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NEW YORK — A concert tour that will take her completely a round th^ world ha<s been set into motion here for Marian Ander boo "who is already as widely known abroad as she is at home. The tour, which is scheduled to tee off in Honolulu, will take her into Melbourne, Australia. Enga gements in Sidney and perhaps another larse Australian city will follow. While down under she will tour New Zealand on a three months’ concert sahedule altoget her. When that schedule is complet ed the famous contralto will move in Europe, thg Middle East and Palestine en route to America. According to her personal man ager other European cities have atvanced requests for ner to make an appearance which, if accepted will give her a world's tour. The Aostralian-New Zealand concert tour has been set by the J. C. Williamson Theatres throogh its New York representative Dorothy Steward. Mtss Anderson will be accompanied on the trip by her husband, ’<Razz’’ Fisher, and her accompanist, Franz Rupp. Alexis Gets Top Rote In Christopher Blake BTJREANK^Calif. — Two im portant assignments jui* announ ced by Jack L. Warner give Al escis Smith the leading feminine role in, and Peter Godfrey the dir. ection of Warner Bros.’ forthcom ing production of “Christopher Blak'f, adapted for the screen from Moss Hart’s Broadway hit of the same title. Ted Donaldson, brilliant boy actor, already has been cast in the title role. Plot of the story revolves around a youth whose parents are seeking a divorce. REA ELECTRICITY TO BE EXTENDED About 236,000 white and color ed farm families and other rural < h i urt Jji—schools, churches, and cross-roads stores—in 16 Southern States will get electric service as a result of loans ap pro\«ed by the Rural Electric ser vice as a result of loans approved by the Rural Electrification Ad ministration during the last year, the U. S. Department of Agricul ture announced last week. Altogether, the loans approved will enable borrowers, most of them locally owned ond operated rural electric cooperatives, to build over 135,000 miles of new powwer lines and increase the cappacity of some of the systems already bulldt, making electric service available to 396,000 rural consumers. The loans approved amount to ^251^34^172; about 44 per-cent of this sum goes to the Southern States where over 1,600,000 farms are stilll without electric service. For the country as a whole, approximately 250,000 and at least as many rural establish wents were without electric ser. rice as of January 1. Hers A Husband Beyond Belief Story going the ruonds here has it that Robert Taylor is the kind of husband who knows just what to say, and when to say it. He attended the preview of Warner Bros.’ “Cry Wolf,“ goes the tale, and observed, with a great deal of enthusiasm, that super-kiss between hero Errol Flynn and heroine Mrs. (Barbara Stanwyck) Taylor. Mrs. Taylor is said to have viewed askance this abnormal lack of jealousy until Robert ex claimed. “But darling! Nobody in the world can kiss like you!” 9TH ANNUAL YOUTH MEETING IN HOUSTON N EWYORK—The 9th Annual Conference of NAACP Youth Councils and College Chapters will meet in Houston, Texas, Nov emebr 5-8, it was announced to day by the Association’s Youth Secretary, Mrs. Ruby Hurley. Members of the National Plan ning and Advisory Committee will meet in executive session on Nov ember 4th in Houston, to com plete their recommendations to the conference. Robert H. Wilson of Columbia, South Carolina is committee cairman for this year. Handle Legs Promptly Timber cut during the growing season requires prompt handling to avoid deterioration from decay, in sect attacks or sap plains, exten sion forester report. Gives A Lift To give a lift to canned or cooked dried fruit, sgueeze orange or grapefruit juice over the top just be fore serving. * Farm Production From the top third of the nation’s farms comes 8« per cent of the tfetal production; from the other two thirds. 20 per cent —---- - _ - HEAVY GOING! _____^ By Mackenzie] . ... _£_ ... ifouil have to reduce % if were going 1b get amj place .Hi Josephine Baker*s frame from Chicago Waiter CHICAGO—Jo Baker’s tax-free $4000 a week engagement at the Latin Quarter here is declared in October Ebony to mark the Paris Nightclub Queen's triumphal re turn to the city which once paid her only $25 for the same act, and where she also got her name from a Negro waiter. Miss Baker bad offers from New York’s Cafe Society but they balked at her $8000 a week salary request, Ebony claims. Chicago's Latin Quarter then stepped in with tax-free deal at $4000 a week a sum which tops even Lena Hom’es current salary. Miss Baker, whose recent French provincial wedding was turned into a municipal holiday by the adoring villagers near her Beynant chateau, is married to white bandleader Jo Boullon. She has no children, though married four times, but cares for a war waif she adopted. Her first marriage was to a Chicago Sunset Cafe waiter nam ed Baker. She was in the chorus at this club at the time and earn j ed $25 weekly. Though she has since been married to three weal thy Frenchmen, Jb still clings to the name of her first husband, the Negro nightclub waiter from Chicago. He Was Dirty From somwhere on the clean, broad Pacific in his schooner, the Santana, Humphrey Bogart wire lesses that he’s jumping over, board 12 times a day to get rid of the dirt he accumulated as the un. kempt desert rat in Warner Bros.' forthcoming drama, “Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” ___ I “Smart Woman Slated to Hit Newsstands Oct. 15 CHICAGO—"Smart Woman”, a new Circuit publication for col ored women, is lated to hit the nation’s newsstands Oct. 15, it was announced here this week. The change in title from “Home Circuit” to “Smart Woman” was made to indicate more clearly the changed emphasis of the maga zine, according to the publisher. The new fashion monthly will featuture styles as created by America’s leading designers. As far as is known, “Smart Woman” will be the first nationally circu. lated magazine for colored wo men to be patterned along the lines of Vogue, Glamour and Charm. Photographs are 'oeing taken by Gordon Rogers Parks, head of documentary photography for the Standard Oil company of New York. The new design is being created by Robert Williams of Washington, D. C., who has ser ved as poster artist for various government, agencies, in addition to being a free lance contributor to national publications. Williams received much professional en couragement from E. Simms Campbell. Success Assured Maxine Gates, 265-pound singe” in “Elver the Beginning” at War ner Bros., has been selected as “the new personality with the greatest chance to succeed in 1947 by the Strauss Music Apprecia tion Club of Brooklyn, N. Y. "CLING TO ME" CHANTER - Smiling Joe Alexander it the popular west coast baritone whose singing of "Cling To Me, Baby" is cur rently rounding up the buffaloes in the nation's jukes. Alexander, a former LoUisianan, waxes exclusively for the red Capitol "Ameri cana" label. Following a week ot the Lot Angeles Lincoln Theater Sept. 4-10 in which he co-stars with Nellie Lutcher and Joe Lutcher's band, Alexander will be featured at San Diego's swank Cin-A-Ber - Club. Joe got his start ot o member of Floyd Ray's orchestra. CAMPBELL PRAISES FARM OWNERS “The Negro landowner is the bone and sinew ef the Negro race,” declrared T. M. Campbell, Federal Extension field agent, in an address last week before 1,000 colored farmers at the Delta Ex periment Station, Stoneville, Mis3. “Too many of the children of substantial farm owners are leav ! ing the farm and the good acres,” Campbell said. “It is up to us,” he continued, “to make the farm home and farm life more attract ,r €»/* The veterans field agent, who has been with the U. S. Depart ment of agriculture snee 1906, pointed out that although Cblored farmers have shown an increase in ownership of about 12.U00 farms sneei 1940, they still have 301,000 JJewer farms than they owned 25 years ago. He stated that in 1920 colored farmers owned 217,589 fanms in the South, while whites in the re gion owned 1,379,636 farms. As of 1945, the whites had increased their holdngs by 145,364 farms; their total stood at 1.525,000. But the colored owners had slipped down to only 186,000, a loss of 31, 589 farms. Campbell said that most of these farms were lost because the chldren of thelr owners have not remained on the farm to carry on when their parents pass on. He aited poor living fond it ions as the principal reason fo» their leav to*. j Cltnr From Italy Crimson clover was in traduced Into the United States Iron Italy la IMS.__ I II 1 ■ ■ ■ Louis Armstrong's Combo at Bern's on the West Coast has Barney Bigard, Sid Catlitt, Jack Teagarden and others in lineup Louis Armstrong and his band , --“ — are wowing them with the kind of rythme that only he can play he keeps packing them in each and every night. CIVIL SERVICE OFFERS A CAREER An opportunity to file applica tions for a Civil Service (career) appointment in the Federal Ser vice was announced today by the Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil Sericve Examiners, Corps of En gineers, 1709 Jaskson st., Omaha 2, Nebraska. Appointments will be made to the positions of Real Es tate Specialist in the following options: 1. Real Estate Agent, CAF-9, $4149.60 per annum; 2. Utilization Analyst, CAF-9, $4149.60 per annum; 3. Negotia tor, CAF-8, $3773.40 per annum. Employment possibilities from these examinations exist ip the local offices of the Division En gineer, Missouri River Division, Omaha. Nebraska, and the Dis trict Engineer. Garrison Engineer District, Fort Lincoln, Bismarck, North Dakota. Applications will be accepted untli the close of business Sept. 10, 1947. Applicants must be citizens of or owe allegiance to the United States. The age limits are 18 to 62, except for veterans and persons in the Federal Service who are war service indefinite employees. Applications may be secured from the Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners, at any first—or second-class post office. | --■' 1,1 »■ *1 GROUP TAKES NAACP LIFE MEMBERSHIP ATLANTIC CITY, N. J—A $500 Life Membership in th National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was taken by the Imperial Court, Daughters of Isis, during the 46th Annual Con. vention of the Imperial Council of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mlstic Shrine, in this city on August 21. The $500 check was presented during the Thursday morning ses sion to Mrs. Daisy E. Lampkin. veteran NAACP National Field Secretary, who addressed the Ita perial Court. Time Savers At least four hours'^ week can be 1 saved by an lroner in the average family. A saving of sevesal hours can be accomplished by the washer. The total gain from the two amounts to several weeks a year. gi \ TOP TRUMPET TOOTER-TERRIlflC! i<M I Erskine Hawkins and his famous recording orchestra will appear at the Dreamland HrP 24th and Grant st., Saturday nite Sept. 13, once mor® to thrill the music lovers as well as those who | love to dance. “So Hurry on down Erskine Hawkins and "let the ■ood times roll". Curtis Rushing New Hit Musical Michael Curtiz has ordered full speed ahead on production plans at Warners for "Forever and Al ways,” a new musical which will star Doris Day, the former name, band singer who made a sensa. tional debut in Curtie's recently completed “Romance in High C.” He hopes to start shooting in a. bout six weeks. Fishing and Hunting Area Sun Valley. Idaho, borders on a hunting and fishing area as large as the entire state of Connecticut. Classified Ads Set Results FOREIGN JOBS Mm Women gov. and private listings, hundreds skill de classifications. 16-pages accur.. ate information 81.00, postpaid... 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This com pares with 1.290,000 in all of Sbuth America. pazTTpn aq uopaj paju«[eq e jetp (■puassa rj p ‘janaMop -uopduins -aoa ^u*p jo; pnpr aSajaAe aq] Joj papuaumiooaa sapuiuj*;o Junouis ®»n jo q]JB-X]u^*] auo piuqs jo sap i -OIM 001 jflddns ujr 0]«jod auo ottpoa « no a An NEW YORK—Lena Horne, who is looked upon as one of Metro's most glamorous stars, seems headed in quite a different direc | tion these days as she returns to the stage, her first love. A sensational success here, headlinning the offering at the biased Copacabana nitery in mid Manhattan, the former darling of cinamaland is being embraced tightly by the nite club and leg itimate stag world. Rated by after dark critics as the greatest att ist to come along since Florence Mills stopped looking for a "Blue Bird” and Ethel Waters turned a “Stormy Weather” into a glow, ing bright career, Horne is the answer to many a nite club pray er. \ ... i Europe Maybe As all this favor breaks about its beige Btar, Metro says nothing and is yet to include her name on the list of scheduled fall flick, ers. With , all quiet on the cinima tic front Music Corporation of America which handles the for mer Cotton Club chorine, is Foing ahead with a deal that may take the sultry delineator to Europe this fall. At the moment it appears that should thg deal jell Lena will play upwarsds to four weeks of vaude ville in London, make some re Ptle of Cement Grand Coulee dam contains enough qsment to build three Great Pyramids. Using Bat Skins The skins of rats are used to make pocketbooks and' tobacco pouches. 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