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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
CRISPUS ATTACKS HOME

The Crispus Attacks Home As
ISOLATION opened its annual mem
bership drive on March IL. Mem
bership goal is $4,000. Annual
memberships are $1.0O. Organiza-
ton memberships $500; this en-
titles an organization to have three
representatives at the association
meetings.
Memberships received. Miss Es-
tella Luckie, $1.OO; Mrs. Richard
Chapman, $1.0O; Mrs. Alice Hill
yard, $1.00; Mrs. Grace Fergerson.
$1.0O; Mrs. Edward Graham, $1.O0i
Mr.. William Brown, $1.OO; Mr.
Junius Condry, $1.OO; Mr.. John
Wilson, $1.00. Partial member.
ships received. Mrs. Margaret
Godette, rs; Mrs. Alberta Coram
.25; Mrs. Mable Turner Brown, .25
Donation Perfect Ashlar Lodge
$1,000.
Mrs. Mabel McGavock Lee gave
very interesting talk on "Collec.
tive Efficiency"
Members and friends are urged
to attend the regular meetings
which are held on the third Tues
day of every month, at the Halle
Q. Brown Community House, 500
P. M. The next regular meeting
will be April 81.
Thank you,
Huron j. Shelton, Jr.,
Secy. Membership Committee,
453 Kent St.,
st. Paul, MINI
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03

To narrowly and miraculously
escape death from jungle BEASTS
to set foot in villages never reached
by white men; to be entertained
by the chief of man-eating canni-
balls are some of the hair-raising
encounters that he experienced in
carrying the Gospel into the heart
of deepest Africa. Bishop Gregg
spent several years both as mis-
sionary and later as bishop, de-
veloping the work of the A. M. E.
Church in Africa. He has actual
photographs taken of most unique
scenes which he will show on the
canvass in the illustrated lecture
that he will deliver at st. Peter
A. M. E. Church Friday evening,
April 10, at 8 o'clock, on the sub
ject: "Africa - the Hope and
Despair of the World" The
bishop is being brought to Mime
apolis under the auspices of the
ABG Society of St. Peter Church.
The public is cordially invited.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
MINNEAPOLIS FORUM PRESENTS
FAMOUS SINGERS PALM SUNDAY
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ALPHA PHI ALPHA

A very fine meeting of Mu chap
ter, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,
was held at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Cassius Of 9S9 w.
Central Ave-, with Mr.. Leon M.
Smith as the host, Tuesday eve
ming, March "a. The chapter presi-
dent, Mr.. John r. Lawrence, Jr.,
appointed committees to carry on
the spring work. The social COM
mittee is Leon Smith, chairman,
assisted by William Cassius, Ollie
Griffin, and Lafayette Fields. The
ritual and initiation committee is
Raymond w. Cannon, chairman,
assisted by Ollie Griffin, C. w.
Washington, and John M. Patton.
Plans were made for Founders
Day, April 26, when the Chapter
will be twenty-four years old, be-
ing established at the University
of Minnesota in April, 1912, and
for the Education for Citizenship"
campaign which is a part of the
national program of the Alphas.
A plentiful and delicious repast
was served after the meeting.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY
FORUM


The Minneapolis Sunday Forum
will meet Sunday, April 5, at the
Phyllis Wheatley House at 400
p. m. The Beacon Light choir will
present the cantata, "The Seven
Last Words of Christ" by Dubois.
Elder A. Gaynes Thompson, pastor
of the Beacon Light Mission, is the
director. The choir will be assisted
by other talent. Rev. D. P. Young,
pastor of Border M. E. Church, will
give the narration. Those singing
solo parts will be Robert E. Bel
ton, A. Sway, Mrs. Grace Wilson,
Miss June Hawkins, and w. M.
Smith. The accompanist is Miss
Marienne E. jeffrey.
Remember the Forum, April 5,
Phyllis Wheatley House.
Boyd Atkins and his orchestra
opened at the Ell Patio Cafe, st.
Louis Park, formerly the Cotton
Club, Wednesday, April 1.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03

Elder T. Harrison Allison
and director, and Mr.. w. NJ. Smith
who sings a short but interesting
part.
The cantata will be presented at
Phyllis Wheatley House Sunday
afternoon at 400, at the Forum
hour. Preceding the oratorio, it is
hoped that Elder T. II. Allison,
basso and former Fisk Jubilee
singer, can be persuaded to sing,
"Why Do the Nations Rage" from
Handel's Messiah" Elder ALI
son will be in the cities to deliver
a series of sermons for the Beacon
Light Church of Minneapolis and
Berean Mission of st. Paul.
Rev. D. P. Young, Pastor of
Border M. E. Church, will give a
short stereopticon lecture in con-
nection with the oratorio. Many
will want to hear this treat.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
Something New Under the Sun

professional talent who have of
fered their services to make the
evening enjoyable, but these peo-
pie are not eligible for prizes.
Some of them: The Pittman Sis
tiers, the N. Y. A. Quintette, con-
sisting of Dorothy Early, Dorothy
Pittman, Esther Jackson, Alice
Gibson and June Hawkins; frankie
Wyche will dance; Tom Lewis and
others will sing. The admission is
ten cents for adults and five cents
for children.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
A. GAYNES THOMPSON
WILL DIRECT

The oratorio, 'The Seven Last
Words of Christ" by Theodore Du
Bots is a seasonable and beautiful
work. Its presentation by the
augmented Beacon Light Jubilee
Choir should be very well done and
enjoyable. The list Of soloists are
popular Minneapolis people. The
soloists are:
Mrs. Grace Wilson, soprano;
Mr.. R. E. Bolton, well known wit
and singer; Mr.. A. Swayza, tenor;
Miss June Hawkins, soprano; Pas
tor A. Gaynes Thompson, tenor
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
Program

The Glee Club of Phyllis Wheat
ley will present at its annual yes
per service Sunday, April 10, the
development of hymns through the
ages sung by the chorus, panto-
mines by Miss Mary Louise
Bohanon. Mrs. Blanche o. Mason
arranges the program and directs
the music.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
FREDERICK DOUGLAS CIVIC
LEAGUE MEETS

The Frederick Douglas Civic
League held a very interesting
meeting at the Phyllis Wheatley
House, Wednesday night. Organi-
zation plans were completed and
plans for the year were launched.
The league will meet again next
Wednesday, promptly at 500 p. m,
at which time the subject: "Was
the National Negro Congress
Worth While?" will be discussed.
Recent delegates to the Congress
have been asked to attend. The
public is cordially invited.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03

An amateur contest will be con-
Quoted at the Phyllis Wheatley
House on Thursday evening, April
9. 1t will be carried out with a
master of ceremonies playing the
roll of Major Bowes, and splen-
did program will be presented.
Anyone is eligible to register. En-
try blanks may be obtained at the
Phyllis Wheatley House, or you
may phone in. Prizes will be given
the winners. There is also some
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-03
COMMENT
By w. M. SMITH

colored men to enter the navy as
"messmen." Everyone knows what
what a "mess" is, and a ''mess-
man" undoubtedly would be one
who would take care of it; clean
it up. In another sense "mess"
refers to eating and messmen
would be those who served the
food-or walters. But whether it
is intended to clean up some dirty
spot or waiting on table it is very
evident that the government has
developed the courage to definitely
assign to the Negro the lowest
place in its navy personnel.
Experience also makes plain that
once in the assigned place there is
no further promotion to anything
better.
It is utterly amazing to see the
complacency with which the Negro
accepts this Jim Crow practice of
the government. There isn't an
other race of people in the entire
nation that would not raise the
roof until such unfair and I'M
American attitude was changed.
And again .....
Some weeks ago it was called to
the attention of certain of our well
fare agencies that transient camp
had been set up at Mendoza for
colored men. From all over the
state they were brought from other
camps and located in the separate
camp at Mendoza. The agencies
indicated, arranged and did carry
to the 125 men in the colored camp,
some entertainment and religious
oversight. Scarcely had this been
done when certain white people in
Mendoza, who disliked the idea of
having colored men in their midst,
made complaint and asked to have
the men transferred.
Before conference to discuss
the matter, in which the above
agencies were to present the posi-
ton of the men, the authorities al
lowed them to be removed over
night to spot some 200 miles
further north, where the nearest
town is % miles away. And we
are expected to take this lying
down. Be assured that will not be
the case.
The constant repetition of this
sort of thing government in
spired) has called into being the
National Negro Congress.
Men like Kelly Miller, editors of
big eastern papers, high officials in
church circles, other men who have
been honored with leadership and
whose dictums heretofore have had
the weight of law, are numbered
among those who have failed to
move these distractions from the
pathway of the Negro. They also
oppose the effectiveness of the
Congress called to take direct &C.
ton upon such matters.
Thank God for the young men
and young women, who undeterred
by difficulty or danger, have
placed results above personal am
bition; hundreds of them came to
inaugurate the Congress and hun
dreds more of whom at home stand
ready to support and follow them.
repeat the words of A. Phillip
Randolph, president of the Con-
gress, "This is a serious time and
a serious business upon which we
are engaged"
The time for weak and ineffec-
tive leadership is past. Only those
who have the courage of their con-
victions are fitted for this new day.
Past regulations will not avail. We
must move with the times or we
won't move at all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-10
HAMILTON

Tn the colorful, glittering att mosphere of the burlesque theater, with it's soubrettes, songs, clowns and comics, the action of the new Fox picture, King of Burlesque," which comes Sunday and Monday to the Hamilton theater, takes place
 Warner Baxter heads the gala cast of this picture, which includes Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, Airline Judge, Mona Barrie, Gregory Rat off Dixie Dunbar, Kenny Baker, Fats Waller and Nick Long, Jr., among the featured personalities.
 With his two trusted aides, Alice Faye and Jack Oakie, Baxter has climbed from side street honky- tonks to Broadway's glitter.ng pal aces. Then when he falls in love with a lovely society woman who represents everything he had hoped to attain, he deserts his erstwhile friends.
 Things go from bad to worse with Baxter, until his wife, Mona Barrie, deserts him. When things look blackest, BaXter's old friends return to help him on the most spectacular venture of his life.
 The close of the film shows Bax- ter suddenly realizing that 1t was Alice Faye he had loved all the time.
 The companion feature is Lit tie Men starring Ralph Morgan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-10

for price. He is in the pay of rev- olutionists.
 McLaglen and his assistant, play cd by Michael Whalen, carry out their part of the bargain, even though they lose their taste for it when they discover that the mon- arch is 3 stripling. They also carry away Gloria Stuart, who breaks in on them in the middle of the crime.
 In a mountain hideaway, the king and the soldier strike up Q fast friendship. McLaglen trains the lad in games in which he soon becomes more proficient than his instructor, and tells him horrific tales of blood- shed. Everything goes well, even the blossoming romance between Wfla- len and Miss Stuart, until a royalist plot carries the king back to his palace and McLaglen to a cell to await death.
 But the royalists themselves plot to do away with the king. Tn the thrilling, nerve-scraping climax, McLaglen stages a jail break and a one-nnan war that outstrips even his colorful lies, bringing the story to its happy close.
 The added attraction is Don't Get Personal" co-starring James Dunn and Sally Eilers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-10
News and Gossp- DIVORCE SELDOM PARTS HOLLYWOOD COUPLES
Separated Stars Find Selves Cast Together in Love Scenes Meeting at Parties and All but Continuing Married Life
Hollywood News and Gossip

This attitude is just at well, considering the fact that divorced people sometimes are cast opposite each other in motion pictures. Ca- role Lombard and William Powell are examples; they're soon to ap- pear together before the camera. Margaret Sullivan and Henry Fon- da, once married and duly url- shackled, now are cas tas spatting lovers in "The Moons Our Home" "
 still Friends
 Members of the latter dissolved union say they bear each other no i'll will. that they're even friends, and point out that their divorce was a fairly amicable parting. MT. Fonda didn't even mind discussing it, very briefly;
 "Why shouldn't we play togeth- CT? We're both human, fairly in- telligent people. I've always been fond of Miss Sullivan, and she was generally able to put up with me. The fact that we were married needn't harm our acting"
 There are good many mutual friends of the pair who hope that their working together in the pic- ture may bring about a reconcil- iation. Stranger things have han. pened.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-10
ALHAMBRA

Anything Goes" which has its premiere Sunday at the Alhambra theater, is a jolly, tuneful, enter taining picture. Bing Crosby is the featured player in this song-starred Paramount presentation of the pop ular Broadway musical comedy which broke records during it's New York run. He is assisted by such favorites as Ethel Norman, Charlie Ruggles, Ida Lupino and Grace Bradley.
 All the famous Cole Porter songs which were universally popular are heard in this mirthful picture. He has provided a number of others which are equally as good as You're the Top" Anything Goes" and 'I Get Kick Out of You" Additional songs by other music makers are included.
 Crosby is knight errant aboard Q transatlantic liner. His borrowed passport gets him into trouble, for it belongs to a public enemy. That passport forces him to tumble in and out of sundry disguisea with ] hilarious consequences. The whole ship becomes madhouse of fun, when Crosby stops at nothing to diVest passengers of their costumes. In the end, he gets his reward with an elusive romance.
 Anything Goes" is amusing en- tertainment through and through.
 The added attraction ig "Too Tough To Kill" starring Victor Jory and Sally Blaine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-10
CAPITOL

With a sweep and realistic power probably never before approached by motion pictures, goth Century Fox brings to the screen in "The Prisoner of Shark Island" which starts Sunday at the Capitol thea ter, the true story of the most tragic figure in Americas history.
 Warner Baxter is the leading player in this drama, which opens after the Civil War with the assas- sination of Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth, whose leg was broken in the leap to the stage, flees into Mary land to receive aid from a simple country doctor.
 When the fury of the nation over this crime is unleashed, Bax- ter is arrested, tried with Booths accomplices and sent to an unknown fate on Shark Island, fortress prison on a sun-baked reef in the Carribean.
 Passionately hated by the men who guard him, degraded, beaten, chained to his cell, Baxter attempts escape. When he is recaptured, Bax- ter is subjected to solitary imprison- ment in a filthy cell, until the scourge of yellow fever hits the is- landland. With the medical officer sick, the fever raging, the com mander of the garriSon, Harry Carey, turns to Baxter as his last desperate resort.
 The companion feature is "Tim- othy's Quest" starring Dickie Moors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-10
Promising Pictures Feature Programs OF Local 7heaters
POLT'S TO GIVE
 DOUBLE FEATURE
"SmaII Town Girl" and "GentIe Julia" Open En.
 agreements Saturday

Closing tonight at Polls will be program made up of two very pleas. ing films, one a hilarious comedy with Americas greatest humorist, Irwin Cobb in the leading role in "Everybodys old Man. The com panion feature will be one of the ever popular thrill-o-dramas, "The Three Godfathers", featuring Lewis Stone, Chester Morris and Walter Brennan.
 Starting tomorrow for four days only will be screen program that will be talked about in town for many moons" to come. Two great films, each of them with stars of the first magnitude will be the attrac- tions. The first feature being Small Town Girp with Robert Taylor and Janet Gaynor and an impressive cast and the compan- ion feature will be Jane Withers in her latest starring vehicle Gentle Julia" from Booth Tarkingtons story.
 The star of the immortal Seventh Heaven" Janet Gaynor, and the sensation of Magnificent Obses- sion," Robert Taylor, have joined hands to bring to the screen one of the most stirring modern romances in their latest picture, "small Town Girl"
 Miss Gaynor was never more lovely in her successful career than she is in the new Metro Goldwyn- Mayor production. For the first time, she is allowed to dress up and in this she reveals new Janet Gaynor.
 With the sensation of the screen season, the dashing Robert Taylor as her co-Star, perfect screen team is formed. Audible comments from the audience proclaimed Taylor's dramatic work to be even finer than that in the Broadway Melody of 1886" and Magnificent Obsession." :"
 Taken from Ben Ames Williams famous novel, the plot of "Small Town Girl" concerns country girl who marries a handsome doctor while he is intoxicated.
 Her efforts to win his affection after she has fallen in love with him, bring tears and laughs alike from the audience.
 The production has strong sup- porting cast including Binnie Barnes, Lewis Stone, Andy Devine, Elizabeth Patterson, Frank Craven and James Stewart, all of whom do well by their respective roles.
 Next Wednesday there will be an- other new double feature program made up of Warner Gland in his latest episode of Charlie Chan en- titled Charlie Chan at the Circus.
 As the second feature there will be Paul Kelly and Airline Judge in Here Comes Trouble. Wednesday night another great stage show with Gus Meyers and His Fiddle and Freddie Hall as the master of ceremonies will be offered.
 Thursday night another big "Screeno" party and thrills will be held.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-10

are hanged within his sight, and finally his dreary journey to the Dry Tortugas prison under life sentence.
 On the island the real drama be- gins its course. The gentle, utl- worldly man fights against the degradation and spiritual starva- ton, against the bestiality of the labor he is forced to do. Despera- ton drives him to attempt an es- cape with the aid of negro guard. In what is probably the most pow erful sequence of the picture, he swims a shark filled moat, es- capes to a boat where his wife awaits him-only to be recaptured by the pursuing guards.
 The added attraction is "Stormy."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-10
MUSICAL COMEDY
 COMES TO STATE
Al JOIsOn'S Latest Hit,
 "The Singing Kid" Starts Tomorrow

Performances this evening con- clude the engagement of "ThC Farmer in the Dell with Free Stone and Jean Parker also thC great Karlof in "The Walking Dead," current attractions at War. ner Brothers State theater.
 Tomorrow ushers in the new Al JoIson musical comedy sensation "The Singing Kid" for a four day engagement. To those who know their movies in general and Al Jcl- son films in particular, nothing more is needed than this brief statement.
 Al gets better year after year retaining all the youthful vigor for which he has been famous for years and gaining in whimsicality stage craft and qualities of enter tainment.
 Jolson was the star of the first musical comedy to reach the talk ing screen, "The Jazz Singer" with which Warner Brothers rev. olutionized the motion picture inc dustry.
 Now comes what all Jolson fans and they constitute the bulk of the nations theater goers will agree is his greatest vehicle-the entirely human, appealing story with music which has been called "The Singing Kid".
 Bobby Connolly, the famous dance maestro, outdid himself in the spectacular speciality numbers in one of which appear some of Hollywood's most beautiful dancing girls, and in another black beauties imported from Harlem.
 The picture carries more of a story than the ordinary musical drama or comedy.
 Never was Jolson in better voice, nor has he ever shown more pep and vivacity, than In singing the tuneful air of his piece and in frolicking through the riotous com edy situations. Among others he sings with little Sybil Jason, the g. year-old child wonder, who not only has an excellent voice. but is a rare imitator and capable and under standing actress.
 Beverly Roberts is Jolson's lead ing lady and others in the cast in- clude Claire Dodd, Edward Ever cit Horton, Allen Jenkins, Mitch- el and Durant, The Yacht Cluh Boys and Cab Galloway and his band.
 The companion feature will be "The Return of Jimmy Valentine" mythical Robin Hood of crookdom immortalized on stage and silent screen. Roger Pryor, Charlotte Hem ry, Robert Warwick and J. Car rol Naish have the leading roles.
 Next Wednesday brings Ross Al- exander and Anita Louise in Brides Are Like That" also Frank Bucks new thriller of the jungle, Fang and Claw"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-10
NATURAL COLORED FILM SHOWN HERE
Strand Offers The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
 Starting Sunday

Current attractions at Warner Brothers Strand theater, conclud- ing their engagement tomorrow, arc "der Mothers Voice" with Edward Everett Horton, also "Woman Trap" with Gertrude Michael.
 The first really successful natural color film, "The Trail of the Lone soUe Pine, begins it's engagement at the Strand, Sunday. The pie tliy0 is filmed entirely in natural color but this bald statement doesn't nearly cover the facts. Color can be vague, or 1t can be too prominent, but in this film the color has been so superbly handled, 50 intelligently used, that after the firBt moment of pleasant surprise, the or1looker is not even aware that he is seeing film! It is 50 natural, 50 lifelike, so clear that the illu- sion of watching an actual scene being enacted before ones eyes is created, and maintained throughout tho picture.
 The film version of "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" is faithful adaptation of John Fox, Jrs class ic. Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda and the balance of tho well-chosen cast bring the im- mortal characters to life, and one feels all the intensity of the primi- tive passions and emotions which are the heritage of the simple mountain folk. The work of little fouf-year- "Spanky" Mcfarland deserves special mention. This little fellow has been entrusted with an extremely important role, as Bud die the youngest of the Toliver clan, and he delivers d sterling performance.
 The story of "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" is familiar to ev- cryone, telling of the deadly fued between the Tolliyers and the Fa- 1ifs in the wild Cumberland moun- tain region, and the efforts Of an engineer from the outside world to bring the idea of civilization and modern progress into the lives or the mountain class.
 Action, dialogue and phoLogra- phy have been skilfully blended by Director Henry Hathaway; each member of the cast is out standing in his part: but the real hero of the production is Color which makes "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" one of the truly great pictures of all time.
 The big special surrounding pro- gram includes q musical act, Watch Your Step, For the Love of Pete, a Joe Palooka comedy, Blowout, cartoon novelty and latest world news events.
 Thursday next bring the Donne Quintuplets in "rhe Country Doc tor" also Harry Richman and Ro- chelle Hudson in The Music Goes Round"