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The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05

progress of i~nterracial understan-
ding and affairs of Hampton In
stitute have often sown seeds of
value in the hearts Of thinking
people. We make no claim to
fame, because that is not, 0 has
it ever been, the purpose of this
journal. It has been published
with the sole purpose of creating
P better understanding amongst
all men; and, in particular, for the
benefit Of Americas great minor
ity groups. Because of u first
hand knowledge of what these eff
forts have meant to many peo-
ole, we make this announcement
with greatest reluctance.
Special commendation, respect
and gratitude are due and here
with acknowledged to the present
Editor, DR.. Isaac Fisher. He has
1rheld ideals characteristic of The
SOUTHERN WORKMAN since its
founding in 1872. His tact and
guidance as an editor are too well
known to all who have enjoyed
this journal in recent years to re-
quire any comment here. His re-
cord is preserved in the written
word. The power of his pen will
continue to bear fruit, and his
faithfulness in carrying out the de-
tails of his office will not be for
gotten.
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The Southern Workman Disappears In
Depression; Hampton Inst. Landmark
READERS OF THE SOUTHERN
WORKMAN

Hampton Institute regrets to an
noun"a the diseontinuanee Of The
SOUTHERN WORKMAN with the
edition of July 1899. The action
taken is a part of a serious re-
trenchment program necessitated
because Of cnrtailed income for
annual operating expenses. The
final decision in the matte has
been reached only after the most
ca eful consideration.
In making this first efficia, an
n6uncement, the Administration
of Hampton Institute wishes to
pay tribute to those who % lnded
this monthly, and to those who
have contributed through the years
20 the useful services which it has
rendei cd.
Comments by letter and the spo-
ken word bear evidence of the
fact that much good has been ac-
complished by this modest publ
cation. Efforts to acquaint the
public with significant achieve
ments of Negro Americans, the
The Omaha guide., 1939-08-05
by Dean Gordon B. Hancock for
IN OUR CORNER

IN OUR CORNER
Another championship fight is
history, and Joe Louis is still mon
arch of all he surveys, and his
right there is none to dispute. 1t
took him four rounds to put away
his fellow Galento, who was not
so bad after all. l was mighty
GLAD to see Joe Louis floored. That
is good for Joe and good for the
game and good for he Negro race
Too many Negroes believe that
just because Joe is a Negro, he can
beat anybody in the world. This
$ bad fer the Negro, and for race
relations.
Just as Schmeling's Knockout
proved a blessing to Joe and the
game, the knock-down by Galen-
to is going to do worlds of good.
/! and it's going to make Joe a better
fighter. Moreover, there is some
where in this country some white
man who is going not only to
knock Joe down but who is going
to knock him ont for keeps. This
Will also be good for the game
and for the Negro ace "Sure
things" in sports r the worst
things for sports, ever though
those "sure thing" are Negroes
and they r just as bad for the
whites. After all, Joe Is human,
and things human can stand OILY
20 much, and then they decline.
Joe will decline, but not until he
has lifted the boxing profession to
one OF the highest planes it has
H. OWE. He will eventually get
knocked out or will give way to
some white heavyweight.
The Negro race and the sport
ing world as we'll as the world of
race relations will be forever in
the debs of this young Negro from
the cotton fields of Alabama. When
we are aJniring and idoliZing
ice Louis, let us not forget those
three Negroes who have made Joe
I
Louis possible: Black, Black and
Rcxborough are common sense
brokers, the like of which this
world has not known. Joe in the
fights without Blackburn ain the
corner" perhaps would not be so
hot. But with Blackburn in the
corner, he becomes a "tan terror"
If, as the historians say, the bat
tie of Waterloo was won on the
athletic fields of Elton, then the
Louis Galento fight was won in
Louis corner where Jack Black
burn was presiding. When Louis
ran into one of Galento's deadly
lefts, things looked bad for a while,
and we could sympathize with the
fellow who drotped dead after
Louis had been floored; but can
ny Old Jeck loon had Joe straight
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Chicago, Aug. 3 (ANP)-Dele-
gases to the recent National Bap-
list Sunday School and BYPU
congress in Tulsa e guilty of
'un-christian conduct" and being
"show offs" when they refused
to accept the invitation of the
Claremore, Okla, chamber of COM
merco to visit the Will Rogers
memorial because the lac come
dian once used an Objectionable
epi het in a broadcaa', according
to Clarence Muse and Bill "Bo-
jangles' Robinson, who were per-
sonal friends of Rogers.
a til we'll known actors in
statements to the Associated Ne
gro Press told of Rogers deep
friendship for Negroes and cited
ms nee cf ways in which he had
specifically aided members of the
race. They also pointed out the
great pains he took to apologize
for having used "darky'. on the
/ radio program and his sincere re-
grets at having offended his col
ored listeners.
Referring to the invitation to
visi3 the memorial, Clarence Muse
said:
"A few young intellectual up
starts under the banner of modern
ministers, with the rae question
ever at heart, refused and found
themselves headlined the next day
in tn papers as new Negro cham
pions.
at is not my business to preach
Christianity. 1t is only my bust
ness to live it. | recall a vivid
letter by C. H. Tobias of the
YMCA to Will Rogers in which he
said, 4 am an incurable admirer
! of yours-and had a lingering
faith that you would yet say the
word that would restore you to
the place of affection that you
have long held in the hearts of
thousands of unknown colored
friends. Last Sunday over the
networks you did that in a way
that touched me deeply. You are
row closer to the spirit of Him
whose deepest sympathies were
with those farthest down.
@Now this is a Christian gentle
man forgiving Mr.. Rogers, while
he lived for a mistake of the ton
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memorial. What more a be ask
ed? think we should accept and
recognize the spirit in which it
was given, which after all, is
most important. I did not get
the chance in my youth 10 get
the young man of today can yet.
Which is one reason | am paying
fer the education of four boys
and two girls. Common sense and
diplomacy have helped me greatly
during my 81 years of struggle.
"Again l say, Will Rogers was
an. humane man, and his passing
was a great loss to all races. God
rest his SOUL"
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que and not Of the heart. | think
NJ. Tobias expressed the Christian
attitude of nearly every Negro
in this country that oonsults the
Bible for guidance. The radical
group would still admire his genius
and criticize only his weak view
on the brotherhood of man. | am
trying as you see to find some
Excuse, beside a vulgar attempt
20 be noticed for these young
ministers making a scandal out of
9 forgotten incident. | have ira
veled South, too, but not as a
minister. And to my mind, it was
?. grand gestufe, | might say a
step forward, when these crack
ers' as we'll call them, invited the
Baptists as their guests.
81 knew viii Rogers, too, and
[ worked side by side with him
in pictures and radio. He was a
sincere mana Chris ian- the
kind MI. Tobias speaks about. On
n occasion he flew many miles
to appear in a Baptist church, col
ored, to offer in prayerful tones
his apology for the so called in
suit. There he stood as humble as
a child after | introduced him and
asked that he spared further per
secution of the soul, because first
he was a Baptist and next he loved
all mankind. What a small way to
get into headlines: new school
Ministers should have common
sense as we'll as radical ideas.
Still, the fundamental principle
Of the Bible should find a life
along the Golden Rule route and
| am sure these young ~fire-brands
Go not appeal to the liberal minds.
"Maybe it is a new technique to
hoodwink the young into an over
worked racket of too much reli-
gion and a little practice. | sang
over the Columbia networks with
Admiral Byrd as speaker, the first
memorial after his tragic death.
Ny song without accompaniment
was Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,
a spiritual born of a Christian soul
in slavery"
Bill Robinson, in his statement,
said: ~ am not speaking as an
Uncle Tom or a yes man. as
some of u arrow minded peo-
pie would think. But | can truth
fully say that Will Rogers was
a great friend of the colored race.
7 have worked with him off and or
for 20 years, during vaudeville
days, and had the pleasure OF max
ing a picture with him shortly be-
foreNhe died, during which he aidec
mo considerably of his WI wolf
ton. His help with my scrip
made nv part much bigger thai
it would have been without it
He also was the making of Stephil
Fechit.
"In the picture that | appeared
called In Old Kentucky there
were many colored people as ex
tras. l know on more than on
occasion that Mr.. Rogers held VI
the picture that the extras nigh
benefit with over time pay. HI
was not a man to boast. But HI
helped thousands and coloped PEG
pie were among them.
az regret that we have no
grown big enough to accept al
apology, which is all that one cal
do where there is a mistake made
1 am sure Mr.. Rogers meant n
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Between the Lines"

again, and experts declare that the
finest ring strategy ever shown
was manifest when joe elected to
stay away from Tony until his
wits could once again be gathered.
He did not grow desperate after
he was struck, he took his time
and how wise was the counsel his
tory now knows.
The fight was won in Joe'sj COR
ner by the skill of Jack Blackburn
coupled with the trip hammer
fists of Joe. 1t is true there is
need of strength in the ring, but
hero must be stra egg "in the o I
ner.' | often think that not e.
aough is made of these three col
cred men who handle Joe. At COM
m%enccnent time, thousands of
young graduates strut across the
platforms of cur colleges with
flowing robes and gowns to re-
eeive their degrees. As a matter
of fact, the ~deafening applause
which rings in their ears is inspir-
ing. But a sober second thought
recalls those mothers and fathers
who have suffered to make that
graduation day possible, and it
is rather they who should be re-
eeiving the plaudits of the multi
tudes.
Too often we forget the man out
of sight. Behind essGa hero is
some hero-maker. Some years ago,
I stood on the pier in Liverpool
and waited for a liner from this
country to come in. Slowly she
moved nearer and nearer, but | no.
ticed that the engines we're not
working, but nearer she came. Me-
thought that the wind was driv-
ing it in, but the wind was blow
ing at right angles, but on she
came. Again l thought the tide
was bearing the liner in, but the
tide l later noticed was moving
cut, but on the liner came into the
harbor. When the ship was close
enough, I found a little tug boat
[ could not see until the ship was
almost in harbor was bringing
the great liner in. A little tug
boat.
The fathers and mothers who
sacrifice and suffer are doing tug
boat duty to get their children in
to harbor of graduation, but oft
times they are not seen at all.
Joe comes into the harbor of fame
and fortune, but we must not for
get Black, Blackburn and Roxbor-
ough- the three tugs who are
bringing in the ship. While Joe
is in the ring and Blackburn in
the corner, things are safe for the
Brown Bomber. If the Negro race
had somebody in it's corner COM
parable to Blackburn, Black and
Roxborough, u future would be
roseate indeed, IN OUR COR
NER!
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President Howe COmmends Editor
Fisher :.

Hampton Institute, Va, August
3-The SOUTHERN WORKMAN,
established in 1872 as the official
organ of Hampton Institute, ceased
publication with the July issue,
just of the press, because Of a
SERIOUS retrenchment program
This was the announcement, by
President Howe, released in the
final number of the magazine.
DR.. Isaac Fisher, Editor of The
SOUTHERN WORKMAN for the
last five years, and Publicst on
Secretary. was given special COM
menoatiop by President Howe,
whose announcement was as fol-
lows:
NOTTrV tn AMI
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Evening star., 1939-08-13

ago in the scenes Lloyd filmed there.
Sometimes it was impossible to
make single take" without some
sound interruption. In which event,
provided the intrusive noise did not
blanket the principals dialogue,
Lloyd would okay it, saying:
Doc Hageman can cover 1t up
when he writes the score"
Rulers of the Sea-" when it
reaches the screen, will have no dis
tlnguishable noises of the contem-
porarv age in its sound track. DR.,
Hageman is writing music which,
because of adroitly placed oboe
SOLOS or rousing passages by the
brass section, will swallow them
completely, echoes and all. And he
will stand by to see that the record
Ing orchestra follows the beat of the
metronome, so that there may be no
slip in synchronization. But he
doesn't propose to tackle such a Job
again
Next time" he says, "if Mr..
Lloyd decides to do a period sea
picture, which I doubt, I shall use
my influence to place the locations
far, far away from the modern
scene. For my purposes. some place
like the Island of Bali would be
splendid"
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Frank Craven
Violates All
Tradition.
HOLLYWOOD.

There are some people in the
world whose whole lives seem di-
rected to one thing above all thers-
contradiction to form and prece-
dent
Frank Craven is just such a per-
son.
He was Broadway actor when
pa was courtin' ma. Yet he dis
putes just about every facet there
is in the traditional conception of
Broadway actor.
In the first place, this quiet man,
who is currently in Hollywood at
Paramount for Our Neighbors-
the Carriers" following his triumphs
before the footlights in Our Town" "
doesn't even look like an actor.
Never seen without a pipe stuck
in his face, he looks like somebody's
uncle who remained back in Sauk
Center to sit around with the rest
OF the boys" and discuss the inter-
national situation while the rest of
the family went to the city and
learned to be sophisticated.
He hasn't been in a night club
for Is years.
When he's in New York he doesn't
eat at Lindy's or Jack Dempsey's
or Dinty Moore's. He's got two or
three quiet little spots and when
he opens the door of a cafe it's
with the idea of getting something
to eat, not to make an entrance"
Craven doesn't wear Park avenue
tailored suits, initiated shirts and
a carnation in his lapel. His clothes
have that comfortable" look about
them-it would be an unkind thrust
to call them seedy.
He has never employed press
agent.
He drives a secondhand car.
In fact, rank heresy that it is,
here is one actor who has never
even entertained the slightest am
bition to play Hamlet"
Evening star., 1939-08-13
New Star Is Seen Via Star>Maker
Unavailable Linda Darne Newest Sensation.
Discussed by Talent Coach Florence Enrieht
By Hubbard Keavy,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

HOLLYWOOD.
The first time Linda DarnelI ap-
peared on the screen she was so
good everybody in town wanted to
interview her right now.
All know about Linda at this
writing is what Florence Enright
told me. I'll tell you about Florence,
too, in minute.
Right after the preview of Hotel
for Women" Linda was given a lay
of because the studio figured 1t
wouldn't need her for a few weeks.
CMost contracts are for 40 weeks,
with the II no-work-no-pay re-
naming weeks optional with the
boSS.)
Linda was not available and al
most every writer was going around
saying heck, but I suppose Zanuck
can't think OF everything, especially
in muggy weather like this. And so
to Florence Enright.
Miss Enright is the dramatic
coach to whose care Linda was in
trusted when she came here year
ago. Enright, who can spot talent
farther away than Dallas, Tex,
knew right OH Linda had some
thing.
But Linda was much too young.
She was around the studio for a
few weeks, looking pretty grown up
for all OF her IA years, but Enright
thought she ought to go back to
Dallas and get aged a bit. LINDA
went home.
Before long, Linda was back. Few
believed more than year had
passed-it was Christmas, as usual,
on the Hollywood calendars-since
Linda had gone home for aging. En-
right took charge of Darnell again,
the 15-year-old brunei who ap-
peared by this time to be at least 70.
She got three weeks OF concen-
trated, high-clasS dramatic train
ing. Enrlght knows how to give 1t,
too
Enright was on the New York
stage for Is years and finally came
here. Five years ago, when she was
playing good parts regularly, studio
phoned her to come over for an in
terWier. When they told her they
wanted her to coach the small fry
and help develop them, she was fab
bergasted and then f1attered.
She's been Strengthening crooked
smiles and shoulders and ridding
young folks of speech impediments,
accents and inferiority feelings since.
Sonia Henie was one of her pupils
So was Tyrone Power. Sonia had
all the poise in the world on skates,
but in a drawing room she was i'll
at ease. Enright fixed her up as
easily as she stopped Power from
blinking his eyes. Lynn Baris voice
was dull, monotonous. Enright put
life into it.
She helped Marjorie Weaver lose
her Southern accent and Richard
Greene to get rid of his English
lsms. Another girl, when she was act
ing, couldn't walk naturally through
door. She was swell when she was
not acting. She wasn't self-con-
sclous then. One hundred times
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Resemblance
Is Not an Aid
To a Career
Looks Like Garbo,
So Isa Miranda
Is a Problem
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
The fortunate young woman VINO
chances to look like Garbo or DIE
trich is very happy about it. When
friends speak of the resemblance,
she is delighted.
But in Hollywood today there is
beautiful young woman who looks
like composite of Garbo and
Dietrich. And she is not very happy
about it.
She Is Isa Miranda, the blond con-
tlnental actress currently perform
ing her thespic chores in Para
mounts Diamonds Are Dangerous.
George Brent is the man in the pic
ture.
Neither Miss Miranda nor Para
mount executives wish Miss Miranda
to look like Garbo or Dietrich. They,
like art connoisseurs, know that re-
productions OF masterpieces are fine,
but that they are still reproductions.
They'd rather have an original.
So for days they have had Cinema
Cameraman Charles Lang photo
graphing Miss Miranda in success
sion OF tests to discover the poses IN
which she does not look like Garpo
or Dietrich.
Cameraman Lang has been sue
cessful. He has discovered" a
Miranda that is strictly Miranda.
He has, he is proud to announce,
found the real Miranda. In some
poses the lady still looks like Garpo
or Dietrich, but Cameraman Lang IS
today working, aided by his camera,
to eradicate the resemblance.
Hollywood is wonderful place.
Evening star., 1939-08-13

sometimes. But I'm stagestruck
That sums it up"
Jane was bitten by the theater
bug while she was student at Uni
versity High School in Los Angeles.
When she graduated, she enrolled in
Jean Muir's Theater Workshop. A
Warner Bros. scout saw her per-
formance in one of the Workshop
plays. She was given a screen test
and then contract.
She has been to New York only
once and that's the thrill of her life
to date. The biggest moment of
all came when she met Noel Coward
and they talked theater.
Although two generations removed
from the ould sod, Jane is Irish
through and through Her real
name is O'Brien. The studio changed
it to Bryan, because it already had
one O'Brien-first name Pat-on the
contract roster. She lives at home
with her parents and her three
younger brothers. Her brothers
think she is pretty good actress,
but aren't greatly impressed because
she's in pictures. They were raised
in Hollywood too.
Evening star., 1939-08-13

contrast to the sophisticated glitter
of her glamorous sister Constance.
Wise enough to preserve her own
identity, and to pursue her indie
pendent outlook, Miss Bennett has
won herself an enviable position in
the screen armament.
Recently Joans independence
showed itself again, strongly but
wisely. In Trade Winds" the story
required her to appear for most of
the length of the film in black wig.
Instantly she realized that it en-
HANGED her beauty, and in spite of
much printed opposition from critics
she persisted in her determination
to allow her own hair to revert to
its natural dark chestnut shade.
During the making of THE House.
keepers Daughter" at the Hal Roach
lot, in which she co-stars with
Adolphe Menjou, her fan mail
showed that her new dark hair had
brought her a whole new group of
admirers and the old admirers for
the most part after becoming &C
customed to the change, have also
decided in favor of natural bru-
nette Joan.
Evening star., 1939-08-13

he finds it very annoying. For DR.
Hageman, on leaving his native Hol-
land to become one of the world S
prominent composers and conduc-
tors, never dreamed that one day he
would find himself writing movie
music.
Frank Lloyd. the Paramount pro-
ducer- director, talked him into it
last year. The fact that Lloyd had
recently completed picture of
medieval background-the Ronald
Colman feature. IF I Were King
appealed to him. 1t offered an op-
portunity for creative effort of the
sort he enjoyed. So Dr. Hageman
said yes" when Lloyd broached the
idea.
Lloyd, being pleased with the
Hageman score, would countenance
no other musician providing the
musical setting of his new picture,
Rulers of the Sea-" which is a
maritime epic of 100 years ago when
proponents of steam and sail were
at loggerheads on the Atlantic,
starring Douglas Fairbanks. jr.,
Margaret Lockwood and Will Fyffe
DR.. Hageman agreed, only to dis
cover. shortly, that making musical
phrases jibe with Ronald Colman s
sword clashes and the martial tread
of palace guards is one thing. And
making musical, phrases jibe with
the toot of tug whistles and the
honking of truck horns is quite an
other.
DR.. Hageman's trouble started (al-
though he didn't know it, when
Producer-Director Lloyd had sets
built at Los Angeles Harbor repro
ducing the Waterfronts of Greenock,
Scotland, and London, England, as
they appeared in 1886 and 1898. He
anchored ships of the period at the
quaysides, dressed a few hundred
extras in the required wardrobe,
took Fairbanks, Fyffe, Miss Lock-
wood, George Bancroft and various
supporting players to the local port
and went to work.
The London docks, unfortunately
were within good stones throw of
one of the busiest highways in the
harbor area, teeming with trucks
and trailers and automobiles. And
Greenock was not far off from a
draWbridge, to effect the lifting of
which small craft footed their
whistles constantly. The roar of
Navy airplane motors and numerous
other modern sounds made it still
more difficult to maintain the at
mosphere and feeling of a century