ATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1941 THE PHOENIX INDEX. PHOENIX, ARIZONA PAGE SEVEN Still Collaborating On New Musical Work They'll Swing In Atlanta With Rochester

PAUL ROBES ON TO OPEN MUSICAL I • i ijSw SEASON AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE Jf - jrfi lihi

Hi r*F iff' Box-Office Sell To Open 1941 Season # H Hi, WSbm bMtW ¦ ".1 !¦ Out Predicted Collaborates On For Appearance New Composition NEW rOKK- -United States Gen. Francis Biddle. and arrangers-, brought his orchestra to Atlant? and sings “Walkin’ By the River,” is with the show Ogden on Saturday evening,; Hall Early this year. Mr. Barbirollis j lied an orchestral prelude and in- Thursday, Sept. 25, lo accompany the “Hot From which was seen the City Auditorium. October 4. main suggested that Mr. Still write i terlude to set off the two Harlem” revue headed bv Eddie “Rochester” An- The Musical Art series this sea- something especially for the cen- j sections of the solo, but upon Mr. son includes four other concerts; a tennial, and the composer’s first Barborilli’s suggestion, a postlude ! opera, a symphony orchestra, an thought was to offer orchestral was written to complete the orig- i Don A. j: . x. fEftjgk •violin recital, and a ballet. suite. inal thought. T>avis. chairman of the series at Hiaving planned and completed Said Miss Chapin, authei of j Stresses Sweetness Institute, Shadows”, Hampton reports tiiat the suite. Mr. Still decided that, “Time Has No and iice at the college . something more significant was "Outside of the World." "The suc- • • s. s ]||lf of my collaboration with Wil- avail- tflM needed for the occasion and re- ; cess season suscriptions are now liam Grant Still in his setting of NEWS OF membered Miss Chapin’s poem. ! able bv writing the Treasurer’s Os- my poem They Lynch Sometime before, he had promised j ballad "And DYNAMICFIGURE • ; op Tree." his dramatic to set the verse to music, after d Him a Both as actor and singer Paul collaboration of “And They j and lyrical abililv. his fine, truly dy- their delight- Robeson is one of the most Lynched Him on a Tree" which , American idiom makes me of- again." namic figures in America. Box was presented at Lewisohn sta- ed to collaborate with him been rule that Mr. THEATRES fice sellouts have the California, It may be remembered dium in Guggenheim for his engagement's oil every con- The score had originally plan- Still received the and tinent. Though he is international- Rosen wald fellowships, was com- ly popular, his appearance at, t ;:•&' poser of theme music for the New Hampton Institute marks his first j York World’s Fair, and "Afro- * appearance in the South. * mmMr American Symphony". “Lenox many His career has been as pictures- | / V “Kainluck" and Turns Cv. X. ‘i&Sf Avenue". Levette W ques and spectacular as any single j m <¦ •* . •*„ "'liMuiHMPßffi f miMmi iMffIwBHHIWi JOTTER- others. He is lawyer j d O ** concert performance. a baritone, Robeson, open current who discovered himself to possess The great Paul is Scheduled to the CHAPLAIN RENOWNED appears at the Vir- wjfk one of the world’s magnificent fall musical season at Hampton Institute when he DOWNS AS ARTIST voices, an All-American football j ginia institution in concert on Saturday, August 4. —(A. v To Poetic Form EDWARDS. Mass.. - Jljp star who found he could play ! CAMP ¦ N. p.i—'The 269th Coast artilleiy. Shakespeare. col- By HARRY LEVETTE By TED YATES anti-aircraft, recently arrived from Ontario, HOLLYWOOD—(ANP)—Your scribbler of the 01 KoP At Rutger’s University has ex- ored regiment Fort j LiI Green, has given Camp Ed- ploits may be summarized by the NEW YORK—iTYP>— Oswego. N. Y.. yum awoke from his virtuous couch in a poetic mood this exponent of a new kind outstanding and inspir- statement that he managed to vocalist and wards an Ayem, so before, a none too brilliant brain becomes fogged which THE RECORDS of blues, is the reason for the back- ing personality in Ist Lt.. Ben Al- football playing, of j RATINC chap- up the happenings of the day, I’llpass this master- him “the DAVIS to-fames rise of Tiny Bradshaw . . bert Richardson, regimental with ¦Valter Camp reported Bv FRANK MARSHALL dis up oi end that ever Cab Calloway and ork lain. Horace Henderson. famous ar- piece on to you. Shades of Edgar Allen Poe, Longfellow, greatest defensive recently State Lake being former pastor gridiron" with the vanning $22,000 at the Besides the ranging and piano playing maestro, and Paul Dunbar! trod tfie CARLE ON PIANO When Columbia waxed “St. Louis in Ella Fitzgerald the Grace Congregational of a Beta Kappa key and prin- Theatre Chi... of who will soon make his debut spe- Phi Several months ago a Columbia | Blues” by Maxine Sullivan. It found sharing the bill with famed Four Church, New York City. Lady Who Loves Torrid add to the number of more than cipal place on the commencement cializing in sweet music, a radical Reader album of piano solos by Frankie John Spots Brooklyn Strand here Lt. Richardson holds a notable at Lack of Them aiready program as orator. Later he receiv- her in wondenui lorm and Ink at departure from his past efforts. Tales Kicks a hundred who have work- Carle, composer of “Sunrise Sere- band at its best. Same goes set new attendance high. Ella’s place in art and has made some j Signed D. T., I find this squabbling ed an M. A. at Columbia and an Kirby’s Both Horace and his illustrious ed in it last week. Filling a call for nade,” was so well received that a for “The Hour of Parting,” band gave ‘the First Lady’ superb commendable contributions to mu- letter from a lady reader in the honorary Ph. D. irom Hamilton released also brother, Fletcher, have won inter- j stevedores over six feet tall, with new collection has been slow and pasliy with Procope’s alto swingeroo harmony in presentation sic. ! morning mail. “Listen you. I spend College. entitled “Frankie Carle Encores.” Mousie” gal’s lat- national acclaim as exponents of buying the paper big muscles, and capable of really .... a of "Melinda The | my good nickels having a fit Jumping like hot jazz. (ANP.) TURNS ACTOR The tunes are SOMEBODY LOVES brushfire. Count est nursery rhythmic tune. . . .Lion- TO HEAD GIRLS SCHOOL | each week, expecint to get some- doing hard work if necessary, were was tc become a lawyer, kangaroo in a His plan i ME and I KNOW THAT YOU does his stuff on DIGGIN el Hampton “groovy” in Chi ap- CROOME. Md.—(ANP)— Named | thing else beside a lot of dry data Willie Williams. Noble Blake, with reluctance that he let Basie It was KNOW; SWINGIN’ DOWN THE DEX. Tate rides su- pearance. Five Crackerjacks doub to succeed Mrs. Galloway as head about this and that movie; this and Charles Wilson, and Everett Brown persuaded by Eugene | LANE AND NEST; I FOR Okeh. himself be THE LOVE tenor and Jones’ drums ling from Leon and Eddie’s to 4-a- of the girls school here. Mrs. Esther j that stage play, but of late noth- well remembered as the Oxford ed- create the in CAN’T BELIEVE YOU’RE perbly on O’Neill tn title role THAT are solid as a rock. Flipover, H. day at Roxy Theatre Andy Kirk Gee Garner is supposed to take ov- ! ing about the hidden lives of folk ucated African prince in Universal’s play. Emperor IN LOVE WITH ME and AFTER of the eye. kibit- the dramatist’s “The AND J. also jumps but not like preemed at the Famous Door last er the administrative duties TAPPING in the public no keyhole "Nagana” over seven years ago. Jones". His in that part was YOU’VE GONE; THE ONE I Dancers and institution prior to October 1. Mrs. no back-door busting. ’Smat- success the first side .... Tony Pastor does Satiddy... Tip. Tap I zing, Made up io depict an aged man and so enormous, however, that all i LOVE BELONGS TO SOMEBODY ; quite all right on Biluebird with Toe in fifth week at Radio City i Garner, wife of the noted Talladega ter? Gone softie, got religion or woman of 84. were Henry Hastings, to ELSE and SWEET AND LOVELY. Garner, a thoughts of a career at law had SHEPHERD SERENADE and YOO- Music Hall Teddy Wilson and athlete. Ralph S. is grad- something, or just plain skeered? and Matilda Caldwell. Other play- be abandoned, especially as about Backed mainly by bass guitar and HOO. Both bounce and the band at Downtown Case Society uate of Howard university and AIR WIRES Well you needn’t be. It’s been agin’ ers included Eddie Lynn, Maggie drums, sides that time he discovered to his own I many of these sides have i sax section is potent. here. pharmacist by profession. the law to shoot reporters, ever Thomas, and Pearl Lancaster. surprise that he could sing, that jitbugs and the rest are definitely since A1 Capone's gang bumped off enough bounce and satisfy Jake Lingle. It’s close season now "Confessions of Boston Blackir" his basso-baritone voice was just i the! By HAROLD JOVIEN a as rich and superb as his dramatic j pleasant. Carle" is a good pianist on newshounds. so get hep. snap at Columbia last week had De and knows his way around a key- out of it! There’s plenty goin’ on, Forrest Cevan as a bootblack In gift OI Long John Is Acclaimed On Coast Dorothy Maynor, jrenown (so- board. Although these tunes have Give, Sorry, sister. this mixed type comedy. As it la prano appeals as soloist on the so Gate. Give!” time Mr. Robeson has j been around for sometime, they still ; Haven’t to you right just starting more colored players From that Ford Sunday Evening Houv pro- time answer in the public eye in a sound mighty good. now but mavbe later on. But rigrft will be needed later. continued i gram broadcast over CBS Sunday. triple capacity, for his success on ! now have to gain tell what is go- 5. I Morris, inevitably led him into SENTIMENTAL GENTLEMAN October ing on at the Hollywood studios Earl who did a fine job the stage i increasing the circulation on the He has star- SHORT SHORTS ABOUT Really though I don't write an motion pictuies. Admirers of Tommy Dorsey will STAR scan- eastern paper. nearly recovered “Porgy", God’s Chillun", COMEDIAN. EDDIE GREEN: dal. red in “All i want his Victor album. “Getting | from broken leg suffered while Hairy Ape", London in plavei- •‘The and in Sentimental with Tommy Dorsey," One of the few who can No calls for colored players for playing the tramp in Dixie Na- “Othello”. containing eight reissues had boast billing in radio. stage which five days . “When it rains it tional’s "Up Jumps the Devil"—Sßl a lot to do with elevating the from- \ screen. And add musical comedy, IN ’SHOW BOAT’ FIRST pours," but when it ends, comes the Dones is preparing to make a movie bone playing maestro to the top. light opera and burlesque. He short founefrd on Desert acres, lat- In music his first notable sue- dust storm. With colored players i Included are “Getting Sentimental j can sing, dance, act. write-, do earn June. to be into a in “Show Boat”, and was so much in demand during er developed full length cess was I Over You” and "Royal Gai'den tricks and run a restaurant. war feature, by recitals in July and August that studios were time called From Hell followed concert Blues.” “Marie” and "Who”; “Star Born in Baltimore. Md.. went to services, to Paradise.” capitals and in America, j arguing over their the bot- Eurcneafi Dust” Song of India"; “I'll! grade and high school there. . .. he created role and.“ tom came to Charles Butler of Cen- More recently the Never Smile Again" and Little | Started in show busiues as a boy in the Earl Robinson— tral Casting bureau for the colored “America” White Lies.” A good collection for y X magician . Did magic, then dis- Touche for Amer- g :||. i players he is in charge of placing John La “Ballad any hot fan. comedy. . according hookup. carded cards lor Was to orders from the stu- ican” over a CBS national Billy Minsky colored star for eleven dio. success of this deeply stirring, j STROKIN’ AWAY years. . Was the original “ivo unconventional ballad That Cootie Williams on open i up beautifully Ko” in •The Hot Mikado .” Won In ALMOST AN ANGEL” an FOOTLITE and 'mmediatc. Many trumpets follows Louis Armstrong call was immense instantaneous fame for his written to date comedy for Universal a • closely is forcibly shown on the singer shave followed Paul Robe I and burlesques of came to Central Casting bureau for none can quite Okeh of "West End Blues.” The acted historical son's lead, but and heroes for Rudy Val- some middleaged red-caps 40 or 50 intimacy Coot, backed by a small group of classical years achieve the folksy and . . Co-starred with old. Quite an unusual call, FLICKERS grandeur that he Benny Goodman bandsmen, gives a lee. Louis quality of sheer Armstrong in radio . . Co-starred but the script characterized long brings to his interpretation good copy of Satchino’s famous old time employees of a railroad com- with Paul Robeson Created role Following the Mu- recording of the late 20’s. On the : pany. Cast and entirely By Paul Robeion. of “Sweeney the .Jockey” with Ben satisfac- ALVIN MOSES sical Art Society w-ill present Hans other side. G-MEN. Cootie growls tory by Charles Butler were Jesse NEW YORK—(ANP*-- Ella Fitz- his way Eernio program. . . several National Symphony Or- through a rip snorting Made Graves. Wade Dumas. Jasper Wel- gerald. a headliner in the field of Kindler’s bounce. on appearances in Columbia’s "Pursuit chestra, which made a great im- Trombone is also tops don. Irving Smith. Oscar Vena. jazz singing, socred again last week both zaniest dit- of Happiness’ series. . Has b°en pression on the Peninsula when it Positively the Richard Coleman. Henry Hasting, at the Apollo theatre... .w’ender if ty of the year is SAM YOU MADE | guest star in comedy and straight appeared here two seasons ago. on William Johnson, Henry Koster is tempremental (as well as provo- THE PANTS TOO LONG by roles on many *-adio programs from November 11. director: Phil Karistan. assistant; cative) Ella ever thinks back to Vaughn Monroe on Bluebird. In Hollywood. . Featured in many A unique “Our Town" type of Deanna William ffl CarveYrflG the/ dav when she srood befu ’e an dirge tempo. Ziggv Talent sings to Warner Prothers short subjects. . performance of Mozart’s delightful Deanna Durbin and Charles Laugh- Apollo audience wondering just how his tailor and ends with as scrowy Starred in featurettes made by actor, are co- and humorous opera “The Marriage I ton. famous English they’d receive this unknown girl a wail is you'll ever hear. Compan- Sepia- Art Pictures «all-colored stars. Seems odd naming the col- this hon- of Figaro" be presented on De- j ( Cluck Webb (many claim will ion piece is rhythmic TWO casts)... is to the ored Opera the married fomiei ! players before the stars and or * balJyhooed as being “a rising cember 1 by the Nine O'clock PAIR OF But Sam SHOESi that Constance Piper, a dancer. . .. directors, doesn’t it? But you see star .. there is so little sentiment Company. is the number Daughter ip ; they are most to us.) Hungarian concert violinist lives Philadelphia the important attached to stage troupers, contra- The Billie Holiday finds that lorch Sideline Eddie is conducting In “Morning After” a melodrama the maudlin bunk and February 27 for ry to ell of Szigeti will appear tunes, JIM, perfect for he rtalents r, now at Paramount, Sie- r on j hain of Harlem restaurants. . . : shooting fokum feature writ u>: of both ices and the scries vdll end March on Okeh and it sounds like Ted- bert as of Hobby is' amateur radio. . Has held Hannibal has been working have dished out to their readers 27. with the appearance the dy Wilson on piano, Coupled is a stand-in for Dooley Wilson, noted be license for 15 years and operates from time immemorial Littlefield Ballet, first ballet t,, slow version of the oldie, LOVE player who pictures after exclusively Station VV2AKM. New York. . . . entered composed and directed i ME OR LEAVE ME. and it's ano- Favorite completing the run of "Cabin in Lil Barbe, de-lovely chanteuse Americans. ther star in firmament. food is not fried chick- who by the Holiday en. . he T-bone steak the Sky” here at Baltimore. A stand makes a habit of dropping in- LOVE WITH and Buck Clay- likes to the “after ME. : (-mother in French potatoes. . in is used to save a star the dis- yawning spots" INSPECT SHRINE toil’s sensitive trumpet also clicks fried (white colored), and He and comfort of standing while the light* or singing a WASHINGTON. D. C.— Billie and Teddy also team on the John Kirby’s orchestra star number for better than jin “Duffyv Tavern” broadcast via are measured and adjusted for the the Making an inspection tour of the Columbia of I CAN’T BELIEVE next shot, double “paid employees;” either has more CBS. Thursdays. to PM. so a was also Frederick Douglass home at Cedar THAT YOU’RE IN LOVE WITH 8:30 8:55 necessary for Dooley when action money than common sense, doesn’t EDST. at midnight, Hill here recently, Mrs. Sallie W. ME. and Buck Clayton's sensitive Rebroadcast called for him to drive car. Mix- give a hoot what we writers think , EDST a Stewart, president of the Frederick trumpet also clicks. whbhhhHHHl for the west coast. ed types of all races are cast in about her “free auditions that hurt I THE TATTLES: Douglass Memorial and Historical Built around a simple riff. “A TAPPER the pi—c—ture. Patricia Morrison some hard-slaving inferior perfor- Haz'd Scott of Cato Society is a association, together with Mrs. ' Sheridan SQUARE” on Okeh by ! and Albert Decker are co-stars. mer,’’ or is .... just another exhi- Fredericka D. Perry, newly elected Red Allen is a powerful, gutty blues | likely candidate for the important “Red Time Story” a comedy at bitionist . as we dash off these member of trustee board, Mrs. A. j with Ed Hall’s gorgeous clarinet in ; role of Mrs. Lillian Hardin Arm- Columbia, used Ted Collins, Wil- lines, she’s planning to drop in on strong B. DeMent and Mrs. Julia West top form. Turnover is a kicking ver- in Orson Wells’ forthcom- liam Broaddus, and James Adam- the ... Yacht club, (through the Hamilton, visited the office of the i sion of INDIANA. Os course Red’s | ing Louis Armstrong movie based son in scenes last week that kept back door of course), and sing be- recorder of wills, examined and took ; trumpet is swell on both . . Here’s 'on the trumpet king’s life story. . them on the lot almost 24 hours. hind a (believe it or not) screened ~ photostatic copies of the will of an extraordinary Charlie Barnet - Bill ‘Boiangles’ Robinson sues tarred Frederick March and Loretta motif, heralded as the “walled Bluebird. has heat the late Helen Pitts Douglass. The “Spanish Kick" on Col. Stononagle’s local NYC show Young are the stars: Alexander nightingale?????” ... Uncle Tom by music lovers as well 1 Cedar Hill property was bequeathed to sell, while LOIS, much slower, Be as devotees to the dramatic art. He gives a realistic j If. Boogie Woogie pianist,':, Al- “Newr Orleans Blues,” the big pears that many of us in the ridicu- for the establishment of a museum male voices behind the trumpet. tragic he portrays cert and Pete musical featuring Jim- lous and odious chara.-M-i of W illie Bryant, who opened ui Los Angeles opposite inierpi elation r.f the character i Ammons Johnson, did j melodrama of moments regarding the Negro ' male voices behind the trumpet. | their duty on NBC’s Basin ’Street my Lunceford’s band, made addi- “Aunt Thomasina” . still greet Ethel Waters in “Mamba’s Daughters” at the Bilt- nightly. I race. 1 Barnet cuts loose on sax on both .. series, Monday, September 15, -1 tional scenes, using more colored to each new cycle of years!!!{...,