Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-07
The Incolrlparable Nicholas Brothers
By Edna L. Harrison

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 By Edna L. Harrison
 When I first met the Nicholas Brothers backstage at the Shubert. Theatre recently an altogether ! favorable impression was created
 by their friendly, magnetic perso- nality. Both these young men add weight to the statement that
 ''good things come in small pack ages" Although small in sta ture, their overwhelming sense of proportion grew to gigantic heights in the interview.
 Though born in New York City, Fayard and Harold Nicholas be- gan their theatrical career in Pennsylvania and attended school in Philadelphia. The boys first big show was in 1892 at the New York Cotton Club, where they played for two years straight with
 their singing and dancing act.
 Harold enlivened things by his clever limitations of Louis Arm strang and Cab Galloway.
 IN ENGLAND
 In 1886 the boys went to Eng land to star in Lou Leslie's 'Blackbirds" in London. There they experienced a great thrill: they caught glimpse of Queen Mary, mother of the Duke of Windsor, and as they watched the changing of the guards, they saw her nod. In 1889 they went to South America where they played four months inthe Casino de Ura- ca in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
 Harold, who is more than a little linguistic, learned Portuguese and can sing "Mama GU Quero" in true male Carmen Miranda fash ion.
 Having been on television, done quite a bit of radio work, all over the country (Zanzibar, N. r., Chez Paris and Latin Quarter, Chicago, and the Coconut Grove, California--to mention few), the Nicholas Brother have but one burning ambition to have an orchestra with Fayard conducting and Harold on the drums.
 If they succeed in realizing this dream, they will have run the gauntlet of the entertaindnerA field including the movies. Some of their motion picture ventures were '@Kid Millions, Big Broad cast of 1936", and "Stormy Wea- Eher',, ktarring lbeautffuF Lena Horne and Bin lRob9nso1, the King of Taps. "Ziegfeld Follies" and Babes in Arms"were two of their early stage plays. After the filming of ssStormy Weather, Fayard went into the army where he remained for thirteen months. He was stationed in the United States for special services in Ft- Huachuca, Arizona.
 Both married brothers are proud husbands and fathers. liar old's wife the well-known Dorothy Dandridge, actress and dancer in her own right, who played in Sun Valley Serenade, is the mother of a daughter, Haroldlyn. Fayard's wife is the former Geraldine Pate of Chicago and graduate of De- Paul University, where she studied physio-therapy. Their son An thony, nicknamed ''Tony", is about a year old. He and his mother were still out on the coast, but I met Dorothy Dandridge when I was interviewing the brothers, and Fayard showed me some ex- cellent snapshots of his wife and baby.f Young esTouy" and his mother are both extremely photo genie, and it won't be long before the former will be taking the spot light from his famous Daddy.
 The Nicholas Brothers are great lovers of sport clothes and even ing clothes and this becomes quite apparent upon first acquaintance with them. They like all kinds of music, and Duke Ellington's is thefrs Eavorite band Fayardi counts the dreamy breathlessness of ttNight and Day" as his favor ite song and Harold likes the more tempestuous rhythm of Brazil ian songs like Brazil"
 The Nicholas Brothers liked coming to Boston because they sHeardeid the Boston audiences were tough, and they were more than a little pleased at their ap- parent enjoyment of "St. Louis Woman". TAey would like to make it into movie; so that they could have the chance to act as we'll as sing and dance on the screen for the first time.