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Cuba And The
Color Line
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any school he chooses, and causes no
national sensation when he enters the
military academy.
/ Those who enter the medical
school are not denied any Of the OPP
portunities or privileges connected
with obstetrical or any other kind of
training. The Negro can take his
interneship in any hospital in Cuba.
He does not have to get an organize
ton with hundred thousand liberal
whites and Negroes to force him into
the school dormitories. There is no
problem created by black officer.
being put in command of white Gu
bans. I am personally acquainted
with officers of midnight hue whose
commands are cheerfully obeyed.
Hanging on the wall of this -beauti-
full Cuban capitol Of ten thousand
sights, just second from the picture
of the late Theodore Roosevelt, is
the picture of General Guillermo
Moncada who was neither pink nor
cream, nor brown, but honest-to-
goodness black. Citizens of this re-
lie think of him only as great Gu
ban general. In Cuba the black
man can be a gentleman and enjoy
any right or privilege that is enjoy
ed by any other Cuban and creates
no problem.
Here in Havana one sees black sol
diers and black officers not in the
''black belt'' for there is no such ami
NAL. The black officers and sol
diers are everywhere, and they are
not treated as black officers, but as
Cuban officers even by the Ameri-
cans. For the black Cuban officer
occupies every inch of his authority.
In the light of Americas inhuman
attitude toward the Negro which she
claims is due to his economic inferi-
ority and his status as a former
slave, it is interesting and enlighten-
ing to note that the black Cubans
were, in the main, slaves. Slavery
was introduced into Cuba about 177S
and was abolished by President Car
los Manuel de Cespedes, December
27, 1868. Therefore the American
Negro was free while his Cuban
brothers were still slaves irrigating
this tropical land with the sweat of
their brows and the blood of their
bodies.
If we claim the economic status
has lot to do with it, my reply is
that the American Negro probably
very probably-controls more wealth
than any other group of Negroes
anywhere and certainly many times
more than the colored Cuban. Nor
can we claim that the small percent.
age of Negroes in Cuba tends TO
minimize the color question, for in
the United States only ten per cent
of the total population is of the Me-
gro race while rs per cent of the
population of Cuba are Negroes.
Moreover, the theory that social
equality for American Negroes
would lead to mad rush on the
marriage bureau for intermarriages
is belied by the behavior of the col
ored Cuban. According to the last
census, there are only 461, 700 mu-
lattoes in this island. That can be
multiplied many times in the United
States where nothing is on the level.
Here no woman feels obligated to
say she was attacked if she is caught |
breaking one or two commandments
Consequently there are no rape
charges in this island. And a Gu
ban is Cuban for all O. that.
NOTE: Mr.. Marshall is a former
resident of Minneapolis and a gradu-
ate of the U. of M.-Editor.
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Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-29
Where 70 Attend
Church
Humboldt Ave. North, Mpls.

Humboldt Ave. North, Mpls.
ser-'cAg, Norning II 4. m.
Sn,fsy sr'oag 1920 p II
8. z. i. 60 p. NJ.
Evening services, 900 P. M.
All arc welcome.
A. F. BOYD. Pastor, 1915 9Th
Ave. South.
Pilgrin Rest Baptist Church. 51st
and Humboldt and Irving Avenues
North, Minneapolis. (Take Chicago
Fremont or SAITH and Bryant Ave. N.
oars TO Pilgrim.)
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"cOME OVER IN MACEDONIA,
AND HELP US" WHERE?

At Pilgrim Rest Baptist church,
51st and Humboldt and Irving Ave
nues North, Minneapolis. (Take Chi
eago-Fremont or 34th and Bryant
Ave. cars to Pilgrim.)
The Home Missionary Society Of
NE Pilgrims Rest, meets each End
and 4th Sundays of the month, Miss
Erarna Hicks, pres, Miss Florence
Wed. nights. Choir rehearsal and
Star Club meeting each Friday night.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-29

Humboldt Ave. North, Mpls.
Services: Morning IL A. M.
Sunday School, 1890 P. M.
B. Y. P. u. $50 P. M.
Evening services, 500 P. NJ.
All are welcome.
A. r. Boyd, Pastor, 2316 9Th Ave.
South.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-09-29
ST. PETER cLAvER CHURCH
Aurora and Farrfleton, st. Paul
(CathtIic)

Rev. chas. J. keefe, Pastor.
Masses at $3.50 A. NJ and 1890 AM
Holy Hour Thursday Evening at
80 P. M.
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sth Ave. So, near Lake st.
(Minneapolis)
Church Sckool-9:45 a. m.
Moraing Prayer and Sermon
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The Washington times., 1934-05-21
Anderson s Prize
Play Due Next

Maxwell Anderson's Both Your
Houses, the Pulitzer prize play OF
1928 season, which has never
been acted in Washington, will
be the fifth attraction Of the Ma
tional Players opening Monday
night May 28th.
This is love and politics with
thumb nosing and acid tipped
shots at the fun target. Put
Pooh-Bah and Ko-Ko and the rest
of the Mikado's court into Con-
gresS, and you have half of Mr..
Anderson's play. After our fill
of fence-mending speeches, it is
a gay relief to have our law
makers as candid about their
grand and petty larcenies as the
author maliciously makes them.
The other half of Both Your
Houses" is the story of what hap
pened to an appropriations meas
ure in committee, and Of the ef-
forts of an earnest Congressman
from Nevada to kill pork-barrelism
in his first term. His somewhat
strenuous idealism is agreeably
laughed up stage by the cynical
raillery of the old timers. If you
are free from any peculiar rev.
erence for Congressional ways and
means you will enjoy this bitter
fun.
Both Your Houses" passed up
Washington in it's preliminary
Theater Guild tour because it was
felt sensitive Congress might feel
embarrassed enough to object. The
National Players management
feels certain that our solons "can
take it" and enjoy the laugh,
even though it be on the stand
patters welded to tradition and
political perquisites.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
w. G. Fields To Star
In rip Van WinkIe'

Washington Irving's immortal
classic, RIP Van Winkle," is to
be brought to the screen as an
elaborate comedy musical with w.
c. Fields as the star.
LYDIA Roberti, one Of the favor
ite comedienneS Of stage and
screen, win head the featured
supporting cast.
This announcement heraldS one
Of Hollywood'S most noteworthy
productions in years. the film col
ony agrees, and sets at rest GER
tain rumorS that rip Van
Wink1e' might be made by a rival
company.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21

think of anything to cut the
water with"
Nudist Story
"Believe it or not, Marx" "
ripleys Hugh Wedlock, jr.. "they
are thinking of opening a nudist
night club over in Jersey.
"And the beauty of it is that
there will be no cover charger!
ut was night" short-stories
Arthur Murray, "and Joe Doakes
was drunk. So it was only mat
ter of time until some kind cop
hauled Joe off the streets to face
his honor in night court.
"Ahead of him, dressed in eve
ming clothes, were three men who
had been arrested in a raid on a
fashionable gambling house. They
pleaded guilty and the judge
passed sentence. An orderly walked
over and escorted the three men
to their cells.
"Our hero. too, pleaded guilty.
No, he had nothing to say for him,
self. Once again, the judge droned
his sentence. The attendant walked
over to escort the prisoner to his
cell. But Joe Doakes refused to go.
Pointing at the door through
which the three men had Just
passed, the judge cried:
What's the matter with you?
Why don't you go in there?'
'Doakes looked very apologize.
"'I can't judge he hiccoughed.
It'Sh full dresh in there!"
"Dear Mark" writes 'zanzig'
from Hollywood. Here's a true
happening that might provide a
ray of sunshine on a dark day.
"A New York stage director was
brought out here about two years
ago and-strangely enough-he's
still on the job. He's recognized
today as a pretty fair director.
But since you seldom go in Tor
names that's not Of much impor-
tance.
'It wasn't long after he arrived
in Hollywood that he found him.
self q sweetheart. The girl was
and is-a cute kid, even il she Is
slightly dumb. The director liked
her q great deal, and the two Of
them have been together for two
years without benefit Of Hays or
clergy.
ION O recent evening", the two
of them were seated in a cafe
where a friend suddenly raced over
to the director.
"'I don't know If anyone told
you,' he said quickly. but you'd
better be careful. Your wife just
blew into town from New York
"The girl nudged the director.
Wife?' she repeated. What's
all this? You never told me you
had Q wife
'The director rubbed his chin.
"'Well, what do you know about
that, honey?' he replied apologeti-
cally. I clean forgot to tell
your"
The Washington times., 1934-05-21

Anonymous letter writer's who
berate you and threaten you for
vOicing an opinion contrary to
their own. I have never yet known
a case where one of these "brave"
gentlemen has had the courage to
sign his real name. The funniest
instance, I think, was that Of the
courageous" lad who dared me to
meet him in any spot I cared to
designate where he promised he
would bash in my nose and Shiv
off one Of my ears-it appears he
didn't like some statement I had
made about the singing Of a GER
tain night club entertainer. 1t was
funny, 1 Say-because even If /
had dared, I wouldn't have known
how to let him knOw-f0r he, too,
bold, brave assassin, had neglected
to sign his name.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
NewAdditionsto to
Summer Group

Elizabeth Sypher, Margaret
Yard, and Charles Turner, direc-
tors of the Washington Summer
Theater Group announce the ad-
dition to their company of
Maurice Jarvis, who has played
a prominent part in Washington
dramatics for many years: Jean
Abbey, well known to radio fans;
Frank E. Jamison, who has de-
voted his life to the professional
stage; H. Eugene Stevens, last
seen at the Arts Club in "Sun
Up; and Francis Shinn, who
won tremendous applause in the
title role of Charles Aunt"
when it was recently revived here.
The group maintains the policy
Of casting by invitation only. All
Of its members, with the excep-
ton of several young ones, are
persons who have proven their
ability through many appearances
on the stage both here and else
where.
Among those already cast in
the groups first show, Under the
GaSlight," are Ann Ives, Isham
Keith, Jr., M. Forney Reese, and
Harry Schonrank. This produc-
ton goes into rehearsal Friday.
Hugo linden, outstanding scenic
designer, is making sketches for
the settings. Plays for subsequent
productions are being considered
BY the committee. "Pique,"
another outstanding melodrama
by the author of "Under the
Gaslight" is one of the plays
,,Ddar consideration.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
Six Comedians Will
Be Together Again

Box office worth Of a picture
with an all,star comedy cast hav-
ing been proved by "Six of a
Kind" q Hollywood studio today
announced production plans for a
second.
"Three Pair" tailor-made for W.
C. Fields, Alison Skipworth,
George Burns and Oracle Allen.
Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
Louis SObOI-
A Hiss For:

hoops who because they have obscure
hectOn with newspaper invade night spots and threaten man
agemen with dire consequences when asked to ubdue
their bbulous mpetuosy and damper their
family One such gent who claimed he worked certain
newspaper in here and menaced the proprietor with
sonay conducted pogrom in the columns of his gazette made
hasty exit from the Casino de Paree the other evening when
informed that the publisher of the sheet which he claimed he
worked sitting tables in front of hm-fed, without
paving check of course!
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
A Lot of Bull

-~A W SS9bb
"A plantation owner who was
attending a convention in Mem
phis Dragged to some friends
about a prize bull that he owned
He told of the animals many
merits, particularly it's ability to
RI.
I'm minute and graphic detail
he described a mile-long pasture
that ran along the railroad tracks
on which the Dixie Flyer made its
run. And he told how, every
morning, the bull raced the flyer
from one end of the pasture to
the other and always beat the
train with ease. To prove his
story was true, he invited his
friends to visit him at any time
and see this marvellous bull. They
agreed to do so.
Several months later, while
the owner was talking to Jim, his
favorite servant, one afternoon, q
large car containing six men
pulled up in front of the planta'
ton. Jim peered out.
"tBoss,' he said, 'Ah knows dat
car. Dey're de same men yo' told
dat story to bout dat bull yo're
supposed to have. What does we
do now?'
1.-THE boss, realizing that it
would be better for him not to be
at home, told Jim to advise the
visitors that he had gone to Wash
ington or Philadelphia, or some
where.
"'Tell them anything, Jim,' he
said hurriedly, but be sure and
say that I'm not here
The colored man walked out
side and greeted the men. They
explained that they were in a
hurry, and that they were just
stopping for q moment to see the
plantation owner and his remark.
able bull.
Jim shook his head.
Sorry, gem'men,' he explained,
but nah boss is not at home. He
done left dis mornin' TO- Florida
Tampa, All believes-to see his
son. He's havin' breakfast dere,
and den he goes on to Washing
ton TO- some business. After dat,
he has q 'pointment TO- dinnah in
New York-and All 'spectS him
back heah late tonight
THE visitors looked at each
other in amazement.
"'Good Lord, man. cried one,
he can't possibly do that. But it
doesn't make any difference, any.
how, because we're really here to
see that bull
Jim looked rather sad.
"Ah'm sorry yo' doubts nah
word, gem'men,' he said, "'cause
nah boss really can make dat
trip. Ah'm also sorry, gem'men,
dat yo' can't see our bull. cause
you see. gem'men, de boss is ridin
dat bul1!'"
Dear Mark" writes Ed Lowry
I'm certainly happy that repeal
is with us because, toward the
latter part of prohibition. a boot
logger friend Of mine was working
his way toward a nervous break
down.
"He used to cut his liquor with
water-and the poor guy wal
aorokenahearted hecaNGe he ooaldn,t
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
Gayety to Show
Pictures

Following the close Of the bur
lesque season next Saturday, the
Gayety theater will 60 into pic
lures.
For the first week Of the new
policy the theater is offering a
feature on social problems, with
living models, and a film dealing
with the cult Of nudiSm.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
Child Wonders

AvariciouS papas and mamas
who exploit child wonders
thrnsting them, at tender ages, on
vaudeville stages and into picture
houses, forcing them to appear at
benefits, injecting them with an
unnatural and Sickening sophiSti-
cation. Some of these kids when
they're playing vaudeville or pic
ture houses, have to appear four
and five times a day, besides going
to school, attending rehearsalS,
etc. At benefits, they wait around
in the wingS-hourS at time
for their chance to go on. It's
pathetic.
Night club entertainers who
fawn upon you, pour praise upon
you that would abash even God,
Gtiletto your contemporaries and
then "subtly'' hint that they
would appreciate a line in your
column. That might be forgiven
but when several days pass by
and you fail to mention them, you
suddenly discover you're the low
est species Of vermin, holding your
job because you have something
on the boSs-and where does
SQbol, for instance, compare with
e. s., or w. W., or P. Y, or S. S.
or any Of those guys who can
really write, y'know what I mean?
Don't talk to me Of Sobol-he's a
phoney!
Friends" who don't hint-but
insist you get them into a show or
q night club even if it means the
loss Of @ job for someone else.
When you explain patiently that
you'll try but that your influence
isn't as powerful as they think,
you Immediately become a "heel." "
P. A. Stunts
Press agents who insult your
Intelligence by involving their
clients in fantastic romances or
unbelievable adventures. Stand
ard stunts are to make the client
beneficiary to a large fortune be-
queathed by some vaguely distant
relative or to have her "disap.
pear" with kidnapping limited.
Every obscure girl cOent Of a
pEess agent is usually q social
registerite in some town west Of
FL PasO who just got "tired Of it
all"
Ladies and gents who invade
your office when you're up to your
neck in work and have about half
an hour to get your copy in and
drive you goofy with an inconSe-
quential ear-bend and then mark
you around town as an ouselay
and hi-hat because you hint you'd
welcome their leaving. Ditto for
boreSome gents who sit down at
your table, unlimited, at night
clubs and restaurants sit
and sit and sit, deafening your
ears with their foozey blabber. If
they'd give you a single line or a
story you could use, you could
put up with it in the line of duty.
But I can't recall a single instance
when one of these bores has ever
handed me a thing except some
1ong-winded narrative of his ro-
mantle adventures in which he
always casts the other person out
Of his life, etc., etc.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
Ancient Gowns

Paramount'S wardrobe depart
ment experienced difficulties in
making Claudette Colbert'S gowns
for Cleopatra" appear ancient
because the styles Of that era are
identical with the new 1884
.StreamlinA DESIGNS
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
Rehearses At Sea

Bing Crosby, travelling by boat
to Catalina Island for outdoor
scenes in his new filmusical
"We're Not Dressing" took along
a guitar accompanist and prac-
ticed his songs while cutting the
water in a speed boat.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
Record For Ross

The Yale record Of 4e.4 seconds
for the quarter mile was held for
two years by Lanny Ross, featured
in Melody In Spring" when he
was an undergraduate at that
university.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
All In A Dav
By MARK HELLINGER

In Which the Customers Do the Work
"ITS BEEN tme," writes Anderson Fry, of Nash
vie Tenn nce you gave us anything about Tennessee.
Maybe if you haven heard it too often, you'll for this
story of the fast bull It's Of the talet yarns
had around this section.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
Sketch in Picture

Paramount has purchased ].
P. McEvoy's sketch, Upper
Berth" for inclusion in the cur
rent w. c. Fields starring pic.
ture: The Old-Tashioned Way"
The Washington times., 1934-05-21

Press agents who send you gags
which have appeared in columns
of your rivalS-or in magazines.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21

Ditto ladies and gents who use
your telephones for their private
conversations.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
Stage Star to Films

Dean Jaeger, star on Broadway
in Tobacco Road" and "They
Shall Not Die" has been signed
for q picture hy Paramount.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21
New Title

"The Great Filtration" has
replaced II Married an Actress"
as the final title for the Adolph
ELISA Landi picture.
The Washington times., 1934-05-21

Ladies or gents who spend half
an hour to an hour on the tele-
phone in aimleSS conversation
when you're trying to get some
work out,
The Washington times., 1934-05-21

"Smart" boys from the prov
inces who invade night clubs here
and endeavOr to reveal their man.
abouttOwnneSs by pulling girls
from the chorus into their laps
or slapping them on their thighs
or getting up on the floor and
embracing them.
Other Hates
Managements of night clubs who
force their girls to sit around at
tables with men-men, who love
these little girls for their minds
only, of course!
Benefit racketeerS. Cheap chis-
elers who make it q business to
run benefits for some dOwn-and-
out actor or actress, and then
pocket most Of the proceeds,
handing the beneficiary" $50 or
$10O. One of these benefits, not
so long ago, crossed several thou
sand dollars, but the person for
whom it was conducted got only
$63-the two gents who ran it, ex-
planning that the rest Of the money
had been eaten up by expenses. "
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-02
SIOUX CITY

Sioux City, a.. July 2.-(P-(U. s.
Dept. Agr.o-Cattle. $4,000 including
$500 governments; slaughter steers
and yearlings slow, steady to weak;
fat sfe stock weak + Is lower: stock
ers and feeder; dull in liberal sup.
ply; most Is lower: choice medium
weight beeves held above $50. choice
long yearlings above IT'S: most grain
feds salable around 5.50-7.25: load
lots choice heifers 600-35: most beel
cows 2.50-3.75: low cutters and cutters
mainly 10000: fleshy go ID. feeders
SIS: few good stock steer calves 500:
scattered lots choice feeding heifers
400: large share stockers and feed
er steers eligible around $50.
Hogs, $500: market slow: early sales
and bids 10 to 2 lower than Friday;
top 4.35; better grade 2o0-200 ID
butchers bid 4.15-25; few 10000 ID
weights 3.75-4l5: nothing done on
other weights; sows mostly 3.75-S5;
heavies down to $50; feeder pigs up
to 800.
Sheep, 1000. including $50 direct ano
1877 billed through: market salable
supply all odd lots trucked In native
lambs: nothing done early; buyers
talking unevenly lower; indications
around IT'S for best lambs; statesmen
generally asking steady or upward to
8.25; odd lots slaughter ewes salable
200 down: around two double decks
81 lb fed Texas yearlings, bought to
arrive 6.25; effective July spring
lambs classified as lambs.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-02
Produce Markets
NEW YORK

New York. July 2.-(R)-Butter,
1856; steady; creamery higher than
extras 25-254: extra (92 score) 24A !;
:irsts 1881 scores) 23-24h; seconds
t84-87 scores) 22is-N; centralized 900
score) 24-24A.
Cheese. 1864; quiet, state, whole
milk flats, fresh, specials l5h: fancy
IS; do. held, specially cured specials
1919; regular cured II; average run
'6-161a.
Eggs, 24e46; irregular: special
packs or selections from fresh receipts
tn -2l; standards and commercial
standards 16lz-17; firsts l5A-l5h,
, seconds 14A-15; mediums 40 lbs,
l4A -l4A; dirties, No. l, a lbs, l4h
average checks 13-13h; storage pack
I'd firsts unquoted.
, White eggs. resale of premium
marks 26-261a: nearby special packs
including premiums 1914 -25h; nearby
and midwestern hennery. exchange
specials 211s -221s; nearby and mid
western exchange standards 90,
), marked mediums 1870: Jersey me-
, diums 81: Pacific coast, fresh, shell
, treated or liners. fancy 25-26; Pacific
roast. standards 23-24h; Pacific
: roast, shell treated or liners. mediums
2 2l-22. Browns, resale Of premium
! marks 24-25; nearby and western spe-
: cial packs. private sales from store
1921: western standards l7h.%.