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Big Shriners* Circus
to Ftart May 29th
With the close of the war mak- [
ing possible the acquisition of new'
arts, preparations are underway |
for the 17th annual Tangier Shr
ine Circus at the Omaha City
Auditorium, May 29 to June 5.
inclusive. j
Contracts for the event have ]
been signed by Potentate Melvin
Bekins, Potentate of Tangier Tem
pie and Dr. Fred F. Whitcomb,1
Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee, with Rink Wright, produ
cer an^ director of many of the
successful productions of previ- ,
ous years.
“Tangier Temple and its many
friends may be assured”, said Dr. 1
Whitcomb, "That this great show
will this year be fully up to past |
standards and will incorporate a
number of entirely new acts’.
Featured entertainers jwill in
clude the bareback riding Hanna
ford family and the Gallagher
Family, an exceptional troupe
of Risely artists. The animal king
dom will be represented by scores
of different creatures, including
graceful ponies, bears, school hor
ses, and talented seals. A legion
of clowns of course will be on
hand to provide laughter.
A greater number of performan
ces have been scheduled for this
year than last. With the exception
of Sunday, June 2„ when no per
formances are scheduled, there
will be nightly shows througrout
the week’s engagement. Four Mat
inee performances will be given:
Thursday, Decoration Day, May
30; Saturday, June, 1; Tuesday,
June 4, and Wednesday, June 5th.
The Tuesday matinee will be a
special show for crippled child
ren and shut-ins.
Northside
Drama
BY AL SPARKS
AN INTERVIEW
Vicinity: 24th and Lake Street
Question: “Mr. Whoisit, What Ne"
gro in your estimation has contri
buted most toward the uplift of
the Negro race?”
Ans: “I would say, Booker T
Washington, without a contest”.
Guess: “You mean by that Mr W
that we have not since or before
produced a leader who could be
classed with Booker T.”
Ans: “That is my personal esti
mation. Of course we have leaders
of today—.protest, political and
some are helpful. Others in my
opinion are really just plain old
obstructions. Booker T. I believe,
wanted to train us in the techni
que of being more creative and
BARITONE—
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Todd Duncan, baritone, u>ho
will make a concert tour this
summer of Hmcaii, Australia
and New Zealand.
Leaving May 8th from San
Francisco, Duncan’s first concert
will be May 12th in Honolulu. In
Australia he will appear in Mel
bourne, 'Sydne|y, Bi^abane, Ade
laide and other principal cities
before going to New Zealand. The
tour calls for a minumum of 25
concerts and a number of radio
engagements over the MacQuarie
network, the largest in Australia.
Mr. Duncan will return to the
States in the early Fall.
self sustaining, /fhat’s practical
with elevating possibilities.”
Ques: “What about Carver, he
was a great man you know?”
Ans: “A great scientists, yes, but
perhaps too engrossed in his dis
coveries to realize that destiny
had placed in his hands, creations
with which to carry on the great
advocations of Booker T. Washing
ton in a practical way”.
A1 Says: “That is one man’s opin
ion, what’s yours?”
* * *
On the Crosstown car going
south: “Whadda you mean?” he
asked his Senorita companion,
with a twinkle of suspicion in his
eyes. “Whadda you mean, my part
of Town?”—
A1 says: “Not wanting to be
identified with that which he is
a part of”.
* * *
JUVENILE CONVERSATION
Little boy in front of Ice cream
stand to his two companions: Your
eyes may shine, your teeth may
grit—but none of my strawberry
flavor are youse fellows going to
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THE SHOW FRONT
By John M. Lee
ST. LOUS WOMAN
CAME TO TOWy
NEW YORK—It would have been
a nice tribute to the memory of
the late Countee Cullen if the
play he adapted with Area Bon
temps from the latter’s novel,
“God Sends Sunday”, had impre
ssed its first night audience fav
orably, but the truth is “St. Louis
Woman’ just didn’t come off. As
a play it is a beautiful hodge
poge that comes closer to being
a thinly veiled vaudeville show
than it does a musical—as was
intended.
Shot through with a cargo of
talent headed by the Nicholas
Brothers, Rex Ingrahm and Pearl
Bailey, the opus for which Har
old Arlen and Johnny Mercer did
the music and lyrics respectively
missed and fired, then missed
again as it struggled to come to
life on the stage of the Martin
Beck Theatre,.
Even the fabled genius of Rou
ben Mamoulian, director from
the land of magic cameras, could
not make you forget that “Saint
Louis Woman” had come to town
riding upon another one of those
phony folk lore plots with singing
and dancing breaking out all over
the place- The original Bontemps
story was laid in 1898, the play
laid an egg in 1946.
Knowing the Nicholas Brothers
as most of us do, it is easy to ab
solve them of any blame for the
plays short comings, thi despite
the fact that Harold of the Bro
thers was noticeably uncomfort
able in his assignment as "Little
Augie’ the hard riding fast loving
jockey. Those boys are dancers,
and in that field they have no one
as peers. Straight acting is some
thing they havn’e included in the
repertoire.
Ruby Hill carried the title role
on stage, and that’s as far as it
got. For sheer beauty, she was the
prettiest spectacle behind the foot
light, but not many of us out in
front got a stronger impression of
her than that.
Movieland’s Rex Ingram is the
villainous saloon keeper of the
piece, and ft is the hex he puts
on Little Augie that is responsi
ble for the goings on. To say that
he the best actor in the play is
only to say that he gave his usu
al excellent performance, this time
with the added advantage of not
having any serious competition.
Enid Williams, the dancer with
a bright future, made the beauti
ful and nostalgic cake walk num
ber a high spot in the panorama
with her solemn faced mimicry.
Harold Arlen, who wrote “Sto
rmy Weather” got less than a
blessing from his muse this time.
None of his songs are standout,
and it is the singing of Pearl Bai
ley that makes you want to feel
that two or three of them, will
get by. Miss Bailey who has a
style of her own, but who can
make you think of any great sin
ger of songs you’ve heard, if you
are in the mood for comparisons
breaks up the proceedings when
she sings “A Woman's Preroga
tive” and she gets the point over
when she sings “Legalize My
Name”.
Edward Gross, - who produced
“St. Louis Woman’ got his people
on stage in bright rich costumes
which for the most part, are in
good taste. He gave them beau
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| CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 To become
insipid
5 Units of
electrical
resistance
9 Fencing
sword
10 Exploit
11 Billiard
stroke
12 Silent
14 Highest
cards
15 Extremely
16 Exist
17 Think
21 Senior (abbr.)
22 Entrapping
24 Fold over
26 Rude beds
29 God of love
31 Sailing vessel
32 Items
36 Male name
37 Scions
39 Short for
Albert
41 An Apostle
42 Music note
44 Tall
46 Jewish
month
48 Shun
50 Take as
one’s own
51 Spanish river
52 Turns
jelly like
53 Prescribed
regimen
54 Voided
escutcheon
DOWN
1 Mutual con
cord
2 Part of
church
3 Instruction
4 Sheltered side
Solution in Next Issue.
No. 47
5 Often (poet.)
6 Celestial
7 Spice
8 Rouses
11 Fairy Queen
13 Son of Odin
18 Soft food
19 Male name
20 Nothing
22 Blemishes
23 Cogwheels
24 Guided
25 Land
measure
27 A number
28 Cunning
dO Precious
stone
33 Anger
34 Fate
35 Prosecute
judicially
38 Merchant
39 Exclamation
40 Resided
42 Slight error
43 Skill
45 Desert in
Asia
47 Puppet
49 Speck
50 Past
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Answer to Puzzle No. 46
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SHORT STORY
On 24th St.: He was lit up like
a Wirt Street Carnival. His equ
ilibrium and trousers were sup
ported by a miracle of animated
suspension. He was weaving
around and about the incensed
customers in a 24th St. store room
"Mister will you please go on the
outside”, begged one of the clerks
‘Ain’t going nowhere Ish gonna
tear this place down”, replied the
Inebriate as he continued to weave
and shadow box with himself—
whereupon one of the clerks took
him by the seat and showed him
the way to go home_But he did
not go home. Maybe he didn’t even
have a home for all A1 knows—
Anyway, the self-acknowledged
wrecker landed on the side walk
pointing in a general southernly
direction. So—with a somewhat
unsteady footing he headed south.
But not for long—His befogged
eyes soon focused upon the brite
lites of another store front where
he wobbled in, repeating “Ish
gonna tear this joint down”
* * *
DRAMA
Down Binney St. Way: Two
bo'ys sat on a smoking wreck,
weaping tears by the peck. ‘ Tis
the bosses’ car” sighed one “by
heck, and now We wont get our
paychecks”.
* * *
A1 Says The April EBONYS are
out.
* * * *
AN EXCUSE ANYWAY
Around Burdette: youngsters
throwing pebbles at Neon Signs
for the sheer pleasure of seeing
them go out. “Don’t you boys
know better than to do that” ask"
ed an elderly man, “those signs
cost money”. “We wasn’t throw
ing at no signs mister, them rocks
just slipped out of our hands”.
* * *
Further up: “I know you’re my
friend and all that, but no guy
is gonna steal my girl and get
away with it”.
* * *
HUMAN INTEREST
27th & Lake: As they retrieved
packages of coal from the street
and car tracks: He: “See, what
did I tell you, you don’t know how
to drive a truck—stepping on the
brakes instead of the clutch”. She
replying heatedly: “I didn’t no
such thing, you’re just too awful
tiful settings in which to work,
and then he made one mistake, he
should have called the production
‘old time vaudeville with a mod
ern touch’. Lemuel Ayers design
ed the settings and the costumes.
Reports that were current be
fore the opening that. Muriel Rahn
would replace Ruby Hill in the
lead were not substantiated at the
opening. Usually reliable sources
had announced without a qualifi
cation that Miss Hill was out and
Miss Rahn was in- Many of the
daring souls who always seem to
have opinions on such matters,
stated that Miss Rahn was better
suited for the part; that Miss Hill
woud find it difficult to adapt to
the role. True or false it must be
admitted that Ruby Hill did not
make the grade this time out.
There is also a report mat St.
Louis Woman is sold out until in
May. If that is true, it is a very
happy circumstances since there
by a lot of nice people will be kept
in a job. Perhaps that is not the
best reason to have a play con
tinue, but it certainly is a rea
son. In the meantime it would be
an excellent idea for Mr. Gross
and other producers who are con
templating Negro productions on
Broadway to give a lot of thought
to the business of casting. It also
might be wise to give some thou
ght to the kind of play they want
to unveil to an increasingly cri
tical audience. It is no longer pro
fitable to exhibit Negro perfor
mers as versatile curiosities.
Drama is one thing and a mus
ical pla is another. When the two
get together on the same stage,
the same night, the result is usu
ally confusion, a condition that
is not conducive to the best in
terest of the producers. The lady
hight run, but she won’t run far.
lazy to put the coal on the truck
right".
A1 says: “Tish, Tish, such indus
try”.
» * *
AT THE 10th ST. STATION
LOVE: “They stood silent for a
moment, in speechless reverence
to a love, now past, now incom
patable. “Beautiful and Passion
ate but unfathomable”- He sighed
to himself as he helped with her
luggage. Love leaves no scars,
only on the heart.
* * *
HATE: Bilbo; to think that
people are forced by taxation to
pay for the upkeep of such Mis
representation as this.
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The Caisson Choir, composed of enlisted men from the 350th and 351st Field Artillery Battalions, has cheered more than a million
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men performed in Paris for recordings and participated in several broadcasts. Chaplain (Captain) Hughes A. Robinson of Merchant
ville, New Jersey, now separated from the service, was managing director of the choir. Pictured are left to right, first row: Cpl. William
Richardson, Richmond, Va.; Sgt. Rowan Allen, Memphis, Tenn.; S 'Sgt. Warren Stanford, Merchantville, N. J.; Cpl. William Pinn, Lynch- I
burg, Va.; Cpl. William Harris, Norton, Va.; Cpl. Samuel Walker, New Orleans, La.; Sgt. Ivery Jordan, Stonewall, Miss.; Pvt. Theodore
Shellie, Dover, Ohio; Pfc. Lewis Blount, Akron, Ohio; Sgt. Warren Palmer, Brunswick, Ga. Second row: S/Sgt. Willie Dinkins, Indian
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Chicago, 111.; S/Sgt. Bryant Pegram, Claremont, N. C.; Pvt. Leslie Littles, Detroit, Mich.; Cpl. Ernie Doyle, Parsons, Kansas; Sgt.
Thomas Holiman, Asbury Park, N. J.; Pfc. William Moore, Clarksville, Tenn. Third row: Cpl. Lawson Riley, Boston, Mass.; Pfc.
Thomas Reid (Director), Philadelphia, Pa.; Cpl. Jerimiah Jamison, Rock Island, 111.; Sgt. Carter McNary, Corpus Christi, Texas;
Cpl. James Brown, New Bern, N. C.; Pfc. Sam Walton, Waco, Texas; Cpl. Thomas Sneed, Everett, Mass.; Pvt. Roy Williams, Caricana,
j^Texas; Pvt. Samuel Frazier, Memphis, Tenn. (U. S. Army Signal Corps photo from Bureau of Public Relations.) j
Short SPORTS
JACKIE ROBINSON Vs.
JIM-CROW
By John M Lee
BIG LEAGUE CALLS ACE
PLAYERS, BROOKLYN SET
THE PACE
f NEW YORK, N.
York—You can
mark down in
! in your memory
book that the
spring of 1946
marked the end
of the talking
about and exper
imenting* w£th
Negro players in
organized base
ball, and herald
ed the advent of full democracy in
the big leagues. The very recent
assignment of 6ft 4in tall Donald
Newcombe to try his much vaun
ted right hand pitching as a mem
ber of the Nasua Club, Brooklyn
Dodger farm adjunct of the New
England circuit, and the signing
of top ranking catcher, Roy Cam.
panella to the same outfit, is a
healthy sign of the times.
Newcombe played a brilliant
season with the Newark Eagles
last year, winning fourteen of the
eighteen games in whichh he par
ticipated- He has a right arm that
begins to spark early in training,
and which becomes a marvel of
sizzling consistency by mid season.
Lithe and lanky, Newcombe cat
ches the eye when he steps into
the pitchers box, and to the bat
ter it appears that he is delivering
WHO ROSE TO FAME WHEN HE
PLAYED'BISGERTHOMAS'IN THE
PLAY'NATIVE SON'WAS ONCE A
LEADING CONTENDER FOR THE WELTER- ^
WEIGHT CROWN. AT SEVEN HE STUDIED/
THE VIOLIN UNDER J. ROSAMOND
JOHNSON. AT 14 HE PAN OEF TO THE
PACES AND BECAME A JOCKEY
LATER HE TOOK UP BOXIN6 Geo I I
r GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Jk rPHE CHICAGO GIRL WHO WAS CHOSEN
W 1 ONE OF MADEMOISELLE MAGAZINES
f 10*WOMEN OFTHEYEAR"(1945) AWARD,
FOR HER WIDELY ACCLAIMED FIRST BOOK
OF POEMS*ASTREET IN BRONZEVIlLt",
HAS BEEN WRITING POETRY SINCE SHI
WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD.
1
"We’ve Known
This Moment Would
Come.Since
The Instant Our
Eyes First Met!
from a spot above the eye level.
While his size does a lot to con
fuse. Newcombe was called on the
big time strictly on the strength
of his ability to pitch with control
and amazing strike out technique.
Just 22, Newcombe has a lot of
youth to help his chances,
Campanella, who at 25 is con
ceded to be the best catcher in
Negro baseball!, hails; from the
eyed and clever, he is predicted to
be the most likely cadidate rent
up to the judgement seat thus far, j
He has been scouted more frequ- j
ently than any other Negro play- |
e, and it is believed that he would
have been the first of his race to
enter the organized game had he
not been a catcher. The report has
it that the moguls were unwilling
to open up with a spot as vital
as that of guardian of the home
sack. The catcher, as you know, is
the quarterback of the baseball
diamond, and he has to see all of
the things and call the turn with
out error.
'
Both Newcombe and Campan.
alio have a decided advantage that
is denied to Robinson and Wright
their predecessors on the Dodger’s
farm roster. They will be able to
limber up mentally with greater
ease because of the thought of
carrying a whole race on their
shoulders will not be original en
ough to bother them too much.
The way has bee” or>ened and it
is up to them to get in there and
pitch and catch like the two great
athletes they are.
Coincident with signing of New
combe and Campanella comes a
revival of the rumors that Branch
Rickey, Brooklyn Dodger’s biggie
is smoothly operating to get con
trol of things in the Negro leagues
Rickey has denied this statement
several times, the last occasion
being last week when he blasted
the reports as false, and made a
statement which summed up, in
essence means: he is a true be
liever in democracy, and as such
he is giving the Nebro bovg the
break they deserve to get into
the big game.
Well, Rickey, is something of a
philosopher, and in print anyhow,
his words always seem to point to
the fact that he has a noble heart
full of high ideals. Truthfully, I
don’t have any reason to doubt
anything he says on this score,
and I don’t think any other writer
has either, but I think Rickey
would be putting a little more
truth behind the thought if he
expressed it something like this:
“Organized baseball is in one
heck of a mess right now. The
players are getting wise to the
fact that the game makes a lot of
money, and that, except for a few
touted stars, most of the dough
goes into the coffers of the oper
ators. The fans, too, are causing
us a few sleepless nights. You
see, we have always promoted
baseball as the great American
game- Well, too many have been
Psking us. how American is the
American Negro, and why isn’t he
in the game?”
“Then you’ve got those Pasquel
brothers down in Mexico threat
ening to bust up our hold on the
game with their $6,000,000. Those
guys ar° unpatrotic even though
they don.t live on this side of the
border. The' must want to inter
nationalize the game, and they
claim that we have a monopoly.
Well, monopoly is a nasty word to
Americans, especially baseball
fans. We don’t like such reports
getting out, so we’re signing up
Negro players, many of whom are
better than our best anyhow and
at the same time we’re building
new customer intelest to guaran
tee the future”.
Of course Rickey and none of
the biggies will ever make that
statement, but they’ve given the
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1 subject plenty of thought. And
you can. lay the odds that what
the Dodgers are doing with Negro
players was talked over by all the
big clubs in both leagues. “Dem
Brooklyn Buma" Is the best known
baseball outfit in the world, and
using them for a laboratory test
wasn’t just an accident.
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