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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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’."
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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.
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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. Carmichael's success in
songwriting was so impre$:ive that
he severed all connection with Wall
Street to devote himself exclusively
to music. After several Broadway
Two of the most enchanting com
positions in the light classical cate
gory are Debussy's "Clair de Luiie"
and Kevin's “A Day in Venice/'
Each has a favored place on th«*
music racks of the concert orches
tras, and the former is one of the
most popular compositions with
concert pianists. In 1936 more than
7,000 performances were given of
each of these works.
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