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Page Four
The Hartford Chronicle
April 12, 1947.
Speaking of
USIC
and Plays
By Betty Lou Allen
There will be a Chamber mu
tie recital at Hartt School of
'Husic on Tuesday, April 15th.
Hoshe Paranov will be at the
piano in a performance of Er
lest Bloch's quintet for piano
Jmd strings. This is the con
cluding concert of the season
and those of you who like the
Chamber music, this is too good
an opportunity to pass up.
Free tickets are at the infor
mation desk of Hartt School.
The new albums of music are
something, believe me. There
is a new transcription of Rich
ard Strauss "Death and- Trans
figuration" by -Eugene Orman
dy and the Philadelphia Phil
harmonic. Also the new al
bum of the Messiah, especially
done for this season by Sir
Thomas Beecham and the Lon
don Philharmonic.
There are two good concerts
coming to Bushnell, Camille
Williams, young Negro sopra
no, . who is a twice winner of
the Marian Anderson award,
' and who was such a success as
Cio-Cio San in Puccini's op
era Madame Butterfly with the
City Opera Co., will be at the
Colonial Room in Bushnell
Memorial. This concert is to
be sponsored by the Musical
Clubs of Hartford and will be
given on April 21st. Miss Wil
.liams 'is from Virginia and
flushed Virginia State College.
Prom there she went to Phila
delphia where she won the An
derson a,ward. Don't miss her.
If you , who like the dance as
well as musie will be delighted
to know that the Ballet Russe
will be here May 2, 3, and 4th.
Such favorites as "Les Syl
phides," the "Pas de Deux
Classique" and ' the Coppelia
"Waltz will be performed.
The rest of this column can
well be put to use by saying
some things that a great many
peeple in Hartford have felt
for a long time. There is a
sore need for a Symphony Or
chestra in Hartford-and we do
not mean the school orchestras.
Indeed it seems almost ridicu
lous to say that the capitol
and certainly one of the larg
est, most thriving city in this
state has no symphony orches
tra of its own. It seems that
there is too much loose "New
England culture" lying about
Let's use it. There also should
be a good choral group. One
which would produce recitals
at regular periods and which
would delight not only the
audience but the performers
There is mueh to be done, but
we, in Hartford can do it.
Let 's keep our minds on it
and work for a better pro
gram, featuring these things.
Don't forget the programs and
good bye until next week.
Have you sent in your 1947
contribution for the Cancer
Drive. Do it now !
OUR COVER
Grace Ellison, whose
charging photograph graces
the cover of this week's is
sue, is a former resident of
New Jersey and Hartford
who is now living in New
Britain.
Miss Ellison has done a
great deal of singing and is
active in church affairs. She
has natural good taste and
a flair for style and in
cludes among her hobbies
the art of dress design.
She was the first visitor
to the CHRONICLE office
from last Sunday's Easter
parade.
SPRINGFIELD LAUNCHES
REMARKABLE CAMPAIGN
In a remarkable NAACP
membership drive now under
way in Springfield, Mass.,
home of the Springfield Plan
for interracial harmony, city
officials, labor leaders, church
men, radio stations and others
are working to surpass the
goal of 1,500 members set for
Springfield in the first city
wide campaign in the history
of the NAACP.
The drive was launched on
May 31 when a( sponsoring
committee, - which included a
college president, a bishop,
leading businessmen and fin
anciers, headed by Raymond
E. Parker, school principal
presented "Walter White, exec
utive secretary of the NAACP
speaking on "The Present
Hour in National Affairs" at
a meeting of the Museum of
fine arts. Parker has already
personally secured more than
50 members.
Preston D. Gilmore and
Charles G. Butterworth of the
Third National Bank (the lar
gest bank in Springfield and
the twentieth largest bank jn
the US) have agreed to act as
treasurers of the drive and to
take NAACP memberships at
the bank. With emphasis
placed on larger memberships
the branch will take no 00
memberships unless the pros
pective member is in such fin
ancial condition that he ean
not possibbly afford more than
that amount.
Here is the schedule of the
campaign: the Mayor will is-
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ASSOCIATION ASKS
PROBE INTO CAMP
KILMER BEATING .
New York One of the most
shocking cases of army brutal
ity was revealed when the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
disclosed the findings of an in
vestigator who had been sent
to Camp Kilmer in New Jersey
to track down reports of a ser
ies of .beatings and other forms
of inhuman treatment to which
a Negro soldier was exposed
for allegedly having written a
letter to the NAACP request
ing aid. The bruised and bat
tered soldier, Private Town
send Horton, of Chattanooga,
Tennessee, from all indications
was still confined to the camp's
stockade.
Horton, when seen by the in
vestigator, was still visibly suf
fering from his alleged ordeal,
details of which were indig
nantly substantiated by other
prisoners in the camp stoekade,
one of them a white prisoner
who on one occasion had been
ordered by an officer to beat
Hoton unmercifully with a
heavy broomstick. This beat
ing occurred on February 27th
after Horton had been ordered
out into the "bull pen" to dig
a deep hole in the frozen, and
snow covered ground with an
ordinary table spoon by Lieut.
Morris.
On February v27t7h, a ser
geant, whose first name was
George, allegedly took Horton
to Lt. Morris' office where in
the presence of several other
white officers and enlisted men
Lt. Morris cursed and threat
ened Horton, charging him with
having written a letter to the
NAACP. When Horton denied
this the sergeant is alleged to
have struck him in the mouth.
Both Horton' upper and lower
lps were split open by the vi
cious blow. He was then beat
en and choked by the other
men in the room and forced
to sign a statement to the effect
that he had been in a fair fight
sue a proclamation on the NA
ACP drive; four radio sta
tions will give time; there will
be booths in department stores
every church in the ctiy, white
and colored, will make announcements.
PHILIP G. LEE
New Assistant Director of
the North End Community
Center.
with Payton and that he had
not been beaten with a broom.
After the beating, Horton
was allegedly ordered to run
by another officer who was ' in
the act of removing his gun
from his holster. Horton was
unable to run at this point and
he was then ordered to return
to the "bull pen" to continue
his digging with the spoon
"until he struck oil."
The NAACP legal depart
ment ha sbrought the reported
facts to the attention of Col.
Harold Diffie, the commanding
officer at Camp Kilmer. The
War Department has also been
asked to investigate.
Have you sent in your 1947
contribution for the Cancer
Drive. Do it now!
From his current engagement at the
Paradise Inn. Detroit. Illinois Jacquet
books in at New
York's Apollo The
atre February 28th.
Sharing the bill are
the new recording
group of "Wig Blues"
fame (Apollo), five
boys and a guitar, the
Melody Masters.
Illinois Jacquet -
The Smoothies, identified by the
"You're an Old Smoothie" theme, bit
the market soon with unreleased Apollo
platters. Jerry Jerome surpervised the
new cuttings.
Nice timing shows on the impetus
; Apollo has given to "Somebody
jChanged the Lock on My Door." fea
turing Jack McVea and Wynoni'e
'Blues" Harris. Answer to "Richard"?
Carl Brisson continues at the May-
jfair Room in Chicago with bis "Songs
iof Sophistication."
.
This is the end I Apollo brings out
a sequel to "Richard" and features
Jack McVea. "Richard's" composer
himself, with' Wynonie "Blues" Harris
on the Apollo -traction, "Somebody
Changed the Lock on My Door."
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