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Saturday, November 6, 1937

NEWS STAGE * RADIO ^SCREEN * MUSIC WORLD

RECORDER READERS ARE ASKED TO SEND IN FAN MAIL

FLi4S//..! This is an SOS call to the ure of the many Race artists apthousands of Recorder readers pearing* on major Radio networks, throughout the nation to send in In order that Race artists might get fan letters expressing their pleas- a better break on the many Commer-

cial Programs, we believe it to be necessary that thousands of letters be sent to the Radio stations lauding these programs. Send your let-

ters to The Indianapolis Recorder and they will be forwarded to the major radio stations. Act today, and help make more places for members of your group.

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THE SOUTHERN AIRES Their fan mail is the largest of any of the big time radio stars . . . and that is why their managers KNOW they are popular. These celebrated stars have won the plaudits of critics throughout the nation.

THE CHARIOTEERS A male quartet that is fast gaining the popularity due them. The boys have become favorites over the ether waves, and can be heard over the NBC networks nightly. Help these boys by sending in your fan letters.

Stage Players Go to Hollywood

(By HARRY LEVETTE for ANP)

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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov. 4.— 5Vith more and more celebs arriving on every train and plane, this wider spraddled burg by the blue Pacifle is becoming more and more leading candidate for honors of Exhibit A In big shots'. John Roxborough and Julian Black, co-managers of heavyweight champion Joe Louis, are the latest arrivals, drawn by movie interests as they are here to watch over the screen career of their protege who makes his debut before the cameras this week. They will be doing the signing on the dotted line as the grateful boy who was taken from a $25 a week job at the Detroit Ford plant to world fame and wealth by Roxborough leaves all such matters up to him and his partner. Mrs. Black and Mrs. Roxborough accompanied their famous husbands and the party will visit many points of interest in California. - ,

So the big name tally now topped by Louis, includes Bill Robinson, Wm. Gean, Grant Still, Louie Armstrong, Jimmy Lunceford, with Tip. Tap and Toe, crack dancing act. and Fredi Washington, actress, ready to return for new pictures.

Of course Ralph Cooper, Clarence Muse. Ernest Whitman, Hattie /McDaniels, and other easterners are here* but they have been promoted to the upper brackets of old settlers. After a year in sunny California you become an old settler and a chronic booster, according to chamber of commerce initiation. and all these mentioned are here to stay. However, they’re all former “flesh” workers so still love the footlights and are also fighting for the return of the flesh.

Sebastian s Cotton Club chorus of 19 dancing darlings was closed out at the end of the first week after opening in Joe Stevenson’s Mg ' floor show behind Jimmy Lunceford’s band. It went in on Oct. 7 with the change from an all-white company and Ben Pollack’s band to an all-colored company and band. • Only four acts of the principals are left. They are Earl and FranHb, The Three Hi-Hatters, Johnny Taylqr and Juanita Moore. Stevenson, the producer, was also closed with the show as business failed to inorease enough to justify the expense, according to Sebastian. However there are possibilities of their being called back when Louie

Armstrong enters with his early in November.

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Other night clubs still using entertainers are the Bal Taboran, the Wave, the Suanee Inn, Papke’s Beer Garden, the Paradise and a few others. Rubberneck Holmes is the newest addition to the Paradise cast.

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The Tip Top Inn down at San Diego has that petite, charming, talented bit of femininity Toni Anthony featured with a good company and band. The spot caters to the ofay trade but all greatly enjoy the colored performers.

The Creole Palace, mauos ‘‘Black and Tan” cabaret, is still the bright spot of San Diego with George Ramsey, proprietor, always scouting for the best in entertainment.

CHICK WEBB And his nationally known dance band are occasional features over the NBC networks. Don’t fail to tune in on the band and listen to Ella Fitzgerald’s sweet “chirping.”

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JIMMY LUNCEFORt) Now ‘wowing’ ’em at Frank Sebastian’s Los Angeles nitery on the Pacific Coast with their peculiar style of

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NINA MAE McKINNEY Popular femme entertainer and movie star now basking in the limelight of Australia. It is also reported that Miss McKinney is doing a regular broadcast in the foreign land.

LOUIS ARMSTRONG Who is now busy making a new flicker with Bing Crosby, and will appear in a stellar role in Mae West’s new picture, “Every Day Is a Holiday.” He also appears with his band as guest artists over the radio.

CLARENCE MUSE Who has a contract to head a new commercial entitled, “Aesop’s Fables.” Muse was last heard regularly on Irwin S. Cobb’s “Paducah Plantation.” Watch for him soon over your favorite networks.

The Yesman just around the cor. ner is operated by A1 Ramsey, brother of George. A1 acted as master of ceremonies at the Palace before he opened his own i place. He now has a companion | house nearby called the Padre. It j opened on Oct. 2 with many Los Angeles visitors journeying down for the festivities and to wish : genial, hustling A1 good luck. I

Police Reporter Gives Low-down on Halloween Celebration

NEWSBOY IS TAP DANCED

Cheeseman and Perry, Glennie John in domestic life Mr. and Mrs. John Perry, were held over nine weeks at the Plantation in San Francisco where they have been since they left here several months ago. They have one of the best dance teams now playing to eastern audiences. Also at the Plantation were Dudley Dickerson, Bobby Gwynn, The Brown Sisters, Peter Ray and others. Bobby left the Plantation a week ago to open at the exclusive Trocadero in Hollywood, but Cheeseman and Perry are still in Frisco now at the Club Tivoli. It is right in the heart of San Francisco and the clever pair are the only colored performers In a company of 20 whites. They stage all the ensemble numbers as well as work in the show, and grow increasingly popular with both the Tivoli fans and their white co-workers. Write Radio Fan LettersAmerica’s best policy in China right now would be to keep out of It. When a person is liquidated in Russia, he doesn’t leave a greasy spot.

(By OPAL TANDY) Hardly anybody knows just when and where and why there is a halloween. Halloween is an interesting day whenever it comes simply because of its uniqueness. Nobody seems to know just what the celebration is about, when the celebrations first started, or what the significance of the eerie night is, but there is one thing certain, whenever the thirty-first of October rolls around you can be sure that there will be an outlandish display of weird costumes and

regalia.

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another holiday’s time, All Saints’

Day, Nov. 1st, this Halloween was no different from the others. Wherever you were you probably got a sizeable amount of enjoyment out of the whole affair, but to have been on a night club tour of the city, with a special assistant, Lafayette Buchanan, and working directly under the orders of Saint Clair Gibson, theatrical editor, with orders to bring in the stuff that’s different, 1 say if you

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PE NISH TAVERN:

The bar was lined end to end with drinkers, who drank everything from Gordon gin down to soda water. There was no dancing and entertainers, it seemed that everyone who had a load on his chest was at the Penish Tavern. I saw four brothers who were tops three years ago in the entertainment world, and as I looked their regalia over they seemed to have

HEADS THEATRE ON EAST SIDE

NOD CITY . loves to sleep . . ties say “Sleep sweeps away the mental cobwebs from tired brains, recharges wearied muscles, rebuilds worn tissue and gives the heart its nearest approach to rest.” You, too. should sleep more . . . and enjoy dreamin’ in a land of make believe . . . Says us ... !

IS YOUR LIFE AN OPEN BOOK . . . ? Copied . . . The fa mous journalist, Murat Halstead, once said: “The man who says he has nothing in his life he would be ashamed to see in print or that he has lived 30 years or more without a blemish on his character is a liar. . . . Humanity simply does not assay that high. .. . The marvel is that those in the news rooms of newspapers know so much and say so little. Yet that is why journalism has remained such a high calling. When such ‘unwritten laws’ of privacy are not maintained by those of us with editorial prive lege we are destroying a precious heritage.” Remember the newspa perman . . . and keep him holy . . . for he might talk. . . .

his mind every few minutes!" . . . NEW SPOT . . . Word reaches the Avenooer that a brand new spot for nightlifers will open soon out Indianave way. . . . The spot is to be operated by the Ferguson Broth ers . , . and from what we can learn will be just about the cozi est rendezvous in town. . . . Yessirre. . . ! NEW FLOOR . . . The popular Mitchellyne on de avenuoo has put in a new terrazzo floor. . . . These alterations will make the spot more adaptable for those who are wont to ‘trip the light ^fantastic toe.’ Get you ready “gates” and let’s truck on down. . . . What seys youse. , . .

.lames Williams, formerly manager of Lido Theatre, is now manager of the Douglas Theatre, at 19th and Martindale. He extends an invitation to his many friends to visit him at his new location. Since he has taken over his new duties, the Douglas is undergoing

HALLOWEEN . . . Indiana ave noo was in splendor . . . tricksters . . . slickers . . . old maids . . . lassies . . . beau brummels and whatnots were in evidence along the ‘stroll’ Monday after sundown. A parade of the sophisticated , nimcompoops, sheiks . . . she- i . . . freaks . . . mollycoddles clowns . . . goblins and pumpface Senegambians. ... Ye Avenooer really did enjoy the sights. . . . Names . . . No . . . ! We dare not be so careless. . . . If you were in the parade you know that we saw you ... So what. . . .

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SECOND ANNUAL ARMISTICE DANCE TO DRAW LARGE CROWD

The Y. M. C. A Post, No. 107 of the American Legion, will give It second annual Armistice Day military hall at the Walker Casino, Thar«day night, November 11, 1937,

for the benefit of the Colored Orphans at Knightstown. This Post will present a large American flag to each of the colored schools of this city as a part of the Legion Americanization program.

ROBERT (Junior) WILSON Robert (Junior) Wilson, 6A student at School 24. and just rounding out his 11th year on these terrestial shores is being acclaimed as the city’s most expert juvenile dancer, according to those who have seen him dance, Little Junior has natural dancing ability, and has been executing some of the finer dance steps since he was old enough to stand on his feet. Master Wilson is also an accomplished singer. And specializes in the popular tunes. He has appeared on the program at Block’s department store, and over the ether waves on the store’s radio program. Aside from Block’s, he has appeared at the Leader store, German House, Indiana state fairgrounds; Tomlinson hall, and Dee’s Paradise. The boy will appear in a series of programs in the city schools. The young ‘Bojangles’ lives with

to their socks. Another lady, who makes a big showing in church circles, was putting the bottle to a stiff test. Probably gives her inspiration to teach a better Sunday school lesson. Lots of music, no dancing, everybody worried over something—what I don’t know —but something. IZSAKS TAVERN: I didn’t recognize a single east sider there, they all came from other sections, but the fun was there and the faucets, not the one with water, were constantly on the go. Bright lights, strangers, and

lots of fun.

LEISURE HOUR:

Arthur Quarrells and his brother had their hands ful. Castinne Griffin was as pleasant, under the conditions, as possible, giving a broad smile and fighting her way through

his mother. Mrs. Helen M. Wilson, a solid mass of flesh that went 318 W. 13th street. Young Wilson from the front door to the back will leave shortly for a visit with and even bulged out of the winhis aunt, Mrs. Jean Maxey in New dows. The visitors at the Leisure York, for further study towards a Hour lived more life on that spot

! orders.that we had you could have missed all the Halloweens to come for ten years and when the decadp rolled around you would have still been aheatl of the man who, stayed at home or went to spme lonely place and remained put. TIere is a sketch of what happened at the various spots *as we spent about ten minutes at each one on our

tour.

To begin with, the whole town was twisted, and lopsided. It was impossible to find anylxyly doing the things that they usually do in their part of town. The northerners went south, the southerns went north, the westerners went east, the easterners went west, and the folks in. the center of the burg just followed the ill winds to the four corners of the

career in the dancing profession. He is, at present, busy earning his spending change as a Recorder carrier.

than they ever will in many a moon, life, flesh, but courteous

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JAMES WILLIAMS a thorough renovation and remodeling to give the customers more comfort and better surroundings. The seating capacity will he several hundred more,, new ventilating, modern acoustic system to effect better sound, and first run pictures. This east side picture house will be one of the most modern show establishments in the city and their patrons are promised some of the best entertainment in the city. Let’s all give Mr. Williams and the Douglas Theatre a great big boost.

ROMANCE . . . “It was eleven P. M. when the boy saw the girl to the door. He kissed her good night. The girl, smiling contentedly, turned to go inside—but the boy stopped her. “Please, dear,” he begged. “Just one more kiss.” The girl hesitated. Then she melted into his arms. They kissed. “Good night, dearest.” whispered the girl. The boy held her arm. “Just one more kiss.” he pleaded. .. . Dawn was breaking. The girl struggled to free herself. The boy hated to see her go. “Just one more kiss,” he coaxed. “Oh, no,” protested the girl. “My goodness, that’s what you said six irurs ago!” The boy nodded proudly. “You betcha,” he boasted. “I’m not one of those guys who changes

NEW STAGE . . . Mr. Sea Ferguson of the Cotton Club has built a new stage for the band and en tertainers. . . . This improvement shouto make it possible for diners to see and enjoy the floor shows better. . . . Hooray for our friend. “Georgia Boy." ... Write Radio Fan Letters COCA-COLA CO. ON AIR SUNDAY “An Old Flame Never Dies” from the American musical romance “Virginia", the song that Nora Bayes popularized “In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree”, and “There’s a Long, Long Trail A Winding" on Armistice Day. fea ture SingiiV Sam’s offering for this week on the program of “Refresh ment Time”, presented by The Coca-Cola Bottling Company. The completed list of song to be sung Fridays, on Station “Refreshment Time” follows: Monday, November 8 — “Is It Gonna Be Long”, “An Old Flame Never Dies” from the American musical romance “Virginia”, “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now”, and “Marquita”, a love song of old Mexico. Tuesday. November 9 — “My Baby Just Cares for Me”. “Can I Forget You”. “In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree”, “With a Song in My Heart.” Wednesday, November 10 — “I Idolize My Baby’s Eyes”, “In a Little Carolina Town”, “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”, and When Twilight Comes.” Thursday, November 11 — “I’m Sitting High on a Hill Top”, “Moon at Sea”, “Dearie”, and “There’s a Long, Long Trail A-Winding.” Friday, November 12 — “Have a Smile”, “The Night Is Young and You’re So Beautiful”, “I Ain’t Got No Hard Luck Now”, “Missouri Waltz.”

Sea Ferguson’s COTTON CLUB RESTAURANT GOOD FOOD — FINE LIQUORS — WINES ENTERTAINMENT EVENINGS OPEN 5 A. M., CLOSE 2 A. M. Phone, Rl. 0121 Florence Elder, Hostess '' Tucker Williams, Mgr.