The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-04-08

minute tone poem which will supply
the musical coloring for each showing
of "Democracity" in the great steel
sphere at the 1889 Fair will be played
almost $4,000 times allowing only
twelve hours for an Exposition Day.
This is a multiplicity of presentation
achieved by few composers, living or
dead, regardless of color, states the
\. Y. Times.
1t is pleasure to state that Mr.. Still
is a member of the race. If there is
an art in which this race excels, it is
music. Indeed, it has been said that
the only true music of real content
which America has produced is the
spiritual developed by slaves.
MAYOR OF BEALE STREET
1t will be William C. Handy week in
New York, April %, known as National
Blues Week, in honor of the Father
of the Blues" and the late George
Gershwin. The Beale Street memphis
Tennessee folks are behind the affair,
and will encamp en- masse in Harlem
and Gotham, for the occasion. The
sepia Mayor of Memphis, Matthew
Thornton, ST., has been appointed by
the real Mayor of Memphis. as the off
cial representative of the southern city
for the celebration.
The Mayor" and his retinue will be
in New York, with headquarters at
the Harlem Reception Service Bureau,
/ 227 LenoX Avenue. Floyd G. SnelsOn,
your cruising reporter, has been as
signed as official host of the party, and
is now arranging plans for the arrival,
and will steer them around the various
| spots of interest in Harlem and the
abOut-to-open Worlds Fair.
/ WORLDS FAIR STUFF
l am crying with tears in my eyes
/ to tell you folks who are planning to
make Harlem your home for a while
/ this summer in viewing the Worlds
Greatest Fair in the world greatest
/ city, to make your reservations. Park
/ ing space for you or your car is at
premium, and I have designed myself
to help make your trip here a pleasure
and not a hardship, if you we'll get in
touch with me. Write your cruising
reporter for info-Snelson, 400 Man
haitian Avenue.
/ GODDESS Of SONG
Hundreds of New Workers are plan
ming to invade Washington to greet
the famous Marian Anderson, worlds
greatest contralto, on Easter Sunday
The noted singer will sing at pm
before great throng estimated to De
more than $4,000 gathered around the
stately Lincoln Memorial, amid the
cherry blossoms, overlooking the 70
tomac River. Marian is the first ARTIST
of any race so honored, by permission
of the secretary of the Interior, TO
appear before a public gathering be-
side the greatest of one of America 5
most impressive and most beautl1,uii
shrines, which is, appropriately dedl-
Gated to the Great Emancipator.
RADIO BROADCAST: Marian An
derson caused several hundred mem
bers of the studio audience at recent
broadcast of MICS "The Circle to
break the only iron-clad rule on that
informal program. At the start OF the
broadcast, the audience was warned
not to applaud any performer. When
Miss Anderson completed her mrs.,
song, the audience forgot the rule, ana
) broke into thunderous applause. be,
fore they realized it, every member oil
the cast and production staff Joined H.
} stopping the show completely.
MAKING HISTORY
Again a man of color steps in the
van: Willard G. Thomas, noted COM
poser and musician, is now the director
of the Cabinaires Chorus, and together
they are appearing May 14th at q
; Town Hall concert with Vincent Burns
known as BODY Burns, poet of the an
and co-author of 'Pm a Fugitive from
a Chain Gang"