Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University Volume 08 Howard University Journal 1-20-1911 HU Journal, Volume 8 Issue 15 Follow this and additional works at: http://dh.howard.edu/huj_v8 Recommended Citation "HU Journal, Volume 8 Issue 15" (1911). Volume 08. 15. http://dh.howard.edu/huj_v8/15 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Howard University Journal at Digital Howard @ Howard University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Volume 08 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. t *"1 Howard University diurnal W \ WEEKLY PAPER PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C Volume VIII FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1911 Number 15 5 CENTS PER YEAR, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE 5 C E N T S PER C O P Y ORATORICAL CONTEST “ Mighty Like a Rose.” Miss PASSING OF GEORGE v/ Ella Albert of the Senior class WALKER closed the contest. Her subject HE Young Women’s Ora- By R. G. Doggett ^ . torical Contest held last w a s finely developed, tracing Friday evening in Rankin from ancient to modern times the EORGE Walker is dead, Memorial Chapel, under the aus- “Famous Women.” She closed jY j and being dead, he has, of >ices of the Alpha Phi Literary amid an outburst of applause. NrfY course, in some quarters, Society was a grand success. The class'es were grouped in been airily dismissed as an archaic There wais an unusually large and various sections of the Chapel, curiosity of neither much inter­ each section being decorated ppreciative audience present. est or importance by various with the colors o f the respective Vn enjoyable program was ren- complacement writers, not po- classes. Class spirit ran high. lered. sessed of even a tithe of his Each speaker received hearty ap­ At eight o’clock the five young great ability, deliveringjudgment plause from thei r classes a n d ady contestants marched in, led with the customary glib assur­ from the audience in general. >y Miss Nellie Pratt, and fojrm- ance of the shallow brain. Hap­ During the intervals, class after ng a semi-circle, they took their pily neither a defence of Walker class gave their characteristic eats on the rostrum. After nor an expositon of his powers, is yells and songs. >rayer -was offered by Mr. Liv- required. But there can be little It was not an easy matter to ngston, the chaplain, and a few doubt that on his passing away pick the winners; for the contest emarlrs by President Harry L January 6 in one of the 'State A- had been very close. The suspense Scott, the contest began in ear li­ sylums situated at Central Islip, was very great while the three st. Miss Forrest, representing L. I., where he had been under judges, Mrs. Mary Church Ter­ he two year Normal Course mental treatment for some rell, Honorable Archibald Grimke ipened the contest by making months that the American Stage and Mrs. Coralie F. Cobke, were i strong plea for the industrial looses one of the pioneers of the out deciding upon the winners. ducation. She was followed by profession and her greatest The anxious moments were how­ Miss Weljsof the Freshman Class, Negro actor-manager. ever greatly relieved by a beau­ dm made a masterly speech He was born in Lawrence Kan­ tiful instrumental solo by Miss igainst Woman’s Suffrage. The sas July, 15, 1872. His early in­ Vivian Johnson. Even greater >rder of) the programme was clination was for the stage. And* was the suspense, while Mr. hanged by a very beautiful solo he began his career as an enter­ Grimke was making his remarks jy Miss Agness Adams. tainer for quack doctors; who em­ introductory to rendering the The conflict was started again ployed him to draw crowds in or­ decision of the judges. Finally iy Miss nFuell of the Sophomore der to sell medicine. While in the announcement was made that Hass, Who had as her subject, this business he journed as far as Miss EllaAlbert had won the first ‘The Life and Works of Harriett San Francisco, where he met prize and Miss Richardson the Beecher Stowe”. Miss Richard­ Bert Williams, the world’s great­ second. The first prize was a son of tne Junior Class in very est low comedian, the two formed handsome gold medal and the sec­ icautiful language qjqke on “ So- a singing and dancing team, and ond a silver one. ourner Truth”. She brought styling themselves as the “Two iu t vividly the life of a character President Scott and his corps Real Coons” made their hit in bat we know so little of, the of officers and Miss Lena Jenkins New York while playing at Ros­ •dual course of the exercises was and her committee deserve great ter and Bials, eventually they se­ credit for the way in which they £ \ \ \ \ broken and Miss Alexander cured an engagement with ring a beautiful selection and an worked up this contest. Canary and Lederer’s production 'ucore. She was interrupted in The Lyric Orchestra under the of the “ Gold Bug” which was nidst of the rendition by an out auspices of Mr. F. E. Butler, fur­ presented at the Casino Theatre mi st of applause. Her voice was nished several beautiful selec­ 1896. Out of a large company dear and sweet, especially beaut- tions. We are very grateful to they scored the only hit of the ful was her singing of Nervin’s (Continued on Page S colu m n 1) show. A few weeks later, ow- o HOWARD UNIVERSITY JOURNAL ing to the failure of the “ Gold the first of all Negro shows, writ­ the performance they all sat still Bug” , they were engaged to ap­ ten, composed and staged by waiting for more. ‘Following pear with Pete P. Daily in “A members of their race. Failure their London engagement, they Good Thing” with which., they re­ was generally predicted for this played in Manchester, Liverpool, mained three weeks. The late daringenterpri.se, as was predict­ York, Bristol, Edingburgh, Glas­ Will McConnell then took over ed when they opened in New gow, and in all the principle cities the management of the team, and York, but instead, came success of England and Scotland. After presented them during the fol- and more attention fromthenews- a tour lasting fourteen months lowibg season in the “ Senegam- papers than any other attraction where they received a royal wel­ biari Carnival” . received at the time. So great in­ come everywhere they set sail Following this success with the deed was their success, that they for “ Yankee Land.” aid of Prank Mallory they organ­ were invited to appear at Buck­ Their next venture was in a ized a cake walking monstrosity, ingham Palace by royal command. real comicopera; containing some which they later turned into a At the close of the show, Queen musical numbers that bordered comedy called “A Lucky Coon,” Alexandria shook hands with on grand opera, but styled by then came the “Policy Players,” Mrs. Walker and told her, she en­ their manager for some unknown they stranded, but later came to­ joyed her singing and dancing reason as a new - musical oddity gether under the management of very much. The late King “ Abyssinia” book and lyrics by Hurtig and Seamon. They were Edward a few minutes later clap­ J. A. Shipp and Alexander Rog­ later starred in “ The Sons of ped Williams on the back and ers, music b^ Will Marion Cook Ham” , a musical comedy written said, “ Williams you are just as and Bert A. Williams. Having by that bright and scholarly ac­ good as a month at the baths.” broke with Hurtig and Seamon, tor and very promising play­ My dear readers can realize the and gone under new management wright J. A. Shipp. Williams weight of this compliment when which did not prove favorable— & Walkers’ next appeared in “ In they are told that it was the cus­ their show being subject to un­ Dahomey” booked by J. A. Shipp tom of King Edward to go every just and unreasonable criticism and lyrics by the late and much Spring to Baden to get toned up due to ignorance on the part of lamented Paul Lawrence Dunbar for the season. So you see he some metropolitan near-critics and music by Will M. Cook, one of meant that Williams was a sure as to what a Negro show should America’s greatest musicians; in tonic. It was during this engage­ be, and race hatred on the other this play, they scored an instanta­ ment that Abbie Mitchell, the hand for some of these near-crit- neous success, for many months peerless young Negro priina don­ ics were so inconsistent as to at­ they packed the New York theatre na and one of the greatest sing­ tempt to draw the color line in the firstclass play house in which ers in her line on the American art, by claiming that the show a Negro show was produced. stage to-day, scored her first and was too much on the order of a They were the talk of the town, biggest success, singing “Brown white man’s show. Laboring un­ and became social fad of the New Skin Baby Mine,” so great was der these criticisms of New York York four hundred. The leading her success, that many of the papers, the play was ordered to •of the cake walk and waltz by aristocracies, who did not care to be changed by their new mana­ Aida Overton Walker and Robert sit through the whole show, often ger in order to cater to the crit­ Hargous • a prominent member telephoned to know when she ics and for commercial ends, the of the Four Hundred at Delmoni- would sing, in order to be present result being that after the first cos after a dinner given in honor at her appearance.