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SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1940 PHOENIX INDEX. PHOENIX, ARIZONA PAGE SEVEN NEWS OF THE THEATRES Many Negro Artists On All-America Swing Band Harlem Leaders Still America s No. 1 Coleman Hawkins AllAmerica’s Greatest Assail GWTW Greatest Tenor Swing Band po 1 complete personnel joined in con- CHICAGO—(SNS) —This year’s annual Don Beat The of DOWN BEAT’S 1939 NEW YORK—Harlem leaders this week to select musicians has ended, All-American swing as follows; demning Wind” America’s favorite swing band is the Hollywood production “Gone With the jnce again bringing national recognition and acclaim to “as a subtle attempt to revive the terror campaigns of the many great Negro jazz Harry James, Ist trumpet; Zizzy Elman, 2nd trum- artists. Bunny Berigan; Ku Klux Klan and to fan the flames of racial hatred. Ballots of more than 14,000 musicians were tabulated in pet; 3rd trumpet. Tommy Dorsey, Ist trombone; Jack Teagarden, 2nd trombone. Fletcher James Hubert, head of the two voting, published H. months’ and final results, to be in the arranger. Ella New York Urban League, charac- January 1 of Down Beat will put Co eman Hawkins, Henderson, Bing Crosby, Male vocalist; issue Fitzgerald, gril Jimmy Hattie Noels terized the film as “a distortion enor sax; Charlie Christian guitar; F etcher Henderson, ar- vocalist. Dorsey, alto sax; Cole- of the truth. It justifies the acts anger, and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald all on this 1939 All- man Hawkins, Ist tenor sax; Charlie Barnet, 2nd tenor of the S;uth?rn Confederacy and i sax; Benny Goodman, clar. alto. Zurke, piano; rebels American bands of bands. and Bob makes heroes out of who Charlie Christian, guitar; Gene Krupa, drums; Bob Signs Up With are still fighting to win the war.” Hawkins, favorite of a decade ago. “The South,” he continued, arprised the swing world by Tun- Haggart, bass. “has been re-winning the war all ing off with top honors in the along through subtle anti-Negro anor sax division, having returned Eddie Cantor propaganda which is now being o America only in August after years By LAWRENCE F. LAMAR brought out more openly. It has everal of comparative obscur- done this so effectively that in ty abroad. Hawkins won out ovei Harlem HOLLYWOOD, Cal.—(C)— Hat- Berry, tie Noels, clever buxem sepia co- States like Cornecticut and oth- :hu Lester Young, Bud medienne of the stage, screen and ers, the Negro is treated just as i-eeman and Eddie Miller in the voting radio, was the proud signatory to a bad as in the South.” laviest the poll has ever contract linking her once more Horace I. Gordon, attorney, de- nown. Unknown a few ago, the with Eddie Cantor, famous come- cl r.d the film was “an indica- months Sketches jnsational Negro guitarist, dian, as a member of his stage tion of how far the reactionaries young show. are prepared to go in perpetuating ;harlie Christian, now with Benny Miss Noels will be refresh- NEW YORK—(ANP) —Christmas remembered for role white chauvinism. No matter what ood man’s band, skyrocketed to ingly her as in Harlem was in many IF IT’S ANY NEWS TO YOU the illiterate sepia laundress who form ‘Gene With the Wind’ Is be top of the heap to run off with celebrated ways. Some nice some S, setting flying had sweepstakes dressed up in, it vicious and uitar honors. Christian beat out had it and U. Government up two schools in just won a ticket, is not. Thousands of did Christmas all-Negro personnel. and being interviewed on the Eld- dangerous propaganda and I con- ach stellar box-men as Floyd Chi with an The 1939 new 3 chron- (with Andy Kirk), baskets were given away by chari- die Cantor starred program two demn it.” mith Freddie icle will reveal but two lynchings. Fall in line—Florida (2) reen (with Count Basie), Teddy table organizations and the city years ago. Mississippi (1). Civil Liberties Union to introduce „ furnished many meals for indigent and The new contract, calling for a and that inn, Allen Reuss and Carmen other cities along route. 'stren. people. If there were any hungry in the next session of Congress a bill to curb FDR’s power featured role in a star studded Meanwhile, Miss Noel is prepar [ this year it was because they had an “emergency”, hinting that the President just might stage cast, for Miss letcher Hend°rson copped the in calls Noels re- ing herself for a voice role, while • overlooked. Even newspaper- anger spot with a been put screws radio rights. on any maining with the show for 16 playing in the background, of a total of al- the on NAACP has data 7,000 votes. E.lington men were invited out to several weeks. The show is slated to open current Walt Disney studio animat- ost Duke number of Southern textile mills accused of firing Colored beaten out otav Mil- Christmas parties, a new high for in Minneapolis, Minn., December ed cartoon. Her voice will fit the s by Glenn nands to replace ’em with whites, rather than pay the -29, play important piroqueting - for second place among ar- Harlem. and the showc- antics of one of the There is a city market on Park former the thirty-two and one half cents minimum per ard cities of the Atlantic seaboard, animals in ?he next Disney full irers. The Duke took third. Avenue from 116th Street south to hour required by the Fair Labor Standards Act. Add to including Chicago, Milwaukee. Wis., length animated cartoon, titl ;d Catchmo Armstrong sneaked off tli fourth in trumpet 108th Street. It was here that situations: The largest state the (Texas) has the New York, Philadelphia, Boston “Pinocchio”. place the in Union ction, with the much-publicized i mat y of the poor of Harlem did smallest (to be more specific, the lowest) truck-load limit, shopping. For in airy James copping first, Good- their Christmas while the smallest state (Rohde Island) permits the great- ran’s Ziggy Elman second, and this place are found some of the Rivaling loads. It’s being said that when Otis Carson, the tal- ¦unny Berigar third. Roy Eldridge i nicest bargains in the city. est as sixth. Rex Stewart 14th, Red the famed East side pushcart ented John Marshall High School student, of St. Paul, Min- len 15th, and Cootie Williams markets, prices on every serf of neapolis, received that second cash prize award of fifty dol- i-h. ! 1 thing are at their lowest here. The lars in the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity’s Essay Contest, he Rating The Records last few days before Christmas, Ella Fitzgerald sex red to the peak no the place in bedlam. quipped, “So they want me io believe that there’s Santa j walk away with, gin vocalist was a Crowds shoved, bargained and Claus!” onors, winning out- •nished and cut over such J ..ewish shop own- New York’s Harlem Press years, from 1935 ti 1939. The edi- „By FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Fletc'eir Ho d I’LL BE ndir.g vocal personalities Bil- haggled with the as 1 ers. Club Is now editing a national tors of the New Yark Post had (For ANP) GLAD WHEN YOU’RE DEAD anr ie Holiday, Mildred Bailey, Maxine (Sochi Register to something that no Gther publishers Varsity. blue book AUTHENTIC AFRICANA TIGER RAG on The first Ella Fitzgerald was again declared America’s No. 1 lady of song •llivan and Bea Wain. Poor Spanish people, Jewish you!). Mel'-a (Moore) Conuth will—Broun’s last and best ofler- to side much Basie’s took fifth Os intere~t mu'ici'ns, scien- is the better, with by Down Beat magazine, the ballot Count band families, West Indian families and and frle~d hutby. Jim, are r.g. cu- Hawkins ar.d following decision of 14,003 t!sts and the intellectually Buster Bailey tak- lace in the swing band division ! a few Negro families do now mating N. Y. home. background of inj chcru es Glei Gray’s Dec- musicians polled by the publication. She easily won out over Billie American Bostic, Ne rious w’~o wnt the of the poll, with Duke Ellington’s ! their buying here for the most Now I guess Pitts-Cou»Jer col- Joe N. Y.’s only ca Holdiay, Mildred Bailey, Maxine Sullivan Bea Wan, gro tack Amercan rhytlms ard Os SHINE ON HARVEST and g eat outfit ending up sixth. Bennie part. ummaniar. Bill" R"we will cease radio annonmer. is on MUC IC: MOON top of this in the airfanrs witl» his “Tlaies spiri uals is AFRICAN is a version Gocdman’s band took first a T-ese stalls are furnished by the to ‘telegraph’ nur er twirl® Girl p Kenny rhythm as Rhythm in the Jurgle, just releas- renniol favorite, with '.viIk-away. city and are rented by stall owners Friday. Tee, Coston, From fiarlem.” WUh Sarg-nt warbling. c'moanion hee!..Jean Bostic sells ed in an album of six 10 inch rec- The Jo Jones, drummer with Count at a week. They are about brilliant Indianapolis. Indiana, his theme for his is a slow creation. among sponsors novel chatter, ords with de~cr’p'ive f"lder by new MIDNTGFT Basie, ranked third the na- four feet square and have lockers pianist to appear in a rectal at with his They were recorded on the LULLABY The pas ing years TAPPING WINES tion's Krupa took first witty guy, Joe!..liarry Lane Victor.