Chatter-Box
LA "A Youthful Column
(by Doris Ann McGill)
Well-Well—Hi school at last and
the Bobby-sox's are here and sloppy
joes are back on the market $2-98.
So let’s see what’s on the jive side
FLASH! Chicken is now wear
ing a 10K locket around her neck
I thought I heard her say Wm Me
Carthy gave it to her—good deal
flakes
BANG—the fight last week was a
good dea?—between i Coles tine ,G's
and that other girl- I think it was
an even draw if you were there you
could decide for yourself!
SURPRISED—Lewis Curren call
ed home about 3 Sundays ago ano
said he will be here the 15th n
nothing happens. He talked to Big
Sister, Chatter Box and flakes!
CORRECTION—the Glamoretjtes
are not busted up it is only a sum
mer club, HA! HA! President out
of town!
BOOM—the freshman’s at Cen
tral are still fresh—talking louder
than ever—you’ll be seen more it
you keep quiet Hay?
‘TO BE OR NOT TO BE’’—
Who is the certain girl at Tech
who is stuck on our charming C
R?—and we are wondering what
will happen —it better be soon or
else!—Hay (buss?)
WHAT’S THE IDEA?—To Na
omi Vealand and Chatter Box
School starts at 8:2(> and not noon
So let’s stay home nites and cater
the ten to eight car? I mean street
car 1
x
A GOOD DEAL—Throwing oP
pennies in the study hall is becom
ing a habit in .'i25 the eighth hour!
. . . I heard a certain yocng girl
was going around the room collect
ing pennies. I hear she salavged
car-fare home Didn’t she now?
WHO SAW FEET TRIPPING
down Charles last Tuesday after
the show and later stopped and had
a chat with some old friends on
Seward—hay coz?
ZIP—St- June McKin is still car
rying the torch for our good friend
E Hutson and is getting some
where fast! Hey June,
Remarks!—Dot Lawson was in •
Oklahoma. She had a solid time |
with OUR Pvt- Pierce, Hay Fay??
WHO WERE the touring boys
and girls who wTent to Boystown
Sunday and almost had to hike
home? We w'ould like to know!
WHAT IS so rare to D. A. M
as to get a letter from P V T ?
WONDER WHY CERTAIN
PEOPLE put out false and can’t
back them you’ll reap just what
you sow. If you know what T
mean, old Butter Bean
GUESS WHAT?—Guess who’s
at the Rock working from 5 to 1.
No fun for anyone, hey Buss?
WHAT’S TO IT?—Who is the
South Omaha chickadee who comes
north to git something and if she
doesn’t git it she does the next best
thing? We wonder!
(A hint to the wise is sufficent)
Some of the boys from Boystown
played a scrimmage game at Tech
Do you know that M C - checked
out of school just to watch a cer
tain Thomas C play- I take it back
I did see her at the office on
her knees for nothing or did these,
old eyes deceive me?
Jack Marion passed his physical
What will poor old (Young)
Doris do?
June and Tiliie dropped in on Can
ada while on their trip east they
also stopped in Chicago and Detroit
last stop Central Hi Ha! Ha! Ha!
Lil Green is now in Berkley, Cal
ifornia sends regards to all Hay
Speese ?
Nadine Manby, Charlfne West,
Naomi and Doris had a gum pop
pin’ contest in 235 study hall
Now Naomi and Doris have a new
study hall Wonder why?
I 'SEE—boby Montgomery has
been hanging arounl 28th and Sew’'
ard streets lately could he by any
chance be seeing a certain Caldonia?
Anna Lee Upcher was home on
leave from the Cadet Nurses Corps- :
and had a 30 day leave! Boy was {
she lookin’ fine!
Gayle Warren left for college in
Florida.... Udoxie and Odessa
Goodwin left for Nash’ Tenn, a
bout three weeks ago good deal
girls Margaret Faison, Lincoln.
SOMETHING NEW Have you
noticed the change in our great
friend P F? if not do so today!
NICE PEOPLE TO KNOW are
Della Jones, Juanetta Hanger, Ev
elyn Bechers, Naomi Vealand, Ray
mond' Parks, Barbaro Scott, Bates,
Thomas Beck- Ruth F-, Rodges.i
Lorraine Morris, Bell Jacobs, Jam
es Ware, Charlene Dudley, Dorothy
Slaughter and Jerry Graham.
TOP! What are all the boys in
North Omaha trying to do Pull
the wool over K. G’s eyes!?? ha!
wake up men a nd fly-right!
I
OH YES! What has happened to
Frank Anderson and his jalopy? We
would like to see more of you ana
it
CANTEEN NEW HOURS -
Monday Tuesday—3-6— Wens nite,
thursday 3-6; Friday and Sat nite
BOOM! —the Tomorrow’s World
Club is back in circulation every
Thursday at the Urban League S8:15
to 9:45. Everyone invited—no age
limit!
Boys and Girls, STOP Profanity
on the Street at all times!
WHO was the certain jitterbug
going up and down Choc- Avenue,
asking a certain girl for a dime to
ride to work——ask J S C , and
L T they'll tell you who he was
Hey barnyard?
WONDER—who is the certam
girl at Central that is called by ali
the kids—Glamor Girl—ask Amelia
Orduna she knows! Hey Henry t
. *iP‘1
What’s between our friend B S
and B R? Friendship?
HA! HA!
The hair-do of Lorrain Morris is
very becoming compliments from
325—8th hour !
FLASH! FLASH! S D is
home on a nice leave lookin’ great
in his fleet uniform he is now liv
ing the navy way, hay (Sam)?
Believe IT Or Not—we are won
dering if Donnie still has his job
if so good deal Donnie!
Now that school has started will
the Sweethearts ^ still have theh
club or will it too be disqualified?—
(SMILE) !
GLOOM! while visiting around
one of my girl friends house the
other day. 1 spied a number of rats
going round and round in the dining
room wonder if they had a party
- ? ? ? I don’t know what happened
but I didn't take time to look, ha ha
AND NOW for Our ‘‘Question
Box”:.
What is the proper age for a girl
to get married?
Voice of experience: “No girl
should get married until she is 2t,
as she does not know her own
mind—Betty Deford
What is the proper age for a girl
to get married?
When she meets the right boy
Chatter Box
When she finds something to
marry! A Orduna
What can a girl marry now adavs
M Curren.
Are you kidding Ruth Curren
When you meet the right person
Ray Parks.
When she thinks she is so old
that she knows what she is doing .
Eugene Brown.
When they think they love each
other Bert Brown
When the one you love asks you
Barbara Peters
When she thinks she is in love
if she can find anything to marry
B Scott.
Does it make much difference*
now adays? Chittleburger.
Are you kidding? What are you
going to marry after your educa
tion? L Pierce.
If a girl is old in her thinking
and behavior, for her years, then it
she wants to marry, OK Leta
Clarke.
•When she is too old and decrepid
to enjoy anything else in life.
Florentine Crawford
Old age Kenneth Graham
When she thinks he’s a fine Cat
Cleveland.
Any old age Nadine Manley
3 and 7, 28 and 11. A Butler
W'hen she reaches the rite age ,
... Dorcas
When he has street car tare both
ways Naomi Vealand
When he is able to work Jean P
When he got cash on the line
... Betty Sherman.
When he got enough money to
pay the Cat man . . C West
If you see your chance, grab
them James.
When they have finished with
their schoolin' B O • Plenty
Never as far as I'm concerned .
I Just can't Cat!.. Tinnie
When her heart tells her to jeep
Out of Hi school Betty White
18 years old Florentine Wheelet
When she is really in love Doro
| thy S
What can a girl marry now a
days ? Ruth Curren !
I don't know. I’m going to be ai»
old maid . K Wilburn.
(Next week “How Often Should
A Boy. Date a Girl?)
ZOOM—the Bobcats play first
game of basketball Hi-land school
Pig town—all spectators welcome!
Boys who left last thurs to greet
Uncle Sam, were: Aaron Daily.
Phifer and Harold Valetine goo 1
luck boys!
GUESS WHO?
Age 16.
Weight 152 1/f,
Height 5 feet and one half,
> Eyes, black.
Hair, dark brown,
Nickname “Broadway”,
Activities—all,
Pet peeve, To become a student.
BYE NOW,
C- BOX, signin’ off
Solid Show-Stopper!
_ _ I
Exclusive IPS Photo
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE
IS JUST THAT
And you don’t have to take our
word for It. Appearing on the same
bill with Peggy Fears, Pat Rooney
and several other noted acts at the
Town Barn In Buffalo, N. Y. (which
caters to nothing but the cream ir.
show business, incidently), Rosetta
stopped the show—and the cele
brated Miss Fears broke down in
tears.
Joe Giggle wants to know what
happened to Pat Rooney.
Teen-Ager’s
Activities
<BV JUANITA HANGER)
This Column is to be a regular
feature of this Newspaper. Those
interested in Activities of TEEN
AGERS and the THREE CORNERS
CANTEEN will find in it Notices of
all activities of the Club.
The Three Corners Canteen has
planned a big' program for the
months to come. Everybody seems
to be in favor of having a formal
dance just as soon as possible. Al
though the date has n°t been def
initely set, plans are going ahead
rapidly. The party will be during
the Thanksgiving holidays.
^ I hope everyone is getting
ready for the masduerade party on
Hallowen’en at the USO. Plan your
costume with care for there will be
prizes tor the most novel and orig
inal.
A youth health program is heirs?
planned for October 26. All Teen
Agers are urged to attend. Watch
this column for further devolp.
ments.
The Junior Board of the Canteen
discussed giving plays and printing
a newspaper of its own; but these
things are just brainstorms in the
| making. If you approve of, or dis
approve with either or both of the
ideas let the Junior Board know!
Remember the board is there to
carry out the desires of its mem-,
bers.
If you are a Teen-Ager join the
Canteen and share in the fun!
NAACP MOVES INTO
WILLKIE BUILDING
New York_For the third time in
its 36-year history, the NAACP is
moving its national office. On Oet
ober 18 the Association will begin
occupancy of two floors in the
Willkie Memorial Building, 20 West
40th Street, in midtown Manhattan.
The Association will have the
fourth and fifth floors in the nine
story building. The departments
having space 4on the two floorg
will include administration legal
defense and education, branches
and membership, public relations
research and information, and the
Crisis magazine.
The entire building will be occu
pied by organizations working for
causes in which the late Wendell L.
Willkie was interested. These in
clude Freedom House. Common ]
Council for American Unity, Public
Education Association, Anti-Defam
ation League of B'nai B'rith, Citiz- 1
ens Housing Council, World Stud
ent Service Fund.
When the NAACP wag organized
in 1909 it occupied a small office
donated to it by Oswald Garrison
Villard in the Villard building at
20 Vesey street. The next move
was to 70 Fifth Avenue, corner of
13th street. In 1923 it moved from
this address to 69 Fifth avenue
corner 14th Street where it has
Pi le Sufferers Urged T o Avoid
CONSTIPATION
Hot Water and Kruschen Salts Before
Breakfast. No Forcing! No Straining!
Here’s amazingly effective way to moist
en bowel contents and obtain more gentle
“easy” movements. Every morning for 5
days, 15 minutes before breakfast, drink a
glass of hot water to which one teaspoonful
of Kruschen Salts has been added. Bowel
contents become soft, moist, easier to expel.
No need to strain and thus risk painful
rectal irritation. Usually within an hour
wastes are expelled smoothly and gently.
Get Kruschen Salts at all drug stores.
Over 245 million bottles sold in
the past 100 years—it must be good.
NEGRO DOLLS
Every home should have a Col- -
ored Doll. We offer in this sale !
two flashy numbers. With hair,;
moving eyes, shoes, stockings.!
nicely dressed. Price $4.98 and j
$6.59. If C. 0. D. postage ex-1
Itra. Dealers— Agents wanted.!
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1VE BEEN
AROUND
New York
By TED YATES
Released through the facilities of the INDEPENDENT PRESS SERVICE exclusively
by Ted Yates Publications throughout the United States.
Consider the Source ...
Among the things you never km-iv anyhow: That Shanghai was on*
of the roaih cultural centers of China before the invasion with twelv*
universities, ten colleges and six technical schools. These wer*
singled out for destruction by the Japanese, whose repeated attacks also
inflicted heavy losses on fifteen libraries. Universities in Nanking,
Soochow and Hankchow, Anking, Nanchang and
Changsha have suffered bombardment, although a
famous collection of bronzes in Anking were saved.
Hongkong had been a haven for many refugee in
stitutions. When it fell in December 1941, losses
were tremendous. Most of the Christian colleges
here and elsewhere, though not Chinese property,
suffered the same fate as Chinese institutions . . .
The Lighter Side: Although it is not generally known.
Tiny Bradshaw started out on his career as a band
leader playing the drums. He used to "beat out ths
skins" with Baron Lee’s Blue Rhythm Band. Later lit
played with Luis Russell’s Orchestra. Still later on
liny Bradshaw the ol redhead, whose creation of the Jersey Bounce
won for him the title of King of the Jitterbugs, wai
a member of Horace Henderson's musical aggregation. While playing
in a nite club in Philadelphia. Pa., Tiny revealed, the idea struck him
that he could well perform as a maestro wielding a baton. Always
the laugh provoker aside from being a pretty swell guy, Tiny is the
purveyor of many slang paraphrases. Bradshaw attended Wilberforce
University, yet to hear him cut loose with jive talk you’d come to the
conclusion that he went through college by walking in one door and
cat another. This is typical Bradshawrean chatter: “I’m solid, Jack",
•’in i!ie groove and I make ’em move!”, “I’m a tipping Tom who meani
m harm", “When I dig ’em they stay dug!”, “They get hep when old
Tir.y’s in step”, and "When I lay it down they solidly cut the rue, mug”,
or “When you pipe me Jackson there’s no need for a pipe cleaner for
when the smoke has cleared away you're in the fields of clover. So
move over—the air’s fine as wine. I'm a cat with a life and nine!”
. In fewer words: Do you collar the jive?
* * *
Jotterdowns: The first award to Lena Horne for her ability lo sing
and act was one for merit presented by Mademoiselle magazine . . . The
band formerly led by the late Fats Waller is now under the baton of
‘.ceil Cedric who was sax soloist in the ork before the demise of the
famed musician. Cedric’s hand moves into the Tic Toe Club in Bos
ton on April 2 ... At one time it had at least twenty-five teams com
peting for honors in the annual met basketball championship, but
I>ew York now proudly presents a mere golden dozen of its sepia court
quintets at the conclusion of the indoor cage season . . . Canada Lee,
• who has been aired via the WNYC network for the past ten week*,'
gets his first chance to appear in any other than a legit theatre when
he will be presented at Loew’s (N. Y.) State theatre on April 6, along
with Allan Jones and Happv Felton.
* • •
By Way of Mention: ’.. statement of twenty-eight clergymen
and other leaders protesting the “obliteration raids” on German cities
comes as a distinct shock to the majority of Americans. Whatever
intentions the signers may have had, they must now realize that they
have given a great lift to enemy morale. What greater hope could
we give our enemies than to proclaim a doubt about using all avail
able means to defeat them?
Alberta Hunter, the chanteuse, who has been missing from these
parts ior some time, told us in a recent letter that she opened in the j
famous Down Beat Room at the Garrick Lounge in
,ne LO°P out mere in Chicago on Mav 22, 1943, and
that she’s been there ever since. Some sort of a
record, 1 il say! . . . The famed Berry Brothers and
Peg Leg Bales are tied seven and even for appear
ances in theatres on Broadway. I should have said
consecutive appearances, for that is how you score
it ... lop recording of the day is the one by the
Ink Spots with Ella Fitzgerald. “Cow Cow Boogie”
is the tune, and what a ‘solid’ sender! . . . Earl
(father) Hines pinch-hit for Duke Ellington at that
recent benefit. They’ll tell you, too, that the Duke
is ailing ... A handshake to the celebrated Peters
r»iaiers, curreni swing sensations at Le Kuban Bleu, An.„rta
for their rendition of “Why Do You Pass Me By ” A .r,a Hunter
Cest vraiement formidable! . Jimmy Phillips iops the new floor
show at Small s Paradise with his delightful singing. Staged by Addi
son Carey, the revuesieal “A Touch of Rhvthm” is tops . . . “Porgy
and Bess moves to the Erlangcr in Phila., Pa-Pat Flowers, sensa
lional sepianist. is exactly just that. An exponent of tineful tunes
that are lernffic, this newcomer is rhythmpating the Blue iwork . . .
Popular ISick Dix was recently made manager at the Parr se Tavern,
•nd all s well at the curb at 110th Street and Eighth Ave ae . . . It’,
• good thing that the circus is coming to town. The kido.es were be
ginning to squawk. Although they do like Beau Jack—and lots—a
ronliziuous thins can become annoying, too.
been for 22 yearg. For many years
it occupied the entire fourth floor,
but the growth of the Association
in the past four years has been so
great that three additional rooms
were taken on the second floor.
The new address at 20 West 40th
street offerg not only additional
floor space, but a very desirable
and convenient address in the
heart of New York City.
The Willkie biulding cost $250.
000 to purchase and remodel and of
this amount the NAACP pledged
$30,000, of which $28,000 has been
paid. The NAACP is the only one
of the organizations excepting
Freedom House, which pledged and
paid an amount toward the build
ing.
65 75 Wage Scale
(Continued from page jfSgFM)
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New York Show Fronts... By Don De Leighbur
Walter White’s Daughter Says She Is
Anxious Play Love Scene with White
Man In "Strange Fruit”
NEW YORK—Jane White, dau
ghter of the NAACP’s Walter
W hite- who was selected to play the
controversial role of “Nonnie” in
the stage adaptation of Lillian
Smith's best seller, "Strange Fruit"
was interviewed the other week by
a staff writer of the Michigan Chron
icle. What she had to say was re
vealing, to say the least- It will be
remembered that Miss White, a
Smith College graduate, but inexper
ienced as an actress, was picked by
Jose Ferrer for the play at the same
time her father was roundly rapp
ing a proposed musical comedy, “St
Louis Woman,” by two eminent
Negro writers, Countee Cullen and
Arna Bon temps- Because of the
tenure of White, backed by the NA
ACP, Lena Horne was forced out of
the role because they feared critic
ism, mainly from the NAACP- “St
Louis Woman”, was denounced by
Walter White because he thought n
degraded Negro womanhood- How
ever, he turned right around and al
lowed his daughter to take just as
degrading a role in “Strange Fruit'
written by a white person
[ "I feel Nonnie is a complex part,
but I feel very close to her,” Miss
White stated in the Chronicle inter
view "It is an emotional closeness
as well as an intellectual. I was
terribly' anxious to have the part j
I can't think of anything I'd rather |
less do than cast a slur on educated '
Negro womanhood- I think in the
theatre, as in all the arts, we have
got to reach the point where we have
the ability to see a given character
as representative of himself alone
and not representative of a race,
sex, or class
“I do hope that the general im
pression left with the audience fo
Nonnie is one of strength, loyalty,
and womanliness. She should be the
kind whose strength overcomes race
The fellow playing Tracy (the white
man who debases Nonnie and then
returns to his own woman) and I
see eye on it and in our love scenes
we want to play it as a human prob
lem and to show that it would be
the same if it were a Jew or Gentile
a Catholic and a Protestant, or red
blue.”
The point of this piece is not to
object to lovemaking on the part of
a white man to a Negro girl on the
stage. Paul Robeson did such scen
es in “Othello” with the white act
ress- Uta Hagen. It is not without
bounds for the situation to happen
the other way around- But the ques
tion has been already asked: I f
Tracy were to be a light-skinned
Negro actor, would Miss White have
been as anxious to play the part as
she said she was? In talkisg about
playing the part. Miss Scott, who
interviewed her, had this to say:
“The first thing that struck me
when I walked into the Walter
LENA HORNE FORCED OUT
OF LEAD ROLE IN -‘ST.
LOUIS WOMAN" BY ACTION
OF NAACP SECY.
\\ hite apartment and saw young,
attractive Jane White, was how well
she personfies the character of "Non
nie”
Said Miss White: "1 want very
much to play with that sensitiveness
but without any suggestion of vague
ness. I don't think you ever care a
bout a character that is fey and with
drawn. I'd like to play her to show
her sensitive qualities, but not that
she is daft-” Whatever Miss White
means here needs interpretation
in another, column, i talked of the
similarity of so-called trollop roles
our pretty young women of the stage
are playing today, mentioning such
performers as Edna Mae Harris,
Katherine Dunham, Lena Home,
Anne Wiggins Browm, Hilda Simms
Muriel Smith and Murial Rahn as
examples. Walter White's alleged
attempt to set himselp up as a czar
of Negro entertainment and, accord
ing to Variety, “wants his imprimat
ur on every role assumed by a Ne
gro actor,” has just caused a situa
tion to occur in the relationship of
Lena Horne and her studio, MGM.
The latter company, it has been im
plied, although officially denied, is
about to reprimand the actress for
not accepting the role in “St- Louis
Woman”, in which a member of the
MGM board has invested reavily
However, he, Walter White, has
turned right around and allowed him
self and daughter to be used, as weil
as the NAACP, as a club over the
heads of Negro critics, both of the
press and lay, in keeping down just
criticism of a far greatre theatrical
sin than “St’ Louis Woman.” Where j
"St Louis Woman” would have
provided much employment for col
ored performers, “Strange Fruit”, I
gives only a fewr something to do to J
earn a living. Colored performers '
are shunning roles of criticism and
producers arc eliminating parts that
would ordinarily go to colored ac
tors because of fear of criticism.
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