The Pinkston Recital
Large and Appreciative Audience De
lighted With Excellent Program.
—
Had it not been for the severe and
threatening storm which broke over
Omaha at 8 o’clock Tuesday night
there would undoubtedly have been a
capacity house at the Pinkston recital.
As it was the Y. W. C. A. auditorium
was well filled by a large and appre
ciative audience, whi-'h was well re
paid for its attendance by a delight
lul, well-balanced and artistically ren
\ dered high class program.
The opening number was “The Stai
gpangled Banner,” led by Cecelia
Wilson Jewell, Dolores Johnson,
Madeline Roberts and Connne
Thomas, in which the whole audience
joined and sung as only our people
can sing.
Mr. William G. Haynes, who has a
good tenor voice and knows how to
use it, sang “Perhaps,” by Dorothy
Forster, and as an encore gave “Just
Smile,” by Grace L. Watson.
Mrs. Pinkston was enthusiastically
greeted as she appeared for her fir-l
number, which consisted of three se
lections: (a) Andante .dolto from the
pianoforte sonata ’n E minor by
Grieg, (b) Impromptu by Chopin and j
(c) Hungarian No. I-’ by MacDowell. I
In all of these her work proclaimed
her an artist of the first rank. Her
execution of the difficult Hungarian
by MacDowell was oriHiant. Another
most difficult composition which test?
musicianal skill is Pastels No. 3, by I.
rhillip, and which was one of two se- 1
lections given by Mrs. Pinkston for
her second number; Harmonies Poeti
ques et Deligueses, by Franz Liszt,
being the other. Mrs. Pinkston showed
herself mistress of her art in these
numbers, also in the Three Preludes j
from Chopin and the Valse Chro-1
matique by Godard, with which the
f rogram closed. In addition to her
musical ability Mrs. Pinkston has
a most gracious manner, which at
once wans her audience. Omaha de
serves to be proud of such an artist
an Florentine Frances Pinkston.
Mrs. Cecelia Wilson Jewrell, who has
a rare contralto voice and has always
been a favorite with the music-loving
public, was never heard to better ad
vantage than on this occasion when
she sang “The Promise of Life,” by
Cowan, and “By an’ By,” by Bur
leigh, as her first number, and “When
the Heart Is Young,” by Dudley Buck,
for her second.
Mr. Haynes was (('easing in :iis sec
ond number, “Rose in the Bud,” by
Dorothy Forster.
One of the most pleasing features
of a most delightful program was the
singing of the national Negro anthem,
“Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the
v ords of which were w ritten by James
.
Weldon Johnson and tne music by J.
Rosamond Johnson, by three bcautifui
young girls, Madeline Roberts, De
lores Johnson and Corinne Thomas,
dressed at Red Cross nurses. The'i
voices are soprano, mezzo-soprano
and alto, and their singing was fault
less.
At the conclusion of the program
the Rev. John Albert Williams made a
brief but stirring appeal for liberal
subscriptions to the Ri-d Cross fund
The Misses Otis Watson and Ozeba
Tunning, as accompanists, are deserv
ing of all praise.
The recital was under the auspices
of the Woman's auxiliary of St. Phil
ip’s Episcopal church. Mrs. E. R. West
being chairman of the committee.
It is worthy’ of note that the pro
gram was concluded by half-past l'1
o'clock.
RED CROSS CAMPAIGN;
DO YOUR SHARE
In order that so far as possible full
credit may’ be given to the Colored
people for their contributions to the
Red Cross war fund, a special con -
mittee has been organized, under the
chairmanship of the Rev. W. F. Botts,
with headquarters at Zion Baptist
church, to push the campaign among
our people. The campaign closes Mon
day. Friday and Saturday a syste
matic canvass for subscriptions will
be made. Give what you please, but
do give something. The average
amount that is asked is the equivalent
of one day’s wages. Omaha’s quota
is $200,000. Our people ought to give
$5,000 of this amount The Morntor
hopes that all our people who contrib
ute will do so through this special
committee, or at least report the
amount they have given, so it may be
kr.own how we have responded.
Let everybody give something.
Omaha is going over the top in this
Red Cross drive and all will be pleased
to have a share in it. And remember
this; Your dime or dollar may help
save the life of your boy in the
trenches and bring him back to »’ou.
Or it may’ help some family whom you
know.
Have you forgotten the Omaha tor
nado of 1913? The American Red
Cross sent $40,000 to help relieve dis-.
tress here then. It is asking now for
funds for war relief. Will you with
hold your help?
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I —AMUSEMENTS— II
YOU ATTEND
The Liberty Ball
GIVEN BY THE O. N. E. CLUB
Thursday Nite, May 30th
-AT
WOLF’S HALL
TWENTY-SECOND AND CUMING STREETS
Admission, 33 cents (includes war tax).
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24th and Parker Streets
— Monday and Tuesday— Friday— S
~ PARALTO FEATURE Paramount Night
= J. WARREN KERRIGAN WALLACE REED
— in “A Man’s Man” in "A Prison V/lthout Bars” —
— Ebony Comedy. CHRISTY COMEDY. jr
= Wednesday— Saturday— —
PEARL WHITE Fox Feature Night “
= In “The House of Hate” (No. 8) VIRGINIA FIERSON =
FLORENCE LA BADIE In "A Daughter of France” —
In "War and Woman” HEARST-PATHE NEWS =
” Thursday— COMEDY. ~
— Special Decoration Day Program Sunday—
— WILLIAM S. HART ROY STEWART
— In “The Dawn Maker” In “The Boss of the Lazy Y”
= MUTT AND JEFF HEARST-PATHE NEWS
Two-Reel Keystone Comedy. - BILLY WEST COMEDY.
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FRANKLIN THEATRE
Twenty-fourth and Franklin Streets
SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT
ANITA STEWART In “THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY”
Strong Five Act Drama.
RETREAT OF THE GERMANS AT THE BATTLE OF ARRAS
Thin in a Regular War Picture In Two Act«.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.
SARAH BERNHARDT In “MOTHERS OF FRANCE”
This 1h a Stirring War huneu Feature That None Should Ml«a.
Also a Good Comedy.
DIAMOND THEATRE
* 24th and Lake Streets
SUNDAY
EFFIE SHANNON AND NILES WELCH
In “HER BOY”
A Five-Act Metro Star Series Production of Mother Love and Timeiy
Interest.
MONDAY
V Five Reel Feature
“NOBODY’S WIFE”
Also a Two Reel L Ko.
“BEAUTIES—THE PRETTY BABIES”
Best Production Ever Made.
Colored Nurses
For Our Soldiers
Editor Moore Says American Ked
Cross Must Stop “Passing the Buck’’
to the War Department When Col
ored Nurses Ask to be Sent to the
Front.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—More than
2,000 young Colored women, as
well as many others, attended a mon
ster patriotic meeting at Lafayette
Theatre Sunday, when a movement
was launched to have Colored nurses
sent to France to look after the sick
and wounded Colored soldiers with the
American expeditionary forces. The
big audience applauded Attorney
George Battle, Fred R. Moore, pub
lisher of the New York Age, and
chairman of the meeting, as they
made strong pleas for the sending of
Colored nurses.
“I have every reason to know that
the trained Colored nurse is as com
petent as any nurse in the world,”
said Mr. Battle, who said he had been
reared by a Colored foster-mother. He
asked the Colored women to partici
pate more actively in war work, thus
doing their share in aiding their men
who are now- in France or about to go
over.
Mr. Moore spoke of the courage of
the Negro regiment, the 15th New
York Infantry, now the 369th, some
where in France.
“Looking at th°ir bravery, and not
their color, the French have received
them with open arms,” he said. “We
are second to no part of our popula
tion in loyalty. But, speaking as an
American black, I say we are not be
ing treated right here.
“We have trained Colored Red
Cross nurses, ready to go to the front
and minister to the wounded in the
hospitals. They are no longer con
tent to stay here, and the American
Led Cross must stop ‘passing the
buck’ to the War Department when
ever our nurses ask to be sent to the
front.
“We want the best white women
and men to tell the American Red
Cross that the millions of Colored
sympathizers with the United States
in the war are not satisfied with the
treatment of our trained Colored
nurses. We don’t want a black Red
Cross, but a universal Red Cross, with
c.very vestige of the old Southern anti
color prejudices wined out, and with
nothing else required from its workers
hut ability, respectability and charac
ter.”
The speakers’ arguments were
strengthened by the presence in the
audience by a squad of Colored Red
Cross workers and by the members of
the senior class of nurses from Lin
coln Hospital.
The rally was held under the aus
pices of the Girls’ Patriotic Service
I eague, which is a division of the
New York War Camp Community
Service. It is the first of a series of
meetings being arranged for girls and
women throughout greater New York.
OMAHA’S COMING TREAT
Word has just been received at The
Monitor office that Hen. Roscoe Conk
lin Simmons, the great race orator, is
to come to Omaha, June 10. This is,
an event that all Colored Omahans
have hoped for for a long time. Mr.
Simmons has startled the country
with his fearlessness in going into the
far South and condemning it for the
wrongs practiced upon his race. Thou
sands upon thousands of whites have
crowded his meetings and listened
spellbound as he denounced them for
their treatment of their jred coun
trymen. No assembl> was ever too
bitter for Mr. Simmons to attack with
his fiery eloquence and bring it to un
derstand that injustice against the
race must cease and that the rights of
American citizens must be for the
black as well as for the white.
We trust that eve*-y man, woman
and child of Greater Omaha will hear
him. It will be an event that will
never be forgotten. Further announce
ment will be made next week.
AIRPLANE STABLEIZER
INVENTED BY COLORED MAN
ACCEPTED BY GREAT BRITAIN
Baltimore.—L. A. Hayden, a Color
ed inventor of Charlotte, N. C., has
succeeded in having an airplane
stableizer, his invention, accepted for
use by the British government and
has received a commission as a sec
ond lieutenant in the aviation corps of
the British army. He failed in an ef
fort to give the invention to the
United States.
ORGANIZE HOME GUARDS
Why not organize a company of
home guards ? There are hundreds
of men in our city, not eligible at this
time for active military service in the
regular army, who would be most ser
viceable in a company of home guards.
I.et us organize a crack Colored com
pany of home guards. With men like
Sergeants Bailey, Bradley, Letchet,
Carr and others to diill us we could
have a splendid company and the drill
and discipline would do us all good.
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