .riety at Hampton In.stuute on Wed nesday evening. November 7. Don A Davis, chuiriman of the .society un- .nnunced recently He said that de- I tailed announcomenf.s of the series will be issued shortly to patrons ' f . the society. According to Mr. Davis, the Charlc.s L Wagner company is ' bringing Vc’'dl's ma.sferpiccc to Og den Hull, with a cast of well-known ' njaerutic singers from th'* Metropo litan, the Chicago City Opera, and the New Ojie/a Company. Paul Breisach and Dt -ire Ucfrere, both nf the Meirop-ilUnn, will be music « ircct ir and stage riircctor, respec tively Scrond artist in the Hampton ser ies this yeni will he Igor Conn, baritnni, wno is well known as a TAN TOPICS By CH4Rlf5 AltEN “1 Know ^vnu'ri proi' 1 al Junior's pespii think —i" First Novel Wins Metro- Goldwvn-Mavcr Award For 194.1 The second Metro-Ooldwyn-May- or Annual Novel Award has been won by Elizabeth Metzger Howard with her fir.st full-length novel. "Before The Sun G-CS Down." to be published by Dnublcduy. Doran and Company. By the terms of the Award the author receives a mini mum sum of $12.5.000 with a pos.si- ble additional payment of $.50,000 contingent upon book sales. A pay ment of $25,000 will be made to the publLshcrs. Motion picture and al lied rights are assumed by Metro- Ooldwyn-Maver. The winning novel, described "a many peopled stoiy rif a small PeTinsylvania town in the 1R80'.«.' aho be.tr'- the distin-tion of having '* won Doublcday, Doran and Com-^ pany's $20,000 Novel Co'nfesf. as re- ' e.-ntlv inn.juneed. IPS Soon To Onen West fiOast Office NEW YORK ‘IPSi — Laurie Maefic. recently appointed associate editor of the Indooendent Press but ...iKhi '.'■“•r*'.''’ >■'"" '' *- ■—k *ui H-lii','. usa w-Ai-Xurraa. ia * epea up a branch office. Miss Mae- \,cii ic atiu me new Kminuui iiuusv as Fredi Washingten of PV put is, Snv.-inn.ah Churchill a’l done up in new hair-do. new gowns and sup posed-to-be new name. . . She's to be the second Lena Hume. NOT ONl.Y does Randolph Dun- bur conduct the music by William Grant Still in Europe end cause alt the daily press to look around, but Louis Kaufman out ir. Holywood, brilliant American violinist, who is equally well known as un interpre ter of the clasl.c masters and as :i pioneer for the cause of the Ameri can ci’miMjser will give a world radio premiere of Still's "Suit for Violin nnd Orchestra" on the spitc- lal War Chest broadcast of the Standard Symphony Hour over NBC September 23rd. The suite is dedicated to Kiiufmaii and his wife and wa.s suggested by works of art of three famous Negrr artists, Rich mond Barthe, Sargant Johnson and Ainmsta Savage. SOMEBODY NEEDS to teach ScUlptres Selmo Burke of Green- which Village a few lessons on how to threat the Negro Press. . Tulciit is all well and good but unless yuu know tact and diplomacy, a person can’t ever be REALLY great. Miss Burke's bronze plaque of the late FDR will bo unveiled by President Truman in memorial services in Wa.shington September 24lh. It was done with approval of both Mrs. Roosevelt nnd the Washnigton Fine Arts Commission . But when ask ed to tell her story t • the Negro Pre.s-s, Miss Burke said fn the phone. "I'm not in tHe least concerned,” 'and hung up . . . She sould well learn a lesson from the man sho s-ulplured. FDR. one of the great- ■ est nf all diplomats. . . Incidentally. Billy Conn asked Mike Jacobs on zMvirning from ovcr.'-eas "How.'s Joe” You’ve got to keep him hap- ny until I get m the ring with him!" :.'puh-r radio artist as well as un opera and concert headliner. He ■ill sms in Ouden Hall on th»- vening 'if Satiird;iy. December B. i:nrt will b" followed on Monday. Janu.ory 1^ by Luboshutz and .s’onunoff. ■•elebrati'd duo-pianists. Mailun Anderson, world-famous roiiiraltn. will be presented bv the Musical Art .Society on Wednesday. M.ireh 20. while Charle-s tyeidman and hi*- dance company will con- • lude the scries nn Thursday. April IL Seed grain on a Sampson County farm lrealc*'b with Ceresan and bagged was free of weevils while ■ ''ther grain was practically destroy ed. Stored grain is treated with car bon bisulphide for weevil control. I i.eorge wr.ne was staging his "Scan- ! dills of 19'22," the .«h*iw *hat feu ' lured Ger-hwin'*' famous hit tune. **Xady Be Good." Ferde Grofe comp«i«er of the fi mous "Grand Canyon Suite" was orchestrating s6me of the music When George Gershwin heard hi? orchestration o* "Pasrlnitlng Rhy Ihm" he knetv it wouldn't do. So h* went uptown to Harlem ane* got Will Vori.-ey who produced .. ar- ••aiigemenl suitable to the synco pated tempo of the s.)ng .Nfler that he used Vodrey's urringomenls on m.-»ny ulhi-r songs. In speaking of his br dher's unsuc- ■e'sfiil blues number. "I3.5th Streut B!' es" whirh he wrote for ' ne of Oeiirge White’s shows. Ira remein- •101 s that when the famous actress Norn Raves siiw and ' - ard it. she was so moved she cried openly This number is reproduced in •Rhapsody in Blue” | Tra also revealed that .\l Jol-inn 1 wanlcd to do the r-ale .if Porgy after Oiorge finished the score of Por- gy and Bess" They derided th it •in all-Negro cast would be better and so the part went to Todd Dun can. The one thing Ira didn't say that was very .-inna’'eni w.is that, as in the picture "Rhapsody m Blue." he was. and still remains America's number one George Gershwin fan. iriuiiiiu nun aiiiy nose vowea tnat •he original troupe would not he ■liinlicated Now that the war is ver. trgnsporiition and man-pow er condition; eased, fabricating an- liber St appevB lees difficult tn Cnicago for the premiere' Rote. Dscar Hammerstein II, Hhsrjrr* Short and Charles Friedman mulled • irloa of a r-pllca when that pro- iu-*ion goes to London In the .■=pring. I* has been the ordinal Intention ■f sending the present company on 'our if the United States and Cana da -it the end of its Chicago run. Only New York. Boston. Philadel- nhia. Cleveland and east of the Rocky Mountains have previously 'een the show Australia. South Af rica and South America have alto been obliging the tempestuous gal from Muth of Cairo. Ro-e flgtires that if he attempted i> fill all demands with the one iitfit his tenors would be better fitted to play De Lawd In "Green P.astures” than the youthful Joe with whom Carmen raises so much hob. by the time the last booking had been :>layed. The first tr-aining program for 4-H neighhomood leaders to assist Ir club work was held reeentlv .« C-imp Millstone by the State Collegi Fv'.ension Service. 1.^*' . ZW'fV AND TUL.^ h ..tn « mvMol y J' ,• eory ip«(te«vlar S.Z.S_AKALL - Repn^ Gimbnat ^ IMNt’oiMMmGS ■ KORoTtSStL 'Nev;-. ..lind Mi.-: [ j^-t LiuuJ iL.i I iljr, that I'v. hid you io:,king for sU diy, right on my desk.” j
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