Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1929 — Page 3
The Indianapolis Recorder, Saturday, Sept. 7,1929
Page Three
Latest News of the Stage and Screen
NEGRO BAND MAKES HIT IN CHICAGO CONTEST
CHICAGO, Sept. 4 — (ANP)— A band of sixty pieces, and composed of picked musicians of the southside, conducted by William L. Dawson, made a distinct hit here Tuesday night when the aggregation presented a program at the Daily News building as the 35th contestant In the series of concerts rendered.here under the auspices of the newspaper to aid the 1933 World’s Fair Committee in choosing the official Century of
Progress band.
Dawson, who is a graduate o f Tusljegee institute, Washburn college and American Conservatory of Music here, selected the musicians and after three weeks of practice rendered one of the most ambitious programs essayed in the series of concerts. The program
was as follows:
1—March, “Dunlap Commandery,” Mall; 2, Suite ’’Ballet Egyptian,” Inigini; 3, Gems of Steven (Porter (American Fantasia) Tab-j j ani; 4. “La Czarine,” Canne; 5, - chorus—(a) "Go Down Moses,”) Burleigh, (b) “King Jesus Is a-)
Lavalles; 7, March—“Tenth Regi ment,” Hall; 8, (a) Humoresque, Dvorak, (b) “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers,” Jesseh (c) “Twilight Echoes,” Miller; 9, “I See Thee Again,” (Mexican Waltz) Estrade; 10, chorus—(a) “Going Home,” Dvorak, (b) “Listen to the Lambs,” Dett; 11, “Lustspiel,” Keler Bels. The Star Spangled Banner.
CREOLE DANCER LEAVES (CALIF.) COTJTON CLUB LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept 4.—
(ANP)—The flashing smiles, expressive eyes, pretty face, and graceful figure of dainty little Pauline Parmentier, will be musing from the floor of Sebastian’s famous Cotton club for sometime now. as the popular dancer has resigned to take a much needed rest.
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JOE JORDAN Joe Jordan, who will synchron-
Listenlng,” Dawson, (c). “Deep]ize the music score of Joe Baker's
River,” Burleigh; (i. Bridal Rose, 1 latest picture.
INDIANA THEATRE Starting Sunday, Sept. 8, 9 & 10— Morton Downey In MOTHER’S BOY A 1W° Talking, Singing, Picture Thurs., Frl., Sat.— Bell Bennett ' ‘IN MY LADIES PAST' A TALKING PICTURE
REPORT THAT NINA M'KINNEY IS MARRIED
NEW YORK CITY.—It is rumored here in New York City, that Nina Mae McKinney, star of "Hallelujah,” was married recently to Jimmie Marshall, Lafayette theatre manager. Last Friday midnight, when approached on this matter, Mr. Marshall admitted it to be true and said that they were quietly married the morning following the premiere of her picture. Nina Mae McKinney, who began h e r stage career about two years ago, jumped into prominence when she was selected from the chorus of Lew Leslie’s “Blackbirds,”*to take the leading role in this much discussed “talkie.” Jimmie Marshall is well known in theatrical circles and has been identified with several successful productions. He was appointed manager of Harlem’s most popular theatre a month ago. M-iss McKinney left Wednesday afternoon on the Broadway Limited for Hollywood, where she resumes her picture work, she has an important role in Wallace Beerv’s and Ernest Torrence’s new production, "The Bugle Sounds.”
NOTED PLAY CELEBRATES
NEW YORK CITY — Connie’s “Hot Chocolates,” the current Broadway hit, now playing the Hudson theatre, cerebrated its sev-enty-fifth performance Friday evening, starring Baby Cox, Jasslips Richardson and Edith Wilson, tins all-colored revue is headed for a j full season’s run on Broadway. Paul and Thelma Merres, who were replaced several tveeks ago. by AI Moore and Freddie Washington. have returned to the production and Baby Cox is reported to return Monday after being forc-
ed out on account of illness.
The Dancing- Girl
News Theatrical
By MAURICE DANCER “BLACKBIRDS” REOPEN Lew Leslie’s No. 2 Co. of “Blackbirds” reopened last Wednesday j evening at Werba’s Brooklyn theatre, after being dosed all sumimer. This production headed by ) Harriett Calloway Lew Leslie’s (latest star, played for three months each in Boston and Philadelphia and comes to the Windsor theatre, Bronx, September 2, for one week before it goes on tour. “SHOW BOAT” AUTHOR RETURNS Miss Edna Ferber, author of “Show Boat,” returned from Europe last week aboard the S. S. Olympic and will attend the rehearsals of this production, whic)i goes on tour, opening with the original New York cast at the Shubert theatre in Newark, N. J.,
Sept. 23rd.
BERT HALL’S RHYTH-M CLUB Bert Hall’s Rhythm club for musicians and performers, is still the rendezvous for the professionals before and after the' theatre, and for their convenience, Bert is installing a new fountain so that his guests might be served lunches and drinks. NOAH BEERY / PORTRAYS NEGRO Noah Beery, screen star, has shaved all his hair off, for his forthcoming porduction “Golden Dawn,” in which he plays the part of a Negro. If the results of his characterizations i n “Golden Dawn” are good, he will then make Eugene O’Niell’s "Emperor Jones,” the play that brought fame to
Chas. Gilpin.
"HOT CHOCOLATES” MID
NIGHT SHOWS
Every Tuesday, the midnight performances of “Hot Chocolates” continue to have the unusual surprise features. Bill Roqinson has been a constant added starter and every now and then some wellknown artist will emerge from the I audience and do something. Before ! sailing for Paris, Miss Ethel Wat.ers sang a song from her aisle [seat and last Tuesday night, MurIray Anderson’s “Almanacs,” an-
Silas j.' Green Show
By TIM OWSLEY
It has been sometime since I dropped you a line or your readers of The Indianapolis Recorder. But now that I have a few hours a day to myself ^ntil time to produce our next season’s show,^ I felt that some of your readers may like to hear of things first hand from this part of the U. S. A. First to acquaint those who do not know what kind of an organization the Silas Green show is, 1 will give them a short insight of its class and kind.
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Silas Green From New Orleans is the original title of the show and today you will find it an institution In the territory it plays. It has a record of running successful
orchestra of twelve. And a street band of seventeen with F. B. Woods as band master and musical director. In next writing will give you the program of the show as it runs. The show is owned by Chas., Collier, Henrietta Collier, treat.; Johnson Rooks, manager; Mr. Moore, advance agent. Played Cairo, 111., Monday, the 26th; Martin, Tenn., 27; Hickman, Ky., 28; Union City Tenn., ,29th; McKinzie, Tenn., 30th. All towns capacity. In future writings will review the towns I play down home.
ARTIST -PAYS $2000 FOR VIOLIN —•— CHICAGO, Sept. 4.—(ANPJ— Jn a vault in his magnificent South Parkway home in this city. Prof. Harrison Emanuel, nationally known, violinist, keeps locked the greatest treasure of his life, a violin which he purchased from an impoverished descendant of the Russian czar for $2,000. No one knows how old this rare instrument is, except that it has passed from hand to hand among a long line of royal fiddlers.
This violin came into Prof,
and continuously for almost twen-.Emmanuel’s possession shortly aftty years. It is owned by a colored Jer the World war at a time when man and all of his employes are he was assisting his father, who colored from front to back. The (as a chiropolist, caters to an exshow carries sixty-five people and'elusive trade In Chicago’s loop, are paid off regularly every Sun-1 The Russian royalist was a patient day morning with no off days]at the time and conversation with charged up to those who are em-fhim elicited the information that ployed. The show runs the year (he possessed the Violin and would, around never closing. Each year a because of his straightened cir-
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Butterbeans And Susie To Appear At The Walker
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Butterbeans and Susie, the world
famous team of comedy, song and
dance artists, return Monday to ^ ^ the Walker to pay local fans their ing scripts that awa i t but the ar15th annual visit. These vaudev rival of the proper character to de-
headliners are on tour this season the roJes
with their personally selected H
companv of thirty-five artists and j From across the sea comes an from the start have packed such ommous rumble ol thunder —The i h-.v*. thus far nlav- dark cloud of hope on the horizon houses as they have thus tai piay D „,,‘
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with Butter and
to make this the banner season for
Latest photo of the once chorus girl of the unforgettable “Shuffle Along,” Joe Baker, who now holds in. her
hand, the theatre goers of all Europe.
JOSEPHINE OARER'S NEW FILM IS BIG PARIS HIT; HARLEM WAITS
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By MAURICE DANCER ; That Paris' took to the picture >other current Broadway attraction,! duction and wardrope likewise. ■Ever since the advent*" of Clar-'was self evident when after the j were the honored guests. The 1929 production is called
ence Muse and Stepin fetchit : performance they literally swamp- ) REVIEW OF “THE
new show is written and produced under the same title giving its audience something different, new and worth while. Therefore the show plays to capacity nightly. Because the people know they are going to see something different each year when the show comes to town. The show travels in an 80ft. all steel, special built Pullman car. With four special built twoton trucks to carry its workmen and special electric light plant. Two 1929 Master Six Buicks for company use. The average jump is forty miles a day. This show plays in its own tented theatre with a seating capacity of two thousand. Stage thirty feet opening and twen-ty-three feet deep. Special electric, modern lighting effects, spots, floods, etc. Special scenery made new each year to fit the pro-
into prominence through , , ... their performance in “Hearts Inj e<l nel? W1U1
Dixie,” and Itaely the phenomenal assured her that she had firmly
success of Nina Mae McKinney in “Hallelujah,” “talkie-dom.” has been looking with intense interest to the sepia performers in Harlem in hopes of finding someone with “It” to portray the rapidly mount-
congratulations and SIREN OF THE TROPICS’
Jack Goldberg, managing director of the Gold Pictures Corp., i s planning to show Josephine Bak-
carved a nit-he for herself in the
“Lucky Days,” written, produced and staged by Tim Oswley, who
cumstances, be willing to sell it. He demanded $3,000 for the instrument, but Prof. Emmanuel would consent to pay only two thousand and he and the Russfan prince finally come to terms. Since his purchase of the instrument, the mellow tones of which have delighted Chicago audiences, he has refused numerous offers to sell it for a greater price, not only because He appreciates it» rarity, but because its 4 possession represents the consummation of an ambition which he had had for years to own a violin that had been used
by the old masters.
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of Paris and has heaped greater laurels upon herself. Her sensational rise preseeded
the film to this country. Jack Goldberg, managing director of the Gold Pictures corporation, hearing of the picture took steps* to have the film imported for showing in this country. He secured the ser-
even ics,” to a group of leader^ of organizations the early part qf this
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attendance at their show and realizing they can only do this by a superior type entertainment, they have perfected an assortment ot instrumental music, songs, dances and jokes, the equal of which i s not to be found in any other show. Fine scenery and costumes provide an incomparable setting, making their offering here truly Q
artists i s Josephine Baker—a little girl i vices of Joe Jordan and his twenvowed who, not so many years ago, was ty-two pieces to synchronize the in the chorus of the unforgettable musical score. In addition he en-.
“Shuffle Along.” gaged a singing ensemble of | DOWN BROADWAY
To the visitors of the theatre in Paris, Josephine Baker is best re-
twenty voices to furnish the vocal
accompaniment.
members a» the ••femme notr” of, Outstanding amotiK the .turner, the Killies Berftcre. It was ’"" h heard when the Preimeie
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pleased surprise that her followers received the announcement of her entry into films. Their surprise was even greater when on the opening night an audience compos-
nounced shortly Is the theme song “Josephine,” and "Love for a Day.’ Porter Grainger, in association with Joe Jordan, wrote the lyrics and collaborated on the music. Harlem and Broadway are
Bitt Jamboree” ot sou* and dance. , ed awahinTthts „U =“e.tde^ An intimate glimpse into Nev els and idles, se.tleci , , 01 . inf . to gain a foothold for her York cabaret life will_be shown in comfortably ^ | ra( . e and self in “talkie-dom.”
An intimate glimpse into New els i ha ret life will be shown in con
“Nieht club,” all talking, all sing- try of their “Jo” in “The Siren of
,n* photoplay showing four ' ...HaUeh^U n fine and iimT ere that after all such conditions
beginning Sunuay. ■' . Completing this week on the i pi e record of the most emotional will be “Pusher in the j. ace on e{i ioh, presenting its story
do not generally apply. The blasphemous scenes are believed those in which the Evangelist rides thru
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j Face,” a screaming laugh hit you in jusjt that manner and conspicu-j on the baek of a donkey . are bound to ously minus the distortions of the )U)t uu ijk e those of the Savior en-
i Negro’s character that have pre- taring the city of Jerusalem, viously been used to capitalize on “However, ‘Hallelujah’ earned his pseudo-humorous mannerisms. | one favorable comment to which “Daniel L. Haynes plays the part all seemingly have agreed, the suj of Zeke, the evangelist, troubled perb and natural acting, of Daniel with the over sensuous Chick, Miss j Haynes, the erring minister; Nina 1 McKinney. Haynes is a marvelous , Mao McKinney, the artful cabaret 1 actor and an excellent singer and dancer; Fannie Bell DeKnight, as | acted a difficult part with proper ! Mammy, and Harry Gray, the i restraint and naturalness. Miss white haired old parson, all tes-
CRITIC SAYS ‘HALLELUJAH’ IS INSULT
“Hot. Chocolates”—4th mouth— Hudson theatre. With Baby Cox, Edith Wilson, Jazzlips Richardson, Messrs. Billy Higgins, Eddie Green, Billy Maxey, Paul Bass, Margaret Sims, Six Chackerjacks, Jimmie Baskette, Louise Cooke, Louis Armstrong and Leroy
Smith’s orchestra.
“Show Girl”—4th month—Ziegfeld theatre. With Duke Ellington’s orchestra and choir of colored ju-
bilee singers.
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“Blackbirds”—Windsor theatre— With Harriett Collaway, Hilda Perlino, Derby Wilson, Worthy and Thompson, Henry “Gang” Jines, Sandy Burns, Joyner and Foster, Aarons Palther, Freddie Taylor, Bamboo McCarver, Cecil Mack Choir, Billie Yarbo, Plantation or-
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"Hallelujah,” a Metro-Godlwyn-Mayer production at the Embassy, directed by King Vidor from the story by Wanda Tuchock. Dialogue by Ransom Rideout. An all-Negro
McKinney, whom we remember as the seventeen-year-old dancer of the late ‘Blackbirds,’ is fine thruout. The one bit deserving special commendation, nowever, is the
tify to the artistic ability of the cdlored race on ixith stage and
screen.”
Race At its Worst
Labeling the film as "a sordid
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picture with the Dixie Jdbilee j muc h mone y j Ie has. ^The hall i s singers. _ j extremely crowded and cloudy Zeke - Daniel L. Haynes | w j^ b smoke, the music is a plaint-
dance hall scene where she clinch- colored preacher melodrama, Jno. es with Haynes to find out how q\ Sherman, writing in the N. T.
News (weekly), says;
King Vidor of Texas has reveal
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Robert Couch, Walter Tail.
NEW YORK.—Despite the tact that hundreds of race patrons have turned out to view “Hallelujuah, at the Lafayette theatre, here, the reaction of the race population, as might have been expected, is far different from that of the downtown audiences who have viewed the photoplay at the Embassy.
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ive drawing tune, and the two figures sway slowly and passionately
ed only the worst and. d* 8 ' creditable phases of levee, slum and backwoods life in the picture.
from side to side, not moving their There is a cultured, respectable defeet at all, with Haynes’ hands V out Christian, progressive life playing through her hair and Miss there which Vidor probably nevei
McKinney’s head on his chest. : yaw.
From the audible, respiration about "This stands out in fact in bold ns we non-committedly praise it as ; relief. The religion of the race quite, quite effective. tiiere has embalmed it in a state ol "Victoria Spivey as Miss Rosey, nature. While ‘Hallelujah’ gives the girl to whom Haynes filially j great opportunity for race artistry, goes home, was excellent. In fact, i jt undeniably pictures the group all the principals were so well | as moral morons and religious bar
cast that a blanket bouquet is here- bartans.”
by tossed to all.” Fails In Purpose
Earl A. Ballard, race writer, be-
lieves that:
‘While the photoplay has served
Betty Colfax, white, of the N. Y.
Graphic, believes that:
This Negro melodrama, rich in
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of a happy-go-lucky plantation Negro, who, finding his crop money gone and his brother dead alter an evening of/injudicious gambling, turns evangelist. In his touring of the towns he comes across the provocative mulatto dancer as the com-on partner of the gambler who originally fleeced him of his crop money, and succeeds in convertig her to honesty only to find himself a proselyte to
her physical attraction.
He tracks down the gambler in the swamps and bayous of the south, kills hftn and goes to prison, but The fSdeouf shows the re-unit-ed family happy again in the cot-
ton fields.
Of the photoplay; the New York
World says:
as actors to the principal characters who have won favorable comments from critics of the daily
cotton fields, humble cabin life, levee moonlights, darktown night dives, revivals married to a high
press, it is a flagrant and mislead- ^ note of hysteria, is a remarkably ing mockery of the race’s religion. , vivid production built on an infer Some say it is blasphemous and ior plot so conventional as to fail had any other race been involved,! partially in its sincere and ambi-
never would have passed the Board tious purpose.”
of Censors.” •— ~ One well known Harlem leader g56 CIGARETTES APIECE had the following to say: SMOKED BY AMERICANS
Disgrace And Insult —•—
“‘Hallelujah’ is without doubt a^ American total consumption is
southerner’s reminiscence of backwood scenes of Negro life. It is a disgrace and an insult to the religious ideals of the colored race of today. It characterizes the group as moral morons and religious barbarians. In cohclusion, the picture offers no satisfaction to its view-
greater than that of any- other country, the department said, although the Cuban average per capita of 1,432 a person in 1927 far surpassed the American average. Cigarettes smoked in this country last year were estimated to
number 102,765,000,000.
Lafayette Theatre—“Hallelujah” —picture. With Nina Mae McKinney, Daniel Haynes, Fanny Belle McKnight, Harry (dad) Gray,
Wiliam Fountaine, Everett McGar- — rity, Victoria Spivey, Milton Dick- = erson, Walter Tait, Robert Crouch | = and Dixie Jubilee Singers. — Lincoln Theatre—“Harlem Hap- ^ penings”—musical. With Emmett = Anthony, Joe Byrd, Eva Metcalf, E Sammy Paige, Cooper and Foster | ~
and Roscoe (Red) Simmons.
Alhambra Theatre — “Dream | E Girls—musical. With Clara Smith j ^ and a group of Harlem favorites. I = Alhambra Theatre—“Triumph of = Labor”—drama. With Thomas E
Mosely, Ted Blackmon, A1 F. Watts, Edna Harris and others.
NIGHT LIFE
Cotton Club—Dan Healy’s revue with Aletba Hill, Josephine Hall, Margaret Beckett, Theresa Mason, Maud Russell, Mildred Dixon, Henri Creamer, Eive Blazers and Duke Ellington’s OTchestra with Sonny
Gr'teer.
Small’s Paradise—Leonard Harper’s revue with Joyce and Rookie, Warner and Gil, Willie Jackson, Ida and Bernie Brown, Cole and Wade, Myra Johnson and Charlie Johnson’s orchestra. CONNIE’S INN—Leonard Harper’s revue with Three Midnight Steppers, Baby Cox, Jazzlips Richardson, Madeline Belt, Palmer Brothers, George and George, Louise Cooke, Leona Williams, Billy Maxey, Pearl McCormack, Dudley Dixon, Two Black Dots, Mary Preval and Louis Armstrong’s orches-
tra.
Lenox Club—Revue with Lena Wilson, Mamie (Racehorse) Smith, Lawrence and Lawrence and Cliff Jackson’s Krazy Kats. Ye Ole Nest—Marjorie Sipp, Ix>is Parker and orchestra. Saratoga Club—Orchestra and revue. Club Spider Web—Orchestra and revue. \ Bamboo Inn Joe Steele’s orchestra.
ON THE STAGE ALL THE WEEK 1 " " ' f America’s Foremost Comedy Team BUTTERBEANS & SUSIE HEADING THEIR OWN COMPANY OF 35 ARTISTS IN “BIG JAMBOREE” OF SONG AND DANCE
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FAMOUS SUGAR CANE ORCHESTRA Held Over To Play For You Another Week HEAR THEM ST^P ON IT. NIGHTLY AND FOR PICTURES SUN., MON., TUES„ WED.
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