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About The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1939)
* By Daniel I. McNamara I a BRAM CHASINS, brilliant young American musician . -. . com poser, pianist, musicologist ... is a notable exponent of industry in art. He adheres strictly to long schedules in his busy New York studio overlooking Central Park. Luncheons are brief; often he works far into the night. Still in his early thirties, he enjoys world wide prestige. Chasins was born of Russian ^parents in New York City, August |17, 1903. Discovered as a child [Iprodigy by the late Mrs. Thomas [Tapper, musician-friend of juvenile genius, he began studying composi tion with Rubin Goldmark at twelve. Later teachers were Richard Ep stein and Ernest Hutcheson. He studied at Curtis Institute in Phila delphia, remained as piano teacher until 1934. During 1931 and 1932 he made two successful concert tours (of Europe. Chasins' first compositional efforts [were in his student days in Curtis. His “Three Chinese Pieces’’ found (their way into the concert programs [of many leading artists. He made his own pianistic debut with Gabrilowitsch and the Phila delphia orchestra in 1929, playing his own First Piano Concerto. Tos canini honored him in the 1931 season of the Philharmonic by per forming Chasins' “Parade” and (‘‘Flirtation in a Chinese Garden.” (Thrice in a single week in 1938 he (appeared in Barbirolli’s Philhar monic Symphony series, playing his mwn Second Piano Concerto. His regularly scheduled lecture (recital radio broadcasts initiated in 1934 attained great popularity. These revealed facility of oral ex< pression to complement his thor ough musicianship. Chasins is a staunch ally of fellow composers, a defender of the righta in intellectual property created by them. He is a leading spirit of the American Composers’ Alliance, and an active member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. His favorite composers are Bach, Chopin, Brahms and Wag ner. Rachmaninoff and Strauss are his most admired contemporaries. Chasins finds time for recreation in the midst of constantly increas ing activities in composition, con certs and radio broadcasting. He plays chess and bridge, enjoys out door sports. His favorite reading is biography and philosophy, occasion ally a detective story. He converses fluently in three languages. Singularly devoid of the tempera mental instability traditionally at tributed to composers, he insists that hard work 1b his best inspira tion. He loves his work, bears his hostors modestly. Success in youth has not spoiled him. * - ——* {Music Features « Photo Syndicate) DEMURRER GRANTED BY JUD6E IN VIRGINIA TEACHERS SALARY CASE a!ITY OF NORFOLK ADMITS INEQUALITY BUT CONTENDS TEACHER HAS NO LEGAL ACTION — NAACP Appeals At Once Norfolk, Va., June8—Following a three and one half hour hearing in the Circuit Court here June 1, Presiding Judge Allan R. Hanckel denied a petition filed by Miss Aline E. Black, local high school teacher, which sought to compel the Norfolk school board to pay Miss Black and all other Negro teachers in Norfolk, the same salary as white teachers with si milar qualifications and doing the flame type of work. Judge Hanckel sustained a de murrer filed to Miss Black’s peti tion for a writ of mandamus by City Attorney Alfred Anderson and his assistant, W. Old, Jr., and ordered the case dismissed. In sustaining the demurrer which means simply that while the City of Norfolk admits everything in Miss Black’s complaint, it con tends that she had no legal basis for the suit. Judge Hanckel com mented that the case would go to the U. S. Supreme Court anyway. He was referring to a statement noted in the original petition filed last March 2 by attorneys for Miss Black, that they intedded to carry the case to the high court of the decision of the lower court went against them. Within a few hours after Judge Hanckel’s decision Miss Black’s attorney’s: Thurgood Marshall, as sistant special counsel for the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People; Leon A. Ransom, of the associa tion’s national legal committee aad completed their appeal for filing before the Virginia State Court of Appeals for a writ of error. The City of Norfolk’s attorney, hq We argument for dismissal #f the case set fourth the following main points: The petition was insufficient in law; Miss Black was employed on a private contract basis and the defendants could either hire her or not and pay her whatever they wanted to; Miss Black could not complain if she accepted such a contract; the courts could not con trol by mandamus action a dis cretionary power that could be exercised by the Norfolk school board alone; Miss Black waived all constitutional rights when she accepted the contract. The NAAOP attorneys, denying that the petition was insufficient in law argued that the high school teacher’s contract was not as is sue in the case. They pointed out that the issue was the establish ment of a salary basis for teachers in Norfolk that did not discrimin ate against Negro teachers. Attorneys for the NAACP cited the salary schedule, which was filed with the petition. This sche dule provides that white female high school teachers shall receive a minimum of $970 and a maxi mum of $1,900 a year, while a [Separate salary schedule for Ne gro high school teachers provides a minimum for female leaehers of $699 and a maximum of $1,106. Miss Black’s petition alleged that the Norfolk School board was enforcing the discriminatory sal ary schedule, actually paying Ne gro teachers less than white teach ers with identical qualification and experience and doing the same type of work, solely on the basis of color. The NAACP attorneys argued that “there is no discretion to violate the United States Consti tution,’’ that the Board, although it had power to fix salaries, had it had power to fix salaries had no power <to pay Negro teachers less than whites sk'ply because of col or. They argued further that when color was made the basis of dis crimination the Board violated the fourteenth amendment to the Con stitution. They oited numerous cases iatexded to show that Miss Black eould *«t waive her Coe stituuorial rights. Most of tKeir argument was hased on the fourteenth Amend ment as it applied to requiring equal treatment for all citizens in the distribution of public funds for schools. Commenting on Judge Henekel’s decision, officials of the NAACP said. “We are not surprised to receive a reversal in the lower courts of Virginia in this case, just as we were not surprised to receive a reversal in the lower courts of Missouri in the University of Missouri case. “Wo want an opportunity to get a decision from the United States supreme court because we believe that the high court’s decision will affect the question of equalized salaries, in all the states, not only ae it applieg to white and colored teachers, but as it applies to white and colored workers in every field of public employ ment” _ "MIDNIGHT SHADOW GOES FROM IjOT TO CUTTING ROOM WILL BE REIJiASED SOON "Midnight Shadow” has just left the lot as a completed product— is now in the cutting room and will soon be on its way to the many theatres which have been anxious ly awaiting its release. After viewing the rushes, men renowned for their knowledge of motion picture production are un animous in their opinion that ‘‘Midnight Shadow” is the finest and greatest p;cture ever pro duced Iby an all colored cast. This film, is sure to capture the good wishes of motion picture fans because of the brilliant artis tic technique dbplayed, the poise and instinctive acting of the cast, and instead of the ugly, the rough -i ■ and common, this picture will be distinguished by its loveliness of scenic sequence, smoothness, of execution and right elegant cos tumes, good taste, refinement and gay, mirthful comedy blazing through the entire faerie. Frances Redd who recently ar rived in Hollywood by plane from Chicago to play the role of the loading lady in “Midnight Sha dow"’ a George Randol Produc tions film, though new in motion picture work, was well received by everyone; and because of her grace, beauty and natural ability as an actress has proven herself to be a real modem Cinderella and an immediate star. Watch your local theaters for early release. -0O0 FILTERED AIR IS BETTER FOR LUNGS Studies of the lungs of human beings, after death, have shown that the amount of dust of all kinds that is breathed in, which gets past all the protective devices in nose, throat, trachea and bron chial tubes, is much greater than i8 commonly realized, says a bul letin of the National Warm Air Heating and Air Conditioning As sociation. It has long been known physicians that a coal miner can readily be identified by autopsy by the blackness of his lungs; and some studeiis believe that (the lungs of a resident of a soft coal burning city, and a resident of an anthracite burning city would show considerable difference in this respect. The theroy has also been advanced that the greater susceptibility of elder people to pneumonia is due, at least in part, to the cumulative effect of the dust which has been gathering from year to year, in their lungs. The Association points out that one of the great advantages, from the health point of view, of mod ern warm beating systems, which are also being increasingly used for summer caol air conditioning, is that these systems, in which the air » forced up into the liv ing rooms by a blower fan, make it possible to filter the air Purer air, as well as better control of warmth in winter and coolness in summer, is consequently one of the advanages of forced air heat ing. -0O0—— Driscoll Commencement Speaker at Boys Town Boys Town, June 4 (Special)— Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home to day (Sunday June 4) held their third annual high school commence mont exercises. Nine boys, who came 'to Father Flanagan’s famed Boys Town a few years ago, re ceived their high, school diplomas from the Catholic priest (Father Flanagan) who gave them their first break in life, a break they might otherwise never had, for they came to Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home from broken homes or were homeless, abandoned or neg lected youths. Today these nine boys 8tep up a rung of life’s laddeT as normal and healthy American youths, trained in only one ISM—Amer icanism—all because of Father Flanagan’s long interest in giving the homeless and abandoned boys a better chance in life. Charles B Driscoll, New York cclumnist who wri'es, “New York Day by Day,” which is pub'isheti in ever 300 dai y \v<papcis, in thi Boys Town comoftc-uumit ad d;ess begged the gr'< uales “not to lelieve a word that there is no h,nj.er any opportunity,’’ He said: “You have heard a great deal I have no doubt, about wlat a dark and dismal place the world is getting to be, how h*.»e ess it is, and h^w cruel; how the dicta tors and bolsheviks and ’.he crack oots are ta .mg it tver. Ar.d, a bcve all now there is no ici.j er any opportunity, that he last frontier has been closed, the la»t great dis covery made, the last no-man’s land explored,” “I beg of you, do not believe a word of it.” “It is true that this thing which we call civilization is sick—yes, sick abed and running a bit of temperature. But I assure you, young men, that this is no new condition. If you will read a little farther over in the book you will find that sickness is a chronic con dition with civilization. In fact, the old fellow is a bit of hypoch ondriac. Civilization was sick when I graduated (too, tossing on his bed and calling ourt in an alarm ing delirium. The trouble just now is that the bedside of the pa tient ig haunted by an innumerable multitude of quacks . So many yarb doctors, medicine men, mir acle men and sages are stewing up concoctions, beating their tom toms, and uttering incantations, that the poor patient, Civilization has no chance to get well “I suspect he is going to let a great cry out of him pretty soon, and call for the old family doctor. If old Doc Common Sense gets to work on the case opens the wind ows, and makes up a couple of old fashioncy} hot poultices, those quacks will dive out of the win dows and the patient will sit up and ask for nournkshment.” Continued the New York Col umnist: “Now about the last great frontier. 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He began to popularize the hill billy songs, and with the aid of a little orchestra he formed, made many recordings, including numBfcrs of hit own composition.. Orphaned at an early age, he ran away at thirteen, large (or his years, made his way as a piano player, did odd jobs — and went back to Memphis. He is a prolific composer and arranger, ond broadcasts frequently. Hi* own favorite com Eeser is Stephen Foster, whom, he says, the hill illiet odore^' Relatives and friends furnished help for him to finish his education at the Southern Con servatory of Music in Memphis, and later at the Chicago Conservatory of Music. Bob Miller's hill billy music is generally topical, and bandits and heroes are celebrated alike, as their deeds ore reggrded^ Bob played frequent theatrical engage ments, and even tried the prize ring to help finance himself. But the music of the hills kept coming to his mind. __ Bob Miller it a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and hit hill billy melodies are ova'.laa;« to el{ vlicj>n£ed gitablishmenfs. __