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SATURDAY, MAY 22nd, 1943 BUY WAR BONDS TODAY! THE CAROLINA TIMES BUY WAR B0ND6! l»A6iai¥pt ENTERTAINMENT WORLD Brown Heard Recital Around The Town WITH LIN HOLLOWAY MARY POTTER’S PIED-PIPERS How you like to see a bnnJ directed by a young lady who was formerly held prisoner by the ruthless Hitler henchmen in one of his old dilapidated con centration camps which always play host to a bunch of over sized rats. In the Oerinan con centration camps all that a per son has to (Sat is a bowl ol messy mush aivJ a piece of bijr, black bread. Wouldu!t you like to See a band directed by a tiful young lady who has uadei- gone this kind of punishment? You will not have to wait verv lonp to witness this spectncle. In fact on the 28th day of May in the year 1943 which is now upon us. Miss Valadia Snow will come to Durham in the City Armory directing the Sfinset Royal Orchestra. The Sunset Royal band was formery under the direction of Doc Wheeler and the band came to Durham before with the Inkspots in two former engagements. Don’t forget the time and place, Dhrham City Armoryt'oo Friday May 28 to*Soo a ladytv'ho waa.forif^^riy inmah' in a German Concentration camp, leading one of the great est bands in America. The dance is another Lath Alston presenta tion. The wind sings its nocturna serenade in the branches of the trees which are rapidly garbln?: in their spring togs of green. The birds twHtter sweetly tbeii' songs of love and spring from the tree-tops. The grass burst forth from its long-winter’s sleep to shade the young flowers f-om the warm, soothing rays of the bright sun. All the world is clotheed in radiant beauty. But in the- midst of all this be.vuty, there is sorrow every day, buys are marching away from theiv mother’s sides to join in fitjht for libeFEv •lur not ~We must let them fight in vain. We cun do much to speed their return. We can buy defense stamps and bonds. We can batter those ratters ’til thoir heads get flatter by putting our money the hands of our great govern ment to be used to supply oui fighting forces with the imph- ments of modern'warfare. I.ot’^ do our share to speed the d.iy of* the victory when the world jjgain be a free place for people. BUY WAR STAMPS AND BONDS! SEEN ON THE STROLL AVhile walking along mindn nobody in particular’s iusines.*:, your truly was struck aghast on seeing one of tb*> chicks who most indefinitely ha- bitates the block "ome tearing out of the pool-parlor and stdk * at a gent with a cutting utensM that was about two-third n isty. Seems as though ho had accused her of borrowing without askinj? the permission of the, owner (that’s the glossy way of saying, stealin) w'hen Your scribe sun the chick strike, he struck also, ,he "struck out in the other direc-1 tion. While on the stroll signs advertising the Blue Ribbon Show were seen in the most un expected places. Included In the lineup of the Blue Ribbon en tertainment unit are such favori tes as Jive-mnn, Ralph Cooper, Rarl Hines and his Orchestra. Louis Jordan and his tympanny fi^e and a complete roster Of screen, stage and radio favorites. This entire crew exhibited itf> talents in Raleih^at the Memor- j ini AuditOMum on Tuesday, May 11 and will hold forth from the spacious Ballroom of the Durha’u City Armory on Friday, May li3. The price is right and the show Is right so we’ll all be there. Sarah Vaughn and Billy E.sk- Hne and Ivouis Jordan will be ii. rharge of the singing chores with their respective orcherial unts So the nite will be filled 'wild music and song will be the or der of' the hour. I r Music lovers in North Caro lina have acclaimed the above group of youngsters who com prise^ the musical aggregation known as the “Pied Pipers” of Mary Potter Academy located in the town of Oxford. Under the direction of Pi'of. Hamlet. K. Ooore who also directs thi institution’s band, these youth ful swingsters have made rapid progress. Last Sifturday even ing they played for the formal dance given by the Sphinx Club of the Alpha Phi Alpha PratiT- nity at the North Carolina Coll ege in Durham. Members o( the orchestra pictured here nic, Marshall Colston, Richard Shep ard, Herman Amis, Herumu Di^ris, Jr., William Smith, De- lores McMillan, (piano) Hirob. Boyd, Emmanuel Patterson; Ernest Rogers and Gloria John son, vocalists. ‘ NCCJS Students Master Dif/icult lumbers In Graduation Recital □□□□□□□□□□□□ Looking Around Harlem BT DON DeLBIOHBUK The Bull City NUe Hawks w» re in the well-paled hole the other nite when they were playing for the local High school Garden Party fo&r'l/whilo The Hawks were trying their test to please the publii: jtfith two seini atna"- teur brass-men in their line-up. Everything seemed to be going bad for the Frank "Wright m-’n aged crew until the navy appear ed on the scene to take* the matter in hand. The cats start ed jumping when Prof. Cole draped his massive frame 0\«0‘ keyboard, Trumpetman COMING tunMt Rojral Orchestra LATH ALSTON PRESENTS:-: VALAIDA XNCW SUNSET TOALmHESTRA DURHAM ARMORY FRIDAY, MAY 2§th, 1943 Doors C^en 8 P. M. ’Til ADVANCE TICKETS 85c Broadcasts WDNC Sunday and Friday Tate picked up his horn and be gan to blow and the rest of the navy-white clad musicians took their correct places in the line up. From that time on, thers was no stopping the Havks, and they swung some niight,\ fine jive till the wee-wee hours of the dawn. Hargraves knocked the bugs out with his fine sax- wailing. This lad uses his enrirc body to bring forth melody from his toot-box, especially his stomach. ’ THE SULTANS AUD THE SERVICE The old saying is that every thing must come to a stop. P. took an entire war to bring th'‘ fine jive-^slingipg of the Kemp Long version of the Southland Sultans to a stop. Most all of the original ci'ew is in the .lim ed forces or in the defense in dustries. The erstwhile le.adev, Kemp Long is now an M. P. at* Fprt Dix. James (Papa) Hedge peth is in the army somewhei'j in T-ennesee.’ Pap was a trom bonist in the orch. James (Bear) Thoomer is now in the calvary in Texas. He was featured alto sax-man. Abe Graham, drumm«r for the Sultans is now enc.amp- ed in New Jersey, home, bass-fiddler is some where with the 99th Pursuit Squadron. John (Horseface'' Holloway, Jr., tenor saxophoni'^t is, a new member of the a^med forces at FortfBragg in deflr old North Carolina. Henry E3monds pianist is in defense work ni Washington. Dck Judkins, also of the.sax-crew is n the • navy band at" Chapel Hill. Dick Peetek is in the army somewhere itii maueuvres. Silas James of thi reed department is also in thr navy band at Chapel Hill. All ^at is left-of-the original is yours truly B. Lin H., who is expecting an invitation from Uncle ^am any day and then the entire line-up of the Southland Sultans will be swinging for vic tory. DRAPEr«?rr^5 COATS PANTS won MIN MVtAMB WOMIN -i t - ■■l'-. ■aKtr-, - CATALOeUI NATIONAL CLOTHING CO, -*€Oe-n S» ASH LAND AVM, CHICAGO, iLL, r (Jitti SpeCiaSiM') ROUTES INTERNATIONAL SWBET- HEAETS OF KHYTHM May 21 Suffolk, Va May 22 Portsmouth, Va May 23 .... Washington, D. C, May 24 Baltimore, >ld May 25 Alexandria, Vs. May 26 Cambridge, Md May 27 Middletown, Del May 28 Wilmington, N. J. ,iBROWNSKIN MODELS AND barney JOHNSON’S BAND Week of May 22-29 Globe Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio skoOKUM BUSSELL AND HIS OBOHES'TRA Week of May 21-28 ... Scott’s Theatre Restuarant, Kansas City, Mo^ OEMB POPE AND HIS OEOHESTBA Week of May 21-28 .... Stein’s Buffet Bar, Indpls, Ind. CAROLINA CO'TTON PIOKEES ORCHESTRA May 21 Monroe, La. May 22 Joplin, Mo. May 2S Wichita, Kunse.s May 26 Junction City, Kim. May 27 Tulsa, Okia. May 28 Kansas City, Mo. CHRISTINE 0H4TMAN AND HER ORCHBSTRA May 21-22 Monroe, La. May 23 New Oreans. La. May 2o Pascagoula, Mis^. May 26 ....... Pensacola, Fla. May 28 .... Hattiesburg, Miss. RUPERT HARRIS AND HIS ORCHESTRA Week of May 2’-28 Club Plantation, Nashville, Tenn. NEW YORK — There has been a lot of discussion in the back rooms around Harlem as to whe ther the cabaret operator in the Big Apple is on a par in thinking and in the methods he employs with the fellows who run the joints in big cities like Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland. St. Louis, LoS Angeles, and other places. The question is a serious one because it involves enter tainment values and hinges «n the all important axis as to what is the future of Negr.> show business. To get to the, bottom of aueh a discussion, one would 'I'tve to study and ^ake into consider ation certain factors and 3oni ponents that go to make a reslly bi4pjtinn^‘'’llight(rlub or cabaret, "^^ere’s the question of ^bands, of name entertainers, of promlc crs, of song writers, costuniin and so on. A big name producer working on a show that will use a little known orchestra brings r up one situation, and a revac that uses an unkown producer or someone out of the chorus lo do that job and has all sorts of fancy costuming and no'nanve band or attraction is another. In Harlem the principal night clubs are Murrain’s Lounge and Cabaret, Smalls Paradise, au’i the Elks Rendezvous. The plac es get tlje lion’s share of the the nightlife trade and are larq;o enough to support top flic;Iit revues, orchestras and ii:une en tertainers. In Chicngo Ihf Rhumboogie Cafe and the De- Lisa are the top spots. Detroit the Club Congo, TTie Club Zombie and the Three Sixes, re ported to have been close lest week, are the no, niterie? Washington, D. C. with its over flowing crowds of war workers, has the Crystal Caverns and the new Club Bali as its principal spots while the Plantation Qlult is St. Louis’ main attraction. The late Leonard HarjK'r, one of the top producers of the generation, had most of the Harlem business locked up. ITp had hiS' revue in Smalls, in Murrain’s and the Elks Rendez vous. Harper in his. latter had it hard and in convinei.ig tight fisted club owners th ‘ value of talent, had in most instances to take low on nearly every issue. Consequently, few really names got into tli? •lubs where his shows were o;i display. The Elks Rendez vous, operat ed by an Italian, Johnny Barone, in the old days went all out tor top names in show life. Barone, who is now in the Army an! who left his business in the SAYING YES r* r* r/U vt Ttme Wtf tumf Alkrnm MEANS: Rapaying th* Japs for Poarl Harbor by tho vic tories at Midway, th« CoNi( Sea and tlio Solo- mons. Aid to Enemy "Any American who wilfully neglects to pay his taxes cm time or to invest every cent he can in War Bonds is siurely giv ing aid and comfort 4o> the enemy . . . We have a job to do and we are all called for service to our country. Our doUars are called to service too. Let us all ask;ourselves, ‘Shall we be mere teader wltti onr doUar« tbaa with the Uvea of OUT sons?* " — Secretary Morgentbau. care of Danny (Prince of foyt Henry, a Negro, made it a prac tice of buying such acts as thi Berry Brothers, Valda, Flash and Dash, Ralph Cooper, Barrington Guy, Willie Bryaur, Pigmeat Markham, Edna Mie Harris, Claudia MccXeil, Bever ly White and others. The small confines of the Rendezvons e.'i- 'hiiinated the possibility of its supporting a big name band, but Louis Jordan got his start on the bigtime there. , Barone also bought time on the radio and had broadcasts nig’htly. ^ Smalls in late years hasn^ feautred big names either in bands or in its entertainment. Edna Mae Holly, Norton and Norton and a few others te- preqents the tops it has attoio- ed in this reapect. OnCi: r«aBua is that Small is a Harlem ^?nd- mark and it^ bar does a tremen dous business all way and all night. Consequenty the pk'je doesn’t have to depend upon topnotch enterttainment to sur vive. Murrian’s, which is Bill Ro binson’s old Mimo Club, stirte 1 out with a bang headlining Ra lph Cooper, Eddie Rector and an all-atar supporting cast with Chris Columbus’ hard hitting orchestra. Murrain, an old time bar and grill owner, but making his first venture in the nig>it- life and entertainment field, bought acts right and left, in cluding Jimmy Smith, the boy who dances atop an xylophone; Margaret Wattlnsn; Norton and Norton, Babe Wallace, Wilhe Bryant, Thompson and Johnson, the dancers, and others. As yet, no Harlem club has hired a name orchestra, althoagQ Smalls and Murrain’s can ac comodate such bands as Count Basie, Cootie Williams, aiid others which aren’t embellished with revue units sneh as Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton and Karl Hines. On the other h&nu, the Rhumboogie in Chicago .s loing turnaway business ' with Piny Bradshaw and his band.and a revue headed by the Edward Sister, Bobby and Foster John son and the dynamic Harlem shake daneer, Verida LaSalle, the '■lub Congo in Detroit has h.-id Rradshaw, the Ink Spots and similar high price bigtime acts Other clubs have sliown a similar JOIN THE Democnttic The South Greatest Membef^^ Social Chib Beer - Wine - Cteopgne I ^07'Fayetteville St, JUDGE F. K. ■ 5 * ■ if ^ 1 r MY UN aOLLOWAT THSAVBIOAL KDITOK On Friday, ‘May 14, l»t3, tht North Carolina College Depai-t- ment of llMie presented the fradnation recital of AOen Or lando Brown, pianist. A native Xorth Carolinian, Brown .*ias been noted in the arasie ficM since his earlier hip^ s.-hoot days. Nearly eighteen yeara oi age he has mastered aom^ of the most complicated compoeH tions of the Great Masters^' Iih- dudfed in his extensive repctoire. Brown has sonie of tfle ino't intricate compositions of Bach, Chopin, Liszt and other eompov- ers of like ealibre. The immae-;i- Intness 'of Brown’s.» poi* ami grace at th^ keyboard was phically illustrative of the car« and attention students in the music departments at North rCa^lina receive, T^' complet* pfb^amme in ii^uded; Birh’s Tomato in D Schuny man'’s SoAata, Bfahnii intermez^ Op. 08 in E,. minor, Chopin’s Nocturne, "Op. 62 in B flat Major, the Scherzo movement from Chopin's Op.'20 in B Minor, Liszt’s Dance of the Onootes, DeBussy's Reflre- tions in the Water and Abra ham 'Chasin’s Rush Hour m Hong Kong. m inclination to buy the be»t on the market. ^ The producers operatiag in the Harlem area are LJeweliy^ Crawford, protege of Leonard Harper, Charley Davis, old tim er, now workingr in spots at the Apollo Theatre; and CliarJey Morrison, Sammy Dyer of Ch-- cago*s protege. Crawford !u> (Continue on Paire Ei^ii) Behind The Hay- It is not too ranch of an tf-" fort of the real baseball en thusiast to forget t.hf who!? bigness and buy his bleacher seat for the Cardinal-CKanft game, the Yankee-Indian tilt, or even buy a box seat for a between the Pirates and Philli es. Baseball has no eolor lins in the customer side of t&e equa tion. Despite contrary agitation. Negro fans make up a bi^ pert of the take at various major lea gue parks. Notice how they jam in Odf- fith Stadium in Washingluin aci at the Polo Grounds in Ne^r York? Well, these fans arwi’t too much Interested in the gpadv version of the pastime to with if they’ve got to liskea aed read a lot of popycock an4 blinded by a smoke screen tkjit obtains in the midst of a posedly well established basinca« proposition such as Negro Wise- hall is believed to be to^Mcr. ...
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