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Evening star., 1946-07-04

opportunity of which every one takes
full advantage. Producers, actors,
and even press agents come in for
their share of the chiding, and Le-
Roy has been artful enough to see
that the joke of it is not a private
thing between cinema insiders.
Even Louella Parsons, playing LOU
ella Parsons, participates in the 60
ing-over of Hollywood's people and
their ways.
On the screen, too, Miss Parsons
will give you a laugh.
! x X x
| In coming back to her old norm,
Miss Colbert plays the part of wo-
man novelist, an amusing type as
types go. She is rather a special wo-
man novelist in that instead of
talking about Ambers, KittyS, or
things like that, her chief character
is an idealiStic male. He is a re-
turned veteran, back full of ideas
about getting the brotherhood of
man started within the next 10
minutes. Her heroine is a wretched
reactionary type who is to be played,
in the perturbation of the novel by
Lana Turner. (The comedy of
without Reservations" is subtle
SometimeS)
| With this type of man in mind,
Miss Colbert gets on train headed
for Hollywood. The first face her
eyes light upon is that of Wayne.
Instantly, she concludes that he is
her man, the one to play the lead
! in the picture
1t turns out that he is a character
in his own right, however. He
doesn't give hang about the bro
therhood of man. Any pretty mem
Der of the siSterhood is what he is
looking for, as why shouldn't he, a
Marine flyer?
The totally false mutual impress
sions of the pair set the amusing
conflict between them under way.
1t lasts all the way across the con-
tinent, mostly in Pullmans, lounge
cars, and day coaches, but finally
in an automobile. Each of these is
"a stage neatly designed to give &C
ton to romantic comedy, and the
advantages of each naturally are
exploited to the full. Somehow,
however, they do not aggregate quite
enough of either action or inspira-
ton to keep the fun of Without
Reservations" as high as every one
clearly intended.
Accordingly, Director Leroy has
resorted to number of gags, not
very original ones, but well handled
oy players as faciie as those in his
picture. There's a very amusing
opening, for instance, in which Hol-
lywood exploitation takes a ribbing.
1t is quite merrily jesting inter-
val, too, when Hero Wayne and his
pal, Devore, tell the poor, but tri-
umphant lady novelist just what
they think of dame who could
write book like that. Much has
been made also of moonlit meadow
scene in which Wayne and Miss
Colbert test out their differing theo-
rles Of love, and another in which
Evening star., 1946-07-04
Aircraft Carrier Leaves
with Body of Quezon

SAN DIEGO. Calf, July 4.-The
aircraft carrier U. S. S. Princeton
started across the Pacific today with
the body of Manuel Quezon as the
Philippine Islands, which he served
as commonwealth President. cele-
brated their independence day as
republic.
Supreme Court Justice Murphy
headed an escort of honor.
ADJUSTMENTS
Evening star., 1946-07-04
Church Supper Planned

The Women's Society of Christian
Service of the Damascus Md
Christian Church will give a supper
at the church Saturday commencing
at l pm
Evening star., 1946-07-04
Claudette Her Merry Self
Again in a Romantic Fable
Ry Joy Carmody

ha solemn mood which her employers settled upon claude
new romantic comedy Keih Miss Colbert being
self the set originally by 1T Happened
the
sparkle winner Nevertheless it
Evening star., 1946-07-04

does have Miss Colbert, John Wayne
and Don Devore and between them
they are good for number of
laughs. 1t fits comfortably into the
category of light summer enter
tainment," and the size of yester-
days first audience indicates that
there is quite demand for that
sort of thing.
Like ''It Happened One Night"
the new frolic featuring the capri
cious Claudette has to do with a
journey. Also, in the same spirit,
the journey is full of unconven-
tional incident, of romantic give and
take, and of dialogue that sounds
like one thing, yet could be taken
to mean another. The major diff
ference, now that the unavoidable
comparison has taken over, is that
without Reservations" found no
way to be consistently amusing. 1t
goes up, and it goes down, and there
is nothing the adeptness of Miss
Colbert, the winning laconic style
of Wayne, nor the slick direction of
Mervyn Leroy can do to prevent the
latter.
The southern news., 1946-05-25
RACIAL BAN AT
PEPSODENT OF
FICE BROKEN

Chicago (ANP) = The Chicago
branch of the Pepsodent Tooth
paste company last week yielded
10 pressure from civil rights
groups and hired Miss Helen
Wideman, a typist, on a tempor-
airy assignment. Miss Wideman
previously had been denied en-
ployment by the firm because She
is d Negro.
A college sophomore. the young
woman had an advertisement
placed by the company for night
tYplsts TO help wind up a certain
section of the work at the plant.
When interview by the personnel
director, Miss Wideman said she
was told the company did not
hire Negro typists because the
white employees would quit.
The case wa S brought before
the Chicago Civil Liberties COM
mittee, and it was found the Pep
soednt company had violated the
city's FEP ordinance. The com
nlittee brought the case to court
to test the ordinance Municipal
Judge Clorfene recommended
that t h e company employ Miss
Wldeman
A jury trial was demanded by
Morris Lehman, PepSOdent :
lawyer, but this was withdrawn
and 1t was agreed to settle out OF
court After Miss Wideman's ap-
pointinent. Lehman asserted:
AS IN the past there will be no
discrimination based on race. col
or. creed or religion IN hiring at
Pepsodent The firm will comply
with the law in every respect"
Commenting on this statement,
Ira Latlmer. director of the G. {.
J.. c., said it did not indicate q
change in the company'S policy
to hire Negro employees only in
unskilled positions. The case is
still in court pending outcome OF
Miss Wideman's appointment fol
one month. This is the first viola
ton of the FEP passed by the
city council in November, 1915
City Prosecutor Rosinia said.
The ordinance. introduced tc
the council by Aid. Oscar De
Priest. reads in part
1T shall be unlawful for any
person to discriminate against
any other person by reason ol
race, creed, color. or national ori-
gin, with respect to the hiring
application for employment, ten
urc. terms or conditions Of en-
ployment.'
The southern news., 1946-05-25
NATIONAL MUSIC
WEEK OBSERVED
At SHAW

RALEIGH : Three events at
Shaw University presented in
Greenleaf Chapel within the week
highlighted the celebration of Ma
ticnal Music Week. May S to L.
The observance was opened Mon
day morning at 10 o'clock when the
music department presented Miss
Marjorie Williams, mezzo soprano,
in a program of classical numbers.
The second program, titled mis-
ique Moderne,' featured the Shaw
University Women's Glee Club and
other choral limits in concert q
popular and semi-classical selections,
and was presented Friday morning
at 1l:45 o'clock. The concert was
heard by students, faculty members
and delegates in attendance at the
annual convention of Business Of
ficers of Negro Colleges, then in
session at Shaw.
The Faculty Concert, Friday
night at 8 o'clock, featuring Harry
L. GiI-Smythe in piano recital was
the final item on the music week
calendar. The observance was under
direction of the Music Department
of Shaw University. The first two
programs were arranged by Miss
Mildred Thornhill. Director of the
University choir.
Instrumental solos on the Men
day morning program were offer
ed by Miss Ida Boykin, pianist with
the University choir, and by Miss
Alethia Ransome Featured soloists
on "Musique Moderne," were Miss
Helen Satterwhite and Henry Black
mon. The baritone solo by Mr..
Blackmond was given few houlS
before he left by plane for Cali
fornia where he is to be presented
in concert in several cities.
The southern news., 1946-05-25
NEW.O1HELlL0T TO
OPEN AT. CLUB
S U D A N

NEW YORK-Caleb Peterson,
Jr., who has been hailed as the
New Othello" throughout
America as result of his Sensa-
tional performance of that role a
few weeks ago in Los Angeles,
at the Biltmore Hotel Auditorl-
um, is soon to open under
limited engagement contract in
the next show at Harlem'S Club
Sudan" Mr.. Peterson comes to
the Sudan after having recently
completed working with Lena
Horne in "As the Clouds Go By"
for Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Mr..
Peterson, also completed recent
ly Till The End of Time" for
RKO picture as he sings the i'm
mortal jerome Kern melody,
"Old Man River" Plans are be-
ing explored to ascertain the pos
sibility of Mr.. Peterson and his
Hollywood cast performing
"Othello" at the Watergate ir,
Washington, D. c.
Meanwhile, Mr. Peterson is Civ
ing vocal concerts with excerpts
from the original "Othello" con-
suming the latter half of the pro-
gram. He intends to secure book
ings for full presentations of
"Othello" in the deep south with
mixed cast.
The southern news., 1946-05-25
CeeHHn9 Stars ..

cut attendance at The Orpheum
Theatre in Los Angeles this week
the King Cole Trio reigned. New
York was saved by truce.
The Jack Benny troupe arrived
this week by plane from Chicago
Jack Benny went into the Hotel
! elmolS5, Rochester went into tie
Hotel Theresa. william Grant
Still. famed West Coast composer,
spent his 41st birthday nursing
painful tooth extraction. Cafe Mar
di Gras is featuring "ALnt Jemima"
who is really Tea Gordell, the ori-
ginal singer of Ziegfeld's Show
Boat" Paul Robson, enroute tc
West Virginia, stopped off 10 hear
Josoh White at Cafe Society Dowr-
j town.
Lena Horne, looking ravishingly
! lovely, is taking the town these
days. At Club Baron with Flossie
and Erskine Hawkins they oohed
and ahhed. King Cole Trio club fans
are sWarming the offices for tick
cts to the Kraft broadcasts. Peg Leg
Bates enjoying ball games before
his departure to join the Ink Spots
in St. Louis for a long road tour,
Dorothy Maynor, caught by news
reporter not locking her best. Both
were embarrassed. She was subbing
for her house-keeper.
Mrs. Nat Cole won't be able 70
join her husband after he gets set
tied in New York.
The southern news., 1946-05-25
MEMPHIS MOVIE
CENSOR BUSY
WITH SHEARS

Memphis (ANP) - The scissors
welding moving picture censor ol
Memphis is 77-years old. Lloyd
I Binford, a Baptist deacon from
Mississippi, who asserts there is
toe much sin in cinema and it is
his duty to rip it out. He must
feel the same way about color il
els merCIleSs Shearing of l. e n a
Horne and Rochester wherever
they appear in a picture is any
nlulCatlon.
Binford appears to be in TIL c
ceEsor oh for pure pleasure
since he came to it from d $4,000
a year insurance executive post
ton and has been working for SIS
Fer month. This was recently hik-
ed 5000 presumably because Mem
phis citizens thought he merited
The raise.
Crime. sex, and Negroes featur-
cd in too prominent roles" are
specialties for the Binford paper
coil cutting. "BrewSter's Millions
was cut because Rochester had
too familiar ways about him 4:
THE Sailor Takes a Wife for the
same reason. Films featuring
Lena Horne are shown in entire
ly only in Negro theatres.
I'VE can't allow movies where
Negroes are given special equality
with white people; it might cause
disturbances down here" Binford
says.
because he declared it portrayed
the people of the south as "il-
litrate mendicants, and most re-
Gently has prohibited "The Out
law" He didn't object to Jane
curves. he said, but "the
picture hao too much shooting" ;"
Binford has been the cause Of
much wry laughter in Hollywood
and has been threatened with A
5 Kit by at least one producer.
However, he goes merrily on with
his whiting, and comments:
Criticism bounces off me like
Water off a ducks back"
The southern news., 1946-05-25

tlrely of recently discharged u.
S. Navy Sea Bees.
The new dance music combina-
ticn, after a successful series of
break in dates at New York s
Apollo Theatre and the famed
Savoy Ballroom, will commence a
limited tour at major southern
and southwestern cities in mid
June.
Boosting sixteen top star inStru-
mentaists, all members of the
same Sea Bee battalion, the band
was originally organized an di-
rected by Woode, as part of the
armed forces entertainment pro-
gram, and is the only such ser
vice combination to remain fully
intact after discharge, to bid for
name band recognition in civil.
ian life.
Woode pronounced Woody has
long been recognized as one Of
the nations top flight arrangers
and has contributed to the popu-
larity of many head line dance
band attractions. Count Basic,
Benny Goodman, Cab Galloway.
Tommy Dorsey, Harry James,
and many other famous band
leads have featured Woode's
arrangements.
Daniel M. Gray. personal man
age of the famous International
SWeethearts of Rhythm All-Girl
orchestra, has been engaged as
business and promotion director
for the Woode olganization a.
The southern news., 1946-05-25
CAROL BRTCE TO BE
AT FLA. COLLEGE

NEW YORk-Carol Brice. the
greatest of young. American con-
traltos, viii open the Florida Ag
ricultral and Meehincal College S
summer session with a special af-
ter season concert. Miss BrIca i
appearing in this concert as q
special favor of her husband
Neil Scott. who is a former high
school student of Dr. William H.
Gray, now president of the Flori-
da educational institution.
Miss .Brices formal concert
season ended on Aprll 26 at New
Haven, Conn. and she has turned
Gown several lucrative offers to
appear in concert since Nav |.
She will do several network
hroadcasts during the summer
months but no formal concerts
other than the FANG engage
ment.
lalss Brice appeared thirty
times from November | to AprH
81 during the season just ended
1t had been her intention TO dedi-
cate the past season entirely 10
study and the care of her young
son. Neil Scott, Jr., but pubic
demand forced her to abandon
those plans.
The young singer is refusing
concert engagements during the
summer months because of the
taxing demands of herNext CON
cert season which begins at The
Berkshire Festival during the
second week of August when she
sings the Braham's Alto Rhapsody
with DR.. Serge Koussevitsky and
ends on April 26, 1947 when she
gives her first formal concert al
New York's Carnegie Hall. Miss
Brjee is almost completely book
ed for the season 46-47 with the
exception of few dates in her
middle winter and early spring
tour.
The southern news., 1946-05-25
BY ALVIN MOSES
THE DAWN PATROL"

NEW YORK (ANP) = Harlem
city-within-a-city, with more ex-
plotted people dwelling in it per
square foot than any other given
area in the civilized world. knows
the score on many angles folk liv-
ing outside of this ghetto circle fail
to give them credit for. Keeping
the subject in the realm of night
Clubs and taverns, l believe that 81
year-old Dickie Wells is as smart
in the ways of management and
creative ideas advertisement. in
novations. decorations ct alb as
most of the white club operatives
in Midtown Manhattan A large
order you might say (and l know
you secretly saying it, chum) but
one that will prove itself anytime
you have two hours talking time
to spend with brother Wells like
l have upon numerous occasions.
The southern news., 1946-05-25
Composer of ''Salt Pork
Wanted to Go to w. Va.

don't think them up. They come
to me"
Discharged from the Coast Guard
after two years service, in which
he sang in the choral group, Bill get
back into the music business right
away. When Louis Jordan, the great
bandleader and singer. was playing
the Paramount for the second time
last July, Bill went to see him about
his songs. Louie decided that Bill
had real talent for putting punch
in tunes and let him have free reign
to get novelty together.
Leaving the Paramount one day,
Bill went to the office of Chappie
Willett, the arranger for the Zan-
zibar There he happened to see
postal card from Salt Pork, w, Va.
and in five minutes ne had pieced
together the now famous swing
tune. Rushing back to Louie, they
agreed it was something new and
exciting for Jordan fans The song
was then finished in collaboration
with Fleecie Moore.
Bill, from New Orleans, claims he
has been schooled by contact" His
idols are Duke Ellington, Johnny
Mercer, Sammy Calm and Julie
Stein. He admireS and follows them
all.
Bill has written other tunes, sew
eral which are recorded by Mer-
curry. One is "I' Coming Home To
Stay" done by the Bills Samuels
Trio which is the story of an ex-
serviceman warning his girl that
hes returning from overseas and
what he expects to find. Right now.
Bill is rehearsing four girls for an
act in which he will sing TIL ishe's
doing with Elton Hill, also an ar
ranger and composer.
OF his current success with salt
Pork" he passes it off with next
thing l knew Louie had recorded
It," Since hearing his original in
the new Astor film Beware" which
stars Louis Jordan and band, Bill
is more than anxious to compose a
quantity of music for pictures. His
ambition is to be in the musical
setup at.Metro Goldwyn Mayer and
live in California However, he still
hopes to 60 to Salt Pork, the land
of his song, and enroll in the State
College. Under the CT Bill Of Rights,
he could organize band right IN
West Virginia which would
please him,
The southern news., 1946-05-25
South Africa Taxes
Relief Food Gifts
Says Robson

NEW YORK (CNS) - Paul Rob-
escn, chairman of the Council on
African Affairs, Inc, charged that
desperately needed food. sent to
the Union of South Africa for fam
inc relief, was taxed 25 per cent
by the South African government
Shipments of milk, corn, beans,
fish. and other foods, were sub
iected to the impost, which was
paid by the South African Food
Fund. a relief organization, from
funds previously sent by the Coun-
ell. Starvation in the interior Of
South Africa is the resi- ~ the
most severe drought in 25 years,
and failure of the government to
take adequate steps to feed its peo-
pie. Robson stated. The govern
ment has refused to allocated food
it holds in warehouses there.
The famine and the general con-
dition of the South African Negro
viii be the subject of a rally in
Madison Square Garden. June 9Th,
called by the Council
The southern news., 1946-05-25
Sister Tharpe Tours

NEW YORK-Sister Rosetta
Tharpe, Americas sensational
Gospel singing favorite. will com
mence an all-rGligious Concert
tour of twelve southwestern, mid
western and southern states in
mid June.
The guitar playing song stylist
will appear in all major cities of
West Virginia, Tennessee, Arkan.
sas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas.
Louisiana, Mississippi and North
Carlonia with a West Coast tour
scheduled for early fall. The
tour, directed by Cultural Con-
certs Society, Radio City. N. Y.
will be conducted in leading au-
ditoriums and chhurches, under
exclusive sponsorship of local
church and religious groups.
Miss Tharpe, one of the nations
most popular recording artists,
recently completed several new
Decca records which will soon be
released.
The southern news., 1946-05-25
MARIAN ANDERSON
SPONSORS TENOR
FUND

NEW YOR-Pruth MCFarlln,
the most accomplished OF youn4
American tenors. climbed another
ring on the rung of world recogm-
ton last week when he gained the
active patronage OF the world
renowned contralto. Marian An
derson. Miss Anderson sponsored
Mctarlln IN a concert at Cobb :.
Mill Inn, in Western Connecticut.
a few miles from her home III
DaVIen. Conn.
Miss Anderson was present with
her husband, o. H. Fisher along
with many other notables of the
world of arts and music. For IN
stance, these are a few of the
greats who were present. Wal
ter Cassel, the leading baritone
of the Metropolitan Opera Asso-
citation, Frank La Fargo, the great
teacher and composer, and his
wife; Mr.. and Mrs. Sperry, ST.,
OF Sperry Gyroscopl; Miss Fran
ces Aida, famed soprano Of the
Metropolitan Opera; Mrs. James
Melton, wife of James Melton,
famed radio and Metropolitan
Opera tenor; the celebrated
American soprano, Geraldine Far
rar, the Metropolitan Opera so
prano partner of Curico CaruSo
during the period of The golden
age OF song" and Mr. H. Clau
dia, vice president Of the Chase
National Bank, and his wife.
Mr.. McFarlin, who is victim
of polio like our late President
Roosevelt, sang his program
seated in a chair which was
raised on a platform, raised
above audience level. and from
the very outset he had his au
dience captivated with the beauty
of his fresh young robust voice
and his magnificent artistry.
There was both dramatic ut
terance and a fine subtlety Of
vocal nuance in the tenor's work
touched with a spark of vocal
genius in his interpretations of
the various songs and arias, that
Enthusiastically mark great ar
/ fist" This was the consensus Of
opinion of many in the audience,
who expressed the desire to hear
Mr.. McFarlin again in the very
near future At the special re-
quest of Miss Anderson, Mr.. Nc
Earlin, who is accompanied by his
wife, Mrs. Hazel McFarlin, sang
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
among other encores. In addition
to the usual tenor's repetoire of
arias and art songs the young
terror sang "Supplication" and
window Pane, two compost
lions Of his teacher, the dislin-
gaished Frank La Fargo.
The southern news., 1946-05-25
Women Beauticians
Establish New Rules
For Men Invaders

NEW YORK (CNS) - Five hun
dred women meeting in the first
Official BeaLticans' Congress of
the National Beauty Culturists
League here last week heard dele
gate after delegate call for the GUST
ing of men invaders" into the
field of beauty culture and manu-
featuring of special brands of cos
metics. 1t was claimed men can
work on equality with women but
not as masters" Chief speakers
were Mrs, Sara Spencer Washing
ton, of Apex Hair and News Com
pany, Atlantic City, Mrs. Cordelia
Greene Johnson, National Presi-
dent Mrs. MaLde Gadsen. head of
the Beauticians Volunteer Corps,
Mrs. Carrie Taylor of Baton Rouge,
La, Mrs. Pricila Dean Lewis of In
diana. Mrs. Essie Davison of Phil
adelphia, Mrs Besser Mercer of
Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Mamye
Tilgham of Baltimore, Md.
There were the usual style shows,
entertainment at Club Sudan. and
Mothers Day Services. In a speech
by Mrs. Emma Clarrisa Clement
selected Mother of the Year" by
the Golden Rule Foundation, beau
ticians were called upon through
out the country to. give aid to the
starving children of Europe,
The southern news., 1946-05-25
King Kolax Drops 0rk To Join Billy Eckstine
Popular Singing Maestro
Featured With NelU Ork

OF the all-time greats of jazz mu-
sic. Kolax, who until recently
was fronting his own outfit, JOIN
ed the Eckstlne band last week
and gets a featured spot with Bill
~ in the Club Sudan floor show.
The popular bronze balladeer,
whose ambition IS to have the
greatest musical band IN the buSi-
ness. now has l0-man brass sec
ton. tive trumpetS and five from
bones. KOlaX, who will be featur-
cd on most of the hot trumpet
work in the Eckstine band, Will
be written into all EckStlne ar
rangements on fifth trumpet.
Eckstine'S Club Sudan engage
ment has provided Harlem night
life with its greatest hypo since
the days when the old Cotton
Club was drawing downtown pa
tronage IN droves. Billy is cred
tied with having more than tri-
pied the Sudan's previous bus
ness in his current engagement,
which continues through May %
Because of the tremt ndous sue
cess it has had with Eckstine, the
Sudan's management is endeavor-
ing to arrange for a return en-,
gagement by the bronze singing
IDOL after he fulfills theater and
one-niter commitments next
Eckstine opens his road
tour on May 30 with week on
stage of the Royal Theater in Bal
tmore.
Ann Baker, lovely songstresS,
to share vocal honors
with the singing maestro.