The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-05-04
SWINCIl.C Down The LANE
II would be nice. just once or twice
To do just as we please
But Fate, they say, has nasty way
BY BILL LANE
OF eNacting heavy Tees.


OF exactng heavy fees.
Another week has come and gone and the atom bomb
hasn't blown the stage play st Louis Woman, off
the fomentng stage with the neurons and proons still
transmitting
A FEW DAYS AGO saw the motion picture wal
ley Of Decision In that picture there an old Negro
working around railroad station cleaning sptoons
Really, will tell any cea-thnking human
being that that old comca looking man was not in that
picture Just because somebody in Hollywood wanted to
give Negro lob in the movies He there for Just
one reasonbecause he symbolic of the funky white
folks would expect to find around a railroad station
Walter White, some say has darn good idea
GOINGS-ON: Margery Miller whose biography OF
Joe Louis: American, published recently, is
writing syndicated newspaper column of sports
Parisian-mannered Dick Barrow smooth-voiced singer
formerly of Detrois Frogs Club and other mite spots
singing and emceeing at the Swing Club in Oakland
California Bill Gooden another erstwhile Detroer,
tossing plenty boogiewooge patrons of Keys
bles in NYC and doubling WINS Gloom Dodgers
program Everybody's talking about Ann Petrys novel
The Street But there one book resting the shelves
Of your public library that carries much better the real
idea. IT. titled Plum Bun and witten years
ago Somebody ought to write stage of
around it,
DISCUSSIONS: Bandleader Louis Pima will hence
forth have to rely the media of uke boxes convey
the hyperpotency of his recent record revival Takes
Long Tall Brown-Skinned Gal to Make Preacher Lay
His Bible Down" Why? Well, the radio networks
won't permit the tune be broadcast over the arwaves
Will r. Skidmore and Marshall Walker wrote the song in
1916 Billy Ecksne and Perry Como have both recorded
the oldie, Prisoner of Love- and make nice listening
LOCALLY ISSUED NEWS-PICTURE magazine in
It's current issue has piece which say "a Jack Thomas
the Baltimore conductor the first Negro to ever con-
duct an allwhe symphony orchestra. That must have
been a ms-prnt. in my records composer William Grant
Still holds that distinction. VIM Still was the first Negro
TO write symphony; to conduct all-whe radio
network orchestra (NBC and made musical history when
ne conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at
Hollywood Bowl summer in 1886 the first time
IN American history that coored man had led
lor symphony orchestra Then Dean Dixon Rudolph
Dunbar Everett Lee and THEN A. Jack Thomas Thank
my dear editors. That information will cost Won
years subscription which you might send to wounded
veteran.
OOOOH, WHAT YOU SAID The wife of a prom
nent Norhend physician tells the story the time she
had an operation performed at local hospital. After
the operation said the lady doctors and nurses continued
to stream in and out of her hospital room One would
take her temperature the other would check her pulse
Finally when she thought she couldn't stand any more
the door opened and little bedragged walked into
the room carrying pail of water and towels And
what may ask YOU going to do" asked the LADY, in
furious wdeeyed wonder LADY, the little man 70.
piled meekly II am going to wash your transom"
ANTOINE, the noted New York hairdresser has this
TO say about men folk and their scalpocks Men lose
their hair because their scaps sweat and sweat poison
They he mem should clean their heads every night with
mixture Of alcohol suggest rum-and iodine Then
the young hair is not burned out by the toxin allow
ed to grow ] can still find better uses for rum
SCUTTLEBUTT: While relating that Leonard Reed re-
opened Chlcago's gamerous bistro, The Rhumboogie il
would also be all right to relate the favore Joke of David
Carlisle the Californian recently appointed to West Point
by Congresswoman Helen Douglas II is the story about
certain cadet of very refined family who Qanbed
al dice and was reported for to his mother Whereupon
she promptly wrote him lengthy letter. concluding
And dear promise me you won't shoot any more of
those craps Surely, they love life much as we do