The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-02-24

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eloquent young rector of st. Bartholo.
news Church, Rev. Kenneth Hughes
as orator of the occasion every
organization in the city is asked t.
send delegates to this meeting to hon.
or Crispus Attacks whose blood was
the first to be shed for American In
dependence way back in ITO and
let every race loyal person who can
go down town on March TO be pres
ent at the following exercises: 10
am. at the spot on State Street
where Attacks fell (near old Stat
House)-11 am. Old Granary Buryinp
Ground on fremont st. Opposite
Bromfeld Stat II noon Crispus
Attacks monument on Lafayette NAL
on the Common Opposite Keith
others laying wreaths at the foot of
will be held with Governor, Mayor and
Theatre) where the principal exercise,
the statue E. comes Thursday March
7, 1910 and the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie present their Annual Banquet and
Reception at Horticultural Hall with
famous clergymen, educators and pro
purchase your tickets now for
fesesional men at the speakers table
choice reservations the Roxbury
Theatre screened Zone Dark Night, -
an all colored motion picture featuring
Manton Moreland and Lawrence Grin
er at midnite shows February 81, %
and % . this was a Million Dollar
Production and boasts a strong cast
of colored screen favorites every
Friday evening at 8 you may swing
dance in The Groove at 1853 West
Springfield st. where the Star Amuse-
ment Company presents a torrid jam
session with cash prizes for rhythm
jitterbugs. 49,.
And along the Rialto comes Buck
and Bubbles at the RKO Boston Thea
tire Thursday to Sunday this week
at the Boston Opera House we well
way the Follies Bergere for a two
come the musical sensation of Broad
week stay with an all star cast of tor
comedians, dancers, singers and q
dazzling array of feminine beauty and
charm draped in the mood and
February 26 brings the great Tallulah
Bankhead to town with her dramatic
masterpiece "The Little Foxes" which
broke records on Broadway last sea
son and presents our own Abbie Nit
chell and John Marriott in strong sup
porting roles the pic of this or any
other season John Steinbeck's immor-
tai "Grapes of Wrath" came to the
Metropolitan Theatre February % and
est motion picture of the year con-
| heartily endorse this film as the fin
curing with top film review critics
who have declared it a powerful hui
man document also recommended by
Pres. and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as
screen classic no American should
miss =. John Ford directed a super
cast in bringing forth the epic story
of the problem of the migratory argi-
culturists of the Middle West which
is highly comparable to the race situa-
ton . and that young militant Ed
ward Strong, colored American Youth
Congress leader who posed a startling
question to Attorney General Robert
L. jackson during his recent address
at the National Youth Conference in
Washington which caused him to di-
gress from his prepared speech and
answer our friend with an off the rec
ord statement which dropped a bomb
shell into the ranks of the press rep
resentatives at the nations capitol
when he revealed that Federal author
tiles perversive activities of the Ku
KluX Klan among the colored popula-
ton of South Carolina and vicinity
Mr.. Strong may be recalled as the
well versed, intelligent, young individ-
ual who ADDRESSED the New England
Youth conference in Boston last year
and held the congress enthralled with
his story Of conditions in his home
ward Strong, he is man to be reck-
and economic freedom e.. Watch Ed
territory and his fight to better social
oned with as time marches on. =.
And thus 1 close this week COM
pendulum of trite and trivia linking
subjects Of more Importance with a
concluding observation that the Girls
pus Attacks Chorus of Boston will
fury Paul Revere of the colored race
present that dynamic twentieth cen
who is traversing this continent in a
noble effort to arouse our people to
the golden opportunity of race unity
the Rt. Rev. Adam Clayton Pow
ell Jr. of Abyssinia Baptist Church in
New York City who will be guest
speaker at Jordan Hall on April 4 e.
the column adds red rose to our bou-
quet Of memory in tribute to a de-
parted friend and former Bostonian,
Eugene Roundtree, who was inferred
last week at New Jersey our deep
est sympathy is extended to relatives
and friends of the deceased who was
quite successful in real estate, insur-
ance and publicity last week on the
Major Bowes broadcast young col
ored maid, Bernice Mcdonald of New
York sang "The Lords Prayer" in a
rich natural contralto tone that pre-
dict will win her international re-
nown 49, she tops Dorothy Maynor
and Marion Anderson with her lush.
lyric quality and natural vocal beauty
. and in closing | query why does
Pres. Roosevelt denounce Commun-
ism when our Federal Government is
definitely in the Red? %. Goombye =.
GOO E. DUCK.
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