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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
Urban League
Annual Meeting
Thurs, March Ii

The annual dinner meeting of
the Twin City Urban League will
be held Thursday, March II, in the
ballroom of the Mems Union at the
University of Minnesota at $50
p. m.
There is a possibility that Lotus
D. Cofman, president of the Uni
versity, will deliver the principal
address. T. Arnold Hill of New
York, acting national executive
secretary, will be in the Twin
Cities and he will also speak.
Reservations for this meeting
should be made by Wednesday,
March 10.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
Employment Is
Subject of Fl. @.
Brown Forum

The Halle Q. Brown Forum will
meet Sunday, Feb. %. A panel
discussion "Getting a Job and Hold
ing It" will be the feature of the
afternoon.
Members of the panel will be S.
E. Hall, business man; Miss W.
Gertrude Brown, Phyllis Wheatley
Settlement}head resident; Miss Con-
stance Fisher of the Family Ser
vice, Inc, staff; and Miss. Alice
Christian, 'WPA adult education su-
pervisor. ......
C. w. Washington, executive Sec
rotary of the Twin City Urban
League, will serve as panel chair
man. An open discussion will fol
low the panel talks. The meeting
will open promptly at 4 p. m.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
White Folks
Find Suzy-Q
Hard To Master
White Society Writer Tells How
Harlem Teaches Park Avenue
How To ''Truck" and 'Suzy-Q"

NEW YORK-(Calvin Service)
Many thought it was just a
song when "Truckin' came out,
telling how fashionable Park Ave
nue. came up to Harlem to learn
new steps. Now it is published
right in the society columns of the
New York Daily News by Nancy
Randolph, for all the world to see.
Under the headline: castor Heir
ess Tolls On Truckin' Lessons"
the article last Wednesday reads:
maybe the present heat wave
should be held accountable, but.
at all odds Nine. Raimund Won
Hofmannstahl, the former Alice
Muriel Aston, and Cecil Beaton.
have hired themselves a Harlem
dance instructor and are learning
to truck.
cat the moment they are alb
sorbed in the intricacies of the
Suzy-Q, which is neither a Mon
tana gold mine nor a Wyoming
cattle ranch, as the name implies,
but a branch of truckin'. One of
the outstanding Suzy-Q artistes of
the Savoy Ballroom, Lenox Ave.
and 140 St., comes down to Park
Ave. every other day to tutor the
Aston heiress and the British pho
tographer extraordinary to the
Four Hundred.
Suzy-Q Hard on 5Nordics
'The Suzy-Q doesn't come easy
for the Nordic blonde races of this
world. Its rhythms are essentially
patterned for Harlem feet. How
ever, Nine. Won Hofmannstahl and
the interchangeable Cecil are getting
along nicely and are completely
crooked on the matter.
Remnants Of the Old Guard,
who can still remember Nine. Won
Hofmannstahl's grandmother, Mrs.
William Astor, the czarina of New
York society in the tNineties,'
doubtless are completely crooked
at the idea of an Astor in the
throes of truckin' lessons!"
'MR. FATS" WALLER MEN i
TONED IN SPICY SUIT 4
New York (C)-The name OF
"Mr. Fats" Waller was mentioned
in the half million dollar breach of
promise suit of Miss Peggy Garcia,
Virginia blonde, against Dave Rub
inoff, celebrated violinist, in Su-
preme Court before Justice Cotille
last week. Miss Garcia blandly
admitted she didn't have any idea
Dave had any really serious affairs
with other women until one night
as she entered a night club with
the defendant, "Mr. Fats" impro-
vised a tune saying that this was
the fourth blonde Dave had been
seen with that week. 1t was also
brought out that Miss Garcia at
one time worked at,the Cotton Club.
when it was located in Harlem,
and that Dave came up to see her
sometimes.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
Rev. Bolts Bans
Sale of Paper
At Zion Church

Rev. 81. w. Bolts, pastor Zion
Baptist Church, 18th and Lyndale
Ave. N, Minneapolis, ordered sale
of the Minneapolis Spokesman
stopped at the church according
to the young woman who had
charge of sale of the paper at the
church. ....-..
The Zion Usher board formerly
sold the Spokesman at Zion earn
ing about $4,000 for its treasury in
this manner.
The only excuse Rev. Bolts gave
for his order in answer to the
young lady's query was, "Did you
see this weeks paper?" evidently
referring to the Spokesman pub
lishers statement in the last weeks
edition in which he outlined the
papers attitude toward the Mime
apolis ministry's refusal to CO.
operate with the paper. It is the
consensus of opinion that there was
something in last weeks paper
that Rev. Bolts didn't want his
members to see.
Requests for last weeks papers
were so great that the Feb. 10 is
sue of the Spokesman, according
to the circulation department, was
completely sold out.
Article Reprinted
Due to the insistent demand of
church members the article is re-
printed in the current issue.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
Crispus Attacks
Member Drive
Begins March |

The Annual Membership Drive
of the Crispus Attacks Home As
ISOLATION will be launched on Mon
day, March 1, and will extend to
June Is. The campaign will be con-
Quoted by Mrs. Monjoy Jones,
chairman, and Huron Shelton, Jr.,
Campaign Secretary.
The annual quota is decided by
the st. Paul Community Chest.
The 1896 quota was subscribed to
126 per cent; the workers, through
diligent, persevering effort, &C
compished a rating hitherto I'M
known. It is the intention of the
workers to even surpass the 1886
drive. All former members are ex-
pected to renew memberships and
at least one hundred new members
are expected to join the Associa-
ton.
The president, John Lawrence,
Jr., asked that civic or social clubs,
societies or lodges, as well as in
dividuals, respond to the appeal to
put the 1897 drive "over the top"
There are three classes of mem
bers in the Association.
1. Annual members or persons
who pay membership fee of one
dollar annually.
2. Contributing members who
contribute five dollars or more at
periods of not more than three
years apart.
3. Affiliated members or or
carnations that pay five dollars
or more annually. Such organiza-
tons are entitled to three repre-
sentatiyes in the Home Associa-
ton.
A spirit of optimism was mani
tested by the officers and members
at the last meeting in laying the
drive plans. A ,one7dollar member
ship was received from Mrs. Mabel
Lee and a fiye-dollar membership
from the Cameo Social Club.
After the regular business Miss
Beneta Edwards, Program Chair
man, gave a very fine review of the
article "My Great, Wide, Beauti-
full World" by Juanita Harrison.
Miss Edwards is arranging inter-
esting programs to be presented at
future meetings Of the Association.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
FATHER OF MRS. COMBS DIES

MEMPHIS, Tennessee - DR.. E.
w. Moseley of Memphis, Tenn,
died there at the Collins Chapel
hospital, Saturday, February 20.
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday afternoon, February %, at
the Lane Tabernacle at Jackson,
Tenn.
DR.. Moseley was the father of
Mrs. Harold C. Combs of Mime
apolis. Owing to the critical illness
of her husband, Mrs. Combs was
unable to be with her father in
his last hours.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
REV. CLANCY TO SPEAK

Rev. C. F. CLANCY of Milwaukee,
former Minneapolis pastor, will
address a series of meetings be-
ginning Sunday at the Church of
God In Christ, s2S 18th Ave. S.,
Feb. q, 1897. Rev. r. Thompson
is pastor of this church.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
Negro Papers
Labor Support
Court Reform

NEW YORK-Labor spokesman
and several of the most influential
Negro newspapers in the country
rallied this week to the support of
President Roosevelt's plans to re-
form the United States Supreme
Court as Liberty Leaguers and
other reactionaries opened a bar
rage of hysterical attacks on the
Presidents proposals to add new
blood to the present aggregation
of nine doddering old men.
The st. Louis Argus hailed the
Presidents plan as "a progressive
move" and pointed out that "the
Court as now constituted has little
respect for the rights of Negroes
as citizens" The paper recalled
that the Court has with one or two
exceptions consistently lodged the
question of the fundamental rights
of Negroes in its decisions, includ-
ing the question of jim-crowism on
public carriers in the South. "Most
assuredly," the paper concludes,
1--WE cannot think, we cannot con-
template, that the Negroes case,
so far as citizens rights are con-
cerned, can possibly be in worse
hands than in the past" q.
The powerful Baltimore Afro
American took a caustic dig at the
retention of their posts by the Su-
preme Court justices "after they
have reached doddering old age or
second childhood" 1t predicted
"Thereu be squawking a-plenty,
but F. D. will win his point, be-
cause he is right"
In the same issue of the Afro
American, William N. Jones, in his
weekly column, indicted the Court
as the force that has most effect
lively blocked the Negroes path to
full citizenship rights. Mr.. Jones
predicted that Except for those
whose political alignments are such
that they cannot do otherwise, COL
ored America will fall into the fight
behind the President in solid pha-
lanx."
The Presidents plan was backed
by the craft union faction in the
American Federation of Labor as
we'll as by the progressive indus
trial unions affiliated with the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization,
headed by John L. Lewis. The New
York State American Labor Party
also came out in support of the
President.
Among the country's lawyers, the
issue cut sharp cleavage between
reactionaries and progressives,
with the newly organized National
Lawyers Guild approving the re-
form move, while Bar Association
leaders dutifully kept step with
their corporation clients in opposi-
ton to any reform that would
loosen the grip of Big Business on
the nations highest tribunal.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
F L A s 81 !!

NEW YORK-(C)-It is report
ed that the publication of an edi-
tOrial by the Richmond Times Dis
patch indorsing the Wagner anti
ilynching bill has caused a wave of
sentiment to sweep over the South
favorable to anti-lynching legisla-
tion.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
Judges Illness
P0stpOnes Trial
OF Joe Taylor

The trial of Joe Taylor, Mime
apolis, for second degree murder
growing out of the fatal shooting
of Harry Peterson, white, on Jan
uary %, was halted temporarily
Tuesday by the illness of Judge
w. w. Bardwen of the Hennepin
county district court.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-26
GETS 80 DAYS IN WORKS

John Thurston, 500 st. Anthony
Ave-, st. Paul, was given 80 days
in the workhouse when found gull
ty on an assault and battery
charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-23
POWERFUL DRAMA
 TOPS AT STRAND
''Nancy Steele Is Missing Opens Engagement
 Sunday

Performances today and tomorrow conclude the engagement of Rain bow On the River" with Bobby breen, star of Eddie Cantor,s radio programs, also Her Husbands Sec retary" with Jean Muir, Warren Hull and Beverly Roberts, current attractions at Warner Brothers Strand theater.
 Sundays new show will be head lined by Nancy Steele is Missing, 7 a powerful drama that rains blows of passions and emotions on your pounding heart. Victor McLaglen, star of "The Informer" and winner of the Motion Picture Academy's acting award for 1895 has the lead- ing role and turns in one of the finest performances of his career 1T, this taut, dramatic film, in which he is starred with two of the screens outstanding players, Walter Con- molly and Peter Lorre, Europe's one man chamber of horrors. June Lang and Robert Kent are featured in the picture, adding a romantic note to the proceedings.
 "Nancy Steele is Missing" with its tense thrills of emotion n-lashing power, begins in the troubled days of 1917, with the disappearance of the daughter of Walter Connolly, a munitions magna;e. To relate fur
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-23
CARROLL.

The romance of thrilling three some whose kisses crash the head lines and whose escapades sell ex- tras, with handsome Tyrone Power outromancing his "Lloyds of Lon- don'' role, lovely Loretta Young bringing her fresh charm to por- trayal that is enchantingly differ ent, and Don Ameche creating a dashing new screen characteriza- tion, provides hilarious excitement in the Twentieth Century Fox streamline hit, Love is News" conl- ing Sunday and Monday at the Car roll theater.
 With Loretta in the role of beau- tiful heiress heckled and pestered by sensation-seeking newspaperers, the enjoyable pace is set at once when she VOWS vengeance against Tyrone Power, ace newshawk who has just tricked her again into the headlines, without, however, reckon ing with his dynamic, hard-driving managing editor, Don Ameche (radio star of '@The First Nighter.") ) To give newsmall Tyrone a dose
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-23
CAPITOL.

The streamline, modern comedy of private love affair whose kisses splash all over the front pages and whose adventures sell extra editions, with Tyrone Power, Loretta Young and Don Ameche as the thrilling threesome stepping out in a fast moving, high-stepping springtime romance, met uproarious acclaim when the Twentieth Century Fox picture, Love Is News. opens Sun day at the Capitol theater.
 Outromancing his. brilliant role in "Lloyds of London" Tyrone Pow CT plays a thrilling lead opposite fresh and lovely Loretta Young. who brings new grace to a portrayal that is engagingly different, with Don Ameche, radio star of "The First Nighter," outstanding in vigorously exciting characterization.
 Because he has just tricked her into another front-page story, heir ess Loretta Young swears revenge on Tyrone Power, ace reporter for the New York Daily Express (man- aging editor: Don ,Arneche). Deter mined that he shall know just how it feels to be a newspaper "gold fish-in- bowl" with as little priya- cy as he allowed her, Loretta an- nounces to the papers that she IS engaged to Tyrone, and adds that she has presented him with a mil lion dollars.
 The added attraction is "Penrod and Sam" with Billy Mauch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-23

his train of thought.
 Everyone regards him with awe because he is the author, among other stories, of San Francisco" which so far has grossed 8 neat $4, 900 and is still the top-nnoney picture of 1886.
 On the Go
 Hopkins has an office somewhere on the lot, but he does not even go there on rainy days. When the front office wants him in a hurry, 1t cells the general switchboard, and girl there telephones the cafe, the barber shop, and a couple of watchmen on the lot, asking them to notify the writer next time he come by.
 Just now he is collaporating with Anita Loos on Saratoga" an origi- nal racetrack yarn. Miss Loos has an office and secretaries but, when she feels like doing a little collab- orating, she has to go down on the street and find Hopkinns and stroll around with him. Sometimes, when he has thought up an especially hot idea, he stands under her window and whistles then Miss LooS comes down and he tells her about it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-23
NEW CONTINENTAL
 ACTRESS IN FILM
Luli Deste Has Major Role in States Thunder in
 the City,

A dramatic thunderbolt strikes the screen! Little Caesar" walks out on gangdom's mobs to muscle in on society snobs and a wcman's heart in picture that plunges you into hair-trigger action as fast as chain lightning.
 Don't rub your eyes in amazement its really true, Robert E. Sher- wood, who has "batted out. such hits as 'sTovarich," Idiots Delight" (Pulitzer prize winner), "Petrified Forest" Reunion In Vienna" and "The Road to Rome" has written another sensational hit for Edward G.. Robinson. It's Thunder In the City, which begins a ree-day en- gagement at Warmers State theater on Sunday. 5s
 Here at last is Little Caesar" in the kind of role his fans have al- ways wanted to see him playa role that unleashes the full fury of Rob- inson,s power to set the blood pounding, to lash the emotions with the force of a thunderbolt.
 A world metropolis trembled on his every word, a woinan's lips trembled for every kiss. Here Is the most powerful role Robinson has ever played. <.
 In the supporting cast are Nigel Bruce, Constance Collier, Ralph Richardson and the exotic new con-. tinental star Luli DeSte.
 Z The sparkling dialogue of Mary Roberts Rinehart's Saturday Eve ming Post story "231a Hours Leave" which could only be suggested in the subtitles of the silent film of that name which years ago was among the notable comedy screen success es of its decade, gets full play in the modern talking version of this war; time laughmaker, produced by Douglas MacLeal1 who starred In the silent picture version.
 The new production features James Ellison Chit of The, Plains man" in the role of Buffalo Bill Cody) :. also Terry Walker, Paul Har- vey, Ward Bond, Russell Hicks and host of other favorites. The pie ture will be the companion feature on Sundays great twin feature pro- gram at Warmers State.
 The management again urges pa irons to try to attend the early n,atinees on Sundays thus avoiding the ever.ng crowds and the neces- sity of waiting in line. Adhering to this suggestion will enable pa
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-23

ther the narrative of the story would be to mar your complete en- joyment of it. As a character of passions and tenderness, of brute like violence and childlike trust, McLaglen gives a performance of remarkable vitality and range, one that will rank among the finest the screen has ever afforded, and Wal ter Connolly and Peter Lorre like- wise excel even their own previous characterizations.
 The companion feature will be Mama Steps Out with Guy Kib- bee, Alice Brady, Betty Furness an6 Stanley Morner. It's based on the hilarious story Ada Beats the Drum" by Anita Loos. Mama want ed culture with a dash of romance so she went to gay Farce, but hei husband and daughter went along too. Papa goes native" ve"-daughter goes for a crooner--and you go fol the widest joy cruise of all youl film going days.
 Next Wednesday the Strand will present another all new double fea- ture program for four days includ- ing Fernand Gravel, new French idol, in 'The King and the Chorus Girr, also "A Doctors Diary"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-23
H OILY WOOD
By Paul Harrison

HN
 Hollywood-The place to see a famous writer at work, these warm spring days, is on the corner of the studio street by the M-G-M com- missary, or along the street as it ambles past the sound stages to ward the back lot.
 If you see a lanky, homely, cere- lessly dressed man standing around there, basking in the sunshine and not bothering to try to look busy when Louis B. Mayer comes by, that's probably Robert E. Hopkins at work.
 If you watch him long enough, you may see him tumble around ill his pockets and take out pencil stub and an old envelope, or maybe unfold paper book of matches, and make note.
 Although be is right out in plain sight of thousands of passing studio employees, Hopkins enjoys more pri vacy that most executives in their triple-secretaried sanctuaries. The reason is that almost nobody speaks to the writer for fear of interrupting
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-23
By George Ross

Paris.-Ask an expatria4e Broad wayite in Paris about the current shows and he will turn up. his nose, apply two fingers to 1t in g signifi- cant gesture and advise you to con- tinue with your sightseeing. He has derisive opinion of the acting and he doesn't care much about the new play writing, either. Nor does he care to go back repeatedly to the Moliere, Corneille and Racing class ics financed by the state.
 The two theaters, besides the Opera and Opera Comique, to which France contributes public money and blessings, are the Comedie Francaise and the Odeon. Both stages turn their faces carefully away from mod ernity. So Paris playgoers, relying upon this centuries-old Gallic ver- sion of the WPA theater for classic French drama, must take their fill of Frances 17th Century rivals of Shakespeare, with occasionally, a Pirandello play, a dramatization of Balzac, and even a translation, now and then, of the Bard of Avon.
 These subsidized playhouses of fer their programs in repertory and Frenchmen may subscribe to full season. Or if they would rather not patronize the Comedie Francaise and Odeoh, they have the alternative of Louis Jouyet's theater, the .Athenee. M. Jouvet is also addicted to the plays of Moliere but avoids competitive conflicts when he can. At times that the Comedie F'rancaise or Odeon are showing "The School for Wives" he turns on 'The School for Husbands" and vice versa.
 Victoria" Crowns Season
 Under private management, the biggest hit of the moment in Paris is Andre Maurois and Virginia Yer non's adaptation of "Victoria Regina. The adapters have left the play substantially as Laurence Housman wrote 1t, which is all for the better, and Gaby Morlay, the leading French actress, is portray ing the regal role Helen Hayes is playing at the Broadhurst. After a brief run, the dramatization of Flaubert's Madame Bovary" was withdrawn and will be seen next in the English version, as part of the Theater Guilds schedule.
 That prolific playwright, Henri Bernstein, has Turned out new one entitled "The Journey" which is not creating any loud stir along the boulevards. And back on the Champs Elysees is the original com pany of Jacques Duval's '"Tovarich, J first done here more than two years Aagoa AnQthessof Paris, successes is E"FTic-Frac," . comedy by Ed ouard Bourdet, director of the Comedie F'rancaise--but the gov- ernment does not have charge of this one. 7: Whatever profits Eric -Frac" earns will go into private coffers and several Amer ican managers, including Gilbert