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(JL'^j.c Features Sc P/j'.j Syndicate) MELODY m*n have revealed aster inning imagination in se lecting locales for their songs. Neither inhibi t.ors nor prom bi'.ions stop them in their restless roving. Consider some of the places where they have been: Billy Hilt has been “In the Chapel in the Moonlight,’’ V-llcU kXtil - Louis Re 1 r s cnce believed he lived “In the City Where Wsfce> Caras,” Fred Fisher visited “In a Convent by the Sea,” Irving Berlin lived “In a Coay Kitchenette Apartment,” AI Wilson and James A. Brennan learned a les son or two “in a Little Fed School House” and Hoagy C’"nucha cl found a time waiting for bhn “in the Churchyard.” Indicative of the wide range of location there are such song Idles as “In a Bird Store." "In a Clock Store," “In a Continental Boom," ,‘7n a Cozy Corner," “In a Gloomy rarest," “In a Little Gypsy Tea Boom.’’ Joe Burke and Edgar Les lie's big hit; “In a Little Bed Barn," and, believe it or not, “In An Opium Den " Victor Herbert and Glen Mac Donough once wrote a song called VIn Jail" It teas sung in the op leretla "Algeria." Kot one person i i 10 050 can fta ne the author of the famous American song, "In the Evening by the Moonlight" ... It uas none other than James A. Bland, who I wrote “Carry Me Back to Old Vir ginity'' . . . Strange, no one has thought of the title, “You 1 Vent To My Head" before . . . The English song hit, “The Girl in the Alice BJve Gown,” will be known here as “The Girl in the Bonnet of Blue." The change is to avoid confusion with the already established hit, “Alice Blue Gown" _ ' Leading Pop Singers i Who are the Hen leading male singers of popu lar tunes? Pro fessional song pluggers meeting in Hollywood the other night named Bing v,,OSUy a* YY Al Dubin troubadour, fol- a.S.C.A.P lowed, in order, i by Dick Powell, Tony Martin, Ozzie ) Nelson, Rudy Vallee, Buddy Clark, Kenny Baker, Benny Fields, Frank Parker and Bob Hope. Another old ballad, "Do Ye Ken John Peel," has been dusted off, re furbished, presented as a novelty number along with “Loch Lomond” and “The Campbells Are Coming." The reason is there are not enough tnexo songs to fill the demand. First of the famous songwriters to withdraw from the Hollywood gold fields with the plea he was no - _ . N - ! longer able to s’tnl th*> errl*' l oi turning out tun 3 to : !’r is Ai Dubin, of the team o. \ rren ana Du b n For saveial years this part nership has b "ti am mg the most active on the West Coast, with ia- 1 numeiT. 'a song hits, v, i.*en or "i ualiy tor the films, to their avail. r * * Best remembered of Warren av I Ditbin tunes is “Lullaby of Use d tray,'' which was Xu mb r 3 song hi in 1935 and "Shuns Off to Buffalo," | which received th' concentrated at tention of dance bondmen the sea- | son it was introduced in the mode, j '•-F-'mi street.” They wrote that im- \ mensely popular paean of prosper ity, "We're in the Money," as well as "I'll Sing You a Thou'and Lore Svigs” and "September in the Bain.” More recent of the,r con tributions to the song hit class were the spirited “Song of the Marin's,” first warbled by Vick Powell, u i-i "Hemetnber Me.” All swing bauds seem to he char acterized by a i ceriain siuniea noisy stillness ... Swing mu sic becomes pretty tiresome on the air after twenty minutes , ... No tenor, it seems to me. has gotten as lrgh upon Franz La har'3 music as Richard Tauber . . . r*ever uear H»7pw'f.ren any stein songs any more . . . Of all the wars of the last hundred years none approaches our own War Between the States lit the in spiration of stirring melodies . . . Believe it or not, many of the prin cipal songwriters of the nation were! ! born within the confines of Man-| hattans Tin Fan Alley. A Select Grotio Most active persons in tb» '-•* 1 are those music'ars who fiit il Handel’s “Hallelujah” ;a I a “St. Louis Blues” without 1 ; an eyebrow or snapping a fu. : string. It is a select group, and it is reaping vast rewards from steady ! day-and-night duty in behalf of art and commerce. These versatile veterans are in such demand, monopolize so much radio time as to offer a serious han dicap to the solution of the un employment problem in the musical world. They constitute an exclusive clique. For an outsider to enter their ranks is as difficult as winning a berth with the Philharmonic. They are, moreover, extremely well paid. In fact, they collect more-ma mma than a large percentage of bandleaders. P~* * Often one hears persons discuss-. ing whether leader Joe Doakes or I Joe Zilch, employed in the studios,a has the better band. The funny7 part about it is that both Joes use the same musicians on the radio. No one seems to be able to talk ; a song as captivatingly as Ben Ber- j nie, the old, but agile, maestro. 1 Wins Scholarship Achievement Cup Champaign, III., Mcv 1* ' ' N”D —Alp a Xu Ch nte r>' D l'i Si ms T’'> f» S-woiity at the U’t ver gity f Illinois, • rs t<nb'y o'vr e’ b w e’c wh»i :t w*9 p'-esen* e ' tb * scholarship Qchi veme ’t curt •' tto» P:in-Hcib i‘e cou*'c 1. ""hi- ourc l, r m M -d of A! h P’-i * bha and K>-pp > Alpha Ps <rPtpv>’itV*a a-1! Dt*ha Sigma The ta er'T A'* ha K"pT>s ha o •" i t:es. is h« first cur> at the Uoi versi*v «tm! was organize ' last Sep tember. Each semester tse c p is award' d to the h use iha* h ' * the h>'ehp't average and aw house thcf wirs ;t thrpe co'neeut’ve se mes ers may e p t nT-"-;pt‘a TTall ;s ores' 'e t >f *he chapter. The other o'T'cers and mow' u's are Bertha S"-i"dall vbe nrps‘d'"d; Cornel:a McNeal, se'We •>rv; Rosa Morgan, treasurer; Tulie Pr'ncis, social ch«'rman; Ab Vv HpiYp'tnn, dean of pledges; Mo’i ' Pa ’mer, ch'<plain; Maudie Bell Hill, Virginia Lacey -n Ra;l Head Issues Call In Fight Against Discrimination Louisville, Ky., May 14 (ANP) —In an effort to rally the mem bership of the International As sociation of Ru'lway Emplayes in a concerted .united fight agaiiist discriminatory practices and the attempt to replace them by white workers, Association President Thoas D. Redd has ser.rt an earnest appeal for money for a legal de fense fund to all Negri Firemen, Switchmen and Biakemen of the organization. 'Declared President R ‘dd, “The time has come for conceited action on our part. Negro Firemen, Switchmen and Rrakemen suffer more from the inequalities and the discriminatory practices indulged in. by ra'Hoad managements and hig P.rotherhoods than all other classes of Negro Rail Workers. As we get the same rate cf pay as our \vhit‘> brothers who are en gaged in. the - 'ire ecu' ations, we should be wilEng to make the greater saer'fice in < rder to over come the difficulties that confront Patterson Bethune Cookman Speaker Daytona Beach, Fla., May 21, (ANP—Dr. Frederick Douglas Patterson, president of Tuskegee. will deliver the commencement ad dress at Bethune-Cookman college Tuesday May 24, acording to an announcement from the office of Dr A. L. Simpson, acting presi-. dent at Bethune-Cookman. Dr. Eton Tullis. pastor of the Tourist church, Daytona Bea. 1; will deliver the Baccalaureate Address Sunday May 22. Patronize Our Advertisers Race Relations Report S.ows Persecution of Afiican Natives M 'V Johanresbu'g, South Africa. May 21 ((ANP)—If Southern Negroes of the United States be lieve their lot :s hard, the y should e ■"o to South Afr'ca aid get a eel look at pev’-ecut on and dis • im'nation against n'tives san - tioned by lavs written into the t«tute books. Cond'tions now ex 'stirg pie revealed in the annual survey on rare relations prepared by J. D. Rheirallt Jones, white, for the South African Institute of Race Relat'ons at Johannesburg. The report for 19 ’7 i* printed in “Paco Relations’’ published here recently. Mr. Jones' survey shoo-e^ that among the new laws enacted last veav were amendments to the In ki«\.riel Cm na*i i r.nd Wage nets, Thcs' “spoc’ally require that race or color shill not be a cons! -teration in the fixation of wages.” Rut since “pass-bearing nat vex” | -ne . xpected from tin definition of ! employees, their trade unions con ! isting cnlv of pass-bearing nat ives, are not re ognizied. And since native and white workers do irt belong to the same unions native workers cannot bargain collectively with their employers, and thus the fancied benefits of tho act means nothing to them. Practically all employed natives must carrv passes showing they have a right to live in the towns. They may, however be represent ed by an inspecter of labor—white of course—at meetings to consider wage agreements, if thev would be a fected by tbe industrial ngroo r *t nt.s. Amendments to tho Native acts provide for “more effective control over entrv of natives into urban areas." “more effective segregation in urban areas," "removal of na tives not needed at laborers in ur ban communities.” “creation of ex changes to assist in distributing native laborers," “prohibition of native rural townships in European areas," etc. After a law vuix nassod virtu ally disfranchising "tve register' ed voters, one of them instituted a suit in court to forbid authori ties to take his name frem the list of registered voters He con tended the act was invalid because it bad been passed by “a joint sitting” of both houses of parli ament. Hut the court decided it had rn power to go behind any act of parliament, which means that no matter what law is pass ed affecting Negroes, the courts will not nullily it. Relations between the police and the natives are characterized by Mr. Jones as “unhappy.” in urban areas “an attitude of dislike and distrust of the people exists amon gst native urban dwellers, arising from the duty of the police to en force various restrictive laws main ly affecting natives, blit often con tributed to by uwessarv harshness . and lack of sympathy of the police in the performance of the duty. Relations between natives and the police are marked by suppressed hostility, due partly to the odium incurred in enforcing unpopular legislation and partly to the tact less and unspmpathetic methods of enforcement ” Several serious cl? h s oceurre between poll, e am’ n ' c<. I h most serious of t ose two E ro pean constables were kided a i l a third seriously inj r »d. The in e tigsting comm'as ’ .» • u H th while there was "noth t g to justi fy by the murderous ntt -ck on po lice ” nevertheless h p li ?e wer** partly to blame rne “to invade gatherings in a loo t on on a Sun day afternoon for the purpose of inspecting passes rnd tax receipts is ne ther necesse y r>er disTe t. but is to give enforcement th* as pect of oppression ’’ A no1 her seri ous problem :s the f-ct that "the sentences imposed on nat vc- too frequently 1 ear no real relation to the native of the offer."* of the na tive’s capacity to pay tHs fi**e imposed.” “Close up n “0 iv*r on of native con victim- ” are f?r s"a tutory offenses, such >*s *i l:\ti *n of the "pass” laws r< gelations in regard to rural locacHons, r-t *. There are no data to V'nw “th'* ■*xtf* ‘ to *vhich the*'e ror>v:cMons rsrpod in p't'*''' imorfsonment ” Rut “in the case cf a native ch°rg «d with even n stntlltorv off erne. 'r’T.vfiop follows in most instan '»o- ** C have "complained hit ‘erly of the luck of n?t:ve labor” ind have demarded more string ent regulations. On the other hand, tho natives “comDlaim of the con litions under which native farm1 workers are employed." As a r ‘lilt of unrest among the nativ corkers in Durban miirmrm wage' ntes h?ve been proposed, although i. aeDort has been taken as yet.! The Minister of I al»or said in an nddres* to the Associated Ch un -j ' or- of Commerce that "a consid erable nroportion v*f the native erminnmHv **-as under-nourished, end th-*t ns the future and welfare i f ^outh Africa depended on the int’ve labor supply the country 'mold ri t afford to let it be sap *>ed bv under-nutrit-onj also that ! ?s the native raees were now con- j itimers of manufactured product •, " gradual raising of waves would ' enefit the whole community.” nhi Waiters Organize Chicago Ma,v 21 ,(.\N P)—The Federation of Waiters and Hotel! \ttendants recently organized here has apnlied for a Craft Charter from the Hotel and Restaurant Fmploves’s International Alliance °nd Part-nder’s president and Hugh R. Jackson, secretary. Federation officials expect that the annlication will be passj/ up- J on bv the General Executive Board j of the IV-bhiat'orH 'Union, an ptfiliatp of the American Feder ation of Labor, which meets in Chicago th wok of Mny 9. The object o fthe organization is to secure, through the Ameri- j can Federatio nof I,abor. the right j to engage in collective bargaining i with representatives of their own choosing, so as to provide better working conditions more adequate pay and job security. f___ ! _ . , __ - Personalities In Music Daniel Gregory Mason, A.S.C.A.P. - IIEREDJTY PLAYS ITS PART - By Daniel I. McNamara Dd Daniel Oratory Masm, .» \r. MacDoweil Profc* ■ r of ?; ■ >ie in Columbia University, e.. .' " s in his musi’al carcvr fas traditions of a New England family ion g rep » entaiive of the mitali -.1 at it c •aey »f aim ■: i Dr. Lowell Mason, ms grandfather. was c^mpo er of Nearer, .My < t» Thee” end sponsor at his own e. njn ■=» of t » first music oo'.ii > in an American public school in , > ion in ltiSJ. His tath' i. E nry Mason, was a hnlluint pianist ir.d founder of a gloat piano mid or .an manufactory. ’ii> uncle. Dr William Mason, was 1 isiingutshed as both composer and atithoi ami fellow artist of Theodore llmmns in the Mason-Thomas quar tet ot nisi nimeutaliats. He himself I a prolific composer of music in l.ugei forms and the author of more lliiui a dozen books oil music uud Slllhicllllls. Dr Mason s activity in literature ;s tin- result of an incident of his scttolastie life in Harvard, class of 1895 Specializing in music with Or John Knowles Paine, ha was stricken with a form of writer's cramp that interrupted his work at the piano for two years In the in terval he turned to literature and fcveloped his literary style. On leaving Harvard. Dr. Mason continued his music with George W Chadwick and Percy Goetschlus I .n Boston, then joined the com ' poser. Vincent D'fndy tn Prance Re turning from Europe he became noted for his lecture recitals on musical appreciation. One of his first educational posts was with Dr Trank Dainrosrh in the New York institute of Music. Later he helped organize the first adult classes on L„ .. ■■■-. .—Ml music for the New York Board of Education. In 1909 h« Joined the faculty af Columbia, lie luis achieved world wide prestige as composer, teacher I lecturer and essayist and has oe ! come one of the must Influential members of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publish-; i era. His works have been played byt symphony orchestras under Stokow 'ski. Oabrllowltch, Stock. Stranskyi and other famous conductors. His) piano compositions are favored by Josef Hofmann. John Powell and Percy Grainger. His “A Lincoln Symphony.” pluyed for the first ( time by the New York Philharmonic! Symphony under John Barbirolli,* November 17, 1937. at Carnegia Hall, was outstanding. Dr Mason is frankly a romantic among musicians. To him the.su preme thing In music Is the expres sion in forms of plastic beauty ol simple, spontaneous, straighfforj ward emotions. Like his illustrious predecessor at Columbia, whose name is given to the chair of music. Dr Mason holds with MacDowell Gist there Is a definite kinship of the fine arts His coordination oil music with other cultural activities of the University has been a factoi In expanding Columbia’s musical prestige. (Music Features St Photo Syndicate) D I DTSJ ~ f'Sil A ti V F CHINATOWN, MY CHINATOWN from AiCAP HI©*' “ ^ | DlK 1 £ $ I IN Cy Jean Schwartz and William Jerome Cy Joseph R Fliesler and Paul Carrufh ■ ju- mi 1 — ■ 1 - '■■■' ' I I I ■■■ -—.. ..'.I' l ———T- ' VOEWinBnWBBnilWHBHM I cAN SCHWARTZ was the youngest of three sons and a 'si^' fer in the Schwartz family home in Budapest. His pil of Liszt, taught him music. When Jean wa* ten the family moved to America, and settled on New York's lower east side. Jean used to go from house to house seeking a piano on which to practice. Schooling was a problem for the youngest son of a poverty stricken family, so Jean soon went to work by day and studied at night. He was an office boy, a cigar factory worker, a department store errand boy, bookkeeper's clerk, cashier in a Turkish* bath, etc., at an age when other lads were larking. ©eo^iA’5 "WHiRC Ttt£fr R60R£0 ROSCSl? GROW” * * * la 1| "MY IRISH MQllY-O’T-p 1 <,iW(uocefVTeresM'i| B “ANiGHTlWSPAlW'l H •ROCKA8YtYOU«0ft8T VHtH ft 01X18 WOOOCj He never lost his desire to compose, and haunted pub lishing houses with his manuscripts. He finally joined a pub lishing fun ai U!;' !,;j former saVy. While at this publishers he met the late William Jerome, and they formed a songwriting team. "Chinatown, My China town" was written to order for a production. "Up And Down Broadway" had a Chinese painted drop, end the song was needed while a change was made back stage, but it was not until three years later that the vaudeville team of Mathews and Ashley nada the song famous. Jean Schwarti, a high ranking member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers composed other outstanding songs, many with an Irish theme. After forty years of songwriting, he is in Hollywood. .___|