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On Labor Day Broadcast
DUKE ELLINGTON, famous band leader, composer and pianist
«f international fame, who with Ivie Anderson, his feature singer, the
•Golden Gate Bovs and others were featured on the hour-long Labor
Day Broadcast from over the nation. President Roosevelt spoke on the
program from his Hyde Park, N. V.. home. Labor Day nigl^t, Duke and ,
Ivie were featured on the last of the CBS “Forecast” broadcasts.
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HOLLYWOOD—No lecture this
issue, and no explanation at pres
ent as to who are the most guiitj
of the sepia Hollywood Hi-hat':
That will come in due time, but
just, now there is too much to talk
about to spare the time for a bad
ly needed ink-well spanking for
the culprits. They know who they
are though and it is to be hoped
they take the hint and mend
their ways before the public sits
down on them.
INDEX TO THE NEWS
NEXT ISSETE
Harry Popkin, Million DoL'ai j
Production Head. Tried in U. t
S. Court. . J
Who’s who, and who’s here now i
from the east. j
King Solomon’s 335th wife ad- j
vises movie struck young wives. #
Untold story ot seven drowning j
extras saved in “Tarzan.”
Prominent Chicago wcmen ar- .
rive to visit movie studios. j
(And a lot other stuff unclassi- -
fied dot-dashingly.) ■’
“Everything comes to him (or |
her) who waits ‘so all you guys ,
and gals who have long wished and !
sighed to visit Harlem can cut it i
out. For Harlem has come to your ■
door With Willie Bryant, Georg- J
ette Harvey and others arriving ;
last week to join the great Ethel
Waters in the coast production of
“Mamba’s Daughter,” there is a
big’ dent in the theatrical popula
tion of Harlem the city within u
city.
Here now fully acclimated, and
rapidly becoming ‘‘native” Cali
fornians are Duke Ellington. his
talented son, Mercer, and the El
lington melody mixers making his
tory at the Mayan. Besides them
there are so many other famous
New York members of the profesb
here for indefinite periods that if |
would take a'<l the rest of the Ol
Koljrum to tell about them. Alec j
Lovejoy, famous comedian who de- !
cided to settle here following the
close of his long run in “Cabin j
in the Sky." has opened a criib with j
a big sign in front “Alec Lovejov’s |
Breakfast Club,” located at 45th
and Central.
‘ JUMP FOR JOY” PROGRAMS
Requests are flooding in from
all over the country for the beau
tiful programs which have been
made up as souvenirs of “Jump for
Joy,” the musical revue, starring
Duke 0 lington, which is now in its
8th capacity week at the Mayan.
Collectors or Ellingtonia_rec- j
crds. pictures and stories-are |
anxious to add this handsome item
to their folios, since it carries pic- ;
lures of thr* Duke. Ivie Anderson.
Herb Jeffries and all the members
of the cast as well as the orches
tra, which h"* become so widdiy
known thro'^h ’**'r —^
pearances av ’--eu ~~ —
COLORED PJ.UT»S T** THREE
PICTURES ABOUT GffiV
CUSTER
For the firs" tbr-e n t-b« hi--"o*
of Hollywood, two player
enacting the same character at t
the Ram® time at th° same studio 5
The two players are Addison
Richards and Samuel S. Hinds.
The character they are portrav
ing is General Custer. The studio
is Universal. Richard is cast as
Custer in “Badlands of Dekota.’
Including </ik>red players, while
Hinds is in "Ride ’Em Cowboy.”
featuring Ella Fitzgerald.
Incidentally, at Warner Broth
ers-First National studios, less than
a half milel from Universal. a
third actor is p'pying the same
role . Errol Flynn in “They Died
With Their Eoots On,” featuring
Hattie McDaniel.
REVEAL ‘CONGAROOS*
COLORED OCTETTE
Photographic records prove that j
there are more than 300 distinct i
movements per minute in the wild
rhumba-jitterbug ^viiaoiutions of
the Congaroos, the New York col
ored octet just brought to Holly
wood by Universal for “Hellzapop
pin,’’ and called the fastest danc
ing combination in the world.
Needless to say. it is presumed,
“every little movement has a
meaning all its own.'’
NOTHING NEW IN
JITTERBUG DANCE EFFECT
Jitterbugs, wtho pride them- |
selves on their newness and origi
na ity, might just as well learn the
fatal facts now. They aren’t new
and original at all.
Way back in the dim, dark ages
of 1919 there was a dance routine
known as the “Texas Tommy.’’ rt 1
is said to have originated in San
Francisco, and it completely
alarmed the so-caWed better ele
ment of the nation. The partici
pants jumped, kicked, clawed and
All of this came to light when
threw each other around like a ;
Japanese tumbling troupe.
Eddie Prinz, dance director on !
Paramount’s ‘Birth of the Biues.r’]
did a little research for material
for the film. i
Director Victor Schertzinger has
Bing Crosby, Mary Martin and the
rest of his cast singing and playing
all the tunes famous around 1910.
He wanted dances to go with them.
And there's where “Texas Tommy"
proved that a jitterbug, at least
is nothing new under the sun.
How To Get Dr. Fred
Palmer’s Dream Book
Free Of Charge
The new issue of Dr. Fred
Palmer’s Dream Book contains 32
pages of interesting facts and
hundreds of interpretations of
dreams. Practically everyone wha
has seen this new Dream Book
acclaims it as the best ever put
out by the makers of Dr. Fred
Palmer’s Beauty Preparations j
There are «rlso some interesting
facts about vitamins and interest
ing answers that can be used ;n ;
quiz games.
One of these interesting books
will be sent you free. However,
we ask that you enclose 10c to
cover the cost of handling and
postage. Don’t delay. Get yoU^ ;
copy before the supply is ex- !
hausted. The makers of Dr. Fred ;
Palmer beauty items want you to :
have this interesting Dream Book j
and are glad to send it to you. !
CBS And NBC Broadcast
Include Many Race Stars
An Expensive
Fish Story
Went Fishing And
Boat Was Late;
Hot And Bothered
NEY YORK—(A N P)—Eddie
Rochester" Anderson's keenness for
I fishing cost him $500 last week
when he was late for the first show
at the Strand theatre here Thurs
i day morning. The Music Corpora
, tion of America, for whom he is
working, slapped the fine on Eddie
who was 40 minutes late.
Eddie has been going fishing
I every night after the show, return
ing the following morning but this
time the boat was late. MCA ask
ed Kitty Murray, the colored per
former also in the act, to go in his
place and do a single but Miss Mur
ray refused because neither MCA
nor the Strand put her name in
electric lights in New York al
though she» got her name in the
marquee out of town. Rochester was
f hot and bothered when he finally
panted in. The theatre had been
running shorts interspersed with
j Clyde Lucas' band to fill in.
Boy Soprano
Singer Heads
Festival Program
KANSAS CITY. Mo.—(A N P>
i —Prentice Moreland. 15-year-old
boy soprano from the 11th and
'Vine Streets playground, was the
' stars of the city pfteyground festi
val held at the municipal audi
torium last Friday. Prentice,
whose rendition of the spirit al,
I “The Blind Man Stood by the
' Way.” had won top rating for
ibim. was picked from 27 finalists
I in the radio acts contest conduct
ed by the city recreation depart
ment August 23. The finals were
' held at the Faxon school, being
judged by Glenn H. Park, commis
sioner of recreation: Les L. War
ren, superintendent of public rec
1 reation, and Hard id Newton, rec
i reation division music supervisor.
Taking second place was the
Graham band, white, from Heim
Park, while Miska and Sonja Buf
finton, white tap dancers, were
rated third. Virginia Johnson won
1 fourth place for her singing. The
I final contestants were chosen from I
i an original field of 80 acts
j More Fan Mai! For
“Chariot Wheels”
ATLANTA, Ga.—(SNS> —
After more than a year of con- \
I tinuous broadcasting as a Sunday 1
: night feature of Radio Sation WBS j
I “Chariot Wheels,” well-balanced I
j 50-voice chorus may be consider
| ed for the network of the National
: Broadcasting Company, with an in
! crease of fan mail.
Accordingly, radio fans in Atlan
ta are urged to mail a penny post
card to Station WBS, expressing
their reaction to the program.
The “Chariot Wheels’ Chorus,
directed by Lawrence Mann, was
organized by the Atlanta Baptist
Ministers’ Union, with Revs. C. N.
Ellis, S. Pettagrue, A. G. Davis,
B. J. Johnson, T. H. George, James
Walker, G. W. Jordan, M. L. King, !
W. W. Weatherspool, Dr. C. D. j
Hubert, D. A. Dixon, Rowland i
Smith, and A. Bell taking the inia- !
tive.
Thursday night the chorus pre
sented a fine program in West
Point and has been booked for en
gagements at Newnan on Septem
ber 1, and Austell, September 28.
Simply write to the Galenol Com
pany, Inc., Box 264, Depart
ment G., Atlanta, Georgia, and
your copy will be sent to you im
mediately.
Featured On Labor Day
THE GOLDEN GATE BOYS
NEWS OF
THEATRES
"King Of The Jitterbugs"
Tiny Bradshaw and His Orchestra
Dynamic Tiny Bradshaw, “king of the jitterbugs”, and his orches
tra are touring .the nation with Lil Green. 200-pounri recording artist,
whose “In the Dark” platter has sold over 50,000 reproductions. The
combination is bringing down the houses in Southern appearances.
. — —— --1
Fantastic Comedienne
Is Conservative Dresser
i By DOLORES CALVIN
| (for Calvin ervice, Exclusive) i
NEW YORK— (C)—One look at'
Kitty Murray was enough! Another
> found the vast audience rolling
over and all but bursting their sides i
for laughter. With the short brilliant j
red dress, leaving her knees to be j
viewed, long braids, a red straw j
hat overloaded with red flowers, j
socks of the same color and black i
baseball shoes, Kitty Murray, wild
ly chewing gum. stole the show play- |
ing a tacit glamour girl opposite !
Eddie (Rochester) Anderson at the j
Strand Theatre here in New York.
Backstage, after her numerous
curtain calls, I found Miss Mur- |
j ray’s fantastic taste for clothes does ,
, not extend to her every day ward
robe. Conservatively dressed in a !
brown and white dress, figur- |
ed. turban and white sport shoes,
she confessed to me a likeness
for the soft shades, and never a
lot of color! As to her personality,
she’s just like she's on the stage,
quiet, unassuming . and taking her
success in a stride.
Right then and there in Roches
ter's dressing room (Eddie had
stepped out for a fight at Madison
Square Garden) we launched in a
discussion of her likes and dislikes.
First of all, she hates sweets, and
laughly nodded no, when I exclam
ed, “Not even ice-cream!K
Kitty, whose plumpness in cer
tain parts, is one of the things
which makes her so comical, loves
to swim, is crazy about Hollywood
(altho she’s only been there once)
and simply adores jewelry. She 1
doesn’t like to drive, probably be- |
cause she doesn’t own a car, and |
doesn’t smoke, either.
Asked if she enjoyed traveling,
she responded, “I love those air
planes, and that’s how we do most
of our traveling.” Then I asked her
if she liked hopping on nite planes
after a late performance. To this,
she sipped her drink jokingly and
j said. “I’m never too tired to travel.
| when there’s money!!
She’s fond of New York, it’s
Helena Horne
i
Renews Contract
With Cafe Society
NEW YORK—(C)—The busy,
blues beauty, Helena Horne, who is
the mistress of ceremonies of Cafe
Society Downtown has been signed
i again by over pleased proprietor,
I Barney Josephson for another 6
months. Helena has had a pheno
menal rise since she joined Cafe
Society's personnel in early April.
First Josephson put her in Cafe
Society Concert at Carnegie Hall
j where she was a hit. Then Artie
; Shaw asked her to sing the cocals
i for some band recordings he had
i scheduled. On top of that, Henry
“Hot Lips’’ Levine of NBC’s “Ba
sin Street” chose her to sing with
his band in making the RCA—Vic
tor “Birth of the Blues” Album of
W. C. Handy’s songs.
A few weeks ago Helena began a
new coast-to-coast series over
WEAF-NBC-Red, “Strictly From
Dixie”, in which she is featured with
Lewine’s Dixieland Band. A new
film outfit, B. W. Pictures, special
izing in shorts, is starting its career
by featuring Helena with the boogie
woogie pianist Albert Ammong and
Pete Johnson of Cafe Society Up
town. Indeed, Helena is one busy I
girl.
brilliant lights and nite clubs, “but,”
she sighs, “there’s no other city in
the country like Chicago” (that’s
where she does all of her shopping.)
Kitty’s manager won't let her
do more than one act a year. But
plans are being made for her to do
a movie short with “Fats” Waller
and orchestra this winter. The
tour she’s now doing with Roches- !
ter is the longest she's ever made, i
as it has included 12 weeks of hard
work.
Last week, Kitty danced the jit
terbug with pop-eyed Eddie Cantor,
who was so crazy over Kitty that
he’s angling for her for his radio \
show.
■
Coming home to her room in Hotel
Braddock, on the subway, (she had
her wet stockings, drenched from
the rain in her pocketbook* Kitty i
exclaimed, “What are you going to |
do with all of these questions; write I
my life story?”
I'm afraid I'd have to write a j
book to get in all the things Miss I
Murray has accomplished!!
Seein’ Stars
With DOLORES CALVIN
NEW YORK—(C) — GOSSIP IN
GOTHAM: Harlemites are calling
Promoter Fred Irwin of New York
first all-colored horse show, the
biggest chisler in town .. Insiders
say Irwin did such good business
in the show that he made a nice
neat sum for himself, but just “for
got” to pay off colored help such as
his secretary, and janitors and care
takers of the horses which enter
ed the show on the 22nd, 23rd and
24th of August .. But sly Irwin did
not forget to remember to pay the
white owners of the Speedway Gar
dens which he used for the four
legged animals .. They say 150
colored folks all tried to get the
late Lou Gehrig’s job as head of the
City’s Parole Comm. Of course
everyone knows Lieut. Samuel Bat
tle landed it!
CHATTER ON THE IDOLS
Eddie (Rochester) Anderson and
troupe (comedienne Kitty Murray)
are heading for Hartford, Conn..
this Thursday for a 7-day stay and
Thursday for a 7 day stay and
then he’ll hit Newark, N. J. for 4
days .. New Yorkers sure hate to
see the “dandruff in Jack Benny’s
thinning hair” leave 6 ‘Tis learned
that the Strand Theatre, to draw the
crowd’s attention from that bad
picture, “Bad Men from Missouri”
that they produced a strong stage
show with Rochester as the magnet.
A tall, lanky ofay gentleman,
Roger Starr took the spotlight last
week at the Nat’l Negro Congress
mass meet in the Congress Casino..
You’ll remember he’s the Park Ave.
millionaire who preferred to be
drafted with Negro soldiers .. Af
ter his speech, we trailed him with
his girl friend to a cross-town
street car and to the subway -
shows vcuf what millionaires will
do!
I WONDER .. if you know that
immense Hotel Theresa’s 333 rooms
were all filled last Saturday and
what’s more, they turned 100 away
if you know that President H. Coun
cil Trenholm of Ala. State Teachers
College was in town at the There
sa for a few days.. if you know
that, Georgette Harvey of “Mam
ba’s Daughters” fame has opened
a booking agency for Fall produc
tions.
Featured On
"America In
Transition"
Dr. Reddick Is
Speaker On Role
Of Negro In U. S.
NEW YORK—(A N Pi—The
“America in Transition" series of
the Columbia Broadcasting system
last Thursday devoted a special
program to the contributions of the
Negro to American culture. The
address on the role of the Negro
people in American life and his
tory was delivered by Dr. L. D
Reddick, curator of the Schomburg
collection of the New York Public
library. This whole series of broad
casts which is carried by the net
work has for its purpose the reex
amination of vital, national tradi
tions in the present w’orld crisis.
Among such notables who have I
appeared on the various programs
are: Stuart Chase, author and
economist: Henry Noble McCrack
en, president of Yassar college; I
Carl Carmer, author and folklorist; I
Henry Seidel Canby, author and
contributing editor to Saturday Re
view of Literature; and Henry
Pratt Fairchild, professor of so
ciology, New York university.
I
After summarizing the contribu- 1
tions of the Negro in discovery and
exploration, labor, politics, educa- ,
tion, journalism, music, literature,
Dr. Reddick pointed out that the
Negro at the present time was on
the eve of making his “greatest ,
contribution of all times’’. He de
clared that in this hour of world
war and human travail, the con
cept of democracy is challenged as
never before.
“The only way we can prove to
the world and to ourselves that we j
are not hypocritical champions of
the democratic way of life is to
see to it that the Negro enjoys i
full democracy”, he said. “In our )
good neighbor policy with Latin
America, which in itself is a vast
melting pot of peoples, we should
counter-poise our ideology of free- :
dom and equality over against the
‘master race’ creed of the Nazi.
Bury Mrs. Tinsley
WASHINGTON — (ANP) — j
Funeral services were held Fri- I
day for Mrs. Fannie A. Tinsley,
formerly of Richmond. Va., who
died Tuesday after a lengthy ill
,ness. Mrs. Tinsley was the mother
of Mrs. Arnetia Johnson Triplett,
one of Washington’s foremost
business and society women. Oth
er survivors are her husband.
Dorsey Tinsley, two other daugh
ters, Mrs. Geneva Burrell and
Mrs. Ethel M. Palmer cf Phila
delphia. Interment was in Rich
mond. following services at Mc
Guire’s chapel, conducted by the j
I Rev. Mr. Coleman of Colonial j
' Beach, Va.
The Department of Commerce an
ticipates construction of 650.000
nonfarm dwellings during the year.
German truckers are required to
load or unload a ton of freight in
a maximum of 20 minutes., the De
partment of Commerce reports.
Still In Ihe "Big Time
EfcN.W CAR I EH, w hose band has been in the height light dis
tricts of the nation for some time now. Carter’s orchestra is one of the
foremost sepia outfits cf the country.
RATING THE RECORDS
Rv FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS
TKl.VU’Hhl'h AM) KOtK.it
Two albums of special interest
j are now' available. One is “Hot
T'umphets" by Columbia and the
other is “8 to the Bar,” featuring
boogie wroogie by Pete Johnson
and Albert Ammons on Victor with
drum accompaniment.
The trumphet collection con
sist of reissues. Most of the num
bers are collectors’ items and
waxed from 123 to 1936. Tunes and
horn blowers are FM COMING’
VIRGINIA, Bix| Beiderbecke, and
ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND,
Red Nisols; DARKTOWN STRUT
TERS BALL, Muggsy Spanier, and
ONE AND TWO BLUES. Joe
Smith; DEAR OLD SOUTHLAND.
Louis Armstrong, and BODY AND
SOUL Red Allen: ECB'pES OF
HARLEM, Cootie Williams. and
WHY WAS I BORN. Buck Clayton.
Look at it from any angle, this
is a mess of the righteous stuif
The numbers were selected to show
each performer at his best.
Smith s quiet, sensitive cornet; the
jungle growls of Cootie; the ly
rically beautiful Bix. the incom
parable Louis, the drive of Muggsy,
the soulfulness of Clayton. the
wildness of Allen and the smoothe
ness of Nishols contrast telling with
each other. If you can’t get kicks
out of this, you simply don’t) like
hot jazz. j
A couple years ago. Johnson, Am- (
mons and Meade “Lu: ‘
corded a three piano
“Boogie Woogie Prayer
a letdown. Too many instruments. I
But two pianos are all right—and
incidentallly the limit. This pdrmite
the use of two right hands ana the
introduction and development of a
wealth of distinct ideas and coun
terpoint- not possible wdth one pi
ano and which becomes just so
much noise with three. And since
there’s drum, this collection makes
for rug cutting in the good old
Saturday night hose party manner
as well as for unusal listening.
lire tiiij.cs. ranging from fast b.w.
down through jump tempo to me
On The West Coast
BUTTERBEANS AND SUSIE
iflium slow blues, are CUTT7N’ THF
| BOOGIE and BARREL. HOUSE
j BUGGIE; BOOGIE WOOGIE MAN
and WALKIN’ THE BOOGIE.
SIXTH AVENUE EXPRESS and
PINE CREEK; FOOT PEDAL and
MOVIN’ THE BOOGIE. And if you
should be amazed some night by the
sight of the Statue of Liberty rock
ing, don’t be alarmed. It’’ll just be
: somebody playing these selections
' in her ear on a portable machine
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
•
Try a bit of TOASTED PICKLE
served by Cootie Williams on Okeh.
. This is a juicy jump with rhythm
j ahd drums especially raising sand
| Flipover is TOP AND BOTTOM,
equally fine fare with Johnny Hod
ges taking a strong alto solo. And
! of course. Cootie’s horn all but
I melts... Bob Chosbv sparkles on
ELMER’S TUNE for Decca. with
Jess Stacy's piano walking off with
honor’s. The number is bouncey but
the performance is not Dixieland
Other side is a commercial number
THE ANGELS CAME THROUGH
...Artie Shaw has a pair on Victor
that sound as gcod today as they
ever did. They are IT HAD TO BE
YOU. very rhythmic and solid de
spite the strings and with the Shaw
clarinet, at its best, and IF I HAD
YOU. a bit slower and more sub
dued.
i Maurice Rocco goes barrelhouse
i oil HOW COME YOU DO ME LIKE
YOU DO for Decca. working hard
on the stompbox and singing while
I a drum accompanies. This is prob
ably his best performance to date.
The flipover, HOLD ME BABY, is
not equal to the other.. .Harry
James chows himself just another
commercial band leader on the
Columbia of I'LL GET BY and
LOST IN LOVE. Of course it’s a
living but it’s sorry jazzz.. Larrv
Clinton’s Bluebird of TENTMENT
SYMPHONY is a descriptive piece,
well drawn with yords and music.
Coupled is a killer diller on which
everybody rides, the Scotch song
COMIN' THRU’ THE RYE
Here’s another Raymond Scott ori
ginal that doesn’t get across with
me. THE MERRY CARROUSEL on
Columbia. Scott used to be clever,
now he just shows off. Other side
if BEAU NIGHT IN HOTCHKISS
CORNERS, an undistinguished ver
sion.
Count Basie deserves a liand this
week for BASIE BOOGIE, jump
with plentv of piano, and LETT ME
SEE. a topnotch fast tune. The ten
or sax on this plays like a follower
of Les Young. Basie is also on an
other Okeh with Sam Donahue,
called IT COUNTS A LOT in which
he also pounds a lot of Steinway as
the white band jumps like his own
Other side is LONESOME, a lazv
tune in Lunceford manner.. .Shep
Fields, on the Bluebird of HUN
GARIAN DANCE NO. 5. gets heat
ed to a boil, although there is the
impression his reeds and rhythm
trv a little too much to be hot
Coupled is DON’T BLAME ME. ra
ther enjoyable and a nice tempo ,.
.Johnny Long Decca of KISS THE
BOYS GOODBYE is an exception
ally fine version. The gal and glee
club vocal lend added punch Com
oanion piece is DON’T TAKE
YOUR LOVE FROM ME. a pop
tune.
Tommy Dorsey rings the bell with
h 12 inch Victor pairing FOR YOU
with a sweltering, groovev version
of SWING LOW SWEET CHA
RIOT. The first has excellent bari
tone sax, and the second shows
everybody stepping out...The Cha
rioteers have a hot Dressing of
ONE, TWO THREE O'LAIRY on
Okeh with a gorgeous piano Coup
ling is I DON’T WANT TO SET
THE WORLD ON FIRE, beautifully
Harmonizing__. The Mills Brothers
are in an sentimental mood onOkeh
with IF IT’S TRUE and THE
VERY THOUGHT OF YOU. They
are backed by small band.. .Claude
Thornhill plays sweetly, with his
careful piano SING A LOVE SONG
on Columbia, backed by I’M
THRU. LED. GOOD commercial
stuff... Terry Powell tries put YES
INDEED on Bluebird but T Dor
seys version around, skip it,