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Theatricals Music Feat ur es Greatest B’Way Show Looms For Negro Actors Guild Benefit STARS OF STAGE, SCREEN, RADIO AND OPERA VOLUN TEER FOR MONSTER ENTER TAINMENT AT 46th STREET THEATRE ON SUNDAY EVE, DEC. 11. Moved by a human impulse to aid tihe sick and needy of the pro fession, upwards of one hundred stars of the stage, screen, radio and opera have volunteered to enter tain at the first annual benefit show to be given by the newly or ganized Negro Actors Guild of A merica. The date is Sunday nite., December 11, and the place is the 46th Street Theatre. From every indication, the show should be one of the greatest ever staged in the history of Broadway. Newest additions to the ever growing list of stage luminaries who will appear on the monster program include Lawrence Tibbett, George Jessel, Eddie Duchin, Mar garet Speaks. Avis Andrews, the Hall Johnson Choir under the dir ection of Leonard DePaur, Duke Ellington, Harry Hershfield, Ted Friend, Dan Healy, and Louis So bol. Others are coming in dar*ly to make this a never to be forgott en performance. BILLY HOLLIDAY DROPPED FROM SHAW BAND COLOR ISSUE RAISED AS REA SON FOR LETTING OUT OF POPULAR VOCALIST Washington, D. C.—The axe of prejudice fell and severed Billy Holliday, the last colored female vocalist featured with a white band from her perch in front of Art Shaw’s orchestra late last week. It was reported that Miss Holli day’? dismissal followed a notice from the cigarette firm which sponsors the commercial for which Shaw’s band was recently signed, that Miss Hilliday, could and would not be used on the program. Her appearance with the Shaw outfit began last summer proved a bit hit on the stage. And w-ith her aid the unit has built a large National 'radio audience. It is a coast-to-coast program w h i e h emanates from the Lincoln Hotel, New York, nightly. At the time Miss Holliday join ed Art Shaw’s band, Negro voca list with other white orchestras were proving box office sensations all over the country. With her dis missal only one colored vocalist is now featured with an all white crew, Leo Watson, who is with Gene Krupa, June Richmond, ahothdf fail'; sepia vocalist was recently let out by the orchestra headed by Jim-, niie Dorsey. Miss Richmond is now associated with Cab Calloway in the Cotton Club. -0O0 -- ^W.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V. Duffy Pharmacy We. 0609 24th and LAKE STREETS PRESCRIPTIONS Free Delivery .V.V.W.V.V.’.VW.V.V.W AV.VAV.V.V.VASW.W.V. Your Dream Book WHAT DREAMS MEAN IN YOUR LIFE! Multitudes believe GREAT SUC CESS has come to them by their ability to know what the Meaning of DREAMS ARE. It can also COME TO YOU. Be prepared to READ YOUR DREAMS COR RECTLY. Send 50c today for large lxjok telling you how to READ YOUR DREAMS. Mail today to LAND CO., Box .T, Rochelle Park, N. J. VA'.V.VAV.VMV.V.VW MARIAN ANDERSON Now it is Collier's the national weekly magazine, that features Marian Anderson, the great con cert artist, in an article by Marcia Davenport. Describing Miss Ander son, Miss Davenport says she is a contralto with a range of three lull octaves, and has what might bo called a pair of voices. She moves, we are told, from one to the other not only with effortless case but in doing so holds her en tire range firm in remarkable tech nical control. Th's beautiful article about Miss Anderson is quite appropriate, and while one exults in the fairness which made is possible, one is temped to despair for the hundreds j of others of Miss Anderson’s group who have talent, ability and who have achieved and are achieving but who are unwept and unsung. When one watches the motion pic tures and sees what a flimsy ex cuse is often used to catapult an unknown (white) to fame and re nown, not to mention fortune, and then sees the utter loss of good talent and ability in the Negro group, purely because the artists happen to be of another color, the "one in a million” chance that is given, as in the ca»e of An* derson, is absolutely not enoug'hi We are proud of Miss Anderson, and we are proud of Collier’s ges ture, but we insist that it is the lack (if recognition of genuine talent in the Negro groud that may yet make America sorry. — —0O0 I)ISTING l'ISH ED AMEHICAN TENOR TO SING IN SISTERS C’HAI’EL ON WED. EVENING Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 2 Luther King, distinguished American ten or who is considered by some cri tics as the finest male singer of his race, will be heard in a song recital on Wednesday evening Dec. V, in Sisters Chapel, Spelman Col lege. as a presentation of the Spel man Entertainment Series. A native of Ga., Mr. King hits studied at the Cleveland Music ,-hool Settlement, and at the David Mamies School is New York City. The tradiaional struggle for reco gnition has been his. sustained by an instinctive artists integrity and an unshakeable faith in his destiny that has been justified and con firmed by the brilliant successes he has achieved on the concert platform throughout the United Effective May 1st: 20 Cent Discount j on Laundry & Dry Cleaning j Cash and Carry j Edholm and Sherman i Launderers & Dry Cleaners WE 6055 States. Eminent critis and wusi- j eians have acclaimed him as one of the finest singers of his gen-1 eration. —_—tOo LOUIS ARMSTRONG RECORD ING CLASSICAL SPIRITUALS New York, Dec. 8 (C)—Louis Armstrong, known as the world’s greatest trumpet player, is record ing classical spirituals, such as “Shadrack” and “Jonah” and the Whale,” is was announced Satur day through “Tin Pan Alley Hot Notes,” directed by Lou Levy, 1393 Sixth Ave. Armstrong is also recording all the old Bert Williams scngs of twenty years ago, and “King Louis’s” sense of comedy is expected to make the great Bert live again. -ooo——— RATING THE RECORDS By Frank Marshall for ANP Ella Finds Her Basket I To a world that for many months | has been hearing singers tell how they lost their yellow basket, the announcement that Ella Fitzgerald, (who started it all) has at last i found hers ought to be a pleasant | relief. The new number, recorded by Elle and Chick Webb's band, bears the title 1 FOUND MY YELLOW | BASKET. It is a simple, rollick i ing tune wrapped^ up in swing and served in the general nursey style i Of “A Tisket A-Tasket." But, here ; the comparison ends. “A-Tisket A Tasket” fcy Chirk and Ella is one , of tie year’s Lest records; “I found i My Yellow Basket” suffers great I ly in comparison and is just ordi nary. But the other side of the disc redeems it. Bea ung the himple title ■ ELLA, it features vocals by both this grand singer and Taft Jor dan, together with some fine trum pet playing by Taft, one of the best in the business. This number is extremely satisfactory and ought to please everybody. The re cord is Decca 21 4K. Bing Sings ‘Summertime* One of the late George Gel1- > shwin's most memeorable tunes SUMMERTIME, gets distinguish | ed treatment by none other than Bing Crosby on Decca 2147. There is a fine instrumental passage in the middle of this Porgy and Bess - number by Matty Malneck and his i orchestra. Coupled with “summer time” is the popular YOU MUST HAVE BEEN A BEAUTIFUL BABY, also sung by Bing Crosby ! with Bob Crosby’s orchestra. Blues by Art Shaw I A few seasons ago Art Shaw, and his band waxed THE BLUES A and the BLUES B, for Bruns wick. Recently the number has ! been reissued on the 36 cent Voca lion label. If you like an instru mental, solid blues number in me dium temp with some barrell house solo work by done by the white clarinetist and members of his or chestra, look no farther. It’s Vo calion 4401. Four Bob Crush \ Pops Bob Crosby, who lias endeared himself to the sepia trade with his 1 recordings of “Yancey Special" ' and 57 other varieties of indigo I numbers, has come forward with sides of currently popular pieces, two new discs containing fout YOU'RE IiOVELY MADAM is coupled with WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THAT GETS ME, with vo cals by Bob and Marian Mann on Decca 2142, and TWO SLEEPY PEOPLE accompanies WAIT ‘TILL MY HEART FINDS OUT with more vocals on Decca 2150. Recommended for those who like commercial tunes in typical Cros by fashion. I-s Krum Elbow Like This? Ever si nee. a year ago or more, ago, small units from Duke Elling ton’s orchestra began making re cords of their own, Johnny Hodges has started getting the acclaim due him as the world’s foremost I I ATLANTA'S MUNICIPAL WJDITuHiUM ULtNS IU htK ETTA MO TEN Concert artist, who appeared in Atlanta's beautiful new municipal auditorium last Monday night in a triumphanl event, the first spon sored by and for Negroes in the newly completed structure. Book er T. Washington High school, one of the South’s most progressive educational institutions, presented Miss Moten through the courtesy of the Chicago Concert Bureau, 3548 Vernon Ave. The talented artist came to Atlanta after con certs at Langston university, Fort Smith and Pine Bluff, Ark., and is scheduled for IffftianapoRs, Ind., Knoxville, Tenn., Little Rock and Hot Springs, Ark., New Orleans, La., Florida State college, Talla hassee; Southern university. Baton Rouge, Ija.; Buffalo, N. Y., Erie, Pa., and other points in the near future. She is accompanied on her tours this season by Miss Margar et Bonds, Chicago’s premier pian ist. alto saxaphonist. Four recent sides by his aggregation merely furnish proof of hi's unique ability. KRUM ELBOW BLUES, named after Father Divine’s recent real estate acquisition, is torrid swing with terrific rhythm. On the other side is THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT AN OLD LOVE, in sweet er vein, complete with a highly sat isfactory vocal by Mary McHugh. The number is Vocalion 4361. Those who have “Jeep’s Blues ’’may want Hodges’ THE JEEP IN JUMPIN’ which is guaranteed to make jit terbugs out of paralytics. The other side of this record Vocalion 4386 is PRELUDE TO A KISS, the new Ellington composition of the “Reminiscing in Tempo” mood. Casa Luma (Jets Hot After devoting more and more time to sweet music, Glen Gray’s fine Casa Isvma band goes hot a gain in WHAT IS THING CALL ED LOVE on Decea 2144. It's a haunting melody and the Glen Gray treatment, except for a non sensical serie's <>L/ trumpet riffs, is plenty solid. The other side, in similar treatment, is YOURS, ALL YOURS which has the adedd at traction of a vocal by Pee Wee Hunt. -0O0 .V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.VAV.V. CHOP SIJEY American Hiid Chinese Dishea King Yuen Cafe . 2010*5 N. 24th St. Jackson 8576 Open from 2 p. m. until 8 a. m • {'’"NEBRASKA” PRODUCE I 1202—4—6 North 24th St. Phone WE 4137 1 Poultry and Egg Dealers Out prices are reasonable, see ns first. Free Trading Stamps with each Purchase. SPORTS Toledo, Ohio Eddie Sims, Ohio's pride and joy accounted for a pop ular ueeision over the battle scar red veteran Unknown Winston. Eddie toyed with his older rival ip. spots enjoying a safe lead, had the vet in distress 2 or 3 times but did not possess the dynamite nec sessary to stow him away for the count. Eddit carried the fight and ^ won by daylight. I (JtfNSio Features & Photo Syndicate) WHEN homesickness strikes Tin Pan Alley it is invariably ex pressed in songs about the South land. The tradi tton stems bacK, of course, to those greatest of American song writers, Stephen Foster and James A. Bland with their melo dies of Virginia and Kentucky and Southern rivers and Dixie »n general. Lou.. Reid The nostaglia is set at rest most often by the tunesmitht through the simple pro cess of declaring definitely that they are returning to some beloved scene, as, for example, "I'm Going Back to Carolina,” "I'm Going Back to Dixie, ’ "I'm Going Back, Back, Back To Memphis, Tennessee." 'I'm Go ing Back to Bottomland,” "I'm Go ing Back to My Mammy,” and "I’m Goin’ Back to Alabam’." 0 *—e Incidentally, there hasn't been a new mammy song in years. But flits fie is 'tow in Hollywood, torih' ing tunes foe movies. Warburg, under the pseudonym of Paul James, collaborated with Kay Simft the former Mrs 'Pnr burg. (n writing the tongs of at Joe Cook musical comedy. Their most popular numbers, according t» the records of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publish ers. were "Can This Re Lone" an* "Can't We Hr Friends " Joining up with the New Deal Administration in its early days, Warburg ■'Ttise* his songwriting ipork, not did h* resume it when a few nauths otter he returned to plicate life. Rooks, on economics have been tits recent creative outlet. p—gf—0 William H. Woodin derived con siderable pleasure, and no little re nown, from his musical composi tions prior to his appointment by President Roosevelt as Secretary of the Treasury, He specialized in de scriptive suites of childhood theme* and the pioneer days of America, his best known works being ‘Raggedy Ann” and “Covered Wagon r,'.y* He liked to visit broadcasting stu dios when programs of his pieces then M a s s a J o 1 s o n, chief celebrator of Mam my, has been absorbed recently in other activi ties. When Jolson was appearing in elaborate musical revues he paid regular tribute to Mam my. his devotion taking the form of outstretched arms, one knee rever ently upon the stage tlie while he lifted his voice in lusty, loving senti ment. He made Mammy I such a vogue that other comedians began to bur lesque his style, notably Will Mahoney who had a none in which prae Al Jolson A.S.C.A.I*. were scneouieu, with musicians in a spirit of friendly cama raderie. “Call me Will.'* he used to say to them to make conversation, easier, break down the reserve of his govern mental post. Similarities of words frequently lead to fan tastic uses in song titles. The other day we came across the title, tucked amiy in the files of .1SCAP: ‘'From the In dies to the Andes in IIis Indies.'’ tically every word was “mammy. Only members of the financial world to pain fame in musical com position are lloapy Carmichael, Paul Warburg and the late William H. Woodin. 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