The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-04-15
HARLEM
"RGce Capitol Of the Nation"
By FLOYD G. SNELSON
NEW YORK
There's no time like Spring

There's no time like Spring
When life's alive in everything"
Was a great saying, but Easter Sun
day brought US snow and rain, frigid
weather along with the sunshine
the Easter parade was on.
BILL ROBINSON-S53.4O 1000
That's a mighty nice salary Bo-
I'll bet you earned it too. The only
person of color listed in the list of
salaries in the "high brackets" was
the one and only Bill Robinson, bv the
goth Century Fox Film Corporation
no telling how much more Uncle
Sam jotted down, that for Just pic
lures. While on the topic-incidenta
Herman Stark, manager of the Cotton
Club, $4,000; Mare Connolly. of
Green Pastures earned $66,5OO.
know you had grand time in
DC. The mayor of Harlem" nut
aside his usual Easter parade on
Seventh Avenue in Difference to the
first command of Americas first ladv
Mrs. Eleanor Democracy Roose-
welt, invited Bogangles to Join her box
seat party at the Marian Anderson
open air recital at the Nations Capt.
tai.
PERSONALITIES TODAY'S NEWS
HARRY 7. BURLEIGH-the re-
noWned exponent of music, partici
pates in his 18th consecutive HOLY
Sabbath programs-Palm and Easter
Sundays, at St. Georges Church.
StuyVesant Square. Ever since 1894
when he was engaged as a baritone
sololst from field of sixty singers.
Mr.. Burleigh has been a most dis
tngulshed member of that choir-the
only one of his race, and his annual
singing of the Palms and Easter
music has been recognized as classic.
Mr. Burlelgh, not only a wonderful
soloist but one of Americas greatest
composers, having arranged hundreds
OF Splrltuals, has written more than
zoo songs, including anthems and
other notable compositions. CARRIED
IN his scarlet cassock the eminent
music master is an impressive inspi
ration to the aristocratic st. George
Church, whose membership is com
posed of many bluebloods of old Man
haitian.
l have known Mr.. Burleigh for manv
years and it was one of nv greatest
pleasures to meet him at 135th Street
and Seventh Avenue and-off to the
pail game at Yankee Stadium, where
we both were great enthusiasts of the
n, Y. Yankees.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
That grand old man-genius of
science and especially the peanuts
one of the most interesting characters
l have ever met-and | have had the
pleasure-as a newspaperman for 30
vears-of meeting thousands unon
thousands.
can imagine the splendid express
SION OF happiness demonstrated by the
resident when he made the acouaint-
ance of the old wizard-G. w. Carver
at Tuskegee.
Inc first time | met Mr. Carver was
IN his laboratory at Tuskegee, in COM
pany with party of northern bust
ness men under the guidance of Presi
dent j. r. E. Lee of Florida AM
College, in 1924. When he showed us
ms powdered milk, peanut oils and his
oIher marvellous inventions, we were
almost stunned with surprise. l met
nm again few years later in Har
lem, when he came to deliver a lecture
at one of the fashionable white
churches on Fifth Avenue. He was
dressed in one of those old-fashioned
(clu!.taWays-l think they call them a
Jlm-swinger" cut from the vogues of
style, during slavery days-he refused
to respond to modern day fashion. He
was as shy as ten year old boy,
modest as country maiden, and as
unassuming as the unknown quantity
zero. We had dinner together at
Cralgg's (then on both Street, and
all that fussy dinner was much too
strenuous for the old bard. After
ms lecture the metropolitan press paid
alm the highest tribute in glowing
SSgrI MS the great Mr.. Carver.
MATTHEW HENSON
One OF the greatest race characters
IN modern history is Mat Henson. "On
IhaC 1898 trip, when Peary and his
Two colored companions" states the
~ I. Times, Matthew Henson and
Hugh Lee, disappeared over the great
"hite dome of ice with wholly made
GCuate equipment, the Evil Spirits of
1ne North must have laughed aloud.
10 defeat such men one breath of this
cold air at 70 degrees below zero
would be sufficient One yawning
crack in the glacier, a smoldering
drl1t' illness of one of the men, disease
among Peary's dogs-any one of
Chese forces should defeat the men
from the South. But Peary, Henson
ana Lee proved that all these evil