Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-12-15
Electrically
Yours
BY RIA BARLEY

Ellington's Press Conference here
at the Hotel Theresa last Saturday
was perhaps" not for Global since
this office did not receive any
notice about it.. Six years as q
Press Syndicate just doesn't reg
lister on some folk /. "me thinks"
!. /. However, Duke Ellington, ore
Of the top Orchestra Leaders did
not seem to have impressed some
of those who attended the Confer
ence to listen to statements which
denied some others that had been
made concerning Negroes Aren't
Ready"-after the Joe Baker Stork
Club incident Don't know the
outcome Of the Duke Ellington
Press Conference, and am really
not too interested other than
it's time that folk knew Global
News Syndicate is around the
Globe
MGM's latest Samuel Goldwyn
Production 81 Want You" starring
Dana Andrews and Dorothy Nc
CURE, Farley Granger and Peggy
Dow is having its premier on De-
cembcr 22nd here in MIC at the
Criterion Theatre It's theme
presents happenings among fami-
lies still in the process of rehabili-
tating their daily lives after
World War II.
GLADYS WATTS, that wonder
full singer whose education and
training was in the Kentucky
School for the Blind, is missed as
a regular entertainer on the TED
Mack Hour She pers from
her hometown, Louisville, KY, that
NYC will soon hear and see her
again !. Concert appearances may
be arranged through Julius J. Ad-
ans of 500 Edgecomb, NYC -.
DONALD HEYWOOD'S England
move gives him opportunity to
shine as writer and coach
according to reports given
to Floyd Snelson who just returned
from foreign soil :.
SARA LOU HARRIS is con-
tinuing to win laurels as the most
beautiful model in these parts ).
And her TV appearances should
be increased since she adds musi-
cal tones as well as beauty to any
program =.
KATHERINE CORNELL and
Guthrie McClintic are being right
fully referred to as "Talent Scout"
since they have discovered a num-
her of top stars of today :. F. one
of them having been Gregory Peck
Vel On your must list"
when in NYC, for good theatre
production is 1.-THE Constant Wife,"
starring Lady Cornell-and pro-
duced by chubby" Guthrie McClin-
tic at the National Theatre {.
ETHEL WATERS = still going
great in Member of the We'd
ding"-but not as far as st. Louis,
| Missouri was concerned with pick
citing having been one of the ma
jor conversation pieces when she
played there few weeks ago-In-
deed at the wonderful cole" Amer
lean Theatre it the fact that
self preservation is the first law
of nature" since stars like Ethel
Waters just continue to play where
there is segregation /. You think
and send Global News Syndicate
The great LEIGH WHIPPER,
actor and the moving spoke in
many of the successes of the Negro
Actors Guild, must share honors
again for the success of the NAG
Benefit, December 9th. :.
UNA MAE CARLYSLE - still
going over in big way with her
own Program over WIZ every Sat-
urday evening at PM. and
with Barney Young as Personal
/
Why not begin to enjoy couple
that enjoys working together
PETER LIND HAYES and MARY
HEALY chubby and wifel on the
Ronson's Star Of the Family every
Sunday night $50 PM, TV, of
course, and channel 2 !.
Might please you to know that
JOHNNY BRADFORD, the hus-
band to Una Mae Carlisle who
knows everybody who's anybody in
the "Show world" will take over
this column "Theatrically Yours"
for a while-Ria BARLEY, VINO
made the start, has had to do some
re-trenching due to illness of her
self and the little BARLEY t.
year-old sony Sc we happily
make change !. ADJUSTMENTS
MEAN MUCH TO YOU AND
WE WANT TO KEEP YOU IN
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