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Nation’s Great To Sponsor Actors’ Guild Show
RATING THE RECORDS
(By FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS for ANP)
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Now that public interest, stimu
lated by reasonably priced radio
phonograph combinations, is drift
ing back toward l-ecordings, this
column leaps into existence in the
hope that it will be an aid in de
ciding just what discs are worth an
investment. Rating the lecords, to
appear occasionally, it intended to
keep you informed on current plat
ters.
It’s no secret that dusky musi
cians make a large percentage of
records and draw nice cash from
theso waxings. Only on discs can
many of our artists be heard, for
just a slight percentage get radio
time, and only a comparatively
small number of people can hear
them in person. Therefore, if you
warft the offerings of such stars
as Duke Ellington, Louis Arm
strong, the Milk Brothers and
scores more, you have to depend
on records.
However, this column will not
deal exclusively with waxings by
tho brother, nor will it include all
but hot jazz despite the writer’s
keen interest in swing music. Any
disc which seems of general inter
est will be treated in a fashion
intended to let the reader know
what it’s all about and conclude
whether he ought to go to the mu
sic store and buy one or ignore it
completely. But in case of doubt,
you can always hear the platter
and decide for yourself!
SIDNEY “POPS” BECHET. One
excellent thing about records is
the opporunity they give to hear
the wizardry of Sidney “Popsf
Bechet, the daddy of clarinetists.
Ably assisted by a small hot group
from Noble Sissle’s orchestra, Be
chet in two numbers Blackstick
and When the Sun Sets Down
South, gets off some solid swing
guaranteed to please the jitter
bugs. Both are orginals, the first
by Bechet and the second by Bechet
and Brooks.
The Down South number, a slow
fox trot of Ellingtonish flavor, is
the better side. And if you’re tired
of listening to the clarinet manner
isms of Benny Goodman, you will
bo doubly appreciative of the pow
erful and sincere New Orleans
style of Bechet, one of the world’s
three greatest on his instrument.
The record is Decca, 2129.
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BING & BOB CROSBY Team
ed. When Bing Crosby was in Chi
cago a few weeks ago, he took time
out to cut a few sides with his
brother, Bob Crosby, the band
leader, My Reverie, the currently
popular number based on a Claude
Debussy composition, and Old
Folks are on the sides of a highly
pleasing disc made at that time.
Neither side is swing, but they
show off Bing and Bob to fine ad
vantage. Old Folks is a 'humorous
but sympathetic portrayal in song
of an old character in a small town.
If you like the Crosbys, you should
have this. It’s on Decca 2123.
BLUES PLUS TEAGARDEN.
Remember the piece, Down Heart
ed Blues, made in the early 1920’s
by Lovie Austin and Alberta Hun
ter? It’s revived by Teddy Grace,
assisted by a mixed orchestra
which includes Jack Teagarden on
trombone, Billy Kyle on piano and
O’Neil Spencer on drums. Teddy is
p. good si'nger, but his liphorn work
and barrel house solo of Teagar
den to plenty to insure the num
ber's success.
The other side is Monday Morn
mg, current hit by the same artists
likewise well performed. It’s on
Decca, 2128.
IF YOU LIKE PREACHING.
The Rev. J. €. Burnett, assisted by
1 bis congregation, has waxed After
1 while Some Sweet Day and Jonah
in the Belly of the Whale, for
these who want records of good
old fashioned sermons in the man
ner made famous by the Rev. J.
M. Gates. There’s plenty of moan
in’ and shouting, with old time
camp meeting singing featuring
the first side. Decca, 7524.
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Calvin’s
Digest
—By FLOYD J. CALVIN—
Forward with Blount
Thu insurance business among
Negroes has a nd\v official pilot,
L. C. Blount, vice president and
secretary of the Great Lakes Mu
tal Insurance Company of Detroit.
As president of the National Ne
gro Insurance Association, which
represents twenty millions of sav
ings and protection of the Negro
public which has been entrusted
to Negro management and safe
keeping, Mr. Blount holds ore of
th„. nidst responsible positions in
Negro life.
Tho election of Mr. Blount at
Cleveland last June was a gesture
in the right direction. It pushed a
step further the policy of.the lead
crs of the insurance fraternity to
elevate responsible and progres
sive executives, whether they re
present the larger companies or
not. The records show that Mr.
Blount’s company was organized
only eleven years ago^ but that it
has mado a fine record in a sec
tion where Nigroes insurance
management is still in its primary
stage—in the extreme northern
part of our country.
Tho Detroit Negro has achiev
ed much: he has produced a State
Senator, arl he gave to the country
the second heavyweight champion
Effective May 1st:
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on Laundry & Dry Cleaning
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t
Edholm and Sherman
Launderers & Dry Cleaners
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of the race, and the brains of dis
covery and management along
with the champion. It is fitting,
then, that a business leader should
come from Detroit and it is our
hope that the administration of
President Blount will leave the in
surance buiness w 11 ahead of
whero he took up. We feel confi
dent the Great Lakes Mutal will
continue to grow and prosper.
Literary Protection
At the tragic death of James
Weldon Johnson, a name—Gene,
Buck—not so familiar to the Ne
gro public appeard as the one
who delivered the funeral oration.
Geno Buck is president of the
American Society of Composers.
Authors and "Publishers, with of
fices in the RKO Building, Radio
City, New York.
On further inquiry it is found
that the American Society is a
powerful organization devoted to
the protection of the rights of
the creators of American music,
and the promotion of the inter st
of tho creators of that music. Sev
eral Negro musicians are members
of this organization, including W.
C. Handy, Harry T. Burleight. Eu
bio Blake, Will Marion Cook and
other:!
An interesting thing about this
organization is this: Negroes
I sometimes wonder where and when
tho real integration of their own
people into the main stream of
American life will begin. Here is
a place. This organization publi
cizes the achievements of its mem
bers in both the white and colored
press^ many more white papers
receiving and publishing its stories
than colored. But the same stories
are sent to all papers Negro
musicians are treated on par with
other members are treated alike.
Wo say three cheers for this policy
because the Negro is a basic part
of the program and he goes where
apologies or special treatment.
A Poet Contiues
The new booklet of poems by
F’V’n' Marshall Dav's of Chicago
“Through Sepia Eyes," published
| fi-rv Black Cat Press, with de
corations by William Fleming,
marks Mr. Davis, a working jour
nalist, as one who continues to see
beyond the horizon of the repor
(torial hack. In his heart there is
something more than turning the
routine task. Life to Mr. Davis is
n song; and though bitter at times
hy nevertheless sings about it. We
are happy that a newspaper man
find this type of solace from his
depressing labors rather than
seeking relaxation in more debili
tating outlets.
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Visitors Spend Thanks
giving at Hot Springs
Hot Springs, Ark. Dec. 3 (ANP)
—Although the height of the Hot
Springs seaso^ does not begin un
t 1 February, Pythian Bath house
headquarters at America’s water
ing spa is well filled with visitors,
many of them well known in pub
lic life.
Bishop Noah W. Williams, pre
i late of the AME church, Rev. F.
Madison Reid, pastor St. Louis’s
j fashionable St. Paul church; John
H. Claybrook, wealthy Arkansas
planter, and Mrs. Claybrook; Ed
ward M. Sneed, recently elected
county commissioner in Cook
County, Chicago; Harry Willis, th?
pugilist, Mrs. Willis; Miss Etta
Moten and her accompanist, Miss
Margaret Bonds, Chicago’s premiei
pianist; Claude A. Barnett of Chi
cago; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Shirley,
I>awder, Wryo.; Mrs. Mattie F. Po
well, New York City, Mr. and Mrs.
“Brother” Powell. Fort Smith, Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. Gain, Decatur, 111.;
Mr. and Mrs. Leon II. Stewart, De
catur, Mrs. Clara E. Christopher,
Cleveland, and Mrs. Annie Cole
man, St. Louis are among recent
guests.
“It is remarkable,’ said Dr. H.
H. Phipps, manager of the Pythian
Bath house “how many people are
beginning to realize that Hot
Springs is really an all-year-round
resort.”
TRAIL BLAZERS A GREAT
SCIENTIST
By CARL CARTER
(Features Staff, Crusaders News)
WHILE the Civil War raged and
men of color fused their fire with
that of white fighters for demo
cracy, a son was born of slave pa
rents in the State of Missouri, a
black son and slave of Southern
soil who was to become its undis.
puted master and America’s honor
ed luminary in the orbit of inter
national science.
Less than seven weeks old and
suffering from whooping cough,
he was stolen from the plantation
together with his mother, by Night.
Riders. Moses Carver, master of
the plantation, sent out a ..rescuing
party” which redeemed him from
he slave thiev. s for a run-down
arc horse valued at $*100.
His ambition for learning caused
him to part with the Carvers when
he was ten years old, to attend
a little log-cabin school at Neosho |
eight miles. While attending school
ho did odd jobs at neighboring,
farms, uisng empty horse barns
for a sleeping place.
Dr. Carver next hitch-hiked on
I a mule Lam to Kansas, where he,
attended l'ortscott. High School.
, There ho stayed for seven years,
■ during which time he also operated
!laundry, accumulating sufficient
morn y to enter Simpson College
in Iowa. From Simpson College he j
entered Iowa State College where
he took his II. S. and M. S. in 1894 j
and was appointed to the faculty
| two years later.
FOR MANY years the scientific
experiments and achievements of
Dr. Carver went unheralded, but
when soil crosin in the South held
tho threat of a grave national pro
blem he was suddenly swept to
tho front page of scores of the
nation’s newspapers.
Ur. carver neiu uiai tne constant
and “careless” growth of cotton
was chiefly responsible for pauper
ization of the land. He advised the
planting of crops in rotation.
, “Plough up your cotton and plant
! neanuts,” ho recommended, for his
' experiments had inedated that the
peanut “put vitality in the soil.”
Rut the farmers were loath to
heed his advice: they questioned
! tho feasibility of any action .Only
after Dr .Carver had successfully
cultivated 19 acres of barren land
wero they prevailed upon to rotate
their cotton crops with the plant
ing of peanuts.
And then another serious pro
blem developed. Thousands of |
bushels of peanuts were harvested
for which th- re was no market,
the nut being chiefly used as food
for pigs.
Feeling ran high among the
farm communities. Ill-tempi \ 1
farmers in an alarming degree o\'
unanimity felt that Dr. Carver was
personally responsible for their
plight. Faced with this problem,
Dr. Carver retired to his labora
tory to work indefatigably at dis
covering new usfs for the lowly
peanut .
TO DATE, Dr. Carver has creat
ed more than 220 products from
the peanut. Other products from
the potato, from clay and from
cotton add up to over 4-10 discov
eries. Because of the discoveries of
this wizard of agriculture, hug-'
industries have sprung up in the
South: the wheels of the peanut
industry alone turn to the tune
of $80,000,000 a year.
Among the numerous by-prod
ucts of thj peanuts are: butter,
lard, milk, shaving cream, linole
um, cheese Instant Coffee, face
powder soap rope matting arle_
grease, mixed pickles, washing
powrb r, chocolate, flour, Scotch
butter, meal, wafers relishes sham
l oo-lotion printers’ ink, etc.
From the potato he extracted:
starch of a much better grade than
any other on the market and the
production of which is much chea
per, flour meal, library glue, co
coanut, ginger, inks vinegar shoe
blacking; coffee dyes, candles rub
ber, molasses, sugar etc.
From wood-sbavings be made
suntheti marble. From glass he has
created a mattariaH for making
furniture. Dr. Carver extracted
from cotton for reinforcing as
phalt, making it as serviceable as
steel; the formula for this was
turned over to the State of Ala
bama.
FOR THE last four years Dr
Carver has been experimenting
with peanut oil as a cure for in.
fanile paralysis. “It has been giver
out,” he said “that I have found
r. cure for infantile paralysis: 1
have not, but it looks hopeful. I
have used it on 250 persons, am
it has never failed so far as I car
find out.”
Tho honorary degree of Doctor
of Science was conferred upon him
June, 192H, by the State College
of Iowa. Dr. Carver is a winner
of the Spingarn medal and a mem
ber of the Royal Society of ArD
of Great Britain.
HENRY A. WALLACE, Secre
- Oh,shine on, shine on
MANY of the American song
writers of tills era began their
careers as interpreters of song, as
singing waiters or vaudeville ar
tists. The composer of "Shine On
Harvest Moon," native of Philadel
phia, began as a blackface artist.
He wrote his own songs and patter,
and developed both talents until
(he fateful day when with Norn
Hayes he sang his most famous
song in the Zlegfeld Follies. The
ovation to the song rather than to
the male singer sent him over the
borderline front acting to song
writ lug. He wrote a London levue,
whose premier was marked by a
Zeppelin raid. Our composer then
went back to America, trouped with
a vaudeville skit, married his plan
l 1st and made a series of short films
In Hollywood In the pre-double tea
1 ture days.
The early song hit was picked
l up recently by a little orchestra lit
[ Texas, where Ruth Ettlng heard It
and gave it added lustre in later
renditions, and so, after twenty
years the song again became a hit.
During the years the composer
wrote many other numbers, Includl
ing “Smarty", “Good Evening Caroj
line”, the lyrics to "Take Me Out
To The Ball Game"—enough tu
earn him membership in the Amer
ican Society of Composers, Author*
and Publishers.
His name is
'mjOMJON tpep
(Music Features St Photo Syndicate)
tary of Agriculture .and John
Sutton, Negro agricultural expert
in tho Soviet Union, are but two of
r list of prominent Americans who
giv( valuable praise to the genius
of Dr. Carver Sutton studied un
der Carver. The motion picture in
dustry joined in paying him tri
buto when only last month Metro
Gold wyn-Mayer released a special
screen short based tvn Ihis l,ifc
and scientific achievements
Dr. Carver never knew who his
parents were. His mother was ne
ver found and his father, who was
a slave on a nearby plantation,
trampled to death by a horse when
Carver was still an infant.
This Negro, who earned the plau
dits of the world, is symbolic of
tho unlimited contribution a free
and equal Negro people tan make
to our civilization.
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WITH THE NEGRO ATHLETES
World's champion RennaKsance
Big Five strengthened by the ad
dition of Bill ‘ Pop” Gates, 1937
Metropolitan schoolboy sensation
and Clarence “Puggy” Bell, former
; “Y” Seniors captain.Ed Wil
liams, NYU fullback out of game
for two weeks with an ankle injury,
will positevely play in the Fordham
i game.
If John Henry Lewns drops his
$300,000 suit against the N. Y.
Boxing Commission, it will be
grounds for suspicion that it is
I done in exchange for the Com
j missions approval of the proposed
shot at Joe Louis title,. Bernie
1 Jefferson, Northwestern’s triple
threat, contsructs model trains for
relaxation.. Joe Jouis will back
the Detroit Bombers, a pro basket
ball team.
Despite participation of Sidat
Singh in games with Maryland and
Duke, and Ed Williams against
North Carolina, plenty Negro stars
Brilliant Array of Stage
Stars to Entertain at
Negro Actors Guild
Show on Sunday,
December 11th
New York—Under the inspired
direction of Bill Robinson, honor
ary president, more than one hun
dred of America’s foremost stage
stars have enrolled tb entertain at
tho first annual benefit show to he
given by the Negro Actors ( uild at
the 46th St. Theatre on Sunday
evening December 11th. The money
raised will go to establish a per
manent fund to help the sick and
netdy of the profession.
A partial list of those who wiH
entertain includes: Noel Coward,
Beatrice Lillie, Eddie Cantor, Wil
liam Gaxton, Victor Moore,, Sophie
Tucker, Ben Bernie, the Radio City
Music Hall Rockettes, Leonidoff'a
Radio City Ballet, Paul Ash, Kddie
Garr, James Barton, Lou Holt*, J.
C. Flipped, Hal LeRoy, Dave Ru
binoff, Benny Goodman, Ethel Wa
ters, Benny Fields, Cab Calloway,
Nicholas Brothers and the Cotton
Club Girls. James J. Walker, form
er Mayor of New York, and Lo«a
Gehrig, crack Yankee first base
man, will also appear for thin
charitable fund.
Organized less than a year agt/,
tho Negro Actors Guild already has
almost six hundred members. It is
expected the present drive to raiso
money will increase the member
ship to 1,000 by the first of the
year.
The officers of the Guild ar*?r
President, Noble Sissle, 1st vice
president, Ethel Waters; vice pres
ident, Marion Anderson, Duke El
lington, Louis Armstrong, Abbii
Mitchell, Edna Thomas, Frank Wtt1
son, Paul Robeson, J. Rosamond
Johnson; treasurer, W. C. Handy;
assistant treasurer, Robert ft
Braddicks; Recording Secretary,
Muriel Rahn; executive director &
secretary, Fredi Washington, Cab
Calloway is chairman of the exe
cutive board. On the advisory com
mittee are Robert S. Abbot, CLaude
A. Barnett, Bruce Barton, Mrs.
Mary McLeod Bethune, Bing Cros
by. Vinton Freedley, Joseph A.
Gavangan, Eugene Kinckle Jones,
Emmet J. Scott, Justice Charles E.
Toney, Senator Robert F. Wagner,
and J. Finley Wilson.
of Northern universities did not
play in games with Southern
schools. Roland Bernard and Ches
ter Smith, Boston U. guard and
end, did not get into the game with
Tampa University.
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