Richmond planet., 1925-08-01

ERFORCE COLLEGE,
Ohio-N;ss Halle @. Brown, Of
the faculty of Wilberforce College,
lecturer, scholar and teacher of
international .1epute, has accepted
the invitation from Madame Mamie
Hightower to serve on the Recep-
ton Committee at Atlantic City in
honor Of Miss Golden Brown Of
America, al cour other scintillat-
ing beauties G-om our race firma-
ment.
Reading like a fairy tale, Miss
Browns life story is extremely
rich in romance and high achieve
ment. Born on a little farm in
Chatham, Canada, Miss Brown has
rapidly risen in the esteem of the
peoples Of two continents, and she
is today as firmly fixed in the at
fections Of the residents of Aber-
deem, Scotland, as she is in those
of Aberdeen, Mississippi-in York
shire, England, as in New York,
U. S. A.
She is both a lecturer and inter
p~retative reader Of the front rank.
Miss Brown has appeared on the
lyceum platforms of hundreds of
American and Continental cities,
always with a single result: a cor
dial greeting and the Unanimous
acclaim OF the p%opulace.
I-c,1doi 4 The Halle @. Brown
repertoire are:
Has Big Repertoire
"Queen Victoria's Golden Jubi-
lee"-lIy visit to Windsor Castle.
"Robart Burns, the Scottish
Plowman"-Song, Lecture and Re-
cital.
"Paul Lavrence Dunbar"-His
humor and pathos in poetry and
prose.
Illustrated ~ quaint wit and Wis
dom CT cotton field and cabin.
"Ihe Humor and Conflict Of the
Worlds Oppressed"
For Sunday-"Character Build
ing" and "The Call to Arms"
Besides these lectures, Miss
Brown has delivered hundreds Of
talks before the Women's Chris
tan Temperance Union and other
organizations, including the Y. NJ.
c.. A., b. w. IT., etc, on various
weeks temperance missions. The
Aberdeen (~Scotland) journal, one
Of the leading literary lights of
Lauder-Land, recently said: miss
Brown displayed remaIEaole elo-
cutionary powers, and hcI GESTURES
were graceful and appropriate. =.
Her Negro Folk-Song was a quaint
and plaintive lullaby"
For some time Miss Halle Q.
Brown has honorably filled the
chair Of oratory and public speak
ing at Wiiberforce College, Ohio.
Fine Reception Committee
Long an admirar Of her friend,
Madame Mamie Hightowep's ines
Unable service to our Group as a
beauty culturist end benefactress,
the acceptance Of Miss Brown on
the. international Reception Com
mittee completes a group of race
publicists unique in the nations
annals. Besides Miss Brown, Rob-
ert L. Vann, editor of the Pitts
burgh Courier; Edouard Scott, the
Rembrandt of race artists, and c.
C. Spaulding, president of the
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Co., have already signi-
fled their intention of assisting
Madame Hightower in welcoming
the loveliest girls and women of
our Group in Atlantic City.
Besides the Hudson Super-Six
Coach, which will be given to Miss
Golden Brown of America, along
with a $4,000 trousseau and free
trip to Atlantic City, with all ex-
penses paid-four other free trips
and four other $4,000 t%rousseaus
and ~forty-eight dazzling diamond
rings will be given to those glo-
rious girls, the very flower of u
Group, who receive the most votes
in Madame Mamie Hightower's Ma
tional Golden Brown Beauty Con-
test.
From SO to 100 are packed with
each OF the justly famous Golden
Brown Beauty Preparations, and
girls from Portland, Maine, TO
Portland, Oregon, are striving
with might and main to achieve the
coveted honor. Friends, too, have
entered the spirit of the Contest
and are backing their favorites to
the limit.