Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1950 — Page 11
The Indianapolis Recorder, Jan. 7, 1950—11
Vi Burnside's All-Girl Orchestra at Sunset Jan. 6,7,8
N.Y. Times Rates Four Pictures With Interracial Theme Among Best
Down Memory
Lane...
by THE SAINT AS 1950 ushers itself in by a squeeze play in a world torn with greed, prejudice and lust for power, our thoughts travel back along the road of Memory Line. . . Remember the great shows of years ago, “Running Wild,” “Shuffle Along,” “Dixie to Broadway” and such actors as Florence Mills, Bert Williams, Tutt and Whitney, Miller and Lyles, Sissle and Blake, Josephine Baker, Andrew Bishop, Boots Hope, Benbow and Benbow. Whitman Sisters, Drake and Walker, Butterbeans and Susie, Ethel Waters. Bill Robinson, Sandy Burns, Ernest W T hitman, Pigmeat Markam, Dusty Freeman, Buck and Bubbles, Davenport and Davenport, Cleo Desmond, Rochester, Randolph Sisters, Hattie McDaniel, Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington and many others like thelast five, who sprang up in later years. . . . It’s quite refreshing to look back thru the years and come up with such outstanding names as Fats W^aller, Leigh Whipper (actor) ; Fletcher Henderson. Blanche Calloway, Earl Hines, Louis Armstron. Hazel Scott, Ink Spots, Mills Bros., Duke Ellington, Rector and Cooper, W. C. Handy, Stepin Fetchit, ('hick Webb, Rex Ingram, Clarence Love, Frank Reynolds and etc. And let’s not forget our songwriters. Such as James Bland, who wrote many popular tunes, “Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny” and “In the Evening by the Moonlight,” but died in poverty; James Weldon Johnson, w’ho wrote Yale’s “Boula Roula” song; Bob Cole and J. Rosamond Johnson, who collaborated on Broadw'ay musical plays in the “twenties,” and were responsible for a string of popular hits. Among them, “Under the Bamboo Tree,’’.“The Congo Love Song,” “My Castle on the Nile,” and many others which were sung by the popular musical comedy stars of the day. Mr. Johnson also wrote the national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” “Mammy,” the song which made A1 Jolson populav is the work of Maceo Pinkard. Will Marion Cook wrote the “Jtain Song.” “Exhortation,” and many others. Harry T. Burleigh wrote “Little Mother of Mine,” “Jpst Ypu,” and others in addition to arranging spirituals — all of which are sung today. The “Father of the Blues,” William C. Handy wrote the famous “St. Louis Blues” and “Memphis Blues.” Let's not forget the great Jelly Roil Morton and his “Jelly Roll Blues”, nor Alex Jackson’s band and the famous Cotton Pickers orchestra. How about the hit tunes of yesteryear that bring back those memories of days w’hen we w T ere in love; let’s take the hits of 1927 — Remember? “Blue Skies,” “Me and My Shadow,” “Let a Smile Be Your LImbrella,” “Cbloe,” 'Mississippi Mud,” “Girl of My Dreams,” “Ramona,” “My .Blue Heaven” and “Sometimes I’m Happy.” Hits of 1928 — “Sweethearts on Parade.” “Lover, Come Back to Me,” “Button Up Your Overcoat.” “I Ain’t Got Nobody,” “Dig-a, Dig-a Doo” and “I’ll Get By.” Hits of 1929 — “Wedding of the Painted Doll,’’^‘Tip-Toe Through the TulffhC “Sunny Side Upr’’“Wfe Than You KnovT” “With A Song In My Heart,” “Pagan Love Song,” “Ain’i Misbehavin’,” and “Am I Blue.” Hits of 1930 — “Body and Soul,” “Embraoeable You,’ “Time on My Hands,” “Three Little Words,” “Exactly Lik< You,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street” and “Stein Song.’ Hits of 1931 — “Dancing in the I}ark,” “All of Me,” “Goodnight Sweetheart,” “Sweet and Lovely,” “You’re M\ Everything,” “My Silent Love” and “I Love A Parade.” Hits of 1932 — “Star Dust,” “How Deep is the Ocean,’ “Play, Fiddle, Play,*” “Paradise,” “Of Thee I Sing,” “You’re Getting to be a Habit With Me,” “Night and Day” and “L I Love Again.” Sixty-six-year-old Eubie Blake, noted composer, re-en-tered school last year and completed a music course at New York University to just “keep the youngsters from getting ahead of him.” Mr. Blake has written special music fo such -stars as Sophie Tucker, Gertrude Lawrence and Eddi Cantor The world-famed Edw'ard Kennedy (Duke) Ellington has written more than 1,000 songs, which include “Mood Indigo,” “Sophisticated Lady,” “Black and Tan Fantasy,” “It Don’t Mean a Thing If You Ain’t Got That Swing,” “Stormy Weather,” “Solitude” and “Caravan”; “I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart,” *T Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good,” “Black, Brown and Beige,” “Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me,” “Don’t You Know I Care?” “J Didn’t Know About You”; “I’m Beginning to See the Light,” “Bluetopia,” “Perfume Suite,” “Rockin’ in Rhythm,” “Blue Tune,” “Creole Love Call” and “Drop Me Off in Harlem.” THE GREATEST tragedy to befall show’ bizzness during ’49 was the untimely death of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, world's greatest tap dancer, stage and screen star. „ The Local Scene — We doff our hats to those loyal boys and gals in the local entertainment wo^ld who have braved all kinds of weather in order to contrioute their small share to Naptown’s needy families. It is our sincere wish That local clubs and organizations give them a much better break in 1950. . . . And too, it would be a good deal if more of our taverns and nite spots, gave these performers a chance to show' their wpres We don’t need to go outside of Naptown to find good talent when we have it right here by the carloads. Our performers and musicians should likewise, pay more attention to their personal dress and habits. Some of the things they like to indulge in will keep them out of good ofay spots. Drinking, flirting and bad language are the three things ofay spots will not tolerate. So let’s try and turn over a new leaf during the new’ year for the benefit of those w f ho come after us. Shelah!
Former Sweethearts Star Returns Here
Vi Burnside and her all-girl' orchestra will do three dance dates at the Sunset Terrace Friday, Saturday and Sunday nites. January ti, 7. 8. This will hiark the first time this youngtlady has appeared here since forming her own orchestra. Miss Burnside was formerly a member of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, where She specialized on the saxophone. Augmenting the band will be a floor show which is billed
to last until 3 A. M.
Miss Burnside is the leader of this year’s most popular femme band. She will brigg with her se\eral outstanding artists’ _who are imembers of this great musical
aggregation. .They will amuse you with torrid tunes and enchanting music. x The band played to capacity crowds at New York’s Apollo Theatre where such name bands as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Erskine Hawkins, and Louis Arm-
strong are presented.
Advance tickets are now on sale at $1.23 for Saturday and Sunday. Admission for Friday nite is 50 cents until 10 P. M. — then $1.00. For table reservations - call the Sunset Cafe for table reservations. Remember. Vi Burnside’s crew' will be at the Sunset 3 nites January 6. 7, 8. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Come out and bring
your friends and enjoy yourself with friends and acquaintances fro mall sections of the state.
THE "ORIOLES" HIT JACKPOT NEW YORK—The “Orioles”, who have skyrocketed to fame on the wdngs of their many disc hits of the past'year, will receive one of the record industry’s biggest royalty checks for their sales during 1949. according to Jerry Blaine president of the Jubilee Record Company, for which firm the group
records exclusively.
Ivy Anderson, Ex-Ellington Star Singer, Dies on Coast Suddenly
By HARRY LEVETTE f LOS ANGELES < AtNPi—Ivy Anderson. song thrush who gained world-wide fame as singer with the famous Duke Ellington orehesI tra, died suddenly last week in j her home, only two days after | leaving the hospital. Cause of death was said to be | asthma and a weak heart. Miss I Anderson had left the hospital after only three days to be home with i her family for Christmas. She
died Dec. 27.
At her bedside when she succumbed were her husband. Walter Collins: her aunt. Mrs. Anna : Moore; a cousin. John Jones; and ( a family friend, Mrs. Rose Malone. i The Angelus Funeral home is in | charge of funeral and burial ar-
i rangements.
Her two comebacks are said to be the basic cause of her death. She fell ill while touring Mexico. Several chibs in the nerthwest were expecting her to fill engage-
ments scheduled several
ahead.
began, arfd^settled in Los Angeles where she was married to Marks Neal. This marriage, ended in divorce 3 when sfye decided to return to the stage as a single. Later, she retired again, o»ly to go back to the stage once more. During her years of retirement she made several wise investments which brought her a good income. Included in her investments was a large apartment house. Ivy’s Chicken Shack, a mecca for Hollywood celebrities, and other prop-
erties.
Her love of her profession kept her from remaining off the stage as her health reqiih'ed. After falling ill on her most recent tour she entered Alvardo hospital three
days before Christmas.
Miss Anderson was born in 1904 in' Chickasha, Okla. When she was 13 she studied for two years in Washington, D. C.. under Sara Ritt. Going out to the west coast" where she was reared, she got her
months first jcb when she was only 16.
■' Starting out in a chorus line she
Josh White and Son Star in New Play
Jr., held starring roles in a new play, called “How Long Till Sum-
Miss Anderson gained her great- worked her way to a feature spot est fame as a singer during her under the Fanchon and Marco 11 years with Duke Ellington. Most banner in 1922. Later she moved critics called her the only vocalist up to a unit of her own which was that ever "belonged” with Duke’s featured at\the famed old Grand great crew; j Terrace of Chicago. There Duke Her most famous number with ! Ellington “discovered” her in 1931 him was "I Got It Bad and Thai | and signed her for his band. She Ain’t Good.” Other Duke origin- remained with him until. 1942. als she helped make famous in- With his band she was featured elude "Mood Indigo,” “Irt My Sol- in many motion pictures, on the it tide” Sophisticated Lady,” "I stage, and in numerous night clubs Ain’t Got Nothin’ But the Blues,”-and dance halls all over the coun
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discriminatory practices.” Lou Hazem based his script in pari on a book by Dr. S. Andhil Fineburg titled, “Punishment With-
out Crime.'
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human rights at the close of thJ
program.
ABC EDITORS SELECT
SPORT STORIES OF THE YEAR In sports ABC news editors
HOLLYWOOD < ANP>—“Punish-i picked lhe P ennan: drives of the went Without Crime” was the Rrooklyn Dodgers and the New presentation on \BC’£ documen- York Yank ees as the story of the ary program. ‘ Living-1949”, aired | ^ ear - Fourth ran ^ n g story
»n a recent Sunday. The drama-
Bill Cox Rated As Singin’ Star Bill Cox,’excillng new singing star has been recently signed to a long, term contract by Leo Lesser Jr., of the United Entertainers Association. Cox was formerly featured with the Four Kings and a Jack, top vocal group, and has completed successful engagements at Coney Island in New York City and at the exclusive La Ruben Blue, which is one of the Big Ap-
ple’s swankiest r.iteries.
He has" auditioned for several, mark as a balladeer ever since he recording companies and expects "as seven years old. to be recording for one ot the maj- j Josh, a well-known, andpopular or record companies in the near exponent of ballads, blues and future. Critics and pleasure lov- j spirituals, began his career when ers throughout the country have ' ie was seven. He helped a blind acclaimed Ccx as one of the na- man cross a crowded street in his lion’s freshest singing stars. home town of Greenville, S. C. Incidentally, Mr. Co> has ap- The man, an itinerant evangelist, peared on several local bills; in- took Josh on his travels, teaching eluding The Recorder's annual h'm a number of ballads and spirbenefit shew held last December duals. For seven years. Josh
NEW YORK (ANP)—ffhe New 1 York Times newspaper in announ- ’ cing its annual selection of the 10 best pictures of the year last week named four which featured an interracial theme. In the order of their appearance in the New York theatres,
they are:
"The Quiet One.” a sejmi- documentary drama about a small Harlem boy rejected by his fhmily and rendered a delinquent |“problem -j child.” The cast, made up of non-prcfessionals. starred Don- ! aid Thompson, as the youngster, ! and CJarence Cooper in jiis everyday role of counselor at the Wiltwyck school in Fsopus. N. Y. “Lost ’Boundaries,” a film classics release whieh presented the true-life- story of a Negro family which “passed” for white in a small New England community. Notable in the cast were Mel Ferrer, Richard Hylton. Susan Douglas and the Rev. Robert A. Dunn. “Pinky”, the 20ih Century-Dar-ry! F. Zanucg movie Which featured the problems of-a mulatto and the emotional drama of her
NEW YORK (ANP)—.Josh White ‘ 1>assing ” . a,s , s ‘? rring the strolling ballad troubadour and i^ ann A e .,^ ! fJ n 5 W1 ^
his eight-year-old son. Josh White ; N na Mae Wash-
.Ir helrt tJ-irrinf? rnles in a n^w i ln gton and Henry O Neill.
by any Hollywoo interracial theme, ed “Home of the
d studio on the the much heraldBrave”. a picture
featuring a Negro soldier who broke down unejer the strain of discrimination and segregation and temporarily became a psychoneuretic crippjle, was selected as a runner-up. Newcomer Jam(*s Echvards played the convincing role of the Negro gi. 1: = Others in the “select 10” were “Command Decision”. “A Letter to Three Wives” “The Heiress", “All the King’s |Men,” “Battleground” and “Th^ Fallen Idol.” Included among the runners-up were “Quartet,” “The Stratton Story,” “The Window”, “Saints and Sinners”. “Adam’s Rib” and “Tight Little Island.” ’sThe Times’ selection was restricted to English-speaking pic-
tures.
“Intruder in the Dust,? a MGM
mer,” which opened at the Play release about a narrowly averted
lynching of a proud and] innocent Negro in the South. Best of the cast were Juano Hernandez, Claude Jarman Jr.. Elizabeth Pat-
terson and Porter Hall, j
The first picture to be: released
house here last week. -White, who is familiarly remembered through recordings, radio, television and personal appearances, plays the lead role without benefit of his
customary guitar.
Not only that, he Appears on stage with a shirt and tie — in a role qf a successful lawyer— instead of the open-throated sport shirts which have been his trade-
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travelled 'from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi under the tutelage of one blind master after another. He picked up his repertoire of blues, ballads and spirituals, met a number of characters, and heard stories which he later incorporated in his own sones.
Buddy Johnson To Start lour PHILADELPHIA. Pa. — Buddy Johnson, the youthful creator of "Walk ’Em Rhythm”, who just recently rocked, the Great White Way of Broadway in his reeord-
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt spoke on^reaking engagement at the world
famous Bop City, will tee off
THE NEW
loeument explored the day-to-day racial and religious intolerance exsting in our country today. The rrogram marked the first anniverary of the adoption of the Uniersal Declaration of Human
flights.
In a series of eight-case hislor-
Fourth ranking story was
!he retirement of Joe Louis and Lie emergence of Ezzard Charles as heavyweight champion. . . .
NEW YORK STATIONS VIE FOR NEGRO MARKET
There has been an upswing in
an
eastern thea-ier tour with his blockbusting band and vocalists Arthur Pry sock and Ella Johnson in taking to the stage of the Quaker City’s Earle Theater on January 13 for a week’s stand. The Johnson crew, which currently rates as one of the hottest box office attractions in the name band field, will follow its local stand with engagements of a week each at the Apollo Theater in New York, the Howard in Washington and the Royal in Baltimore,
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DANCIN' SAT., SUN. YVm. Benbow, Pres. AI Wright, Mgr.
Coming for 3 Nites VI BURNSIDE and Her All-Girl Orchestra MIDNITE RAMBLE NITELY SUNSET Fri. - Sat. - Sun.
9 TILL 3 A. M.
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programing directed toward Ne- ,
grots in New York. WLIB launched You May Be Mlssteg . . . i daily series featuring Betty j a Good Buy. Spend your monej
( S the show delved into methods Granger, former women’s^, editor ! w h®re your patronage is solicited. Jealing with “hate” organizations of ‘Our World’ magazine. pro-! See ”
vith “ruffians of prejudice,” with ibusive “waggle-tongues.” as well is with instances of discrimination in education, in public accommodations and in current literature. “In education, in housing, in pubic accommodations, in personal and group relationships, none •ould deny that intolerance per- | fists in America.” Ben Grauer, the | larrator. said, “but not only those who suffer- prejudice are harmed, i Every one of us pays heavily for
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Job Thomas' Celebrated DANCE BAND A 3 Star Attraction
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SUNSET TERRACE
Sunday Nite, Jan. 15th SPECIAL AFTER HOURS SHOW : ADV. $1.80 Tax Ind. DOOR $2.00
Make Table Reservations Now At Sunset Cafe
JANUARY 6, 7, 8 Fri.. Adm. 50c Till 10 P.M., Then $1 SAT., SUN., ADV. $1.25 (Tax Inc.) DOOR $1.40 For Table Reservations — Call Sunset Cafe
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