RITZ Theatre
Sunday and Monday—James
Cagney in “THE MAYOR OF
HELL” also Fay Wray in “ANN
CARVER’S PROFESSION”
Tues— Wed— Thurs— Sylvia
Sidney in “JENNIE GERHARDT
also Robt Montgomery in ‘MADE
ON BROADWAY”
Friday and Saturday—CAB
CALLOWAY in “International
House” also Lionel Barrymore in
“SWEEPINGS”
ON THE SCREEN AT THE RITZ
m.
CAB CALLOWAY
Cal) Calloway, popular orchestra
who will appear on the screen at
the RITZ Theatre next Friday and
Saturday, Oct. 20—21 in the pic—
ture “International House”
TOOK EIGHT YEARS TO SELL
‘EMPEROR JONES’ TO
HOLLYWOOD
That seemingly, ended the matter
as far as O’Neill and Robeson were
concerned or eight years, however,
Murphy tried to sell the idea to a
producer with enough money to go
through such a pretentious offering,
and for eight years he failed.
The “movie” magnates were frank
ly afraid of this powerful drama of a
Carolina Negro who became a Pull
man porter, murdered his pal and
escaped a chain gang to set himself j
up as the absolute ruler of an island !
in the West Indies.
Three of the larger companies did
grant interviews to Murphy, and
looked upon the proposal with more
or less favor. Negotiations never got |
beyond the preliminary stage.
Although the narrative is slightly
amplified, it is developed along in
telligent cinematic lines and differs
really but little from the sum total of!
the original. Instead of beginning on >
the island with Emporer Jones and
his tottering thorne, it goes into de
tail concerning his earlier life, his
work as a Pullman car porter, his
predilection for crap shooting, his
killing of a Negro, his presence in a
chain gang and his escape. It is a
closely woven narrative in which
there is not an instant that does not
hold one’s attention.
Dudley Murphy, the director, and
DuBose Heyward, the author of the
script, have attacked their respective
tasks without any idea of catering to
the box office. They realized the
power of the O’Neill drama and have
put forth a picture which retains the
strength of the stage production. The;
telling of the story is just what one ;
might expect from sueh competent
and experienced persons. It is satis- j
fying and absorbing, and even the j
beating of the drums, which one
might anticipate would be done some
what extravangantly, is accomplished
with the same effectiveness it was
when the play first appeared in 1920
in Grenwich Village.
The interest of the drama is cent
ered, natural on Brutus Jones’s act
ivities on the island where he chooses
to rule over the blacks and be known
as Emperor Jones. The introductory
passages, however, are not without
their stirring moments, particularly
the amorous episodes and those de
picting the gradual transition in the
Negro’s character. But when the
scenes on the island—to which Bru
tus Jones swims after having made
his escape from the chain gang and
shipped as a stoker on a tramp—
come to the screen, it is then that the
picture is most stirring.
Robeson, who has the title role,
had a distinguished career and is con
ceded to be one of the most renowned
Negroes of this day. He was born in
Princeton on April 9, 1898, the son of
William Robeson, a minister, In 1915
he entered Rutgers College, being
the third Negro ever to attend that
institutio. When he was graduated in
1919 he had won his letters in foot
ball, basketball, track and baseball,
had qualified for two years as end on i
Walter Camp’s All American football
team, had been elected to Caps and i
Skulls as one of the four most meri-;
torious seniors, and was a member of
Phi Beta Kappa, th scholastic fra
ternity. Two years later he was gra
duated from Columbia Law School
and obtained a position in a promin
ent law firm, but was forced to with
draw because of race prejudice. He
turned to the stage, serving his ap
prenticeship with the Provincetown
Players. He first attracted general
notice in “Taboo,” which later be
came “Voodoo,” with Mrs Pat
Campbell. The play was produced
here and toured Scotland and Eng
land for two years. Then came O’- j
Neill’s “Emporer Jones” and “All
God’s Chillun.” In 1925 he gave a
concert at the Greenwich Village I
Theatre and awoke to find himself j
acclaimed as one of America’s lead- j
ing baritones. Mr Robeson has pre. j
ferred living in England, finding less j
racial prejudice there. He has sung j
before the King and Queen of Eng
land, the Prince of Wales and the
Duke and Duchess of York, and has
been the guest of Ramsay McDonald..
Among his other plays were: ‘‘Porgy,’!
“Black Boy,” Ziegfeld’s Show Boat”i
‘I AM THE LAMP MAN’
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-t
Wearing This
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Unemployed
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vassing the city with MAZDA lamps. One of
these men wearing the red and white arm
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purchasing a carton of lamps from him. Have
lamps on hand for an emergency. You get
genuine MAZDA lamps from the man who
wears this arm band.
Carton of SIX
Delivered to Your Home
$1.20
25, 40. 50, 60 and 75-Watt
Buy Now and Help!
These lamps will be purchased through your
neighborhood dea’er and charged on your next
Electric Service bill from the Nebraska Power
Company.
and the Hairy Ape.” London aud
iences cheered him as Othello in 1930.
In recent years he has been in this
making “Emperor Jones” he re
turned to London and is now prepar
ing to produce plays at the Embassy
TheatreJ Jhere dealing with Neg*ro
life.
SHALL WE CON
TINUE ‘Miss Eyes’
The Omaha Guide truly wants to
serve you as you want to be served.
For seven weeks we have had more
comments and the largest distribu
tion of papers as a result of the
column known as “Miss Eyes.” The
comments have been pro and con,
and the pros seem to have the best
of the cons so far, and since the maj
ority rulesi we are going to ask our
readers to help us settle this dispute
about the “Miss Eyes” column The
following is a blank ballot for year
vote.
Shall we continue “Miss Eyes”
column?
Please register your vote in the
square of your choice and mail the
same to The OMAHA GUIDE office
241? Grant Street, or turn it in, in
person.
Yes □ NoD
ECONOMIC LIFE OF NEGROES
IN OMAHA
An all day confernc under the
auspices of the Public Affairs Com
mittee of the North Side Y W C
A will bring to the city outstanding
national and international speakers.
Conference will be held on Friday,
October 20, beginning at 10 o'clock
in the morning holding luncheon and
dinner meetings and closing with a
large mass meeting in the evening
Rev Phillip A Swartz, pastor of
the First Congregational Church, La
Grange, Illinois, will speak on “What
Social and Religious Forces can Do
to Remedy the Economic Condition
of the Negro ”
Dr Swartz has served as Secre
tary of the Foreign department of
the Y. M C A Street Petersburg,
Russia He has done social and reli
gious work in China and pastored the
famous Union Congregational Church
at Honolulu He is a lecturer of wide
experience and has traveled exten
sively in America and abroad Dr
Swartz is the chairman of the Chi- I
cago Interracial Commitee
Rev. Ervin K Merchant, Assistant |
Secretary, Department of Race Re. j
lations of the Federal Council of:
Churches in America will speak on the
subject: “The Negro Church in the,
present Crisis ” The meeting will be |
of interest Rev Merchant has pas
tored for eighteen years in Ohio,
Illinois and Indiana.
In the evening, Dr George E j
Haynes, ranking among the leaders |
of thought and action of the day will j
speak from the subject: “Some of the
Effects of the National Recovery
Program on the Negro Workers.”
Mr Haynes holds the degree of
Dr of Philosoph He has served
from 1918 to 1921 as special assistant
to Secretary of Labor of the Federal
Government While pofessor at Fisk
University, Dr Haynes was one of
the originators of the first Internat
ional organization of Southern White
and Colored leaders. He was selected
in 1930 to go to South Africa for the
International lurvey of the Y M. C
A and YMCA work and into Congo
Beige and Angola thruogh a grant
from the Rosenwald fund to study
mission work of Negroes He is in
constant demand as councillor and
advisor on racial and community pro
blems .
Announcement for place, time, and
price for luncheon and dinner meet
ings will be met later Farther in
formation may be secured by calling
the “Y” WEbster 1539.
THE GREEN PASTURES’
MAKES ITS SOUTHLAND
PREMIERE IN ROANOKE
ROANOKE, Va —(CNS) — To an
audience that crowded the Academy
of Music to its capacity “The Green
Pastures”. Marc Connolly’s Pulitzer
Prize play, opened its Southland pre_
miere here October 4. The audience,
representative of Virginia, received
the play with much the same enthus.
iasm that has marked its presents,
tion in other parts of the country.
The author, W G Stewart and
several other officials of Lawrence
Rivers, Inc., the producing company,
came from New York to be at the
first performace. It was announced
tonight the sale for the remaining
two performances had been most sat_
isfactory.
Richard Harrison, who has the
leading role of the production, made
an individual hit in his 1,301st., per.
formance as The Lawd; Doe Doe
Green as Gabriel and Selem Tutt
Whitney as Noah left very definite
impressions of the genuine prototype
of the Negro as the South knows the
race.
Roanoke found nothing of which to
complain in the acting, and, as for
the spirituals, those at the Academy
of Music last ni^'nt found them sup
erbly done. The city say, for the first
time, an entire company of Negro
actors, and critics did not fail to voice
their appreciation of the ability of
the members of the cast.
The company goes from here to
North Carolna as Roanoke is the only
Virginia city booked as inadequate
theatres in Richmond and Norfolk
prevented the show from being pres_
ented in those cities.
COTTON CLUB ORCHESTRA
DOING SWELL
Cab Calloway at The Rizt Theatre
Soon.
Theare and ballroom patrons fre
quently express an interest in the
curious nicknames printed on the
music stands of the men in Cab Call
oway’s Cotton Club orchestra.
“Foots,” “Flat,” “Bunky,” “Doc,”
“Son,” “Fahcjf,” ‘‘Deedlo,” ‘‘Clash,”
“Fruit” and “Place” are some of these
unusual names and all of them have
special significance.
Walter P. Thomas, tenor sax play
er, never is called anythng but
‘‘Foots” by his fellow members. His
feet are quite large, but the expres
sion v^as taken from a lyric of one
of Cab’s songs, about a gal so tall,
that ghe sleeps in the kitchen with
her foots in the hall.”
A J Brown was dubbed “Flat”
because his voice is high and squeaky,
and Arvelle Harris is “Bunky” be. |
cause he is so short and squatty in j
build. Both are sax players. Harry
White and Edwin Swayze, trombone
and trumpet players respectively, are
“Father” and ‘‘Son” because White
rttever goes anywhere without Swayze.
“Slop” is the most fastidious mem
ber of the band about his wardrobe i
and personal appearance. He is La
mar Wright, trumpet. Because he j
resembles one of the twins from!
“Alice in Wonderland,” Andy Brown,
trombone, is called “Deedlo.”
The drummer, Leroy Maxey, ans- j
wers to “Cash” because he seldoms
talks about anything else, and the
bass player, A1 Morgan, whose voice
is as deep in picth as his instrument,
is called “Place” from his habit of
calling out on arrival at any engage
ment, “Is thig the pla—a—ace?”
With the organization of an or
chestra under Benny “King” Carter
' — 'eh v.-ill roc:: make its debut on the
Loew circuit, Irving Mills adds a
fourth colored orchestra to the im
posing list of bands under his man
agement, including Duke Ellington, |
Cab Calloway, and Mills’ Blue Rhy
thm Band.
Although over sixty persons find
employment already with these four
musical units, this number will soon
be jumped to well over a hundred
when Irving Mills sends the Cotton
Club “Stormy Weather” Revue of
1933 on the road, with the Blue Rhy
thm Band, Adelaide Hall and George
Dewey Washington featured. It has
been a practise for the last few years .
for the outstanding revues from the
Cotton Club to double into theatres'
in the New York City metropolitan
area, but this is the first time that
one of the revues is going on the:
road. Some twenty weeks of bookings
have been obtained for it by Cotton
Club Productions, Inc., the producers
of which Irving Mills is president, and
it will open on October 27th at either i
Loew’s Fox in Washington or Loew’s i
Century, Baltimore. Include in the
subsequent route are such cities as
Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, j
and the Interstate circuit in Texas
and surrounding states over which I
Duke Ellington is now touring.
The Carter orchestra will follow
this revue over the Loew circuit, and j
promises to become almost immediate
ly an outstanding attraction. Carter,
a skilled conductor, saxphone and
trumpet player and arranger, has
been making arrangements for the
Mills music interests and orchestras
for some time, and has also achieved i
prominence in the phonograph record
ing field. With his new orchestra,
which will include a number of stellar
instrumentalists, he will become an
exclusive Victor recording artist.
ELIMINATIONS FROM “THE
EMPEROR JONES” FILM
WASHINGTON—(CNS) — Elimin
ation of the word “nigger” from all
of the new rolls of the film “The
Emperor Jones” is announced by its
producers. It is claimed that the
thirty three changes will make the
picture more acceptable to the Ne
gro population. Mr. Krinsky on of its
producers in speaking of the elimin_
ations said: “We have no intention of
offending Negroes who are largely
instrumental in making the screen
version of ‘Emperor Jones’ one of the
greatest pictures of the season.”
LEONARD BROWNS ARM SHOT
OFF
Leonard Brown, son of Mrs. Brown,
who Jives at 27th and Yates Street,
left Omaha for some part of Iowa,
with a friend a few days ago. Mrs.
Brown received the notice that when
Leonard Brown got out of the car to
fix puncture, his friend who was
traveling with him, got out also and
walked around where Leonard was re
pairing the punctue, and shot him
through the arm several times. Leon
ard was taken to a local hospital,
where it is reported that his arm was
amputated.
Leonard Brown will be remember
ed as the delivery boy for Holmes
Taylor Shop some years ago. Later
on he went inti Cleaning and Pressing
business for himself.
NAVY DAY PROCLAMATION
The American Navy was founded
by the Continental Congress in Octo
ber, 1775. It has given a good account
of itself in each of our country’s
wars. With our thousands of miles
of coastlines, our island possession
and our world wide commerce, our
navy is of the greatest importance as
our first line of defense in time of
war. It’s scientific schools, exper
iments and inventions have also con
tributed much of the arts of peace
At the U. S Naval Academy at
Annapolis student officers are taught
scientific subjects that serve many
peace time purposes as well as those
of war time and rugged character is
developed that assures the continu
ance of the glorioUg history of the
naval service. Excuses are not accept
ed, not even the familiar one; “Well,
I did my best.” The reply to that is:
“Your best is not good enough. An
English admiral lost a fleet by doing
his best.”
It seems entirely proper to observe
one day a year as Navy Day and since
1922 it has been a national custom to
observe October 27th.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Charles W.
Bryan, Governor of Nebraska, do,
hereby, set aside and proclaim Octo
ber 27, 1933, as Navy Day. I suggest
that such educational and patriotic
exercises be held on that day as shall
honor our Navy and increase our fam
iliarity with its place in our national
life.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and caused the
Governor’s seal to be affixed.
Done at the Capitol in the city
of Lincoln, Nebraska, this 3rd
day of October, in the year of our
Lord, Nineteen Hundred and
Thirty three.
CHARLES W. BRYAN.
ART BY NEGROES PUT ON
EXHIBITION
NEW TOSS CTY—(Cr«S>— Paint
ings, prints and drawings by forty,
nine Negro artists living in the city
are on exhibition at the 135th Street
branch of the New York Public Lib.
rary. Since July the exhibitors, men.
women and children, most of whom
had no previous training in fine arts,
have been receiving free instruction
in classes sponsored by the Harlem
Adult Education Committee. The work
was under it direction of James Les.
esne Wells, young Negro artist, in.
structor in art at Howard University,
assisted by Palmer Hayden, who won
the prize donated by Mrs John D
Rockefeller, Jr. for his painting in
the Harmon Foundation^ exhibit last
winter.
Perhaps the finest single piece of
work in the exhibition is a charcoal
portrait of Catherine Sanderson, by
Miss Georgette Seabrook, eighteen. !
of 1880 Mannion Avenu, the Bronx,
who studied art at Washington Irv.
ing High School, and will continue by
the open window of the studio. In the
background can be seen the “El.” The
treament of lights and shadows, j
piercing the elevated tracks, mottling
the walls of the room and resting on
the skin of the girl, the sustained at.
mcsphere of vivid realism, and Miss
Seabrook’s excellent draftsmanship,
combine to make this composition j
particularly impressive.
AFRICANS IN CANADA AWAIT
ADMISSION TO UNITED STATES
TORONTO, Canada — (CNS) —
Seven Bastoland Negroes who were
brought to America to work in a
motion picture are quartered at the
Salvation Army Hotel here awaiting
word from the United States Bureau
of Immigration which will allow,
them to return to their families in
New York and continue to their
homes on the Afriean West Coast.
The Africans were returned here
from the border when they attempted
to re_enter the United States after
completing an engagement at the
Canadian National Exhibition here
Tag—Social Clubs i mean
MODERN ART CLUB
The Modern Art Club met October
9, at the home of Mrs L McVay
2868 Corby Street. There were thir.
teen members present. The evening
was spent sewing, after which we
drew name which we will give pres
ents at our Christmas Party. At
10:00 o'clock, about twenty five mem
bers of St. John’s Choir came in sing
ing. The surprise was for Mrs Ethel
Webb, who is leaving Thursday for
California Rev. and Mrs. Bryant
were present. The Choir’s gift was a
brief case. The Art Club gave a hand
kerchief shower. Ice Cream and Cake
were served and enjoyed by all.
Miss La Vida Butlr, president
Miss Irma Speese, reporter
Legal Notices
Attorney Lawrence Williams, 624
Omaha National Bank Building.
October 28, 1933.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed bids will be received at the
office of the Department of Roads
and Irrigation in the State House at
Lincoln, Nebraska, on October 13,
1933, until 9:00 oclock AM, and at
that time publicly opened and read
work on the Omaha West National
for Grading, Culverts and incidental
Recovery Secondary Highway Project
No NRS 339-B Federal Aid Road
The proposed work consists of con
structing 6.2 mile8 af Graded Earth
Road.
The approximate quantities are:
485,500 Cu Yds Excavation
1,300 Cu Yds Class “A” Con
crete for Box Culverts and Headwalls
156,000 Lbs Reinforcing Steel for
Box Culverts and Headwalls
56 Lin Ft 24” Reinforced Con
crete Pipe.
80 Lin Ft 36” Reinforced Con
crete Pipe.
52 Lin Ft 48” Reinforced Con
crete Pipe.
72 Lin Ft 24” Corrugated Metal
Pipe.
803 Lin Ft 24” Culvert Pipe.
165 Lin Ft 30” Culvert Pipe
292 Lin Ft 36” Culvert Pipe
124 Lin Ft 18” Culvert Pipe for
Driveways
72 Lin Ft 24” Culvert Pipe for
Driveways.
The attention of bidders is directed
to the Special Provisions covering
subletting or assigning the contract
and to the use of Domestic Materials
The minimum wage paid to all
skilled labor emlpoyed on this con
tract shall be sixty (60) cents per
hour
The minimum wage paid to all un
billed labor employed on this contract
shall be forty (40) cents per hour
The attention of bidders is also di
rected to the fact that George Hodge,
State Director of Reemployment,
Lincoln, Nebraska, will exercise gen
eral supervision over the preparation
; of employment lists for this work
Plans and specitcations for the
work may be seen and information
secured at the office of the County
Clerk at Omaha, Nebraska, or at the
office of the Department of Roads
and Irrigation at Lincoln, Nebraska
The successful bidder will be re
quired to furnish bond in an amount
equal to 100% of his contract
As an evidence of good faith in
submitting a proposal for this work
. — „ny pojrtio^ thereof as provided
V*. Hu, LrfLiiEg t!ank, the bidder shall
ine, wuh nis proposal, a certified
check made payable to the Depart
ment of Roads and Irrigation and in
an amount not less than the total
amount, determined from the follow
ing list, for any group of items or
collection of groups of items for
which the bid is submitted
Grading Items Four Thousand
Five Hundred (4.500) dollars
Culvert Items One Thousand Eight
Hundred (1,800) dollars
The right is reserved to waive all
technicalities and reject any or all
bids
DEPARTMENT OF ROADS AND
IRRIGATION
R L Cochran, State Engineer
Grace Berger, County Clerk
Douglas County
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Douglas |
County Nebraska.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE OF: (
THERESA J. LIVERPOOL, de. j
ceased.
All persons interested in said estate
are hereby notified that a petition has
been filed in said Court alleging that
j said deceased died leaving no last
will and praying for administration
upon her estate, and that a hearing
will be had on said petition before
said court on the 4th day of Novem
: ber 1933, and that if they fail to ap
pear at said Court on the said 4th
day of Novmber 1933, at 9 o'clock A.
M. to contest said petition, the Court!
may giant the same and grant ad
ministration of said estate to BE A
TRICE ELLINGTON or some other
suitable person and proceed to a j
settlement thereof.
BRYCE CRAWFORD,
County Judge.
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way who, having been duly sworn
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this 4th day of October 1933
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' 1935.
I Max Yergen, Spingarn Medalist
and the holder of the Harmon award
for distinguished service, brought to
Omaha some of the many observa.
I tions he has gained in Africa as a Y.
MCA secretary.
Mr. Yergen not only brought his
rich experiences in this foreign coun
try but outlined a program of prac
tical Race Relations which may well
apply to American communities, Tues
day evening.
The Omaha Urban League present
ed him to a capacity audience a* the
North Side Y. W C A Mr. Yergen
| spoke of the spiritual forces which
are fundamental in raising the stand
ards of the Africans Natives. He said
“within the Negro group in the
United States in West Africa and
South America petty bourgeois
groups are being evolved, such groups
he said drain off skill and intelligence
into the white group and leave the
mack labor poor and leaderless.
He said the British a small minor
ity of the South African population
j have complete control of South Africa.
The Negroes he said, are not allowed
to do skilled labor or go to British
schools. The difference so far as Ne
groes in Africa and America is that
in America fundamentally the con
stitution gives the Negro some rights.
In Africa the British Constitution
clearly defines that an African shall
have no rights.
Mr. Yergen spoke of the work - *
the 'i MCA in developing
leadership among the Natives. Work
is also done in raising health stand
ards and teaching collective buying.
While in Omaha, Mr. Yergen address
150 members of the Rotary Club and
a Group of more than 300 at a dinner
meeting in the Y. M C A
TWO HELD FOR TRIAL IN
ALLEGED KIDNAPING
Mechanics Picture “Nig-ht of
Terror” as Captives.
Joseph Veneziano, 19, and William
; Griffin, 22 Negro, were held for trial
in district court yesterday on charges
! kidnaping and false imprisonment
James Van Bibber and Lester
Wunderlich, auto mechanics of Neh
awka, Nebraska, testifying in police
court, pictured a night of terror under
threat of death when they were held
i captive by four men
Veneziano faces both charges;
j Griffin, only that of false imprison
! ment Bonds of five thousand dollars
j and two thousand dollars were set
Tells Threat to Kill
Tony Tarascio and John “Sunyboy”
James, Negro, who face similar
charges, have not been arrested
Van Bibbler and Wunderlch testi
fied that they had been seized and
held captive by the four Veneziano
and Tarascio, they said, tried to
make them admit furnishing police
the tip which led to a liquor raid on
Frank Martini, 1114% South Thir
teenth street They had been repair
ing cars for the pair, prior to the
raid
Wunderlich said he was taken, in a
car to a lonely spot north of Flor
ence, where the two threatened to
kill him unless he revealed who
“squealed” about the liquor
Talked of Stabbing
Van Bibber said that while he lav
on a couch, in the house, with the two
Negroes as guards, they debated
what to do with him They toyed
with a pistol, he said, and Griffin sug
gested shooting him. They said they
would stab him first, leave the blood
stained knife on the floor, and claim
they shot in self defense
While police did not act on the case
until Thursday, 10 days after the al
leged kidnaping. Inspector Andersen
says the detectives assigned to aid
Gates were not informed of what
actually transpired Sheriff Gates of
Sarpy county denied this
Ross Shotwell deputy county at
torney, said he would seek the death
penalty for the kidnaping charges
