The southern news., 1946-11-09
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BY ALVIN MOSES
HARLEM KNIGHTS

i9 D~SSAllOSl, d WGll Known 10
al business man will sink a size
able chunk of cabbage into a spot
you have frequented for 10 years
or more. When he does. you will ts
'ole t. dance to the music of your
favorite name band Mercedes Gil
bert, who is again free for winter
looking now that 'Lysistrata" is no
more, would be valuable road mat
rial for the William Morris agen-
y. BUDDY JOHNSON and his Is
band members played some smooth
ance music at the Armory Dance
carnival Saturday, October 26,
when we dropped in to chat with
The manager.
GEORGE MATTHEWS, well
known to concert lovers in these
parts and formerly a member of the
FISK UNIVERSITY JUBILEE
5lNGERS( is not booked for New
York appearances this fall contra
~ to general belief in music cir
cles. One of the better tenor SOLO
SITS, Matthews at last reports was
IN Raleigh, NJ c., COUNT Basic,
aoast of colored and white band
lovers throughout the state has the
distinction of being the first color
ed musical unit to break down
the policy of hiring only white
bands by the swank ABANDON
BALLROOM, Los Angeles Bassie,
moves into the ABANDON on Decem-
1er 10. and will remain there for
month. .1&&
EDDIE SOUTH, called the dark
angel of the VIOLIN" opened at
CAFE SOCIETY UPTOWN, the
spot where HAZEL SCOTT reput-
edly drew down $1,000 checks for a
weeks work BARNEY ARBAM-
SON, owner of the famous cafe,
celebrated his sixth anniversary at
the midtown spot on Monday, Oc-
tober 28.
DIR. RALPH BUNCHE, United
Nations executive, is a popular fig
ure these evenings out Long Island
way. I'm told that not since the ear
| ly days of the fabulous FATHER
DIVINE has there been anything
like the food display as one o.
serves at UN functions. Chicken
salad is three-fourths chicken while
. smiling lobster peers up at you
from the salad platter of that name.
Maybee President Truman is righT
when he says mo cause for food
fear" Perhaps what he means
is for - the right people"
1t gladdens the heart to see DR..
Bunche in such fine post but we
can't stop thinking that the ex-
Howard u prof. is still cat heart
at leastl a teacher One who would
give his race the benefit of all the
knowledge and experience he has
gained in hiqh placed since leavine
nUr undarnaid classrooms A;
we noted in ur previous radio pro-
7~0m from thie h't~ea,t two weeks
ago, the HARLEM S64 question
centers around this pertinent
-nerv' "Whv did bandsman LOUIE
'NPDAN Quit snootv CLUB 400.
with three weeks of his playing
7o7trac+ ''nfinicheIo > L?
At JOE WELLS COCKTAIL
7AR the thinkers of the Younger
7et coneratuate and while the hours
away until closing time. The other
night we ran into an outstanding
youth, who gets great deal out of
'hese TOWN HALL confabs ana
whose life marks interesting read
10 in mart HENRY (Hank) S.
kINARD. was born 38 years ago
n Greenville. S. c., of average COL
>red American parents. Leaving
ZONE at 10 his story of treatment
1t the hands of a southern whit
man caused goose pimples to par
7de up and down your spine. Tc-
day, firmly established in the north,
personally and highly intelligent,
this young man whom we encount-
cred on our DAWN PATROL as
signments, pays homage to his
friend ORSON WELLES, hubby of
RITA HAYWORTH and voice of
the forgotten man and woman.
The theatre completed changed
Henry Kinard's life as have the
-nyersations he engaged in with
brilliant youngsters who gather at
Toe Wells popular nitespot from
time to time. By his own initiative
and hard work, he is today the sole
colored machine operator in one of
New Jerseys largest electrical
plants. One does meet interest
ing people in the course of theatre
and nightspot coverage.
KATHERINE DUNHAM, whose
dance revue, Bal Negre,' has prov
ed exciting entertainment for the
smaller cities, moves into the BAL
ASCO THEATRE, November or
7. According to reports, La Dunhara
will stay at the Balasco only until
such time as BERT LAHR and a
picked company are ready to open
there Billy Daniels has been
doing great work over at CLUB
BARON where he was given a
7pecial mite by ALLAN MacMIL-
Ian EIKS RENDEZVOUS
has been taken over again by white
interests with Sonny" Murrain out
of the picture. We wonder
what he will do Gf anything) about
The ehostlike remains of old LA
7AYETTE THEATRE. 132nd Street
and 7th Avenue?
WILLIE BRYANT, who is still
called Mayor of Harlem. has TAX
N his high-priced whiticism to
Philadelphia where every Monday
md Thursday mite he appears at the
backed and iammed BUDWEISER
AM SESSIONS. Aswe have so of.