St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-11-07

his saga of life among the bottom bols.
One matron of my acquaintance who to
erupting Perry
aged to make Negroes eagerly
welcome the opportunity work themselves
Mans article
with its accompanying psures the most edng
although true picture Of
life in the cotton patches
Writer Perry like southeners
who toll the happy Perhaps
can't at the moment thing excotton alternating
in Harlem who has aconsumng
self back Mstuh Charles patch
observe the desire
and the cotton patch as is conveniently possible
If thousands their pleasure bending
double a cotton Temperature
speak well for the system that fosters such doubtful
lights.
tented" cotton paChers because that
more to nwitngy put the spotlight way
slowly but surely vanishing preaching
about the lot of the impoverished cotton picker
If the contemplating ultimately going replace
the happy" field
Of enabling the field hand to his fatbac
to be devised 1t
gets out of the cotton patch he wondering
he was so ALFRED happy" about in the first place"
scene as Radio City Fifth Avenue and the Empire State
Automa reflects the life of the
There's the at 47h and Broadway right the heart
worlds famous theatrical district you great
great, the ambitious,
Right at the next table those
cups and talking nent Song publishers from the Brill Build
ing Maybe out of that conference will top
hit At another table a detected looking young
blue pin striped suit that has the tetale many
wearngs and too DRESSINGS He drinks coffee slowly
all brushing collar
handsome but empty face hundred like him in the shabby
brOwnstOne rOOming houses dngy side hotels
Broadway All of them waiting for the big brea that usually
arrives.
In through the heavily madelp girls
tailored Stacks Their features are snguary similar in the heavy
pancake of the theatre This matinee day you they
from of the musical shows Guys Da Wish
here a joey perhaps Ihy laugh and chatter Obvious to the
everyday prosiac out
outside the wide facing Broadway preoccu-
pedoong Teller opes along Henry Fonda the star of Point of
No Return headed
Street pale vsaged lad holding
next TO the window an empty coffee cup pushed aside in front of
him the nighcub palor
his watch makes a sudden break
There of at
COffee me-twO nkeIs in the slot. many
the empty coffee licked by the symboIzes
to asst Even view
had good" (they tell there
break Of failure the grim reality of facing today without
the hope of a tomorrow. out
hot invgorating coffee only
break in busy day To the failures it's the
keeps body and soul together for just little while longer
At present awaiting night
club ho scheduled for November 7h The Moe Gale where
Scott Kelly handling Cooper
his personal disc jockey
OF Cooper and Rector back in the days when Harlem ghtcub life
jumped zan bading performer much
formerly OF the Burnham Harris and Scott trio toPnoch comedy
act for my money
Sugar Ray a good looking hasa always
seemed more like show business than fight business with two
hep show business vets like SCotty and Coop his
ought to be off to fairly good start
pretty anything except politics
right now but thank heavens that viii be thing past
days before you read this
The only comment have to make about a subject
remotely connected with politics
Adam Clayton representative Congress
and pastor Of the huge Abssini Baptist church
being interested in doing film based his life
mentioned here than occasion that the theatre lost
the biggest ham time when Adam turned his interest
the clergy politics II he makes film haven't the
doubt observations will be hundred
correct With his aring goodooks, personality
yeckety yackey belongs
before the What a ham.