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Hazel Scott OK In Film; Get Peek at Her Ethel Waters at the Strand (BY DOLORES CALVIN) Nesv York (ONS) For a br i m.v menr. Hazol Sc-ott, New York's Pride. gave us boogie-woogie in htr inimitable style on the piano in hpr debut film which premiered here last week, “Something to Shout About”, but it was for only a mere brief moment. By the time we started to rave over lier technique, flash, it was all over' The title of the Don A mcche, Janet Bla|r and Jack Oakie adventure is misleading in ! $ Publishsd In this space every week The greatest star of the screen' Word’s going ’round and ’round that ★ ★ ★ ★ “for a tuneful earful and a thrilling eyeful” ★ ★ ★ ★ “CABIN IN THE SKY” is sky-high and it’s M-G-M’s high in bringing a Broadway Hit Show to you with all that made it a smash and something more added by said M-G-M. ★ ★ ★ ★ Look at this roster of talent: The one and only ETHEL WATERS The hilarious “ROCHESTER” The sultry LENA HORNE The hot trumpeter LOUIS ARMSTRONG The famous REX INGRAM The swingband leader DUKE ELLINGTON and his orchestra The heart-stirring HALL JOHNSON CHOIR ★ ★ ★ ★ The Singing will keep Ringing in your heart! + ★ ★ * TUNEFUL HITS include 'Taking a Chance on Love”.. .“Happiness is a Thing Called Joe”.. .“Life is Full of Consequence”...“Cabin in the Sky”... “Honey in the Honeycomb”... ★ ★ ★ ★ Cleveland, Toledo, Dallas, Atlanta, Richmond, Dayton, Rochester and Syracuse—have already seen “Cabin ia the Sky.” If your town’s not on thk list—keep watching! ★ ★ ★ ★ Leo says “CABIN IN THE SKY" is worth waiting for! ★ * ★ ★ Line up—and join the happy crowds. Line up to buy extra V War Savings Bonds and > Stamps, too! They’re the best buy of all! —£*& _ $ the fact that the picture is really nothing to shout about. Miss Blair plays the song writer from a small town who not only writes music, but sings the songs too. Ameehe is her press agent. Also in the film for a wee bit of a spell is Teddy Wilson and his band, but Columbia doesn’t even afford us a close up of the great swing pianist. Hollywood could l.av e shown us in a very subtle but sure way that It could lend the camera’s focus to others of our race besides the famifcar “stereo type” we’re hearing so much about But it lost one of those chances to do. so when it didn’t give Wilson the close-up. Wilson is one of these seitious musicians who takes his music the ame way. Personally, I think that if the studio was going to brag about us ing the band leader and mistress of the keys, they should’ve really used them. By that, I mean, es pecially in Wilson’s place, the whole thing was obviously faulty. The band could have been playing down the street, for all we heard Or saw of it and others noticed it too! Directed by the Russian, Greg ory Ratoff, who made a special trip up to Cafe Society, where the both are working, to hear them, "Something to Shout About” is just another one of those happy go lucky musicals. Maybe we should be grateful that Columbia and Ratoff chose Hazel Scott and Teddy Wilson’s band to fill in those dull moments and leave It at that! SOVIET FILM: MASHENKA "Mashenka”, powerful yet poig nant depiction of Soviet youth in peace and war, opens a three day run at the Tivoli Theatre, 4922 So. 24th, on May 4th. It is peacetime, yee no false il lusions pervade the city of Lenin grad. Preparations for the defense of the Soviet land go hand in hand with the peaceful building of the richer and better life. Practice air raids are a part of their prep arations. In such an air raid meet volunteer nurse, Mashenka, and taxicab driver, Alyosha. Dragged from his cab, Alyosha becomes a startled but cooperative practice casualty for Mashenka. The chance acquaintance ripens in to love. A minor quarrel occurs and then the entire Soviet nation rises as one man, braces to meet the hammer-blow impact of war, and petty lovers’ quarels are swept aside. Both Alyosha and Mashenka seek front line duty against the enemy. From cab driver, he becomes a Beware of this smile, NAZIS! IT’S THE AMERICAN FARMERS' VICTORY SMILE Food is unquestionably a weapon of war, and Amer ica's farmers are taking a leading role in our coun try's march to victory! In spite of unbelievable obstacles—help shortages, machinery curtailment, difficulty in getting old equipment repaired, still they produced more food last year than ever before in history . . . topping the previous year by nearly 20%. That's why Nebraska Power Company employees say "Hats Off to America's Farmers!" Like their fellow Americans in the electric industry, they're working harder than ever before to accomplish the most im portant job they've ever tackled—America's Victory! NEBRASKA POWER COMPANY Help Hasten Victory — Buy U. S. War Bonds "CHATTERBOX" FEATU RE S T ALENTED MILLS BROTHERS The Mills Brothers, famed for their appearances on the air, on recordings, and in films, are featured in the Joe E. Brown-Judy Canova starrer, “Chatterbox,” which Republic is now completing. tank dr'iver; she serves as a nurse, tending wounded under fire. Their experiences temper them as fire does steel; and two youths, one ir responsible and sarefree, and the other naive, become adults, con scious and strong in their resolu tion to defend their homeland and ali that it means to them. For them as for so many young people the world over, peace time happiness must be deferred until vioi or y is won. In the words of Alyosha, “We are facing a stern and militant life. I wish to share that life with you.” Performances are at 7:00 and 9 P. M„ May 4, 5, and 6. Proceeds go to the Committee for Medical A;d to the Soviet Union. Seem’ Stars (BY DOLORES CALVIN) New York City (C). . CAB SIGNED BACK TO STRAND Cab Calloway comes back to town May 21st to hi de ho for a reen gagement at the Strand Theatre and it’ll be for five weeks.. Many of our stars have been fea tured on the Strand’s stage in the past coupla years, namely Roches ter, Cab, Ethe] Waters and Hattie McDaniels. THIS IS NEWS __-Duke Ellington, still cele brating his 20th anniversary as a composer-bandleader will receive the annual honorary award in mus ic given by the James Weldon Johnson Society of NYU_It’ll take place at the University’s Lit tle Theatre April 26.Father Di vine and his followers are pasting stickers in public places that read “United States purchase Central and South America and make all the Americas one democracy” .... Fats Waller’s working hard on Richard Kollmer’s musical, “Early To Bed”, but isn’ following the title’s advice__-The Onyx Club here has Baby Hines... .John H. Pye, White House messenger was in the news tt/Js week buying the first $25 bond from President Roos featured in EVERY SATURDAY MORNING I Presented by SERVEL. INC, IN COOPERATION WITH STATION: KOIL TIME: 10:30 A.M. /" If you suffer MONTHLY [FEMALE PAIN You who suffer such pain with tired, nervous feelings, distress of "irregu larities”—due to functional month ly disturbances—should try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It has a soothing effect on one of woman's most important organs. Also fine stomachic tonic! Follow label directions. Worth trying. LYDIA L PINKHAM'S SSEKS evelt from the $13,000,000,000 Sec ond War Loan drive TALK OF THE TOWN ___When Lionel Hampton play ed Chicago’s Regal Theatre, the t doorman, Joe Williams, mentioned he knew every Hampton arrange ment .... Result: When Lionel need ed a linger to replace Ruble Blak ely, he tried and hired Joe when took over without a rehearsal.... Ted Hay, ofay NY. Post theatrical columnist made one of the funniest mistakes in an article this week.. He sa'id: “Equally attractive in a different way are John Kirby and his out-of the world quintet, com posed of five of the most sensat ional Negro musicians you can pos sibly imagine. When Kirby (who of course, is white) joins in on his bass, mere earth seems to remote and undesirable place.”.._He was of course, referring to Kirby’s cur rent engagement at the Loew’s State Theatre on Broadway.... But just as we were about to remark that somebody should whSisper to Ted Hay that the former Maxine Sullivan’s huband is one of us, his paper came out with a retrace by him, in the form of a interview with Klirby in which he claimed him a great “Negro musician.” INCIDENTALLY .Una Mae Carlisle’s new song "Coast Guard Blues” will be play ed by her at Manhattan Beach sta tion this week_She’s currently at the Plantation Club... .Jimmie Lunceford, according to manager Harold Oxley, “is above present draft age” and “being a father to boot” won’t be inducted_..Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne plan to go to England after “The Pirate” a dhenceforth the Negro players disband.... That Sunday night con cert for Marfan Anderson was her first at the Metropolitan Opera House__.For the Carnegie Hall Cafe Society Concert, which by the way was the complete success, there were beautiful hand done billboards with a sketch of Hazel Scott and the keyboard.The concert was so packed even report ers couldn’t sq'ueeze in.... News Pic Magazine this month carries a complete story of Dr. George Washington Carver_The Amer ican Newspaper Guild holds its an naul Ball April 30th at the Astor Hotel and will award Page One A wards again..__ Last year Joe Louis and Hazel Scott received them for Page One careers. MEHARRY DENTAL HYGIENIST JOINS WAACS BECAUSE ARMY HAS HER HUSBAND Fort DesMoines, April 22 (ANP) Aux. Patricia Gunter, daughter of Mrs. C. B. Harris of Nashville .en rolled in the Women’s Army Aux iliary Corps because “my husband is in the army and the whole idea of the corps appeals to me.” Her husband, Cpl. Marcus Gun ter, is with the 4lst Engineers band, a utlit in which he has serv ed for the past two years. When last Aux. Gunter heard from her husband, two months ago, he was somewhere in Africa. At the first WAAC Training cen ter here, she is attending adminis tration specialist school where she was assigned after completing bas ic training. Through her studies she is being prepared to take over a non-combat job in the army, thus replacing a soldier who will be re leased to active service. Before her enrollment in the WA -AC she was dental hygienst at Me harry Medical college where she assisted with dental X-rays and anesthesia and taught technical drawing for dental students. Sne received her A. B. degree at Fisk university where she majored in history; later she spent one sum mer at the University of Illinois. After teaching physical educat ion at Bethune-Cookman college, she entered Meharry for two years specializing in X-ray and anesth esia. In 1937 she won the Negro open tennis' tournament at Nashville and the Tennessee State Open tournament. THE AFRICAN MAGAZINE REVIVED BRILLIANT WRITERS FEATURED IN 1ST ISSUE New York, April 20:—Tremend ous new interest in Africa, and its People has caused “THE AFRIC AN” Magazine to renew publicat ion on April 28th, after a 4 year suspension. Under the editorship of A. Balfour Linton, the magaz ine published at 8 West 117th St., has an entirely new staff and a brilliant gala of contributors. Fea tured in the first issue will be George Padmore, noted author, with a searching article on "Nat Girls Make Army Howitzers , The feminine part in the production of 75 mm. pack howitzers at the general Electric Erie. Pa., plant extends to the government inspectors. >ne of them is pretty Miss Marie Kappa, above, of the Cleveland Ordnance “?trlct- Sh® 15 shown using a “borescope" to inspect the bore of the gun •ube. The borescope is a tube which extends into the bore and carries a nirror at the far end which reflects an image of the surface into a micro wope The surface is illuminated by an electric lamp and is 2C Imes in order that even the smallest defect in the surface may be detected ind corrert^rt * A SOFT LIGHT AS SHE SING “STORMY WEATHER” (BY DOLORES CALVIN) New York (CNS) Sometimes, af ter you see your own race stats playing such low roles in the mo tion picture industry, you begin to doubt whether they really have the talent, since you hardly ever s^e it. But if a star like Ethel Waters is Riven just a foot of stage, a baby spotlight to play around her and a four piece combo for some mus ical background, she would st.i’,1 be the one and only Ethel Waters’ Well, with the stage footage greatly increased at the Strand Theatre, and spotlight larger and of eolcrs too, and the “combo" be ing Jan Savitt’s nineteen piece band, you can imagine the res ponse from such an energetic per sonality as Miss Waters, who war bles the blue notes as would a bluebird. Never could there have been so much poise and charm then when this mistress of swing 3ang famous “Stormy Weather" We wonder how Lena Horne could do jt better on the screen. Billed with Savitt’s band were the Berry brothers from their Broadway vaudeville which cio&ed recently, “Show Time”. We have so many good bands and so many natural born musicians in the Ne gro race, to play in them, that if we criticized the Jan SavHtt band, how could it be without some pre judice? 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