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★ Theatricals * APPEAR IN COURT A/rs. Gloria Goelet (left), wife us society jazz drummer Robert Goelet, Jr , and singer Charlene Chapman (right) are shown as they appeared in Felony Court in New York last week. Mis. s Chapman, her face full of bruises, has accused Mrs. Goelet of having lent a helping hand to Negro drummer Percell (Sonny) Payne in an alleged attack cn the at tractive singer. (UPI PHOTO). Basie’s Drummer Charged in Assault On Singer NEW YORK (ANP) Sonny Payne, ace drummer with the Count Basie orchestra, was in court here last week to answer charges that he beat and raped a shapely opera singer at a wild pary in 'he plush East Side apartment of Rob ert Goelet, society playboy and heir to a $75 million fortune. The arrest of Payne touched off a sizzling scandal in society circles here and in Newport because of the wealth and prominence of Goelet's family. Sonny was arrested and held in SSOO bail on he rape char ges. Prior to the hearing last week, he had made a preliminary court appearance, at which Basie was present. Filing the charges asainst him was attractive and shapely Charlene Chapman, a divorcee and mother of a 16-vear-old son. Her charges against Payne seemed incredible on their face value, and were follow ed by rumois that “huge sums of money had been spent by an un named person" to suppress (he name of another woman involved. Miss Chapman, wno is white, charged that Payne raped her at the party while another woman held her to make sure the act was performed. She told police she whs invited to the party at Goelet's a partment along with several other persons to listen to records. Instead she charges, the woman who invit ed her helped hold her while she was beaten and raped by Payne. This was the woman whose name was not disclosed following the ar rest It was also not known if Goelet was at the apartment at the time of the alleged attack; what type of music was played at the party, or whether any of Basie's records feat uring Payne were put on the turn table. Goelet is a friend and admir er of Payne. Newspaper reporters also were unable to learn whether Goelet’s wife was present, or if she had hosted the ill-fated party. According to Miss Chapman’s tes timony, Payne had cast a covetous eye on her and actually marie ad vances toward her. When she re sisted his advances, she stated, the drummer struck her in the body with his fists and slapped her face. MED TEjDH HER CHOICE Wtes Mae H. Yonmy, nf Wash ington, B, C., who will be a senior at Bennett College, Greensboro, in the fall, plans a career as a medical technologist. | It was then that the other wo man moved in, grabbed her and j handled her with such force that | she struck her head against the : headboard of a bed. She continued to hold her while the raping took place. Miss Chapman further charg -1 cd. Meanwhile, the case i ought a bout stv ml hitherto hush-hush disclosuies about the playbo activi ies of Goelet. One was that he once eloped with and'married a sultry i beautician According to the confi ; dential report, the thrice-married ' Goelet had met and fallen in love with Gloria Green, described a: a j classy-looking, light-skinned Negro ! while he was still with his second I wife. Lynn Me: rick, ar actress He reportedly romanced Miss i Green for three years before the ; elopement, taking her to plush ho tels owned by the Goelet familv at ’ Miami Eeach fiom which Negroes were barred, and dared anyone to i bar her. He was also reported to have i made several public appearances with his tan sweetheart and openly j professed his love for her. The mar -1 ,-iage to Miss Green, however, e- I ventually resulted in his ouster ! from the "Social Register”. It is not known when he and Miss Green ' were divorced. Goelet's first wife was Jane Monroe of Boston, who - divorced him in 1946. Meanwhile, Goelet's fondness for j jazz anci drumming had also gotten ; him into hot water with his father. A lover of jazz since college days, | young Goelet had embarked on a 1 iazz career and became a drummer in the Gene Kritpa orchestra. He quit, however, after his father threatened to disinherit him. He then embarked on a movie-produc i ing venture, financed by his fath i er Robert Goelet. Jr., is a member of one of the nation’s leading blue ' blood families. It was learned that ; his late great-aunt was Mrs. Cor nelius Vanderbilt. His. father, Rob i ert, Sr., of Newport. (R. 1.1 and New York, founded a sprawling | real esiate empire which includes skyscrapers in New York and lux ury resorts throughout. Florida. His j grandmother, Mrs. Ogden Goelet, j is known as the queen of Newport j society. Malaria Hits African Entry To Miss Universe MIAMI (ANP) -- Gilete Hazou -1 me, 19-year-old Miss Universe con testant fiom the African Republic of Dahomey, was suffering from malaria and had only a 50-50 chance j of appearing in the pageant. Philip Bottfield, executive direc tor of the pageant, said he received j the report on Miss Hazoume after i she was examined at Mount Sinai hospital. The young woman complained oi being ill when she arrived in New i York, Bottfield said, and was in ; worse condition when she arrived j in Miami. Negro Composer Dies At 61 LOS ANGELES (ANP) Mrs. Mary E. Baker, composer of the j famous hymn, “When Mother Pray- j ed”, died recently and was honor- I ed posthumously for her work in ! religious and civil fields. She was i 81. The veteran church woman died ! in Elsinore, Calif., where she had Jived since leaving Los Angeles. Born in Americus, Ga., she came to Los Angeles in 1910 and became affiliated with the New Hope Bap tist church here. In Elsinore she was a member of Independent, Church. Funeral services for Mrs. Baker were conducted at the Independent Church, which also passed a reso lution praising her fine Christian life and devoted service. Mrs. Bak er was the founder of Tabitha Col lage, a Christian welfare mission which she established in her Los Angeles home several years ago. The mission administered to the needy, regardless of race, creed or color. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS THE WEEK IN RECORDS BY ALBERT ANDERSON SINATRA DISK. CLASSICAL ENTRY TOP JAZZ FARE CHICAGO (ANP' - The fare this week ranges from ballads, as sung by Frank Sinatra, who needs no plugging here, to a recording of fine ciassicals, as sung by a 200- voice choir, to delightful and soul ful jazz music, as played by the Red. Garland trio,. Here is the score: “SINATRA SINGS. . . OF LOVE AND THINGS": Capitol LP (W --1729). Tunes: “Something Wonder ful Happens in Summe,” "Chicago," "Monique”, “I Love Paris" • "Mr. Success,” “The Moon Was Yellow”, "Sentimental Baby". ‘They Came to Cordura", 'Love Looks So Well on You" “The Nearness of You", “I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues” and “Hidden Persuasion.” Sinatra is of and in a class all by himself. That is who no other sing er has been able to expkh “The j Voice”. You get an idea of this | remarkable individual quality of j Sinatra by listening to these tracks j of assorted songs arranged especial ly for h : m by Nelson Riddle, Felix ; what stands out most, in this re ! Slatkin ar.d Skip Martin. . . For j cording apart from “Frankie j Boy'.-' soothing voice is the u nique manner in which he inter prets the songs, a mixture of stard , ards and originals. . . For example. :ie tells a beautiful love story of a nig, throbbing and gay city in "I Love Paris;’’ relates the hustle and bustle of the ' Windy City” in “Chi cago'', and vividly portrays the I heartaches and phatos of the blues, in 'I Gotta Right. . to name only j three o f his interpretations. "HALLELUJAH! and ether great j SACRED CHORUSES'”: - RCA Vie j tor LP featuring Robert Shaw and ! members of The Cleveland Orche -1 stra with a chorus oi 200 voices. Musical scores: “Hallelujah Chorus (from Handel's Messiah)”, “How Lovely Is Thy Duelling Place ta i German requiem by Brahms)”, j “Lacrimosa <a Mozart requiem)”, : "Kyrie (from Beethoven's Missa , Solemnis),” “The Heavens Are Tell ii % (Haydn)”. “He Watching Over Israel (Mendelssohn)”, "Credo (from Schubert’s Mas? in G)”, and . ‘Rest Well (from St Mattehew Pas pi on by Bacfu". j An eminent writer once describ ed the Hallelujah Chorus of Han del’s Messiah as sounding like “A chorus of angels, ranged tier upon tier in a gothic cathedral, with princes for audience. . . His state- I rr.ent was meant to convey the im pression of ten eloquence, gradeur and force of tne chorus. . . One gees this idea. also, oy listening to the chorus as sung by the integrated 290-voice chorus (composed of all races and national origins) on this j fine LP. While the chorus and orchestra | also excel on the other composi : tions, the Hallelujah is the finest score in the repertoire of “Sacred ! Choruses. . . As the introductory j number, it r.ct oaly gains and hold | the listener's attention, but relaxes j him for the other scores to follow . ! These include the more solemn and j prayerful “Kyrie" with its great | solos by soprano Sara Endich, con tralto Florence Kopleff and bass Thomas Paul, and the “Credo", (I Believe in God>, the traditional “profession of faith”, as expressed in the Mass worship . . Marked by the utmost in fine sound reproduc tion, this is one of the finest classi cal recordings experience which this LP provides. EXCELLENT. “THE NEARNESS OF YOU”: Jazzland Records LP (62). Person nel' Garland, piano; Larry Ridlev. bass: Frank Grant, drums. Tunes "Why Was I Born?”, “The Near ness of You”. “Where or When ’”, “Long Ago and Far AwayA “I Cor It Bad, and That Ain't. Good.” | "Don't Worry About Me," “Lush j Life,” “All Alone". This is a wonderful disk of old favorites served up in the unique soulful style of Garland, with a big assist from his two sidemen — I Ridley and Grant . So soulful and | meaningful, in fact, that this re ! view, so accustomed to listening to j such tracks, found himself, in a i sentimental mood. . . I especially , like Garland's piano chordings on the title tune, which is also the top tune. . . Grant’s subdued brush ! work and Ridley's background bass | work also adds considerably to the ; quality of the fare. . There have | been LPs designed for various moods, most of which reflected little resemblance of the music to the titles, blit this one is strikingly ap propriate, . . Here is music for cuddling, as the title cleaiiy im plies. . . DIG? Diahann Carrol! Pots Understudy On Talent Show NEW YORK (ANP) Diahann Carroll, star of the Broadway nit musical, “No" Strings”, scored a big hit on the “Talent Scouts" show here last week when she joined other guest celebrities in present ing nominees on the CBS Televi sion Network program. Miss Carroll’s nominee < /as VI Velasco, her understudy in 1 ie mu sical, who gave a fine demonstra tor. of her singing and acting abi lity. As guest star. Miss Carroll was herself outstanding. The talented and attractive Miss Carroll appeared on the TV pro gram along with such other guest celebrities »s Dave Garreway, te levision personality and singer Ab be Lane, The program was aired Tuesday. July 17, with Jim Backus as host. ‘Purlie Victorious ” Gains Critics Praise In Chicago CHICAGO (ANP) Ossie Da vis' “Furlie Victorious", a hilarious new comedy lampooning the segre gation problem and spotlighting Southern folklore, drew lusty prai ses from the usually severe Chica go critics after its opening per formance 3t the Edgewater Beach Playhouse last week. But the most lavish praises were reserved for t:,e man who doubles as playwright and leading actor in the play—Davis One critic, Roger Detlmeir of Chicago's American newspaper, who only a few months ago had lambasted “Kicks and Co", termed Davis “his own best friend as an actor." Also praising Davis' clever skii and top acting was Glenna Syse of the Chicago Bun-Times. Miss Syse termed the play “a wild and woolly cartoon”, and Davis portrayal of a self-styled Negro minister, "memo rable." C.’aude A. Bai nett, director of the Associated Negro Press, who saw the play when it. was present ed on opening night by the Chicago chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha frater nity for the benefit of the fraterni ty's scholarship fund, also came away with high praises for Davis, Davis, he ?aid “emerges as one if not the most accomplished fashion er of plays we (Negroes) have as a group produced, Barnett also prais ed the supporting actors, who in clude Ruby Dee, who in real life is Davis’ wife. “Puriie Victorious” has i* ; setting on a cotton plantation in Georgia, owned by ‘ OF Cap'n Cotchipee, who fculwhips his colored sharecroppers and can think of race relations on ly in terms of the Negro-in-his place approach. The- villainous role is played outstandingly by Sorre) BLOWING WILD Louis Armstrong swings out with a tune as the three-day, 1%2 Newport J&zz Festival drew to a close last week at Freebod v Park. The total attendance was announced as 32,500. (UPI TELEPHOTO). Saucer Godfrey Holder Calls Africans ‘Musics! Scphisto sales’ NEW YORK (ANP> The tend- I oncy es supposedly well-informed American overt? io continue to l view Africa as the “Dark Conti | nent" and to look down on African ■’udiences as unapnreciative nf first-rate entertainment has been | attacked bv Geoffrey Holder in a j feature aricle in + h= current is".;? |of Show, a magazine devoted to | the entertainment arts. An internationally famous danc j ft. cho'-eoeranher and painter. Holder described African audiences | as being “soohisticslf d ” and lashes | out at these supposedlv informed ! experts for persisting in thinking : it such audiences as cultural rubes. ; crateful for any second-rate enter ; tainment we may condescend to ; send to them. He cit-'d ‘he N cerians as notable examples of high Africa cultural taste. “They are anything but f ruber!” savs Holder in Show. "Both in music and dance, the Ni gerians are anybody's peer? They are sophisticated enough to de mand and appreciate the best in musk” Why, the have even laugh | ed The Twist right, our of existence | >n their country. Holder asserts. Holder bases his findings on the result of ids recent trip to Nigeria ns part of a troup of Negro artists and educators for a two-day arts festival in Lagos, the capita! city The troupe was dispatch; i by an j organization known as-the Ameri ; can Society of African Culture, which the magazine says, “should have known better.” “We put on a poor show”, Hold er reports, “and thev didn’t let us get away with it.” The individual acts that were outstanding, such as A! Hibbler Is Starring In West DENVER (ANPi AI Kibbler, buskv-voiced singer and a Duke Ellington alumnus, opened a limit ed engagement at Mnrv Wax’s Star light Lounge here last week. Currently traveling through the west, Hibbler is featuring here sev eral of the tunes he chlped to pop ularized while singing with the Ellington orchestra several years a go, as well as some of his most re cent hits. Blind since birth, Hibbler be came famous despite the handicap and rocketed to fame after Elling ton hired him as his vocalist. In re cent years Hibbler waxed such hits as “Unchained Melody", ‘‘They Say You're Laughing At Me”, and “He.” He quit the Ellington band in 1050 to work as a single. The U. S. Supreme Court, in May. 1959, upheld a lower court ruling that Louisiana's ban on integrated athletic contests, social functions and entertainments is unconstitu tional. Over 2 1-4 million men held driv ing or delivery jobs in 1960. moving passengers and good over miles of highways and city streets, accord ing to the “Occupational Outlooiv Hhandbook”, published by the U. S. Labor Department. Booke. who has been seen in such Broadway plays as "King Lear” and ‘Tinian's Rainbow”. Davis, whose last Broadway act ing role was in "A Raisin' in The Sun", plays the part of a Negro minister who comes home to Geor gia with big plans for acquiring "Big Bethel” church on the hill out side Waycross and to acquire an in heritance for his pueso-cousin, Lu» tiebeile Gussie Mae Jenkins (Ruby Dee), but runs into trouble from Oi' Cso’n Cotchipee. In between, ho jolts both races with comic bolts. Miss Dee also plays her role well, as do Godfrey M. Cambridge, who was nominated for the Antoinette Perry Award in acting during "Pur lie's" Broadway run, and who plays the part of a glorified “Uncle Tom" ar,d John Sillins, Ol' Cotchipee's in tegrated .tinted son. among others. The three-act play was penned by Davis to fulfill a life-long am bition. He? had become an actor, appearing on Broadway and Holly wood in such plays as “Jeb” and "Jamaica” and the films “No Way Out (with Sidney Poitier)”, in ord er to become a playwright He made his Broadway iebut s a playwright in “Purlis Victorious". The play ran on Broadway for nine months and came here direct from New York with, the Broadway cast. Davis is very familiar with the Waycross (Ga.) setting of his play. He was born there. After gradua tion from high school, however, he tiaveled on foot to Howard Univer sity, where he studied for his play wrighting career under Prof Alain L. Locke, Happily manned to Miss Dee. they have three children: Nora, 11; Guy, 9; and Luverne 5. those led by band leader Lionel Hampton and folk singer Odetta. for example, were well -eceived. he stated. But pretentious nonsense like “a 'ong. ambitious, solemn Uhuru iby Randy Weston) palling on Mo ther Africa to shake off her shack ! les and rise.” played to vnwns and 1 empty bleachers, Holder continu ed Said'Holder: I “Uhuru' and ‘Let My People Go’ may be strong stuff at Washington Square folk song uprisings, but in Nnigeria, 1962, freedom is some | thing they have. Cheerleaders from i Carnegie Hall, the don't need. I began to feel that cultural solida rity based on a dark complextion is about as real in Africa 1962 as it was among the light-eomplexion ed Germans and British in 1917. “Solidarity based on showman shir—the ham beneath the skin is all of us—is a little more lasting and real”, he concluded. Holder's article is featured in the July issue of Show. BACK FROM SOVIET TOUR —. Joya Shamil, vocalist with the Benny Goodman orchestra, waves at New York's Idle wild Air/yort last week, after arriving p : .th other members of the band aboard a Pan American jet clipper from Paris, joya drew raves from Soviet audiences for her singing of the Russian love song, “Katyusha." Benny Goodman himself is still in Europe, where he was scheduled to remain for another week. (JJPI PHO TO). CULTURAL EXCHANGE Hampton Institute students recently played hosts to a group of 6 foreign students and their ehaperones, touring United States colleges and universities under the auspich of the American Field Service. Stopping at Hampton over the past weekend, the students represented th far and Middle East, the Scandinavian and South American nations. Above, Hampton students Reg lanceyville, (left), and Carmille Parker, Rocky Mount, (right), demonstrate the newe* addition to young America’s own culture, the Twist, to Anisa Haji, Pakistan, (2nd from left), and H: noki Fukamaeki, Japan, (2nd from right), The AFS seeks to promote cultural exchanges and greate understanding between young people of all nations. Charles Byrd Trio To Give Concert At Virginia State PETERSBURG, Va. One of A merica's most highly regarded jazz groups, the Charles Byrd Trio, will appear at Virginia State College on July 30 at 3 p. m. as the summer feature of the Artists Recitals pro gram. The trio, consisting of Charles Byrd, guitarist, K ter Betts or: bass arid Bertel! Knox, drums, plays here after many successful appearances at Jazz Festivals throughout the country. A full length feature article in a recent issue of Down Beat Maga zine by Totn Scanlon, noted jazz authority, hailed Charles Byrd as a vital new direction in guitar and praised his ability to play equally Haiti’s Entry To Miss Universe Contest Curvssious, Talented MIAMI (ANP) A bronze beau ty with a near-perfect shape and a lot of talent to go with it. That description fits pert and lovely Fvelyne Mio. a 19-year-old charmer, who as Miss Haiti of 1.0- 62. is representing the island re public in the current Miss Uni verse beauty contest here Miss Miot arrived hce last week and immediately cnu<*ht the eves of the battery of scribes covering ♦he international parent which op ened last Sunday. The daughter of a Dr. Anfenor Miot. prominent Haitian orthopid ic usrgeon. Miss Mio is 5-fee, 3 in ches all and weighs 113 pounds Her vital statistics also include a 35-20- 35 measurement. A linguist, she speaks French, Spanish and Eng lish fluently and is an efficient sec retary who takes shorthand at 100 wferds a minute and types 32 words a minute. She is also a gnod danc er who is proficient a 4 doing The Twist. The Twist is very popular in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian cap ital. where Miss Mwt lives with her parents. In addition to her desire to win the Miss Universe contest. Miss has another life's ambition which is of special interest to her male ad mirers She wants a “good hus band, one who will love me and is sincere " One of nine children, she also loves children and thinks it's ■fun" to have a large family The curvscious beauty with a winsome smile is also a talented THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH. N. C„ SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1862 well, both the classical guitar and the highest type of jazz music. Byrd is known and rightly so. for his skill at playing jass on an unamplified concert guitar, finger style ino pick). And (Jus is not any kind of stunt or gimmick to obtain attention or record dates, as those who have heard him play can tell you. Byrd plays Jazz on the concert guitar with conviction. If nothing more, he is proving to anyone will ing to listen that the guitar, by its "cry nature, is designed to do more ♦ban tie a rhythm section together or sen e only as a tool for hornlike, single-line improvisation. | painter. Any takers’" Production expenses of U. S. far -1 mers in 1960 were nearly four i times as much as in 1940—26 4 bil ! lion dollars. show i dance pifrvmm RALEIGHapIW iOMSSH. MMWM i \ H U f l l ®IS f < " K '' *1 ffl *S3, 8, KING JOLY l U * MARY 'WELLS Bi3o—l A.M. ★ shep b Adv. 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