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Social an
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Scott, 1051
Bryant Ave. N., had as their din
ner guests, Sunday, May 18, Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Bryant and son,
Edward.
The Blue Monday Club will meet
at the home of Mrs. Robert Alex
ander, 3720 Fifth Ave. S., Monday,
May 26.
The Missionary Society of St.
Peter AME church, will meet Fri
day, May 23, with Isaac Judy, 5150
Humboldt Ave. N., from 2 until 4.
All members are urged to be pres
ent. Business of importance will be
discussed.
Mrs. Robert Alexander, 3720
Fifth Ave. S., returned Sunday,
May 11, from Louisville, Ky., where
she was called because of the ill
ness of her brother, Stradford Goin.
His condition has improved very
much.
Mrs. Alene Neal. 535 Emerson
Ave. N., is now at home after
spending 10 days in Abbot hospital.
Mrs. Neal is getting along nicely
Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Boyd,
3533 Fourth Ave. S., returned from
Ironton, Ohio, May 19. They were
accompanied by their nephew, Rus
sell Mayo, who plans to spend the
summer here.
Mrs. Willis Gates, 902 Bryant
Ave. N., left Monday, May 19, for
Chicago, 111., to be at the bedside
of her sister, Mrs. Kathleen Blake
ly, who is seriously ill. She was
accompanied by her three nieces,
Karen, Barbara, and Loretta Blake-
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Mrs. Muriel Smith of Chicago,
111., arrived in Minneapolis, Tues
day, May 13, to make her home
permanently with her brother, and
sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Alexander, 3720 Fifth Ave. S. Mrs.
Smith is the aunt of Mrs. John
Scott, 555 W. Jessamine Ave., in
St. Paul.
Birthday Party: Misses Shirley
and Dorothy Faison, daughters of
Mr. and Mrs. David Faison, 406
E. 38th St., celebrated Shirley's
eighth and Dorothy's third birth
day, Friday, May 9, at a party at
home. Refreshments of vanilla ice
cream patties with pink rabbit
centers, pink and white cake, was
served to the guests including
Donna Mae, Janet and Sharon Car
ter; Delores, William (Sonny) and
Lois Faison, cousins of the hon-
ored sisters, and Tony Johnson. One
side of the cake was decorated with
eight candles for Shirley whose
birthday was May 7 and the other
side held three candles for Doro
thy whose birthday was May 14.
Mrs. Faison, assisted by Mrs. John
Carter and Mrs. Kathryn Thomas,
supervised the youngsters at games
and other entertainment during
the afternoon.
Mrs. H. T. Ormes, 3605 12th Ave.
S., will leave for Lincoln, Neb.,
Monday, May 26, to spend Memor
ial Day with her brother and sis
ter, Mrs. James Dean, and her
brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde Malone. Mrs. Ormes
expects to be away about ten days,
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Mrs. C. T. Palmer, 715 Seventh
St. N., has returned from Lincoln,
Neb., where she went hurriedly on
April 8 to the bedside of her
mother, Mrs. Mary Lewis, who has
been seriously ill.
Mrs. Palmer’s mother’s condition
is improved.
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MINNESOTA AND lOWA ELKS
Last Saturday and Sunday Elks
from several western states gath
ered in Chicago at a meeting and
public display of various Antler
Guard units.
The groups participated in a
parade and attended Elks Thanks
giving services on Sunday. Pascal
Todd, of Ames Lodge Antler Guard,
represented Minnesota and lowa
Guards.
Mr. James Lewis, 2817 Elliot
Ave. S., will leave this week for
Waterloo, la., to attend the elec
toral college to elect delegates to
the General conference of the AME
churches to be held in Los Angeles,
Calif., in May of 1948.
Mrs. Alberta Crump of St. Paul
was the week-end guest of Mrs.
Carrie Smith, 712 Oak Lake Ave.
N., last week-end. Mrs. Elice Hall
was also her dinner guest Sunday,
May 18.
To Attend Funeral: Mrs. Wreath*
Maxwell, 3020 20th Ave. S., and Mr.
Carl Green, 723 Emerson Ave. N.,
left this week to attend the funeral
of their sister and aunt, respec
tively, to be held on Friday, May
23, in Omaha, Neb.
Messrs. Dan McAdams, 334 E.
38th St., Ira Allen, .3816 Fourth
Ave. S., and Chalmer Lawson, 2526
Oakland Ave., returned home Tues
day, May 20, from Chicago, 111.,
where they attended the Brooklyn
Dodgers versus Chicago Cubs base
ball game Sunday, May 18.
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Taxi cab drivers are interesting characters. One finds some very
shrewd students of human nature among the haekeys. New York’s 1
cab drivers are said to be among the most garrulous in tho trade. In
Manhattan no sooner do you step into a taxi than you
are surrounded by a whirl of words coming from up
front, enveloping you like a dust storm sweeping- m otf
the K.n.-.i- plan.- Fioni (Ham! Cvi.ti.il •. j :!1 _,|
Harlem. from Pei.L>yh ama >tati.-n A , j \ : i
lage, from La Guardia airport to Park .Vet.im, ( , u t.
of-towner finds himself side-swiped in m.d out ofKSjk
traffic while his heart seeks refuge on tin th.or \\ jt h
his luggage. New Yorkers, who u( .
customed to being careened ar.und the < . c,..,
•pee.iway clax.ic, . hung ..n an.l i.,,. SSB
comers find themselves pawing frantically at air and -
?“" Cmer " ly around the backseat like a pellet in a Nell Russell
“ achlne they hear an endless over-the-shoulder com-
Xms to r n 'r V h ß s “ nc,um ' What takes P> a « on the road ahead
seems to be of no possible concern to the lad at the wheel.
I must admit Twin City t.xi cab drivers have so much com
petition from private conveyances, that out of sheer self-protect ion
they are far the more sane of the two, but also admit that when
it comes to making with the conversation, some of the boys here
needn t worry about their laurels.
Last Tuesday, I rode a Yellow cab downtown to a meeting at the
Dyckman hotel. My dwver was a friendly character who must have
thought I looked like a sympathetic soul (people always do), and so
in ten minutes I learned the state of his romantic affairs, his opinions
on marriage, and last, “the only sure cure” he ever heard of for
alcoholism.
Only know of one drunk who was ever completely cured,” the
cabby said. “And that was my father. My mother fixed him good.
Yes sir. she fixed him right after they got married. He came home
all liquored up one night, and my mother had a pint right in the
house. She asked him: ‘Would you like another drink?’ and he said
yes, he would like another drink. But he was pretty surprised, see?
My mother didn’t like him drinking, so he was pretty surprised at
her asking him to have a drink right in the house. Well, my father
took another drink and he passed right out. You know what my
mother did? By gosh, she took him and wrapped him up in two
bed sheets so tight he couldn’t even move. Then, by gosh, she took
one of these here wide boards from out in the shed, and she whaled
him with that board until he was cold sober! My father never took
another drink in his life!”
Now, where, I ask you, could you find such a cure for alcoholism
except from a taxicab driver?
What a pleasure it is to see Ed Brandford's lovely models being
used more and more in advertisements in various publications! It
isn’t too much to expect that in the future we will perhaps be seeing
them in the leading women’s magazines like Good Housekeeping, Ladies’
Home Journal, the Woman’s Home Companion, Glamour, Harper’s and
Vogue. I’m glad, because Ed is one of the nicest fellers you’d ever
want to meet. A talented artist particularly in the commercial field,
Brandford and his associates have a million dollar project on their
hands if they handle it correctly.
Negro women spend millions of dollars annually for cosmetics,
clothes and beauty preparations, but they have been almost com-
pletely ignored, even by advertisers using the Negro press. A few
minor cosmetic concerns have put out lines with powder shades
suited to the wide complexion range of Negro women, but none of
the major beauty concerns have made an attempt to capitalize on
the dormant market. As a result, many Negro girls go around per
petually looking as if they’d tumbled into a Hour barrel, their faces
plastered with chalky ponder that sells as “sun-tan.”
I blame the women to a certain extent, because I know ladies who
spend outlandish sums on clothes but buy their powder in dollar boxes,
grabbing whatever they can from the counter instead of paying more
money to get their powder expertly blended by a cosmetician who knows
the art. In other words, many Negro women are not make-up con
scious as yet, and little attempt has been made to sell them on the idea.
The Brandford models can become as much of a beauty cri
terion as the Powers and Conover model*. Beauty standards, of
course, are about the same for all women but Negro women do have
their own particular beauty problems. Because their complexions
range all the way from ice blonde to ebony, with varying degrees
of brown, red and yellow in between, their types cover a wide scope.
I neter could understand how so many whites are naive enough to
believe all Negroes look alike when there isn’t another race on the
face of the earth which varies so in tjpe, color and physical struc
ture.
Too many Negro girls try to pattern themselves after the whi
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styling are universal, but complexions, eyes, and facial types are
strictly individual matters. The Brandford models are richly-hued,
smoothly-polished lovelies who cause heads to turn wherever they go.
After all, that is every woman’s secret wish, whether or not she will
admit it, to be stared at with admiration.
it has always be»n puzzling to me why so few well-dressed,
attractive Negro women are seen on the streets. One would think
they carry on their daily business by a secret underground process.
When they do appear un trolley cars or in public places, the awed
glances they receive are proof enough that the average member of
the white race still believes in the bandanna stereotype.
The best race relations Negro women’s groups can go in for, is to
send their most attractively-gowned ladies to various meetings and
public gatherings just so the white brother and sister can get used to
seeing ’em around. This suggestion may sound peculiar but basically
it works, my friends.
1 think the Brandford models are as much an accomplishment
on the race relations front as some of the long-winded, dreary
measures now being ardently pursued by the experts. Besides the
girls are a darn sight more pleasant to have around.
MOVIE REVIEWS—“The Macomber Affair”—Joan Bennett sulks,
Gregory Peck he-mans, Robert Preston gets between a bullet and an
African buffalo, with unfortunate results to both Mr. Preston and said
buffalo. Everybody imbibes constantly. If you're an A.S.P.C.A.
sympathiser, stay home and catch up on your sleep.
“Boomerang”—This one, based on a real-life murder trial, keeps up
a suspenseful pace for sixty minutes and then falls fiat on Its face.
You’ll go out of the theatre feeling as if somebody forgot to put the
last two reels in the film can, but if your wife likes Dana Andrews you’d
better take her anyway.
“The Last of the Mohicans’* —A re-issue of an oldie. Injuns,
war whoops and early America. The male members of the family
will probably enjoy it as much as that University professor 1 saw
sitting in the sixth row.
Coming up on the local screens—“Smash-Up”—Another one about
a lady lush. What’ll happen to your wife if she keeps nipping on
your private stock while you’re out earning the family stipend.
Because of limited capacity of Treasure Inn, the AKA’a are
getting requests for advance reservations for their cabaret dance,
Friday evening, May 30. Don’t know if it can be done. The Omega
fraternity conclave that week-end will make it a tight squeeze, but
everybody seems to have a better time in a sardine can atmosphere
anyhow. What with visiting out-of-towners and Memorial Day
holiday—oh, well—it’s been done before. Just keep your corns
out of the way and no one will know the difference.
Guests: Dr. and Mrs. Walter
Minor of Houston, Tex., were the
guests of Mr. Lee Turpin and Mrs.
Thelma Albright, Sunday, May 18,
at Opal’s at Somerset, Wis. Also in
the party were Mr. and Mrs. Ches
ter Oden and Mr. and Mrs. Emile
Hill.
Motored to Chicago: Mr. Cyrus
Lewis at 418 Rondo Ave., and Mr.
William Ridley, 815 St. Anthony
Ave., motored to Chicago, II)., Fri
day, May 16, to visit relatives and
also to attend the baseball game
of the Brooklyn Dodgers (Jackie
Robinson) and the Chicago Cubs.
They plan to return the latter part
of the week.
Wedding Date: Esther Lillian
Bradley and George Basil Peake,
have set Wednesday, June 4, as
their wedding date. The wedding
reception will be the evening of the
fourth at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Simon Harris, 912 Iglehart
Ave., from 7 to 10 p. in.
Mrs. Charles F. Rogers, of 977
Fuller Ave., is convalescing in St.
Louis, Mo., after going there for
an operation. Mr. Charles F. Rog-
era, industrial secretary of the St
Paul Urban league, will visit her
here soon.
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Friday, May 23, 1947
Sunday Picnic: Messrs, snd
Mmes. O. C. Hall, Jr., George Mann,
Mrs. Charlene Davis of 763 St.
Anthony Ave., is visiting in Kan
sas City, Kans., for two weeks, at
the home of her parents.
Kenneth Wilson and Robert Harris,
motored to Taylors Falls, Sunday,
May 18. where they spent the day
picnicking.
Joined Husband: Mrs. Zenobia
Young of 737 Carroll Are., left
the city, Sunday, May 10, for Cal
ifornia, where she went to join
her husband, Sgt Dave Young, who
is stationed at Camp Ord, Salinas,
Calif.
Baby Girl: A baby girl was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Louis V. White,
573 Carroll Ave. Twins, a boy and
a girl, born to the A. B. Parkers,
575 Fuller Ave.
A msrrlage license was issued
last week to E. J. Hardy, 228 St.
Anthony Ave., and Rose M. Brunei!,
189 W. Central Ave.
Ill: Mrs. Elie Alice Jackson, 991
St. Anthony Ave., was ill for three
days at the home of her daughter
and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ted
Harris, 57 W. Jessamine. Mrs. Jack
son returned to her St. Anthony
Ave. address on Sundey, May 18.
Mrs. (Mensa Hatton and daugh
ter, Laverne, of Lawrence, Kans.,
arrived in the city Sunday after
noon, May 18, to be with Mrs.
Hatton's brother, Mr. A. R. North,
485 Rondo Ave., who is ill in Fort
Snelling hospital.
Dinner Guests: Mrs. O. Hatton
and Laverne, her daughter, of
Lawrence, Kans., were the Sunday
dinner guests, Sunday, May 18, of
Mr. and Mrs. John M. O’Neal, 736
Carroll Ave.
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