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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-05-23

Records Do Not Bother Cab,
He Has His Quizzicale Show

CHICAGO-Cab Galloway is band leader who will
not resent too extremely the forthcoming phonograph rec
ord restrictions says Down Beat For his h-dehighness
of hide-ho has his Quizzicale to keep him war-in the
hear cofh ief fan
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-05-23
FORMER PUPIL
OF MILLER AT
CLUB CONGO

Constance Thomas always loved
to dance and although her studies
at Miller High school took up the
major portion OF her time. she
could always find a few spare mo-
ments to get In few hot ticks
around the house, or at one OF the
dances.
Today Constance IS cashing in on
that dancing urge. She's the Git"
in the dance team OF Jit and Bugs
now showing at Slim Jones Club
Congo. Clarence Morsell. who is
% aRd-eomes from Phoenix, ArIz..
Is Bugs.
Constance, who is just 81. met
Morsell last year and one OF their
first engagements was at Club Con-
go as part OF a quartet OF flashing
jitterbugs. The four dancers were
terrific and remained at Slim
Jones nitery for long engage
ment
The foursome split and Jit and
| Bugs went on the road as a team.
They just finished a long run at the
Kentucky club in Toledo.
Il always did love TO dance"
said Constance. so It was not hard
for me 10 learn the routine"
Some one hae called the act
"frenzled swing" and that's just
what II Is when Morsell starts
swinging Constance through the
air.
The Cats and the Fiddle and Baby
Lawrence are co-starring in Mar
garet watkins latest production.
Sixty Minutes in Hades" at Club
Congo.
Others IN the show are Sable. in
terpretatlve dancer: Bob Parrish,
baritone who has become favorite
OF Club Congo patrons: Six Congo
cites and Club Congo band featur-
ing Kelley Martin on the vibra-
phone.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-05-23
The B. & c. Features
"Down Mexico Way"
Honoring r. Lightfoot

The popular song Down Mexico
Way and sung by a quartet COM
posed OF Jim Lightfoot, 60-year-old
uncle of the late Roy Lightfoot;
Bobby Keys, b & c NC; Helen
Wiles, featured singer at the club
and George Rutherford. popular De-
troit baritone, highlighted the re-
vue this week at the famous b & c.
This number was dedicated TO the
memory OF Roy Lightfoot. famed
Snowman and cabaret operator. The
clever and colorful revue built
around the song was produced I'M
der the direction OF Manager War
rem LaRue.
To climax full house Saturday
evening Warren invited the MEM
bers of the prees in the Motor City
to be his guests and pass their ap-
proval on the show.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-05-23
Stage
UMPN 1--WE
LATTE TO ENTERTAINERS
by ulysses boykin

,IrTE TO ENTERTAINERS
folks who earn their livelihood by entertaining us
a o of credit for the splendid part they are pav
% tsepng our morale up. They have been giving their
[ for benefits for soldiers and sailors relief and have
cen making the parties where our boys under the colors
bsinc entertained. splendid example of this was
tskinr of his entire company of Club Congo entertain
10 Camp Custer few days ago by Slim Jones.
LEASE SUPPORT;
There has never been a time in history when the
rs.d of free Negro press is important to fight
for freedom at home and abroad. You expect Me-
gro press to carry the fight and your press look
70 YOU for support. The Detroit Tribune represents
Ne Negro press in Detroit. In its columns each week
,ppear advertising matter about the various spots
bout town. Patronze these taverns and clubs that
support your home town paper. This column will
carry the interesting side lights their offerings and
We intend to keep you informed the places that
have proven their loyalty to the cause
Take for example, the Club Congo. Slim Jones has
d the advertising columns of The Tribune since he
ened We have carried stories about his entertaining
eue Mr. Jones has endeavored to bring to Detroters
Ne finest talent in the country. Congo patrons have
heard Maxine Sullivan, the Mills Brothers, the Peters
listers Orlando Robertson, Billie Holiday, Leonard Reed.
ma Mae Caryse and Others Now he brings the Cats and
s Fiddle to head very fine show featuring Baby Law
nce J and Bugs Sahjie Larry Steele, Bob Parrish and
be Congo band.
Mac Ivey has been great booster and supporter
Of The Tribune. Ever since there has been Cory
Corner, his advertising has appeared in columns.
The Cory Corner is aforementioned and features three
floor shows nitey which include golden-voiced Al To-
bin. Popular Raymond (Sportree) jackson is the
manager
Broad's Club Zombe has always cooperaed with
Broad has always made the press welcome and insists
i our honest criticism of his shows We told him that
roers needed bigger and better shows to chase
blues and he secured the services of Leonard Reed who
las produced some terrific and entertaining productions
ibis weeks show is mighty fine. It's called Dream Mel
| and features Elma Turner, the Three Buds Willie
ind Wooge Juana Brown Rae Pearl, Marcellas Wilson
Fink Moore and Cecil Lees orchestra
Another member of the faithful has been the
Champion New Theater Bar They have adj
versed consistently in The Tribune and do all they
to get the best entertainment for their patrons.
Mckinney and Mckinney and Clarence Ellis are the
stars of this weeks show.
The B. & c. has always aided our paper and Manager
Warren LaRue believes in the pulling power of the press
hey have show that is solid sender Bobby Keys is the
lC
Uncle Toms Plantation Is another supporter and
at the present Is working out Summer advertising
plan to invite more patrons to enjoy some delicious
barbecue.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-05-23

In The Panther Room OF the Hotel
Sherman where since hle opening
on April Galloway con silently has
been exceeding his quite suhs'an-
iial and satisfactory business OF
last summer. he said that the pow
er Of his weekly sustaining broad
casts has been reflected strongly
in his box-offlce figures for the last
two or three months.
-Blues" Pebbles Well
Cab always has done comforts
ably well on the platters. his disc
OF Blues IN the Night" passed the
100000 mark, and his name is a
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-05-23

familiar one on the juke-boxes OF
the nation. But unlike many lead
ere, his forte always has been ra-
dio, since he originally few 10
fame on the air waves from the
old Cotton club in Harlem.
Commercially, Calloway's We'd
nesday night sustainer over the
approximately 100 stations OF the
Ri network. may never mean any
thlne Whether IL viii acquire a
sponsor al this critical period IS
doubtful but IN the meantime, i
is costing Cab nothing, his men
are picking W scale money every
week. biz guests are having those
FMS laid on EN- and his listening
legions seem 70 flock 10 the theater
or ballroom every time he hits
town.
Overflow audiences are the rule
whenever the Quzzicale is broad
oa@t from the stage OF theater or
he platform OF a ballroom AT the
Paradise thoafer in Detroit few
weeks ago. not one hut Two emer-
gencv squads OF police were sum
moned 20 control the crowd
Replies knock Him out.
Cab enjoys those hroadcasts.
too az times. we suspect even
more than his listening audience.
Those unrehearsed remarks nv his
visiting s'ooges knock HIM out, like
The time be asked one cat about
The Great Profile and did every
thing bur epei. Bsrrvmore 70 put
him hen. The gaze scratched his
pate FOR quite spell. finally came
UP with Count Basic
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-05-23
Mrs. Jones Hhonored
At Birthday Party
By Her Daughter

Miss Andrula Johnson, OF Lei
cester court entertained her moth
err. Mrs. Matte Jones with birth
day party on May Il. Among the
guests were two newlywed couples,
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy White and Mr..
and Mrs. AL Carpenter.
Others were: Miss Philpoi, Mrs.
Matte Cacroft, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Mr.. Getery Mrs. Ethel Jackson, who
was also celebrating her birthday.
and Sam Edwards.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-05-23
TOURIN' THE
RADIO WORLD
BY ISAAC JONES
Heard Around The Radio Dial

The March OF Victory is
program heard around your RADIO
dial through the facilities Of radio
station WXYZ Mondays =. :.
6 a. TO pm. Dick Osgood is the
man at the Information Desk be-
hind the mike. This is a program
that your columnist is recommend
Ing for each reader OF this column
to turn their radio dial in that d.
rection not for patriotic sakes alone
but by keeping up with these week
ly series regularly II enables one
10 acquire much knowledge about
a variety of subjects that other
wise would probably be impossible
without spending big sums of cash
for books.
For instance. on last weeks
broadcast Mr.. Osgood discussed
the building OF battleships. Here
are some notes iotted down for
your information II takes 10000
men three years to build one bat
tleshiD. two out OF the three years
are required 10 build the keel OF the
ship alone. Quite surprise 70 this
writer. what about you?
wonder how many OF your read
ers heard the first patriotic song
dedicated 70 colored boys In Uncle
Sans armed forces when II was
aired by NBC saturday oi last
week! For fear that You may not
have heard the tune. here Is a
thumb.nail sketch: The song was
composed by Andy Razaff and ]. G..
Johnson. II was introduced over
the air by Lionel Hampton and his
hand: the music was arranged ny
Don Redman. II i estimated that
more than two million persons
heard the broadcast from coast.to-
coast over MIC.
The title OF this new song Is
"Yankee Doodle Tan
II you have been wondering who
is the new voice you are hearing
on Vox Pop with Parks Johnson
Monday nights here is the answer:
Parks new partner and co-inter-
viewer is Warren Hill. He is %
years OF age, joins Nox Pop with
IS years OF wide experience in the
theater. movies and radio. Hull is
also a song and script writer. in
ventor and studied business admin
istration at New York university.
He is married and the father OF
three sons.
1t seems thateach week brings n
sBelie,e II Or Not" happening on
the IL Got Your Number" program
which Is O "se,eral-tlmes" daily
feature Of radio station WXYZ.
Tuesday evening Mrs. Robert
Fails number was called. She kept
the true meaning Of her name alive
because she falls 10 he listening Ia
station WHY when called over
her phone. That also means she
falls TO get new radio, hut she did
not fall 10 get two tickets TO a
downtown newsreel theater for
having been selected by the WXYz
Selector Finder.
lOn Nay be interested IN
knowing That
II you have phone in your home
II may pay you TO tune 10 Listen
for Dollars program broadcast
over station wJLB. 6 10 6:15 pm.
Monday through Saturday. II I:
possible 10 win an unlimited amount
| OF cash lust for answering vour
phone and repeating the pass.
word" for that broadcast One
WJLB listener received $50 for an
swering his phone last week For
further details tune 10 the program
II you like good religions pro.
grams with the singing Of old
hymns In the manner that goes deep
into your heart. don't fall 10 hear
"FchOes of Heaven THURSDAYS.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-05-23
Vocal Group Observes
Third Anniversary

The Trammell Vocal Ensemble
OF mixed voices held their third
anniversary program at the Rus
sell Street Baptist church Sunday,
May IL.
Mrs. Callie Trammell is director :
L. A. Ephraim, president; Dora
Steele, reporter.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-05-23

$3.50 10 . pm. radio station CkLW.
According 10 Don Mcneil of the
Blue Networks Breakfast club. If
you meet a man and woman on the
street. boih wearing pants the way
to tell which is the man is the one
not talking but doing The lis
tening." Until next week GOOD
LISTENING
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-17
HOOfprinfs of 1917
Army Mule Seorns
Dale Carnegie Stuff
BY ARTHUR "BUGS" BAER

Anybody has curred army mule knows it is
unequal contest, like kissing porcupine
Mules groomed by detail There is regulation for
every except kicking back.
An army mule has friends and heard of Dale
Carnegie But he is important as bait hook
The technical colonies and the tactical ors have
decided that the tractor lacks the mules will to win.
The mule has the primary elements of courage endurance
intelligence and points south The only trouble with the mule
is that his recoil mechanism operates the wrong way
Alone and snge-handed, fourfooed, and with lobby
Congress- the mule has scored triumph the machine
age He who his country well requires ancestors
The minute I approached Dynamite, my artillery mule
from the he hauled back and kicked in the stomach
That for nothing.
doubled up like winner in crap game. I couldn't
boiler help with steam in the boiler. Dynamite walked
few feet and started eating cactus you could lumber with
II you have that cowboy statue THE End of
the Trail you will get pretty good idea Of how looked
a detour. .\\|
I'm going to tell you lot about army mules because
studied them frsthand and hind foot.
After the Prince of Wales had been thrown so 60 times
wrote that he knew bosses from the ground up.
That's the way studied Dynamite. lay there until
body missed Dynamite and in the order named.
The searching party found Dynamite a Tuesday and
Wednesday. The army hates to lose curry comb.
It's just question of pride with them They packed
the mule, and went to the nfrmary Dynamite
surefooted letter carrier onestree prairie
town.
Copyright isI, King Features synd.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-17

Poland, but in spite Of the war
trimmings its gay stuff.
Betty CRADLES trim torso goes
whirling hither and thither in
"Springtime in the Rockies"
with Cesar Romero doing the
pitching and catching.
The Navy Comes Through"
is lusty combat yarn-spinning.
1t tells how a navy detach-
ment aboard a merchant ship
gives and takes when the scrap
is on.
Pat O'Brien and George Muir
ply supply the heroics. with
Jane Wyatt 10 prove mans best
friend is gal
THE wireless: They will prob
L ably have TO change the
name of The Hit Parade 10 The
Irving Berlin Parade-since so
many Of his hits make up oner
third OF the weekly tunes.
The Easy Aces continue good
ear-fun.
MICS Waltz Time" is among
the radio relaxers.
Smart ogram m Ing on
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-17

GERTRUDE ATHERTON. San
VI Francisco's first lady Of lit
erature. She is IS now and still
very active.
Mrs. Atherton has been writ
ing successfully and with great
profit for 81 years.
Idwal Jones. Writer and food
expert. Idwal Is the only fellow
l know who can name the 100
best restaurants in the United
States and speak from the ex-
perience of having eaten in all OF
them.
Dolph Camilli. OF the Dodg-
ers. Dolph who. is the lucky pos
SCISSOR of a lovely wife and the
proud pappy Of five handsome
children also owns a 2,000-acre
California ranch on which he
has $50 head of cattle.
Is evident he has taken good
care of his earnings.
Besides he has some of his
playing days still before him.
incidentally the richest ex-
ballplayer is Ty Cobb. Next to
Ty comes Bill Terry.
CALL for men to work in a
" San Francisco shipyard
reads:
Fifty dollars q week. No ex-
perience required. Long period
Of work promised"
Imagine that, $50 a week and
no experience required.
My father worked for 20 years
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-17
SerVicem1en
VictimliZed

There was Just an inkling Of
butter on the bread. which was
sliced 80 thin IL could barely
support the ham, which couldn't,
possibly have weighed ono one
thousandth Of an ounce.
"And the soft drinks were Is
cents. There was plenty OF
gripping by the soldiers on this
trip, and why not ?"
I know Just the sort OF ham
sandwich the soldier described.
They are so minute, the slices of
ham. that one could cut so of
them of a live pig before he
would start bleeding.
And the bread Is always OF a
texture and age that a man
would be safe in making a bet
that IL was present when Casey
Jones made his celebrated run
betwee Danville and some
other point.
For Is cents a man should get
a dozen of the sandwiches, and
riparian rights on the butchers
basket IL he wanted ii.
AS for charging a soldier Is
cents for a few drafts Of sarsa-
parilla and other assorted roots
dissolved in water-well. that is
highway robbery with all the
trimmings.
DIGIT here. for no particular
~ reason at all, / want to tell
you of Sailor Bill, and a remark
he m a d e TO me in the mems
powder room of a train plying
between New Orleans and
Shreveport.
Bill on a 30-day leave. looked
as il he had been doing a little
fighting.
His hands had that unmistak-
able puffiness of hands that have
been punching. and he had a
lump under one eye that wasn't
a beauty spot.
It'll tell you, Jack" said Bill
10 me, IL told the cop just one
thing. 1 told him II I was going
to die for democracy. aimed to
live 80 days of II.
He was about my size, Jack,
and we had great time. I
think IL ended I'm a tie, Jack, but
caught the train. Yes-sir, oil
Bill caught the train, Jack"
Distributed BY McNaught syndicate. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-17

TO become the head OF shipping
department in a New York
wholesale drygoods firm and his
highest salary was $50 a week.
Not long ago 1 expressed some
wonder as TO what the acrobats
who were formerly in vaudeville
are doing now.
At an Oakland night club one
of the featured acts Is the Fong
Wan acrobatic troupe.
An acrobatic act for night
club is not a bad idea.
Night spot patrons undouot-
edly would find it a welcome
change from those too throaty
voiced torch song singers and
screeching band canaries.
ONLY horse racing in Califor-
" MIA is at the Bay Meadows
track which Is about 70 miles
from San Francisco.
There is plenty of money In
circulation here but the mutuel
take at Bay Meadows is nothing
startling. .
San Franciscans do most OF
their betting with the bookies.
San Francisco women are still
the best dressed Of any females
west of Chicago.
AS to we'll dressed females 1
recall reading a statement in the
London Daily Express made by
a woman who just had been
chosen as the best dressed in
Paris.
She said she had only two
tailored suits but that she had
IS hats.
And that every time she
changed her hat people noticed
that but didn't notice she was
wearing the same suit.
WENT out to Golden Gate
w Park to hear a band concert.
I have not been to a band con-
cert in a park In years.
But when I noted on the pro-
gram printed in the newspaper
the number: Excerpts from
Madam Sherry" ! decided to
attend.
/ would walk 10 miles to hear
a good band play Every Little
Movement Has a Meaning All
It's Own"
You never see any children on
roller skates in San Francisco.
If a youngster started down
one of those San Francisco hills
on skates he would be going 60
miles an hour before he knew 1t.
Why hasn't some inventive
genius originated roller skates
with brakes?
Copyright. 1917, by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-17

~ Is better 10 hear
The rebuke of the Uise
Than for a man 10 hear
The song OF fools.
-Ecclesiastes, 7th.
Zone of the customs OF tne
yesteryear was that OF having
on walls of rooms some framed
Biblical quotations. This custom
might be revived proitably in
some cases.
(For example, a congressman
or other government official who
is smarting under sharp criti-
cism by the press and public
might find consolation in read
ing over the Biblical quotation
above.-EVDD
AS I HAD figured, the San
"A Francisco nightly dim-out
would be so strictly observed
that a cane might be necessary
TO grope about the streets after
dark, I was surprised to find the
town not half as much dimmed-
out as New York.
The San Francisco street
lights shine brightly and many
of the shop windows are not
darkened.
However. the San Franciscans
are more careful about the con-
servation of rubber than New
Workers
All the taxis have signs read
ing;
please travel I'm groups and
help us save our rubber"
1t is difficult to get a taxi
driver TO take one passenger.
You have to find somebody
who is going to the same place
as you are.
GAN FRANCISCO autoists use
~ up a lot of gas climbing the
towns steep hills but they don't
worry about that much as they
use no gasoline on the trip going
down.
A Market street business man
has a sign up which claims his
place Is Americas largest indie
pendently owned drug store"
Do you know anybody who
might challenge successfully this
claim?
II so. let me know; maybe we
could get a box of cigars from
this fellow.
At Union Square Park in the
heart of the city Is an under
ground parking station which
also can be used as an air raid
shelter.
Parking charges are Is cents
for one hour, IS cents for two
hours and so cents for all day.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-17
The Brighter Side
BY Damon RunyOn

we like to get q meal just a bit
different from camp chow. It
costs n weeks pay to get a fair
meal.
"They taken tice I say
'take'-S1.50 for so-calIed
steak that would make a slim
sandwich. Six small shrimp set
you back 40 cents. IL your pleas
ure Is a movie, pay full price,
plus tax. A woman on q street
car told me she resented our
presence In her town because
she found IL very difficult to
board a street car or bus as 1t
was generally full of sailors"
NOV, If this was just one let
~ ter il might be dismissed as
the bleat of one of those consti-
tutionally fretful blokes that you
find everywhere and that can
always see affront in some quiet
reasonable action on the part of
their fellow men, but ii happens
to be a link in a chain of epis-
ties of the same nature.
Hence, 1 conclude that there
must be foundation for the COM
plants and I am going to tell
the gentlemen of the service
what they ought to do, not only
in the case of this particular
city, but in all cases where they
feel that they are the victims of
imposition.
They ought to 60 to the edi-
tors of the local newspapers
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-17
Not Welcome.
Soldiers Find

and register their grievances.
They ought to give these editors
detailed evidence, not broad
statements. / do not believe
there is an editor in the United
States who would feel disposed
to cover up anybody in his COM
munity if he was convinced that
clipping of the servicemen was
going on, in the matter of high
prices or anything else. / do not
believe there is an editor in the
United States who would con-
done an attitude of resentment
on the part Of his townspeople
against the servicemen.
A LITTLE local publicity
"A would quickly cure all these
decorations of the feelings of the
servicemen. I am aware that
not all the men are always what
Kipling called plaster saints, and
that a few of them sometimes
do things that may react against
the many which Is also true of
the civilian population.
But I am sure that no COM
munity in the nation wants the
reputation OF being unfriendly
to the servicemen and that the
editors would be glad to do their
part toward remedying indi-
vidual transgressions against the
spirit Of hospitality IL they are
given the complete and verified
dope in such instances.
Copyright, le42, by King Features
by International News ssrvics