The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-06-24


"fins" the ninth annual Booker T. Washington Trade
Exhibit Sunday night at the Forest club
Approximately 900 visited the exhibit over the week
end We think they might well have extended into
this week. great was the enthusiasm.
addition of nightly professional stage show and an
amateur contest did much attract these thousands
Teddy Backmon and Clement Mills coraed Just about all
the available talent both amateur and pro" and pre-
scented different show each night The customers went
strongly for the shows that the exhibitors said may nay
and the crowd had to be kept out of the auditorium
by force til show time
Sunday night when all the runners-up competed for the
"grand prix the ballroom seehing caldron and
pandemonium reigned, and how. Teddy and Glen had
all they could do jointly to avert small riot over who
should take home the first prize money which was
1t finally little boy named Lloyd Watson, who sang
minnie the Moocher" la Cab Galloway. Second prize
to a very talented lad named Harold Mckinney who
sang Because" with finished technique and third pzet
taken by Raymond Winchester and his Tramp Band
the selling point of which was nimbe lass ycept Beulah
Ware, twister from away back she did gyrations
in front of the band that would be good anywhere and
up by doing bit of tterbuggng with Raymond that
was their own special brand and was done with taps
An amazing array of talent shown during the week.
phase of entertainment unrepresented. Glenn
and Teddy know just what do with talent when they get
it, between they nodded that talent into very
enjoyable smoothly running variety shows are
very much afraid that the shows stole the exhibit this year
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Edgar Pitts was charge of the whole affair and you
believe he is the original Trojan" when it comes to
working. He all over the place and to him with
years exhibit
The idea of a display of Negro achievement in the
business world is grand power to the orgi=
majors
With our town fairly bursting with activity. Lillian
Brown and Lorraine Moss sought respite from it all in
Pittsburgh where they the lads thrill for
too brief weekend
Leon Smith will have plenty of time practice his emot
ing and nerpretaye reading between chores the boats
this sHmmer--He says he will only have two hours in
every other day until September. He is going to
study hard for a tour in the fall
We into the prospective groom. Sunday night in
the Frogs and he is all agog wedding Saturday
OF course we mean Dr. Carter He says he is going to be
married II o'clock Us and company issued out little
free and unsolicited advice to wit that he should have
the ceremonyvell way the stroke of the hour
it's bad luck to get hitched on the wane OF the hour
will be there Doc" reinqush his bachelorhood
The whole Thomas clan. told and other eminent
members of the doctoring profession.
Emma Perry took her masters degree from Wayne uni
versy last week Irene Graves will work further her
doctorate. -. this summer at Ann Arbor.
Bernice Mccall of St Paul, MINI, and Meba Stuart
of Omaha Neb.-. both schoomates of pnafore days..
Of Ernesne Postles are her house guests
Lucille Tapsico Boden. who has been living in Cleye
the past year home again and that
she is going to be Miss Tapsico before long.
We had lot heckling folk at the Trade Exhibit
we did lot of shopping who shopping for house
furnishings and infant equipment caught Petry
Fisher and Hoense Fears right in the act of having Bill
Tagans them stove, which may may not be an
omen We have it first hand that Teddy Blackmon and
Amyre Ransom who is that beautiful will be Mr. and Mrs,
ere long
Attorney and Mrs Ross York City visitors of
the Ernest Gabuies. alse last week large
group Cleveland who Cor the exhibit
Among them NJ c. Clarke. frankie Lyons
William Franks Mrs Charlotte Johnston. Mrs Theo-
dore Skinner. Mrs Ann Gibson and Rev Grant Reynolds
Amy Cunningham pointed out the highlghs to DR. and
Mrs. McSwain of Washington, D. c.
,
Sua Mae Baker and Nimrod Carney seeing awful
lot of each other thinks her ggge is just musical
and she thinks his is just too too divine she
likes hear him do the dagger scene from Macbeth
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