PAGE SIX THE SOUTHERN NEWS WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1946 King Kolax Drops Ork To Join Billy Eckstine Popular Singing Maestro GI-BAND MAKES DEBUT With New Ork PLANS TOURS Featured IN N. Y.; " NEW YORK -Singing maestro of the all-time greats of jazz mu- NEW YORK —South and south- tirely of recently discharged U. i Navy BRICE TO BE BillyEckstine, who is setting new ¦sic. Kolax, who until recently ¦ western dance and music lovers, S. Sea Bees. CAROL was fronting his own outijt, join- i will see and hear a “new idea in The new dance music combina- attendance records in his current originated by tion, I !ed the Eckstine band last week MEMPHIS MOVIE aance music,” Henri alter a successful series of AT FLA. COLLEGE 'engagement at the smart Club and gets a featured spot with Bil- I Woode and his orchestra, sixteen break in dates at New York's Sudan in Harlem, has fortified ' ly in Club Sudan floor show. | man aggregation, comprised en- Apollo Theatre and the famed . the Savoy -NEW YORK—Carol Brice, the I ~T he popular bronze balladcer, | CENSOR BUSY Ballroom, will commence a is to have tne limited tour at major .K;< greatest of young American con- whose ambition southern ¦ J&S musical in the southwestern in traltos, open greatest band busi- | and cities mid will the Florida A»- now a 10-man brass see ! June. ncultral and College's \ ncss. has Mecliincal WITH NATIONAL MUSIC Boasting sixteen top : lion, tive trumpets and five trom SHEARS star instru- a special S summer session with af- JiK'n who bones. Kolax, ( mentaists, ter season concert. Miss Bines is I will be featur- Memphis (ANP) all members of the ¦ of hot trumpet i The scissors same battalion, appearing this concert as •• icd on most the Sea Bee the band in band, will!' ¦> inkling moving picture censor of was organized an special favor of her husband, work in the Eckstine OBSERVED originally di- :be written into all Eckstine ar- \ Memphis is 77-years Lloyd WEEK rected by Woode, as part of the Neil Scott, who is a former high 'J old. rangemenis on trumpet. 11 tilth '). Binford, a Baptist armed forces entertainment pro- school student of Dr. William engage- deacon from gram, only Gray, now president of the Flor; Eckstine's Chib Sudan . Mississippi, who asserts there is : and is the such ser- mi ni has provided Harlem night 1 AT SHAW vice combination to remain fully da educational institution. much sin in cinema and it is. Miss .Brice’s formal concert life with its greatest, hypo since 1 toe intact after discharge, to bid for days old Colton his duty “to rip it out.” He must RALEJGH Three events at on April at New the when the name band fccbgnitioh in civil- season ended 26 drawing pa- fi el the same way about color it Shaw University presented in Haven, Conn., and she has turned Club was downtown I shearing ian life. ton age in Billy cred- m: merciless of Lena Greenleaf Chapel withili,, the week (pronounced down several lucrative offers to [ t droves. is ' i Woode Woody) has ited with having more than tri- ' Horne and Rochester wherever : highlighted the celebration of Na- long been as one of appear in concert since Mav I. they appear in a picture is atty rcfcdfenized She pled the Sudan's previous i tierial Music Week. May 5 to 12. the nation’s top-fiight arrangers will do several network current engagement,bus:-! I 1 uiaication. The observance was opened Mon- , broadcasts during the summer ntss in his j appears to and has contributed to the popu- through May 29. 1 Binford be in the , day morning 10 larity many mbhths but no formal concert: i which continues i censor job “pure at o’clock When the nf head line dance Because ot the trerm ndous sue 1 for pleasure” music department presented Miss Basie, other than the FAMC engage- since came a $20,000 band attractions. Count 'cess it had with Eckstine, the : he to it from Marjorie Williams, mezzo soprano, Goodman, ment. has a year insurance posi- 1 Benny Cab Calloway. | Sudan’s management is endeavor- • executive in program of numbers. Harry James, Miss Brice appeared thirty working $25 a classical Tommy Dorsey, iing to arrange a return tion and has been for The second program, “M;s- ; many from November 1 to April for on- per1 was recently titled and other famous band tunes gagement by the bronze month. This hik- ique Mcderne,” 2i> during the season just ended. singing edI S2OO presumably because Mem- featured the Shaw leads have featured Woode’s been intention to dedi- idol after he fulfills theater and 1 University Women’s Glee Club and rhythmis arrangements. It had her next phis citizens thought he merited the past season entirely to one-niter committments I other choral units in a concert of Daniel M. Gray, personal man- cate Eckstine opens his road | the raise. study and the care of her young month 1 Crime, sex, Negroes featur- popular and semi-classical selections, ' age of the famous Internationa! son, Jr., KING KOLAX four on May 30 with a week on and Sweetheart.'; of Rhythm. All-Girl Neil Scott, but public ed in “too prominent roles” are and was presented Friday morning ' stage Royal Theater in ‘ - demand forced her to abandon of the Bal- for paper at 11:45 o'clock. The concert was ' orchestra, has been engaged as - timore. specialties the Binford those plans. cutting. " heard by students, faculty members ' business and promotion director through ol power- Baker, lovely songstress, coll “Brewster’s Millions The young singer is refusing the addtion Ann was1 cut and delegates in attendance at the fox ,the.-Wopde, - trumpeter King Kolax, to ' because Roochester “had L 2 engagements during the house one continues share vocal honors ways” Of- concert already potent brass section singing ' too familiar about him: annual convention of Business summer months because of the his I with the maestro. a of Negro Colleges, “The Sailor Takes Wife for the ficers theh in PERFECT FORM! Dan Leon- ley, Ga., June 17-27; Northwest- taxing demands of herVicxt con- same Films at reason. featuring session Shaw. ard, American Red Cross water l ern State College, Natchitoches, cert season which begins at the Lena Horne are shown in.entire- The Faculty Concert, Friday OTHEUO TO NEW safetly Instructor, is telling an La., June 3-13; Camp Carolina. Berkshire Festival during the ly only in Negro o'clock, theatres. night at 8 featuring Harry Aquatic School that form Brevard, N. C., June 3-13 second week of August when she “We can't allow student and .. movies where L. Gil-Smythe in piano recital was is essential to diving. The August 19-29; and the Negro sings the Braham's Alto Rhapsody \ .|; Negroes are given special equality eyes Jeeiir rtars the final item on the music week she has Tennessee with Dr. Serge Koussevitsky and with white people; it might cause OPEN AT CLUB say it! This summer a Aquatic School at A. on April 26, 1947 calendar. The observance was under Southerner will have the oppor- and I. State College, Nashville, eyds when she disturbances down here,” Binford of the Department gives first formal concert at WITH DOLORES CALVIN < cut at the Orpheum g direction Music tunity to attend one of five Na- June For information on her attendance i says. of University. The two 17-27. New York’s Carnegie Hall. Miss ! Mrs. Count Basie downtown shop- Theatre in Les Angeles this week ! Shaw first tional Red Cross Aquatic Schools: enrollment, see your local Red Brjro He banned “The Southerner” programs were arranged by Miss SUDAN is almost completely book- I ping in plaid pedal pushers and t the King Cole Trio reigned. New I[¦ lie it portrayed Pine Mountain State Park, Chip- Cross chapter. a because declared Thornhill, of the ed for the season 46-47 with the ( | alack flats looking ala California. ' York was saved by truce. (tthe people of the south as “il- Mildred Director NEW YORK—Caleb Peterson, exception a troupe ! ] University choir. of few dates in her j i Mme. Sara Spencer Washington al The Jack Benny arrived litrate mendicants,” and most re- Jr., who has been hailed as the middle winter and early spring the Theresa overnight. The coal t this week by plane from Chicago | cently has prohibited “The Out- Instrumental solos on the Men- ' c day morning program were offer- “New Othello” throughout tbdr. strike halted Chicago's Oriental then- . Jack Benny went into the Hotel i law.”] didn’t object,to as a sensa- ¦ He Jane ed by Miss Boykin, pianist America result of his I tre where the Louis Jordan band ' \ . lmoi.*“u. Rochester went into the Russell'sJ curves, he said, but “the Ida with performance a in New the University choir, and by tional of that role Nite-Life York : was playing, cutting the shows to ! Hotel Theresa. William Grant jjpicture haa too much shooting.” Miss few weeks ago in Los Angeles, ROY WINKINSIN Still, Alethia Ransome. : a minimum. The street car strike I famed West Coast composer, I Binford has been the cause of Featured soloists at the Biltmore Hotel Auditori- !. on “Musique were Miss spent his 41st birthday nursing a|r much wry laughter in Holywood Moderne," um, open a Henry is soon to under BV ALVIN MOSES In Dick is deeply RADIO WARNING painful extraction. Case and has been threatened with a Helen Satterwhite and Black- engagement addition.