The daily record., 1951-12-03
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star at his Shamrock Hotel, deny
a romance, but they've been insep-
arabic since his hop from Cairo
/. Jack LaRue has taken on Ayers.
Her first name is Phyllis Gilbert
Miller's two productions Of Cleopa-
ira (Shakespeare's and Shaw's),
starring the Oliviers, must attract
$4,000 per week to break even :.
The Street of Hits CIV. 45th) just
lost five flops Irving Berlin's
three daughters each have invest
ments of $1,000 in the Henry yon-
da play, Point Of No Return
which arrives next month with
out-of-town "hit" reviews Barba-
ra Stanwyck, always the star, gets
3rd billing in her current film,
''The Man With q Cloak which
features J. Gotten and Leslie Ca
ron The N. Y. c. Police Dept.
in finding the Stork Club not
guilty ION the Josephine Baker
charges of discriminatory, con-
firms what we've argued all along.
Now jump to the last paragraph.
Madcap Merry Fahrney and her
old flame, Billy Revere. have re-
kindled The judith Evelyn-James
Nolandl twosome is the tch-tch of
the L'Armorique set The ro-
nance between Berle's top aide
Il. Gray and Berries Gal Tuesday
Sandy Lewis mutually curdled
=. Mitchell Parish, who wrote Che
wordage to Star Dust" (among
other classics,) has two new dit
ties: THE Windmill Song and
The Blond Sailor" both clicking
large John Ryan, 20, of the
Thomas Fortune Ryan mint, quit
Yale to try his talent at producing
plays Joyce Van Patten (the
charming child in Tomorrow, the
World" play years ago) just pre-
sented her husband, T. King, with
a boy at Flower Hosp Beverly
Lawrence's tv appearance on ABC
the other eve'g starred low-cut
frock that was just UU tUU.
Linda DarnelI, long ailing in
London, is well enough to COM
plete her assignment there in Sat
turday's Island. Joe (Fingers)
Carr, whose best-seller piano record
ings include Down Yonder" and
"Snow Deer Rag" is Margaret
Writings husband, L. Busch :.
an import from Paris. She stars
soon for L. Walters at his Florida
Latin @ Gigi Durston (who let
herself get too plump has shelved
oonaphteen pounds for her Dec 3rd
premiere at lie Vouvray ..One of
the neatest holdups of the year is
the $40 extra charge many bars
will have to pay to stay open a few
extra hours New Years Eve.
From the Pittsburgh Courier, the
Negro newspaper in the U. S. with
the heaviest circulation There
has been much ado about the al
legged discrimination against jose
phine Baker and three friends at
New York's celebrated Stork Club
The party entered the crowded
place, were seated were served
drinks, but when they placed their
order for food it was necessary to
wait nearly an hour before service
was given, whereupon they refused
the food and walked out
What happened afterward is a
perfect example of wrongheaded-
ness, hysteria and hypersensitivity:
ie.. color discrimination was charg-
ed. the NAACP rushed in to tilt
with an imaginary windmill :.
Walter Winchell was denounced be-
cause he was present and allegedly
did not rush to Miss Bakers de-
fense. picket line was thrown in
front of the Stork Club apparently
for demagogic publicity purposes,
Actors Equity and other actors and
musicians associations were urged
''to take action" and altogether a
great rllubarb was raised, probably
to the delight Of Moscow. This will
probably go down in history as the
flimsiest case of discrimination on
record and smeared over with a
large whitewash of hypocrisy.
at may be helpful to participants
and their misdirected defenders.
but it is difficult to see how it will
help Negroes generally or in any
way advance their cause. There
are numerous fragrant cases of CO.
lor discrimination to be fought
everywhere, and it would seem that
those advancing the cause of Ne
groes would expend their time and
energies fighting those cases.
In this case there was no evi-
dence shown that service was re-
fused (on the contrary the Offend
ed" party party was served drinks)
but only that the people had to
wait long time for food service,
which everybody has to do in a
popular public eating place during
rush hour. Many passengers have
had to wait almost as long for SER
vice in a dining car on crowded
train. but have not attributed the
walt to some plot against them.
Let us not waste time on built
up cases of this sort, which at worst
are borderline (assumihg the wait
ers were p,irposeiy dilatory) but
rather save our energies for the
real, fragrant instances Of bias. Let
us discourage Wolff Wolff" cry
ing and the hysterical denuncia-
tion of PROVEN FRIENDS OF
LONG STANDING in order IN oet