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Hollywood, July 19 Don’t look for the scand——I mean secret bean spillin' at the start of the 01’ Kol. yum. I have to dish up the leg t imat'e news first, so just read on down and you will find the scan— er—I mean “lid lifting off private lives at the end. Just stick to this column, week after week, and it will stand hy you.—Some time soon I’ll tell you what each of the sep ia stars gets paid in Hollywood. They don’t even know that I have the figures. I'll tell you about their home life, their love life, their foods, fancies, superstitions, good traits, and faults. Harry M. Popkin, executive pro ducer of Million Dollar Produc tions, is on the way back from New York, after a very encour aging tour over the eastern field. Thu trip was in line wi h the ce menting of the new deal recent ly made with tide Sack Amuse ment enterprises which now ha thu exclusive distribution of Mil lion Dollar’s all-colored cast films. : Meanwhile Mr. Sack has been cov- j «ring territory in Tennessee, and other southern states before head ing for Chicago. Harley Harding, who has been operating the Mil lion Dollar's branch office in Chi cago, will return shortly to the homo office. Meanwhile Director Leu C. Popkin, and unit supervis t !'■ .. . ' or Arthur A. Brooks ate making preparition for the filming of “One Dark Night,” with Hattie McDan iel, and Mantan Moreland, Thir ty-six members of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, and the 24th and 25th Infantry have l>een drilling every afternoon at Ross Snyder playground in preparation for the filming of “Black Regiment,” the big war picture Million Dollar will build around the life of the late Col. Charles Young. Ralph Cooper, who catapulted to film fame as the star of “Bargain With Bullets” followed by “The Duko is Tops,” will also return to Hollywood from New? York in a few days. He has been east for several mdnths makng personal appearances and leading his band. He will hasten here to prepare for his next starring vehicle tenative ly titled, “White Silent Walls,” in which he will play a highly sci entific physician who is withal sympathetic and self sacrficing. He figures in a sensational episode in the story that is sure-to be jam packed with thrills. More than doubling its produc tion budget over last year, and with a list of properties that include New York stage successes and best-selling novels, RKO Radio pic tures will produce 68 feature length films during the 1939-40 season, it was announced at the Holly wood studios. —. —... II. I. I — ■ NOTE:—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"... •lend only 25c and a stamped envelope'for my latest ASTROLOGY READING 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. — Send Your Letter To — ABBS’ WALLACE. P. O. BOX 11. ATLANTA. GA. r E. H.—I am a devoted admi cr of your column. I am just 17 and have “boy trouble”. The pro blem I am terribly worried about la kissing boys. I have a very good reputation as a “good girl” and I’d like to keep it. But when a friend cornea to the house and asks mo for a goodnight kiss, I’m a fraid to hurt Ons feelings by re fusing or slapping h;s face if he insists. Is it considered “cheap” for a girl to accept r kiss from a boy she likes? PERPLEXED. Ans: Good night kisses are perfectly respectable and you needn’t worry about jeo pardizing your reputation by indulging in one or two. This doesn’t mean that you should start a “slobbering contest” every time you say good night to a boy. A good night kiss and a pat on the cheek will hold your admirers for you. R. T.—-Dear Professor: Will you please tell me if the woman 1 left my sample case with will pay me for the comb? Ans: Why should she? Sre didn’t get your comb. D. M. B.—Should I give this letter to the boy I wrote it to and what would he do? Ans: He would feel flatter ed somewhat—but it wouldn’t make a very big impression on him. The majority of young people go through this stage of writing notes to one an other—he will keep it a secret as he had done many times be fore. H. M.—I’m out of a job and am thinking of going to California and wish to know what you think about it? Ans: The idea is all right but you must have money to make a trip of this kind. Get out and get employment and save a little money. When you get something ahead, then make the change to California if you feel you would prefer to live out there. A. D.—Dear Abbe—I am writ ing about our church. Tell me if it will ever grow and will we ever build a new church? What is wrong? Ans: The chief difficulty »e«*ms to be that the Members do not cooperate as they !> should—without cooperation, very little can be accomplish- | ed. In all probability if you > had a new active leader among | you women, you could help the j Pastor accomplish his aim. At any rate do your part, and pray that the others will do likewise. In time a new Church will be built. R. T. M.—I have an awfully nice boy friend and he will do anything I ask of him. He is try ing to get me to marry him and I am afraid he won’t be as nice to me after we are married. Tell me if he is really in love with me? An*: He’s “nuts’’ about you and you know it too. Most likely you two will be married within a few months time and 1 firmly believe that you will get along swell. If you strive as foard to make him happy as he is to make you happy, tlhen your worries will be few. E. L. G.—There is a man who wants me to marry him since I left my husband. Tell me if I should marry him or take the old horse back again? Ans: No. Don’t consider taking your husband back when you know that you don’t love him. Get your divorce and stay single awihile. If at a later date you are sure that yoiu are in love again, then get married. A. G—Have been wanting to go farming for a long time. Will I be successful in another year to do so? Ans: Indeed you could. In the meantime study up en Agriculture and all materials pertaining to farming and it will profit you greatly. -—0O0 24 JEWS WHO FAIL TO LIST RACE, JAILED Milan, Italy, July 13 (CNA)— , Twenty-four of thirty-three Jews tried for not having declared their Jewish blood under the race law passe,} last November were under sentences this week varying from twenty days in jail and $100 fines to eight days in jail and $50 fines. Nine were aquitted. The thirty-three were the first of 200 who will be tried. NEW BOOKS _ “Tobe” By Stella Gentry Sharpe, Univer sity of North Carolina Press $1.00 To>be is one of the most delight ful of the new children’s books, for Negro children, now on the market. Writen by Stella Gentry Sharpe, a school teacher of North Carolina, the book is rich with viv id descriptions of the real treas ures of southern rural life. The story, presented in primer form, is concerned with the everyday life of a real family, observed by the author over a period of time. It is the family of Tobe, a six-year old colored boy who lives on a farm in North Carolina. Tobe’s is a large fmily. There are the little twins, five years old, the big twins, aged nine, Tobe’s big brother, Raeford, 12, his mo ther and father and his two ol der sisters, who “can bake cakes and sweet potato pics and have a beautful flower garden.” Each member of the family is interest ing, and the group activities are portrayed in simple sentences, eas ily understood by tfhe young child. The child will captivate children for it is filled with wee reader interest. In addition to the fascinating story of Tobe and his family, the book is filled with charming photo graphs, the test I’ve seen in a book of this type and they, alone, 1 are worth the price of this little volume. The photographs, display ing Tobe, this family, the children’s pe.s, the community school and church the fields where the family , earns a living, the brook where To be and his brothers fish and wade and many other typical rural scenes, are as realistic and natural as photographs could well be. Most of them, says a photographer. Char, les Farrell, were taken when the children were unaware they were being snapped and we may well believe this for they unposed and perfect for the reason. “l'obe” is educatioal as well as interesting and entertaining, por traying as it does different har vests in the chapters: “Harvest- , ing Wheat,” “In the Tobacco Field,” '•H/arvetling Sweet 1 btatoes,” “Picking Cotton” and so on; ex plaining the work of the cotton gin; how molases is made and J how to catch a posum. Tobe and \ his brothers have fun too, fun in everyday living with extra special celebrations on Hallowe’en, Thanks giving and Christmas. The book is also interspersed with homely philosophy and I'd just like to share this last paragraph wi.h you. It is entitled “What Brings Good Luck,” and reads as follows: “One day last summer we went to see Aunt Susan. Her apple trees were full of apples. I sa d, “I am glad you have many apples. We do not have many apples on our trees.” She asked, “Did you hang horse shoes on your apple trees?” “You should hang horse shoes in your apples trees if you want many apples,” she said. We went home and told mother. She said, “The horse shoes did not make the apples grow. Work made them grow. You will have to dig around our trees and spray them.” We did, too. Now we have many apples.” NOVEL BY NEW NEGRO WRITER IS OF REALIST, HARDBOILED SCHOOL By Frank Marshall Davis for AN'P Most novelists of ordinary means dream of making enough money by sales of their published work to spend all their time at writing. Negro novelists seldom reach this goal because their work for the most part, appeals to a rather select group of readers. William Attaway, young author of “Let Me Breathe Thunder,” published last Friday by Double day Doran, has the best chance of obtaining financial success of any recent novelist of color, i Mr. Attaway’s book is not a Negro book, for its main charac ters are not Negroes nor does it deal with interracial problems. It is the kind of book that could have been written by a white person • with sympathy for the minor col ored characters who are in the story, and represents one of the few times in America literary his tory in which a Negro has for gotten race and written of Ihis ; Caucasian brother. ‘‘Let Me Breathe Thunder" tears a period of several weeks from the lives of Step and Ed, two depres sion youths drifting from town to town in the West. With them is | Hi-Boy, a Mexican lad of 10 whose I - „ ANGER — To dream of being anery, or seeing someone angry, Indicates that you will make up a tjuarrel of long standing. liSMli Hill JUDGE—To dream of a judge oi justice of the peace is a good oiuon —success and prosperity are indi cated if you proceed alona lawful linos. past they cannot fathom. The sto ry is o fthe older youths and their young pal who touches in them fine emotions they hadn’t dreamed they possessed and his tragic death while the three hobo from Oregon to Denver Ed relates the narrative in the first person. Tho result is gripping realism of the 'Tnardboiled” school. In this it is akin to Cain’s “The Post man Always Ring Twice” and Mc Intyre’s “Steps doing Down.” Its a story snatched from life itself and so powerful a-* to defy being laid aside until all 267 pages have been read. Mr. Attwav has written a book which most of our famous white writers might be proud to author.. Ho has a natural easy style, e conomy of words a flair for strong imagery and the abil ty to make his characters come to life on the printed page. At 25, this brilliant young writer, a graduate of the University of Illinois who has done a stretdh of hoboing, looms as one of the brightest new stars on the whole literary horizon. -0O0 PAUL ROBESON SIGNS AS ‘JOHN HENRY" STAR New York, July 13 (CNA)— Paul Robeson, famous actor and one of the top ranking concert stars, will return to the New York stage next season as star of the Roark Branford-Jaques Wolfe musical drama, “John Henry.” Sig ning of Robeson was announced this week by producer Sam Byrd as the internationally famous star sailed for England to fulfil a film contract. Robeson, absent from America for several years, returned a month ago for a Summer theatre revival of “The Empero Jones.” He has spent the past years in s.age, film and concert work in Europe. Under current plans, “John Henry” will go into rehearsal in September and make a short road -0O0 Unity, Equality of Soviet Peoples Hailed at Fair New York, July 13 (ONA)— The Hall of the Unity and Friend ship of the Soviet Peoples, a mag nificent mural display about la city block long and more than two stories high, was dedicated this week, completing the exhibits in the Soviet Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. The dedication ceremonies were attended by more than 200 distinguished artists, jculptors and scientists, including a score or more from Harlem. The mural contains 780 figures representing the multi-colored na tionalities of the Soviet Union. Many of them are shown in strik ing national costumes, depicted as miners, railroad workers, collective farmers, industrial workers, avia tors, teachers, engineers, and scientists. Flanking them, as pro tectors of their peaceful creative labors, are Red Army and Navy men, tank drivers and airmen. Invited Negro guests attending the ceremony included Richard Wright, Arthur Huff Fauset; Earl Brown and Marvel Cooke of the Amsterdam News, Harry Haywood and a representative of the Crusa der News Agency. Speaking at the dedication cere monies, Vassily V. Bourgman, De puty Commissioner from the USSR ,o the Fair, declared: “The czarist empire was called a prison of nations. Today, we have cooperation among all the peoples of our land.” BOSTON LABOR HITS BIASED TEXTBOOKS i Boston, July 10 (CNA) Three history textbooks will be reviewed by a committee of teachers on complaint of the Boston local of the American F ederation of Teach ers. Speaking for the union, School Committeeman Joseph Lee charg ed “Muzzey’s American History” was unfair to labor, prejudicial and pro-Ku Klux Klan; “The History of the United States,” by Mace and Beaards, was unfair to labor, and “Our United States,” by W.B. Guitteau, was anti-labor, incited race prejurice and was prone to jingoism. Clitics Ask Retention of WPA Theatre Washington July 19 (ANP)— Powerful interests headed by Mrs. Roosevelt Representative Emanual Celler of New York, Heywood Broun and others, are working in the interests of the federal thea tre projects eliminated in the re cent bill passed by the House on Friday. Supporting these notables, a petition signed by *very critic of importance in the metropolitan area has been submitted asking the rescinding of the oi'der eli minating the federal theatre. Sign ers of this petition include Brooks Atkinson, New York Times; Burns Mantle, Daily News; Sidney Whip ple, New York World-Telegram; | Allene Talmey, The Vogue; Wol | eott Gibbs, New Yorker magazine; | Otis Ferguson, New Republic; /fohn Gassner, Forum magazine; Paul Peters, Life magazine; Jo seph Wood, Krutch, National magazine; Mrs. Euphemia Van Rensaler Wyatt, the Catholic World; Keleey Allen, Daily News Record and Women’s Wear; Ar thur Pollack, Brooklyn Eagle. Prominent actors and actresses, headed by Talullah Bankhead, daughter of Speaker Bankhead; Blanche Yurka, Donald Ogden Ste ward, actor and author, and Phillip Barry, author, 'have talked with Senator Claude Pepper of Flori da to lead the drive to restore the federal theatre project to the ap propriations list The name of Ethel Waters i> frequently mentioned, and in his article, Heywood Broun says: “When people like Eddie Cantor and Helen Hayes and George Ab bot and Ethel Waters demand the right to be heard, it is for mem bers of the house of representa*; tives to listen to their betters.” Negro Fair Exhibit Opened in July, New York, July 19 (CNA)—A vast exhibit of Negro achievements in the United States will be opened at the Science and Education Building in the New York World’s Fair the first week in July it was announced this week. The exhibit, sponsored by the National Negro Achievement C0111 mision for the World's Fair, will depict .ne struggles and accom plishments of the Negro people in this country from tihe year 1619, when the victims of the African slave trade to be brought to this country were landed, until the pres ent day. Scores of fine paintings, figures in plastic art and other works of art will show the tremendous contrib utions the gifted Negro people ' have made to American life. Crispug Attucks Day will be of- i ficially celebi-ated at the Fair, as I well as the aniversary of Freder-1 icks Douglass’ birth. One of the fine treasurers to be exhibited in the Hall of Negro Achievement will be Augusta Savage's statue of Frederick Douglass. Among the other art treasures to be dsplayed will be a famous painting by the great Negro ar tist, H. Q Tanner, which will be loaned to the exhibit by Henry C. Kraft, executive secretary of the Harlem Y. PFRSOiuiniEs in BU5|r JAMES F. HANLEY A.S.C.A.P. ^ -- • - And He Wanted to Draw khoie a -gain- Inln-dl — aAa4 By Daniel I. McNamara JAMES F. HANLEY, whose song hits include the famous "Back Home Again in Indiana,” describes himself as a disappointed cartoon ist who chanced to become a song writer. As a youngster, Hanley wanted to draw. Whenever he started to progress In the art, music intervened. Eventually he became a pianist, forgot his crayons and found fame and fortune in the com position of popular songs. Born of native Indiana stock in Rensellaer, Indiana, February 17, 1892, lie attended Loyola Univer sity, Chicago; Champion Univer sity, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and the Chicago Musical College. He emerged from the music institu tion as a vaudeville pianist. He was playing vaudeville dates in Europe before the United States entered the World War and return ed to America on one of the Lusi tania’s last trips. He remained in New York long enough to storm Tin Pan Alley, collaborate with Sigmund Romberg on a musical show, "Robinson Crusoe, Jr.,’’ for A1 Jolson, and to write the score of “Jim Jam Jems,” which starred Joe E. Brown, Harry Langdon, Elizabeth Murray and Ada Mae Weeks. Then he went back to Eu rope—in uniform. As Sergeant in the 157th Artillery Brigade of the S2nd Division, he became an unof- ' ficial impresario, and during the i Division’s wait for transportation i home, he staged the famous soldier ! show—"Toot Sweet.” i On his return to New York, he wrote many songs for Broadway shows, notably the two Fannie Brice hits—“Rose of Washington Square" and "Second Hand Rose.” He collaborated with Eddie Dow ling in the shows “Honeymoon Lane” and "The Sidewalks of New York.” One of the first of Broadway's songwriters to be called to Holly wood, Hanley lias provided the mu sical settings for more than one hundred feature pictures and nu merous shorts. Ha alternates be tween New York and Hollywood, with his permanent home in Doug lastou, Long Island. Happily mar ried, father of four, he is one of the most contented of men, for music is his hobby as well as his profession. The American Society of Com posers, Authors and Publishers, which protects the performing 'ights of its members’ copyrighted works, has several hundred of nember Hanley's songs listed. Some of them are. “Back Home Vgain in Indiana,” written in 1917; ‘Little Log Cabin of Dreams," “No i,oolin’,“ “Just a Cottage Small By l Waterfall,” “Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart” and ‘Tai la he Market for You.” , (Music Features & Photo Syndicate) Paris, as you all know, is the capital ot' France, and one of the most beautiful cities m the world. Sam and Betsey were up and dressed early, eager to be out; even their little dog, Gyp, was ex cited. Mr. Van poued his head into I the room, shouted a happy “good moruing" and promised them a grand surprise. “Do you think your legs are rest ed enough for a long walk—all the way to the other side of the Jity?” lie asked. “Yes, yes,” they both cried, “we ran walk to the moon." “Well, it won't be as far as the moon, but I'm going to take you to a place just as strange, with a very odd name. It's called the Rue Druot, where all the auctioneers and second-hand dealers of Paris sell every kind of thing you can Imagine." Soou they were off. Gyp trotting beside Betsey, suitllng the strange air of Paris. After a while they began to hear strange noises, queer singsong cries and shouts of ail kinds, for the fact is, they were coming to the second-hand market. All around the square were piled the oddest assortment of things, old chairs, old pianos, old rugs, dishes and plates of every description, while each dealer shrieked and hol lered at the top of his lungs to attract every passer-by. Sam and Betsey were thrilled, for neither had ever seen anything like it. Much amused they walked awhile through the crowds, when, at a booth, Sam spied a music-box for sale for a few cents. He bought it at once, and promised to play all Its tunes that night at the hotel. Just then Betsey touched Sam’s arm, and pointed towards a little girl, singing as she walked along the street. “A little street singer,” said Mr. Van, and he dropped a few coppers In the cup she carried. “Let’s talk to her," cried Betsey. Sam asked her what her name was and learning it to be Nan nette, told her at once about the music-box he had Just bought. “Oh, but I know It,” cried Nan nette, “I've seen It often, I can sing every single tune It plays. Come to my house Just off the market, we can play It there."_ . Together they presently wera ' climbing a long flight of stairs. 1 Just as they reached the top, a door opened and an old French woman, amazed at the sight of them, cried: “What have you here, my little Nannette, a little brown dog and— ah, some friends, too. tiring them up for they are welcome." “Oh, such nice sew friends, grandmere,” laughed Nannette, “and they have just bought the music-box I love so much. After lunch we are going to play it.” In no time at all they were seated around the table drinking plates of onion soup and eating fat sl’ees of bread, while Gyp loudly lapped up a bowl of milk. It was all very jolly. The little singer told them of her life In Paris. “Sometimes, when business is dull, the friendly marketmen sing with me, but mercy on me, let a customer appear and their singing stops like magic. But come. Sam my, play the new tnusic-box, we must hear it." Sam touched the spring, and song after song came out of it, and gay sougs they were, too. Rut alas, the little box couldn't play for ever and It seemed an end to bliss when Nan nette declared she must stop sing ing, for she had sung every song three times. Mr. Van looked at his watch, it was time to depart. Amid laugh ing farewells they prepared to leave but not before Betsey and Sam both Insisted that Nannette keep the music box. "It really belongs to you.” Betsey said," and we never could think of It playing its tunes without you singing them, too." Gathering up their things ready to leave, to everyone's dismay Gyp was nowhere to be seen. They ■; searched the tiny garret and all the halls of the house, but Gyp was not there, anywhere. But they did find the front door standing wide open, and then they sadly realized Gyp must have decided to do a little sightseeing on his own account. It was a sad ending to a happy day, as our travelers climbed aboard a bug to go home. “Don't be discouraged.” said Mr. Van, "tomorrow Is another day. Well be up bright and early and look for him ererywha—^
