The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-05-15
Screen

by ulysses boykin

rho,ar Jobs and the draft continue to cut down on
~ ~ available entertainers the spots making
-reser demand for their services As Leonard Reed
s.re IL leave the Club Zombe for the wild of
.,forria owner Abe Broad is holding conferences
',,n another producer 1t looks like Willie Bryant is
~. ~ The list Willie would be Just the fellow put
-, - shark in Zombie shows He is natural Snowman
very versatile He has appeared on the stage. the
Groom and has played theaters and night clubs from New
yt n the coast and back HI has just terminated his
cracking laugh-provoking week at the Regal theater
nChicago
Louis Jordan of the blues "On the Outskirts of
rw,, !. now in As. Just his Chicago draft board
Ia him all booked to do musical work and KIP duty
60, his uncle the army medic discovered that Louis
had hernia.
Two former singers with big-tme swing aggregatons
a., appearing in Detroit Bobbe CASTOR ex-Iouie Arm
anc swing songsres is at the Club Three 666 and Ida
lanes Of the Erskine Hawkins band the featured
traction at The Club Congo before it closed She is still
ukng il easy around the Motor City
Lii Green has just finished her second success
full week at Breads Club Zombie. She is the star Of
Leonard Reeds star-studded I'm the Dark"
Detroit went for Helen Humcs and Connie Berry who
recently closed at the Club Zombie There are two men
IN this town that play terrific boogc-woogie bat any
females that could be rated for big time. They Wade
Boykn and Bill Goodman Both artists little afraid
Of trying heir luck on the Great White Way and are
content 81 crumbs from the tables of Detroit Wade
offered IS buck week job in downtown cocktail
lounge ard turned it down because he wanted TO stay
with the Howard Bunts aggregation Detroit would like
10 sc, Hazel Scott Abe Broad Of the Club Iombie and
Warren Rue of the Club both tried to sign her
up .or short Detroit stop but they were informed that
she has been signed by major film company for 9
week She has just closed at Cafe Society uptown in
New YORK
Folks are getting tired of seeing baegy seats and
suits and tight stretched womens Stacks up and
down the Wasn't there some kind of
10
sgo7
Louis Armstrong good friend of our local promoter
Suz Anderson is appearing at the Lincoln theater IN Los
Angeles and has been signed couple of pictures
before heading east
Met Singer Mickey Thomas from the Club Bali
at Washington, DC. She is very smart number and
plans to fill couple of Motor City engagements as
soon she gets n little rest.
The two places in Paradise Valley where YOU can al
run into your frends-the Paradise Grill and the
Club r & G. The B & c always has good show and
atmosphere Warren LaRue is the manager and IS re-
sponsibc for making Roy Ightfoots old spot the most
popular theater-bar in Detroit George Mongo who has
been producer the club has left the spot and resting
up for few days
If you are looking for place that has atmos-
phere and entertainment that different visit Henrys
Grill Eddie Lemons is producing the red hot revues
George E. Lee is producer at the Cory Corner Emile
Jones merits note as the singing me Saw HIM hold
ing sharp bonds hand last Friday night up oak
land way.
We learn from the coast that MetroGoldwyn. Mayer
will fm Blue Print for Miracle from Don Eddys ar
tce American Workers Licked Rommel which APP
peared in the American magazine This article tod OF
how thousands of American workers. in uperhuman pro-
ducton drive lasting nine days and nights heped rou'
Romme when looked like the German tank tacclan was
about to conquer all North Africa In miracle Of industry
guns and constructed assembled and transport
ed Eastern port and from there conveyed safely 70
Caro- This would be good propaganda picture II tne
producers would remember TO plenty OF American Ne-
goes in il because Negro workers are employed IN tne
great plants that turned out the tanks guns and other I'M
PIGMENTS of war that contributed to the Allies North Al
rcan victory The Negro worker anxious to see democ-
racy throughout the world and also in America
Madeline Green, former singer with Earl Hines or
chestra, is singing in a cocktail lounge in Chicago
She is hit as usual.
Billie Holiday is back in New York City. She IS APP
parng AT the Apollo theater sharing honor with eoay
foNes orchestra and Pops and Louie. Buy War BONDS