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tured is a scene from “77ie C/ass Menagerie,” presented by the
Stint Augustine's College Players recently. This presentation
compared favorably with the New York production, according
to critics who have had the privilege of seeing both presentations.
The two characters pictured are: Herbert Silas and Miss Dianne
Harris.
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Includes Solomon Burke, Mary Wells, Others:
Jackie “Moms” Mabley Headlines Big
Show At Dorton Arena, Friday Mar. 13
Com* Friday night, March 13th
Jackie “Moma” Mabley will head
line Hie east of a Bis-Show-Pack
age at the J. S. Dorton Arena. Bill
ed as The Jackie “Moms" Show,
“Moms” will co-star with Martha
and The Vandellaa, Mary Wells,
Solomon Burke and Chuck Jack
son. Other top stars to appear in
clude; Rufus Thomas, of "Can Your
Monkey Do The Dog" fame; Tom
my Tucker with "Hi-Heel Sneak
ers”; plus Leo Price and his mag
nificent recording orchestra.
This data at the J. 8. Der
ton Arena ea Friday night,
March 15th, is die eaty date to
be played by thk ahek in east
ern North Carolina. Doers of
the arena will open at 7 p.a.
with the show sot to hit at
8:13 sharp. Beast rad seat tic
kets are new on sale at Thiem’s
Record Shop and Hamlin Drag
in Raleigh.
The story of Jackie "Moms” Mab
ley is, in large measure, the story
of the Negro's contribution to the
world of entertainment during the
last three decades. She is one of
America’s outstanding comediennes
and by far the best known, the
most talented, of a group of Amer
icans who have helped the entire
world to laugh and to sing.
Bora in North Carolina
Jackie was born in North
Carolina as Loretta Mary Aik
en, and attended high school in
the city of Brevard. Her career
hi show business started it the
tender age of 14 when she Join
ed a troupe with Henry Bow
man and Tim Moore. She ap
peared In a sketch entitled The
Sick Aunt from Utah” which
tonred the old TOBA circuit.
Her first New York engagement
oegan at the famous Connie's Inn
in 1923, where she appeared for
three successive years. Her next
important engagement was in
“Swinging the Dream” at the Cen-
Maxine Sullivan. Benny Goodman,
and the Don Vorhees band. She
was both comedienne and aerobat
ic dancer. Then followed engage
ments with Drake and Walker and
the Whitman Sisters.
Her theater and night dub en
gagements included sketches with
many of the most famous Negro
comedians of a bygone ere—John
Mason, Dusty Fletcher, and Mar
shall Rogers. Her good-natured,
philosophical bantering was unique
and original. Louis Prims, Duke El
lington, Cab Calloway, Count Basie,
Jimmie Lunceford, and other not
ed bandleeders mado dialogues
JACKIE "MOMS’ MABLEY
with her important parts of their
presentations. She struck up close
personal relationships with Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Sdphie Tucker,
and other celebrities.
Jsckie credits the best part of
her professional training to Butter
beans and Susie and to the late
Bunny Bell Drew. On the records
of Harlem's famed Apollo Theater
lng made more appearances than
sfny other artist Her comedy is
homespun, down to earth, and con
tains a great deal of wholesome ad
vice and comment which has en
deared her to countless thousands.
So come Friday night, March
13th, and Jsckie "Moma" Mab
ley will thrill you at the J. 8.
Dorton Arena along with Mar
tha and The Vandellaa, of “Live
Wire* ’and "Heat Wave” fame;
Mary Wells singing "What's
Easy for Two In So Hard for
One"; Solomon Burke with
"Hell Have to Oof and "If
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A* Wrtir«i m 4. i<<(W>inc. pMk mt*r Sam pmT
You Need Me”; Chuck Jackson
wtth "Any Day Now"; Rufus
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Personnel: Gordon, tenor saxo
phone; Bud Powell, piano; Pierre
Michelot, bass; Kenny Clarke,
drums.
In the years preceding the Amer
ican Revolution, the General As
sembly authorized a group of high
ways radiating from Cross Creek
(now Fayetteville) to the back
country.
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“Great Mr. B.” Invited
LOS ANGELES (ANP)—Singer
Billy Eckstine had been Invited by
the wife of President Lyndon B.
Johnson to appear in e March g
benefit in New York for the Elea
nor Roosevelt Foundation.
Tha program is set for Lincoln
Center and also featured will be the
100-piece New York Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by Leonard
Bernstein.
Rokattae k staled to perform
Now Being HELD OVER Don't Mist It!
Elizabeth Taylor • Richard Burton
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Betadtae standards.
The ringer will Interrupt his cur
rent engagement at HUrruhb Ctat
In Reno, Nev, in order to make
the apperance on tha Etaanot
Roosevelt Foundation Consort
which will benefit retarded child
ren.
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