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HOTB:—Your question will be analyzed free In this column only when you include a clipping of this column and sign your full name. birthdate and correct address to your letter. For a "Private Reply ... send only 25c and a stamped envelope for my latest ASTROLOGY BEADING covering your birthdate', also a free letter of advice analyzing three Questions. Explain your problems clearly and con* fine your questions to those within the scope of logical reasoning. I — Semd Your Letter To — _ ^ _ ABBE’ WALLACE. P. O. BOX 11. ATLANTA. GA. I). L. G.—Do you think this yeai will be lucky for me? Ans: Sure Do. That trip you plan to Philadelphia will turn out better than you had dared hope. Try to leave the kids with your sister ‘till you get settled. \ W. H H.—I’ve knew her since ■wo were kids in Grammar School. Our friendship rolled along like heaven up to a month ago. My feeling toward her I am sure will never die away. I really love her with all my heart. Should I let matters take their course or should I try to find out whats its all about? Is it real love? Ans: No lad, its just PUPPY LOVE. I remember when I was your age. I had fallen in and out of love a half-a-dozen times. Th's g'rl thinks you are mighty sweet, she’s not serious though. Time will heal your wounded heart. *" D. H, K_Will my boss give mo the raise I asked h'm for. I do most of tVe work now arid he don’t do hardly anythng except get rch. Ans: You have your boss wrong. Your boss could re place you without too much trouble and pay a man sdve don’t hardly anything except ho does you. Can you show your bo^ on paper where he’s making more money be cause of you? You cannot do it my friend, and until you can. DON’T EXPECT r A RAISE. J. A. W.—My husband and 1 have been married two years, and married life has been happy and so sweet together. We never go out no place unless wo are together. Hut hero lately he goes out and Jeaves me at home. The third time ARTHRITIS If you want to really try to get at your Rheumatism—Neuritis—Arthritis—Sciatica —Lumbago you must first get rid of some of the old and false beliefs about them 1 Read a Book that is informing thousands— "The Inner Mysteries of Bhenmatlsm— , Arthritis.'1'' In simple words this helpful I Book reveals startling, proven facta that 'every sufferer should know 1 The 8th edition is just off the press and a free copy will be mailed without obligation to any sufferer sending their address prompt ly to the author. H. P. Clearwater, Ph. D„ 2029-A Street, Hallowell, Maine. ho went out he stayed all night. What is tho matter? Matter? HE IS BEING TEMPTED BY ANOTHER WOMAN. If you let him get away with it now, you will have ito put up with his “trifling’' from now on. Put your foot down lady, and PUT IT DOWN HARD, -- . • L. M.—I have a rrece very dear to me. Bad rumors are gong around about her and a married man, one old enough for her grandpa. Are they true? Ans: Like all gossip, your neiees’s affair with this old man has been stretched and ro-stretche,d until the stories going around are pretty “low down” by this time. Your neice had been a little too attentive to this old fellow, but the true picture sn’t as bad ns its being panted, M. E. J.—Several months ago a friwtd disappeared. He was last seen on the wharf. Tell me if you , think he is drowned like people say. Ans: I DON'T Your friend will turn up again and solve this mystery himself. There is another to his “private affairs” that in my opinion brought a bout tVs disappearance. At present, I *bel:eve he is with friends in another city -- 4 C. 0. S.—My husjjand always tries to boss me around. He used to beat on me until I started to beat him back. Now he has stopp ed fighting and resorts to mental cruelty. He ovens turns his back on me when we get in bed. I try not to pay him any mind. I love him and he knows it, but I am about to be ashamed of it. I don't know whether to stay with him or leave h'm ? Ans: The way things are go ing now, you are heading straight for the Divorce Courts. It takes two to make a happy married life and you cannot do it all by yourself. If you get to the source of your husbands moodiness, I think you will find he is worried about his bills and his job. Do your level best to humor him until his work gets a little better. Conditions will improve > all around shortly AROUND "" ABOUT ^ By Phil Down If you work cross-word puzzles, hi'ie are the correct Daffinitions of words you are liable to use. Bran—What you think with. Gun—Already left. Gum—Will you be there. Mat—Angry. Fete—What you wear shoes on. Pest—Long ago. Game—He was here. Gyms—Belongs to Jim. Eye—Me. Rain—Melted snow. Blow—Underneath, Irne—'Tellin’ fibs. Set—-Past of say. Hog—Big Pig. Which—D a m e riding on a broom. Cad—Mouse catcher. Hum—Where you stay when you have no place to go. Buck—-Cover with printing in side. Scream—-What’s on the top of milk. * *_* * * Remember the Ala Mode. Every man’s a king in his own home. Yeah most of them are in exile. I hear that Ursula Walker, you remember the little dame who went to .Faint Paul, won’t be back for a whole year and a half, so Eugene Ingalise had better start performing that prolonged shave or buy himself a wheel barrel to carry’ it in by the time she re turns. Advice for the Love--lorn. * *_* * * W’e wonder who H. N.(One Roun’-Nick)will walk heme with now? I bet he gives A. M. C. a break. Sam Harrison says that ignor ance mtist be bliss because Leroy Thomas always has a happy look on his faefe. Now Leroy you know Sam can’t he wrong because he can’t bo fooled.' He is TOO DUMB! ! ! ! * *.* * * Paging Romeo Rudd ALL (more or less) of the feminine folk are paging Romeo Rudd. OOh Rudd where art thou ? ? ? ? ? (in a weak voice) “Hiding, just hiding, from them all!! 1! All the kids from Tech seem to bo enjoying their delioous and defovely Spring Vacation. Hain’t that rite kids? ? ? ? * *_* * * Williard Wright seems to en joy struttin’ Tech’s halls with Na omi McGill and much to her de light By the way Naomi, what happened to W. K. incorporated? ****** • Hoooooooe Huuuuuuuumm—That’s all of my INNOCENT declarations. “ 'Levcn Cent Cottnn, Forty fj Cent Meal” r /-.T? v i : ! - 1 j j r «t i "T 'Uv.acuA tol-lou, For - ty «H aul. Bunn in rural mempuis, leim., iu the heart of the hill billy coun try. he was orphaned at an early age At ten lie discovered he had a talent for music, and by thirteen ran away from home to become a professional piano player. But he soon returned to Memphis, where relatives and friends helped him to finish his education at the Southern Conservatory of Music In Memphis, and later at the Chicago Conserva tory of Music. In those early years, ho fancied himself a theatrical star and, once, even though^ he was a prize fighter The music of the hills kept com ing to his mind, so he formed a little orchestra and began to popu larize the hill billy songs. lie wrote a number of them himself, made many recordings, and later became a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Pub lishers. He wrote so many hill billy songs, and wrote them so rapidly, that he became known among muBic publishers as a one-man music fac tory. He writes under more than a dozen pseudonyms. At present, he lives in New York, where he is his own publisher. His name is U8||iw qog yMu»tc Feature! Si Photo Syndicate—N. Y.> Works of Negro Composers Heard in Second Nation-Wide Festival of American Music In the plans for the Second An nual Festival of American Music held in more than one hundred communities on February 21, 22 and 23, compositions of Negro mu sicians were included among the numbers presented by nearly 6.000 musicians on the Fedei-al Project rolls of the Works Progress Ad ministration. “Afro-American Symphony,’’ a composition by William Grant Still, a brilliant young Negro com poser of Los Angeles, California, was heard during the performance of the WPA Detroit Symphony Orchestra. This presentation was cn the Festival Program at the Cass Technical High School in the Michigan city. T!,a Federal Orchestra at Akron, Ohio included the Works of R Na thaniel Dott, head of the Depart ment of Music, Bennett College, CroL'rsboro. North Carolina, and of Clarence Cameron White of New York City. These composers’ crea tions shared a program which in cluded musical scores by Walter Damrosch, the late George Ger mvin, Albert Stoessel, Alexander Reinagle and David Guio>n. The )k»rd of Education and the Akron Ohio Chamber of Commerce spon sored this three-day concert ns thojr part in the Second Annual Festival of American Music. 0O0 “SWING MIKADO” BECOMES INSTANT HIT Ths "Swing Mikado" is a sell out for the next three weeks and the box office at the New Yorker Theatre, where the Chicago Fed eral Theatre production is playing ha« increased it* staff from three to five men to handle an advance sale that is smashing all records for project offerings. Tho present supply of tickets is already exhausted Karly next week a new order of tickets will ho at the box office to take care of the demand through April. On March 15 tickets for an advance sale of twelve weeks will be de 1 Vverel to the New Yorker. The unprecedented demand for tickets for,the “Swing Mikado” al so has given jobs to two addition s' telephone operators, assigned to j tho New Yorker this morning to ! handle tho flood of telephone calls coming into the theatre. The box office opened Monday noon. Twenty four hours later, with the opening still a day away, fho project knew the “Swing Mika do" was a hit, with every seat in the house sold for the ensuing week. The instantaneous success of the “1030 version of the Gilbert and Sullivan Mikado" gives the Fed eral Theatre two current produc tions playing to capacity houses “Pinoccihiio,” now at the Ritz The atre, reported a sell out every day last week. TEDDY WILSON LEAVES GOODMAN AFTER DETROIT ENGAGEMENT -. J Detroit March 2 (ANPI—Teddy , Wilson, generally recogn'z»>d as the | world’s foremost swing pianist and for almost three years a member of Benny Goodman’s aggregation, ! left the clarinet-playing maestro ( Thursday when the unit’s engage ment was concluded at the Fox theatre here. He has returned to ! New York to rehearse his own hand which ho has been organiz;ng for several months. Wilson joined Goodman in Chi cago during late spring of 1936 Although mixed groups have long recorded together in sti^ios, this was the first time that a promi nent white band leader had openly used a colored musician and this breaking of precedent resulted in kScL ; BIRTH OF A SONG_c,,^ •(Music O ^ l ♦*yu*cuJV o' ^ GEORCE MICHAEL COHAN was borr. .1 _ Providence, R. I., July 4th, 1878, son of Jerry John and Helen Frances Costigan Cohan. He was born to the theatre. He trouped with his family, and at the age of ten got special billing as "Master Georgie." He played the violin, and got six dollars a week for his efforts. The family was world famous as The Four Cohans." George s father wrote their material, and young Ceorge began to show an interest in songwriting. From 1895 when May Irwin scored with one of his songs his career as a writer was only rivalled by his career as a playwright actor-manager But George always referred to himself as a "song-and-dance man "Over There" was inspired by a bugle call. Cohan had been trying to find an inspir ation for a patriotic song, and the inspira tion came as he was sitting in a taxi, which ] bad been stopped by marching troops. "Over There" was First sung by Charles King at a Red Cross benefit at the New York Hippodrome in the autumn of 1917. The audience response was instantaneous. At least five hundred Cohan songs are in print, and almost as many more in manu script are in the possession of entertainers for whom Cohan wrote He also wrote and produced about forty of his own plays. v * His membership in the American Society / of Composers, Authors and Publisher* dates back twenty-five years when the So^ ciety was organized, and all of his copyright* ed songs are in the repertoire of ASCAfJg THE average listener cannot tell the difference between a $100 fiddle and a $100,000 Stradivanus but tie can ten the difference between Heifetz and Hillbilly Hi ram ... Wonder what is the fa vorite tune at present of the Duke of Wind sor. . . . When the Duke was the Prince of Wales he was ---“—--—quite a ncijj Louis Rsla (though he prob ably didn’t know it) to Tin Pan Alley’s press agents. . . . Only an nouncer in radio with an operatic background is Basil RuysdaeL He was at one tinat an honest-to-Verdi member of the Metropolitan Opera Company. . . . Musical programs sometimes carelessly list David Guion as the composer of “Turkey in the Straw” and "Arkansaw Trav eler.” He made new arrangements of the tunes. But what smooth and stimulating arrangements! ... Ma rimba bands seem to be on the de crease. Hymning Broadway The ukulele industry is also in a decline.. Once ukuleles were as plentiful as trucks on the Boston Post Road. . . . Can't recall that Lenox Avenue (heart of Harlem) has ever been celebrated in song. . . . Broadway, however, receives continuous tribute. . . . Most endur ing of Broadway songs, according to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, is George M. Cohan’s "Give My Regards to Broadway." Written a generation ago, it has become the leading an them of America's most famous Btreet. . . . Other popular Broadway Bongs are "Broadway Melody" and "Broadway Rhythm," both written by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Fried; (they were first sung in a movie): "Broadway Merry Go Round,” "Broadway Reverie," by Dave Stamper and Gene Buck; "Broadway Rose,” “Broadway's Gone Hillbilly” and, of course, that sentimental defense by Bert Grant and Joe Young, “Don’t Blame It All on Broadway.” ^_mk_4k To musician* and others close to ‘ Leopold Stokowski, the maestro is known as "Stoky." But never to his \ face. . . . Toscanini, on the other hand, is never known to his musir dans as "Tosky,” but as "the maes tro." ... But few dance tunes retain , any distinctiveness on the pipe or ! gan. ... “Rhapsody in Blue," once j the meat course of Paul Whiteman's jazz banquets, is now the salt-and pepper of all his programs. . . . To hear the “Merry Widow Waltz" to day is like coming upon a long-for gotten love letter. No Swing from Airplanes Yet Swing music from airplanes in flight has yet to become a vogue. Wonder what the delay is about..» Most suppressed musical desire 01 ours, if you care to know, is to tickle an xylophone. .,. Memo to Thomas E. Dewey: A song gathering dust in the files of ASCAP bears the title, “The Parade of the Racket eers.” It was written by Gene Buck and Hugo Riesenfeld for a produc tion of the Ziegfeld Follies and dis carded at rehearsal. . . . Couldn’t it be revived for a present-day revue? ... Beethoven is said to have netted a neat little fortune from his “Battle Symphony,” which is based upon the ancient theme, familiar to Amer icans as “We Won’t Go Home Un til Morning.” . . . The people of Beethoven’s time knew a good tune when they heard it P • P Chief problem of dance bandmen today is to keep a sharp line be tween high hat jazz, for which dance-mad America cares not a hoot, and tum-te-tum rhythms, which mu sical bigwigs disdain. ... It is this problem, we suspect, which keepe them thin. ... So much competition i ,aMMaBagaa^siii«^ .-jl David W. uuion, A.a.u.M.r. (Made enduring arrangement* of American folk classic*) among the dance inspirers today/V wooing publicity with special cony certs, maktng tours of movie and vaudeville houses, playing for col* , lege proms, enlisting restless *o- J -clety girls to blend their voices wltk ' the saxophones’ walls. The same moon shines over Ver-y mowf as over Carolina, but no laure ate of Tin Pan Alley has ever said, so in song. , . . Probably no tong ever written has been so identified • with marriage ceremonies' as Reg inald De Koven's “O Promise Me.^i , . . Before jazz crept up from th«j levees and sophistication stamped \ its high heel upon the land, <Ar, melody echoed over every-—well, at-J most every—wedding (n the land. 1 widespread criticism from many sources. But Benny ignored the«e reactions and later added Lionel Hampton after hearing him piny the vibrnhnrp in a small Los An geles cafe. Records made by the original trio, consist ing of Wilson, Goodman and Gene Krupa on drums, outsold those made by the entire band. Tho addit'on of Hampton to form a quartet has also resulted in big sales. Recently John Kirby, bass playing husband of Maxine Sulli van, has been added on records to form the Goodman quintet. The band leader has seriously consider ed hiring other ace Negro musici ans to his orchestra, and in the near future may bring in both a guitarist and a bassist to occupy the same relations!)ip as that held by Wilson and Hampton Jess Stacey, regular band pianist wil hake Teddy’s place with the trio and quartet. Hampton is ex pected to leave and form a band of his own next September. Teddy is foe fourth star to leave end head orchestras of their own. Krupa quit, then so did Bud Free man, tenor, who has a small unit in New York, and Harry James, trumpet sensation, who recently made his radio rebut with his own band. It is understood that several others are planning ojn leaving among them Ziggy Elman, trum pet player. Some rumors have it that next fall the Goodman band will be broken up, with Benny accepting an executive job with the Nation*.’.- Broadcasting company. __m FASHIONS (By Hazel Griggs for ANP) Classics Important in Itudgcted Wardrobes. Women who have difficulty try ing to keep in tune with the ever changing styles, because ftf inflex ible budgets or a district of the practicality of fashion innovations, would do well to study the clas sics when building or replenishing a wardrobe. These classic styles, in coats, suits, dresses, and hats, are fashioned for practical-minded wo men-and those of us who feel that not only must we wear clothes be coming a variety of needs, hut al so those which well be good for more than one season The classics are invaluable to women who have this- attitude, be cause they do not change from year to year, are comfortable and almost universally becoming They use new fabrics from season to season and fresh trimrrfing effects but they *-ling to the established silhouette as to skirt length and fullness, and remain in style for a long time. In building a wardrobe around classic lines, one must consider and remember tailored suits, swag ger topcoats, shirtwaist dresses, reefers, oxfords, opera pumps, sweaters and skirts and casual hats. These articles of wearing ap parel are practical, trim and neat, but are far from drab, theis sea son anyway, when colors are seen in everything and blouses, sweat ers and skirts are at their best. Suits, also, are more feminine and lovelier than they have been for many seasons, and the lines this year are as kind to curves as thye are to pencil-slim types. The suit may easily form the ba sic outfit to your spring wardrobe and it may be changed around considerably with several blouses, sweaters and a plaid jacket to al ternate with your plain one.. Casual hats of classic make, always good with suits, vary only slightly from season to season and maybe worth several seasons be fore they actually look passe. The Color picture is' suits. Inci dentally, is very exciting. vv? find navy with strawberry, plaid, grey with momosa yellow check- ami oatmeal tweed* in a variety of I bright combinations.