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SOCIAL & PERSONAL
a en Burleson. Chicago, 111., arrived in the city Fri-
i . * tO , atten( i the Omega and Alpha Conclave held Sat
iiti aj, April 28. While in the city, she was the houseguest of
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Gates, 3947 Second Ave. So. Miss Burle
son returned to the Northwestern University where she is a
student, Sunday, April 29.
The business meeting of the
Gospel Chorus of Zion Baptist
church met Tuesday, May 1 at
the home of Mrs. Mamie Battle,
3 <2B Portland Ave. So. Plans were
made for a tea which is to be held
later.
Rev. E. J. Henderson, 1129 Bryant
Ave. No., arrived in the city Wed
nesday, April 25 from San Fran
cisco, Calif., after attending the
funeral of his daughter, Mrs. Mat
tie Duncan.
Mr*. Theresa Warren. Miss An
na Mae Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Caldwell, and Mr. Russell Taylor,
motored to Sioux Falls. S Dakota
Sunday. April 20 to attend the an
niversary of Rev. H. W. Botts Jr.
The Ursula Matrons Society
held their weekly meeting at Zion
Baptist church Tuesday evening.
May 1.
The Choral club of St. Peter
AME church met r at the home of
Miss Dorothy Ann Stovall. 3815
Fifth Ave. So., Thursday, May 3,
to rehearse for the special
Mother s day program, which will
be held Sunday, May 13 at the
church at 5:45 p. m. A dress re
hearsal will also be held Sunday,
May 6. All members of the pro
gram and ushers are urged to be
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You’ll be hearing about the motion picture "Five” in the next
few months. Written, directed and produced by Arch Oboier, "Five"
is the story of the last five human beings left on earth after radio
activity from an atomic explosion has wiped out
the world's population.
Some of you will like the picture. Others
of you won’t like It and will find It depressing,
often slow moving film fare.
The opening scenes project a terrible realism.
A girl, dirty and weary, staggers down a deserted
road into a deserted town. The complete quiet, the
desolation and absence of any living thing is caught
by the camera with unbelievable reality.
The girl, Roseanne, stumbles on. She climbs a
hill and finds Michael living there. He tells her he
has traveled to the cities, many of them, and has
Nell Russell found nothing, no one alive.
From this point, the story slows down to a walk, then a crawl
while Michael and Roseanne talk and talk and talk. Camera close-ups
can't substitute for action over a series of sequences without the more
restless members of the audience getting the wiggles.
Just as people around me were yawning and squirming, two
more survivors showed up on the screen, an elderly gentleman and a
young Negro in a jeep. Something else happened. The Broadway
theatre where I saw the picture had undergone a renovation and
change of name. Evidently the renovation was still in progress be
cause a character with a saw began to grind away in the rear of the
house. He must have been sawing the world's biggest plank. The dia
logue on the screen was swallowed up in the loud rasping. It was only
after the audience protested en masse with loud demands to "shad
dup!” and "stop that d--n noise!” that the sawing quieted down.
Meanwhile, the explanation of how the elderly gentleman and his
young colored friend survived had been completely lost. I did gather
they were both employees of the same bank.
The fifth survivor Is washed up on the beach and turns out
to be a singularly nasty individual. Bigotry, greed and lust enter
the relationship of the group which becomes four when the old
man dies of radiation poisoning.
There is nothing pleasant about "Five." Some of the scenes are
gruesome, particularly those in which the rotted bones of once living
humans are shown lying in streets and doorways.
The problem of bigotry isn't solved. Mr. Oboler, with all of his
versatility, couldn't find an out. He had to resort to a very unsatisfac
tory method of removing the cause of the problem. The cause, of
course, is the Negro. Charles, convincingly played by Charles Lamp
kin. Mr. Oboler's "solution” doesn’t offer much hope to the brown
skin brethern.
I wish my critical faculties of Hollywood motion pictures were
less perceptive. For instance, in an earlier scene in the picture.
Charles and Michael, both bare to the mid-riff, are shown working
on a shelter for the new arrivals. Charles' waistline is not what it
should be, especially from the angle the camera picks up the shot.
Someone must have noticed the expansion, because in a later shot
when Charles and Michael are shown working in the field together,
Michael is still bare from the waist up while Charles’ belt-line bulge
is covered with a perspiration-drenched shirt. I think Mr. Lampkin
did a few sitting-up exercises in the interest of art. The next time
he is shown with a bare mid-riff, his tummy has become more
streamlined. Or maybe he was holding his breath. I don't know.
“Five” will make you think If you are the thinking type. If
you like your movies packed with action, you'll find certain
portions of the picture a beastly bore. Except for the exterior
scenes, "Five” could have been produced on a stage. Roseanne is
constantly walking into scenes or out of them, and 1 found my
self mentally marking the script: “Enter Roseanne from Left
Stage, etc.” Oboler, unaccustomed to working with the greater
scope of motion picture techniques, actually has put a radio script
before the camera and depends on dialogue to advance his story.
Dialogue, close-ups and camera angles.
However, give him credit. He has produced a different picture
with a small cast of unknowns. It has received excellent press from
some of the critics here. Motion picture critics, when they come
across something that doesnt' fit the usual Hollywood formula, often
hide their own bewilderment behind what they want readers to be
lieve is their appreciation of the artistic.
To sum up, I recommend ‘‘Five’’ for adult* only. There I*
nothing in the picture that youngster* will find entertaining. The
shot* of the skeleton* with clothe* still clinging to their bones
may give them nightman-*. Even the grown-up* with good
stomachs will find the*e scene* shocking Go yourself but see
that little Willie stay* home and look* at television.
Although the MacArthur parade passed within a block of my
office, I didn’t bother to go. The girls who did go, came back looking
like they'd been dragged through a grinding machine. One very cute
little chick who stands about four foot ten in high heels almost got
trampled in the crowd. What’s more, her topper was ripped and her
stockings torn.
Personally, I couldn't see all the fuss and furore over Army
brass who had the bad luck to get fired. I believe MacArthur Is
definitely right on certain points and that time will prove him In
the right. The fact that the left wing press has been giving him
a hard way to go proves something, if Americans will just take
a calm and studied view of the situation.
To me, the most tragic part of the whole MacArthur madness
here was an incident that was soon forgotten. Two young office
workers in the Woolworth building got so excited they scooped up a
handfull of ticker tape to throw out the window. They were so het
up they failed to notice a paper weight was mixed up in the paper.
Out the window wen the ticked tape and the paper weight. The paper
weight crashed down on the head of a blind man standing at the en
trance to the building many floors below. He died several days later.
Why, out of all the millions of people in this town, that one man
had to be standing where he was at that particular time, and why.
out of all the office workers in this town those two girls had to be
the cause of his death, is one of the things that no one can answer.
President Truman fired MacArthur. MacArthur came to New
York as a hero. A blind man who couldn't even see the parade and
who was merely waiting to carry out part of his daily job, met his
death because the president of the United states booted out a gen
eral. Two young girls will go through the rest of their lives con
science-stricken because the President of the United States fired a
general.
“The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on: nor all that Piety nor Wit
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Innovatioittt In Jazz
Stan Kenton, “Mr. Innovations
Ln Modern Music” himself, comes
up with another socko pairing
which reflects his singular urge to
explore and test out new methods
of decorating the jazz superstruc
ture. On one side, Stan uses as
vehicle his many times revamped
theme, “Artistry in Rhythm,"
which in its latest revision comes
out as Artistry in Tango. It's all
here, the tango beat, the Kenton
progressive sound the rhythm
section crisply sets the mood,
while the brasses and reeds punc
tuate each phrase.
On the flip, September Song,
Stan dreamed up a vocal arrange
ment for the entire band which
really adds new lustre to the pop
standard. The bandsmen on this
side exhibit marked proficiency in
the use of the vocal chords, some
thing which is a rarity among in
strumentalists as a group. The
mood is softly romantic, there is
the Kenton sound between chorus
es, and best of all there is the
smoothness and harmonious de
livery of the lyrics (Capitol).
Slim Gaillard, himself an in
novationist but of the “Crooney,
ovouty” style, takes his sextet
through a pair of novelty items
which are studies in fascination.
One side sports the name of
Bongo Oito, an original instru
mental on which Slim does a
calypso-ish vocal to some “south
of the border” rhythm, and a
jazzed tenor sax takes a good
swing at the melody. Mate is
When Banana Skins Are Falling
(I’ll come Sliding Back to You),
one of the novelty tunes which
Slim does so well (MGM).
Selected Singles
Vaughn Monroe, with chorus
assisting, makes a ballad out of
the army chant which sprung up
in World War 11, Sound Off. While
the spirit is there, his interpreta
tion smooths out the rugged spots
that give the chant much of its
flavor. For the uninitiated, it’s
good listening (Victor) .. .
Vaughn, the Moon Maids and the
Moon Men, join forces to do a
straight singing version of On
Top of Old Smoky, the old folk
favorite which sports new lyrics
In its revival (Victor).
The Dominoes, who sound like
the Ravens on one hand and the
Orioles on another, do a Raven
ish type of thing on Sixty Minute
Man, a bounce rhythm item with
plenty of sock. The basso in the
crew seems to possess a better
range than Rlskey of the Ravens.
Flip, in the Orioles style, is I
Can't Escape From You (Federal)
Ballad-blues troubador puts a
pair of originals back for his
latest disc: Good Night Darling,
“mood” item; and Falling Rain
Blues (King). Eddie "Cleanhead”
Vinson is in there shouting with
Bald Headed Blues and Feather
bed Mama (King)
The Basic rhythm drive and
cool sound of the George Shear
ing Five is adopted by the Marion
McPartland Quintet for the Cole
Porter oldie, It’s DeLovely. Slight
ly boppish, its sounds are a bit
lighter in character than the
Shearing group (Federal) . . . .
Tiny Bradshaw and a trio work
over an original novelty rhythm
item called Two Dry Bones on the
Pantry Shelf. Flip is Brad's Blues,
with Tiny shouting the lyrics
(King).
Then there’s Earl Bostic in an
other one of his excellent exhibi
tions via the tenor horn, this time
using as vehicle, Earl Lebieg's
Sleep. Bostic's sax shares solo
honors with a vibe’s crewman
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BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
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MINNEAPOLIS BIRTHDAYS
May 6 Elmer Childress Jr.,
3700 Fifth Ave. So.; Mias Carolyn
Smith, 3915 Clinton Ave.
May 7—Clifford Wilkerson, 2423
Fourth Ave. So.; Ernest Dearing,
3836 Clinton Ave. So.; Mrs. Flos
sie Harris, 3537 Fourth Ave. So.
May B—Hazel Tucker, 2201
Fifth Ave. So.; Roy Cobb Jr., 534
Girard Ave. No.; Delores Beasley,
3701 Fourth Ave. So.
May 9—John Hardeman, 516
10th Ave. So.; William Owens,
246 H Fourth Ave. So.; Mrs. Leota
Perkins, 3620 Clinton.
May 10 Zephry Turner, 2721
Portland. Rufus A. Skinner, city.
May 12— Joseph D. Bolden, 203
W. 31st St. So.; Percy C. Hughes,
3820 Fifth Ave. So.; Jay Schultze,
222 W. Adams.
Out-of-Town Birthdays
May 7- Leon Abbey, Chicago,
Ill.; Miss Helen Waters. Chicago,
II!.; Roberta Nash. Washington.
D. C.; Roger Johnson, Cleveland,
Ohio.
May B—James Walker. Wash
ington, D. C. May 10— Sl/c Al
bert Johnson. Marianna. Ark.
May 11—Bette Jayne Session,
Detroit. Mich.; Arthur Thomas,
Des Moines, lowa. May 12 Willie
R. Gardner. Omaha, Neb.
ST. PAUL BIRTHDAYS
May s—Jane E. Lee. 963 Car
roll Ave.; Mr. James Hayes, 116
Eaton Ave,; Alberta Kemp, 606
St. Anthony Ave.; Mr. Fleetwood
Smith, 312 Carroll Ave.; Wm.
Briley, 743 Rondo Ave.
May 6 -Mrs. Mabel Farmer,
452 Rondo Ave.; Mrs. Mary Ed
dings, 718 St. Anthony Ave.
May 7- Maceo Moody Jr., 727
Rondo Ave.; John Collins, 903
Rondo Ave.
May B—Mrs. John Stone, 412
Rondo Ave.; Rufus Boyd; James
Thomas Ross. 458 St Anthony
Ave.; James Oliver Jr., 943 Igle
hart Ave.; Mr. Carl Griffin, 667
W. Central Ave.
May 9—Kathleen Pugh, 972
Carroll Ave.; Charles Scroggins.
503 St. Anthony Ave.; Ronald O'-
Neal, 736 Carroll Ave.; Donald
O'Neal. 736 Carroll Ave.
May 10-Mrs. Blanche Daw
kins. 451 N. Kent St.; James
Goins, 925 Magnolia. Gretta Har
rison. 663 Iglehart Ave.
May 11—Jean Reed, 243 St. An
thony Ave.; Mabel Harper, 766
St. Anthony Ave.
Some businessmen look upon advertising as an ex
pense. When expenses must be cut, the advertising
budget is first to come under the knife.
The fact overlooked is the newspaper advertising re
presents only a fractional part of the cost of goods l&h
sold. / kE
Advertising is the instrument which brings t*e greater
return when it is intelligently planned.
Advertising becomes expensive only when you don't
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SOCIAL & PERSON
* CT. PAUL •
The Missionary Society of Pilgrim Baptist church was in
charge of the service Sunday evening, April 28 at the church.
Participants in the program included Mmes. Lydia Brown and
Alberta Bell. The Gospel Chorus sang. Mrs. Effie Larkina wae
program ehairman.
The Mid-Century club met Tuesday, May 1 at the home of
Mrs. Wilbur Henderson, 470 Ful
ler Ave.
Mr. Walter Allen, 639 W. Cen
tral Ave., la 111 at his home.
Mr*. E. B. Johnson, 658 St. An
thony Ave., la ill at her home.
Confirmation will be held at St.
Phillipa church Sunday, May 6 at
7:30 p. m. Bishop S. B. Keeler will
speak.
The Ball and Chain chib met
Saturday, April 28 at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Royal Crawford, 522
St. Anthony Ave.
The Ladle* Aid Society of Pil
grim Baptist church met Thurs
day, May 3 at the church.
The Ivy Leaf club met Friday,
May 4 at the University of Min
nesota.
Miss Gertrude James, 707 St
Anthony Ave., is ill at her home.
The Young Women’s club of
Pilgrim Baptist church met Tues
day, May 1 at the church.
Mr*. William Meux and Mrs.
Lillie Mae Green were baptised
at St. Phillip’s church Sunday,
May 22. Mr. Fred Smith was bap
tized at the church Sunday, May
29.
The ’’Hallie Happening*” news
paper staff met Wednesday, May
2, at the Hallie Q. Brown com
munity center. The first issue of
the newspaper was issued Friday
April 27.
Mr*. Thelma Thomas, 547 W.
Central Ave., is reported shut-in
at her home.
Mr*. Anna Harris, 690 W. Cen-
Out-of-Town Birthdays—
May 7—Mr. Malcolm Dade Jr.,
Detroit, Michigan.
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The Hyperion club met Wednes
day. May 2 at the home of Mias
Alma Camp, 528 Carroll Ave.
Mr*. Katie Myer*. 612 8L An
thony Ave., is reported shut-in at
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The Women’s auxiliary of the
Sterling club held a Square Dance
and supper Friday evening, April
27.
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