Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1961 — Page 12

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DEATH COMES TO A GREAT the Negro Race has lost a vibrant CHURCHMAN . . . Death came to voice in the fields of religion and

Blahop Arthur W. Womack Mon- civil rights . • ■ and the church has

bed* .V Me^st^p^. 1 " .M the goSd of all^umanity^His^eath Wats the end of an lllustrioua leaves a void in the ranks of men career ... as preacher, teacher. J" ®Y er y col ‘ nt ^ an ? chm 1 8 - P8ace bishop . . . layman . . . scholar., to his ashes! (See story elsewhere Race man . . . and ardent NAACP for T list <* survivors). worker Leonard Brothers—Paul, ChesHE was presiding bishop of the ter f nd Richard. Naptown’s gift Fourth Espiscopal District of the to th ®, entertainment world are CME Church, which comprised ^ rr f ntl y hoofi . n K " ,tel y at M . th v e Louisiana and Mississippi and West R le sta R° om in Idlewild, Mich. Africa. He had planned a trip to < nuf sed ) • V J / mes Pa y ne » the Europe to attend a religious con- bail bondsman and manference before he was stricken about-town, is m General Hospital with the illness that culminated in on u Mr: 4- , P ^ yn , e 1v ^ vas his death rushed to the hospital last MonFUNERAL SERVICES for the < * , 5 r s“ fferin f f heart condition prominent 70-ycar-old prelate will • • * ^ r * . an w-ir rs ' Law * be held at 11 a. m. Monday at rence and William Rawlings of Phillips Temple on N. West St. Detroit, Mich., spent last week where he pastored for seven years. her . e visiting relatives and friends Burial will be In Crown Hill Ceme- a " d especially Mr. Rawlings un-

tery ... and friends may call at cle C° rl (Politico) Anderson, Redacobs Brothers West Side Chape. r.rdTn/^rhter^r h :,, T

y ' , people all the time. Tis rumored WE FIRST met BisMop Womack that Car i wil , be ru nning for a

back during the ’Twenties, when eoun ty office comes the next eleche pastored Phillips Temple in tion . . . NOTE: We have a good Dayton, Ohio. He used to come baaa fiddle cover (like new) for weekly to the Dayton Forum, where gak. Donated by Miss Hortense we worked. He lov«d to write Bowman. Proceeds go to the articles for newspapers about his Recorder Christmas Cheer Fund, church . . . his denomination . . . c ome an d get it at your own

and his people. He often told us p r i ce> that he would one day become a

bishop in the great CME Church. A SQUAWK comes in from a This prediction later came true . . . reader who says that his weekly and he was truly a living example pool number came out for $2,000 of the religion he preached. Soft- but it seems as if the agent didn’t spoken . . . calm and serene at report him in for that week, all times . . . and cloaked with a He says he went out to the humility that endeared him to men church’s headquarters and talked and women throughout the length to the persons in charge, but to and breadth of America. date (2 months later) he has not HE ENJOYED traveling and received any loot. He feels he meeting people with his familiar — bas a beef. But the ticket plainly Hello, son or daughter! He wanted says—No Pay, No Play . . - Mr. to know what people were doing Mrs. Thom Ervin are back and how they were thinking. He from Puerto Rico, where they would think nothing of jumping spent 2 glorious weeks and they into his car and driving all the really fell in love with the place way to Gerogia, Mississippi or any • • • Mrs. Dorothy Clark is also distant state or city. He was indeed, back from a vacation spent in a tireless worker in the Lord’s New York City with her mother vk^yard • • • F u “ er Products Company

Mr. 'B's Pomp Room Now Open at 825 W. 30th St. Mr. “B’s” Pomp Room at 825 as ceiling lighting, a real novelty W. 30th St. is NOW open for busi- in itself; tangerine colored top ness and is air-conditioned for bar stools, aqua-marine top tables your drinking pleasure . . . and with tangerine colored booths in the nroprietor and host Herschel main room and blue colored booths Buckner wants you to know that in adjoining room. It’s a lovely he really appreciates the wonder- place for people who enjoy fine

ful turnout Friday, Saturday and surroundings. Monday nites—in spite of the fact .p, ,,, tt j

the air-condition system was not . popula " Howard (Hobo) yet onerating. It is now, and you EUls 18 mixologist at the new and your friends can enjoy your northside bistro, where good peorela&ing moments in an atmos- p ] e mee t to spend a few hours phere of quiet and COOL sur- with friends from all parts of the

roundings.

Mr. “B’s” Pomp Room, your newest northside bistro is all dolled up with the latest in fixtures including oldfashioned wagon wheels with lamp shades

Big Amateur Nile at Clowns Playhouse Tuesday, Aug. 8 Calling all amateur entertainers . . . The Clowns Playhouse at 2241 Howard St. in West Indianapolis, invites you to come out and join the big Amateur nite, Tuesday . . . and who knows— you might be LUCKY. Swinging pretty for the people will be Rudy and his House Rockers, the boys who really get you in that groovy mood. Your host Chuck Gamble wants you to know that the bistro is air-conditioned for your comfort and free parking is provided on their own well-lighted lot.

Former Cherai Director Of Starlight hi N. Y.

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Because of the large crowds at Juanita’s Playhouse, 1357 S.

Meridian St., every Friday and XT v i « • - Saturday, the management urges New York He is jmw assist-

Mr. Edwin Biltcliffe, former choral director of Starlight Musicals for fourteen years, who left Indianapolis last fall, has established permanent headquarters in

all patrons to be sure and come out early in order to get a seat and be on hand for the first show which starts at 10:15. They have been turning ’em away, and all because Miss Thunderbird, shake dancer; Sonny Rollins, singer and Delrio’s combo have been really putting on a good floor show. Yes, they’re packin’ ’em in at the spot where there is no cover charge before 10 p.m. and then

25 cents for men only.

Remember, every Wednesday is 2-bit nite and the big matinee is every Saturday from 4 till 6.

METROPOLITAN OPERA TO PERFORM FOR INTEGRATED AUDIENCES IN ATLANTA ATLANTA (ANP) — The Metropolitan Opera will perform for a week before desegregated audiences here next year under a policy announced last week by the Atlanta Music Festival Association. Rudolph Bing, general manager of the Metropolitan, decreed earlier this year that no segregated audiences be permitted on future tours of the New York company. It appeared that Atlanta might miss the Metropolitan next year because of the segregated-seating

, , , , xt rv i policy at the Fox Theater, the only HE WAS proud of his ancestry ^ s e op a | auditorium here adequate to handle He traveled^all the wa?^Ghana tie Rice, who has been doing some | gl ° Peia ' __ . , * for that country’s Independence public relations work for the firm, I However, the Festival Association celebration where he visited with things are shaping up just fine announced that arrangements had Prime^MRn’rter NtaTimaB^and other forrte .ocal^epresentatjves. ^ I boen-^or it ^takeover exrepresentative of the great CME from a long vacation in Wash- opera week, starting April 30.

Church ington, D.C., Atlantic City and ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS of New York. Her cousin Billy his career and the one he spoke Simpson, operates the Bill Simpmore often of, was the raising of sun s House of Seafood and Tflore than $50,000 tor Paine Col- Steaks on Georgia Aye. in the lete in Augusta, Ga., his alma nation’s capital, and calls it The mater. He enjoyed this work im- Place Where Diplomats Meet to

mensely . . . because he loved the Ea t.”

school and all it stood for in our Mrs. Graham was surprised one

ing artist to Eleanor Steber and Mildred Miller of the Metropolitan Opera Company. He has toured and made recordings with both during the 1960-61 season. He has also recorded with tenor John

McColum.

In the early spring of this year he made a contract with the Atlanta Theatre Under the Stars, as choral director, but asked to be released because of a series of concerts and recordings for a seminar to be held at the University of Syracuse, New York, this

DEBBIE ANDREWS SWINGIN’ NITELY AT PINK POODLE Songsational Debbie Andrews, former Duke Ellington vocalist, is presently setting the Pink Poodle on fire with her torrid and sultry songs. Backing up Miss Andrews at the Poodle thru Saturday are James Scruggs, emcee and Sonny Johnson’s combo. Don’t miss this wonderful singer over the weekend at your favorite bistro.

American life. He leaves this world with the sublime knowledge that he put more into it than he took from it. That’s the kind of man he was ... a true soldier of the Cross — working in the ranks ... ini the flanks . . . and in the top echelon. He cared not for the) plaudits of man . . . knowing that; there was a greater reward awaiting him in the great Valhalla where all men become equals. He died as he lived, true to the Cross of Calvary and the tenets of Christian

religion.

BISHOP WOMACK was a native of Halifax, Va., not too far from where the writer was born and had resided in Indianapolis for 29 years. Always on the go always looking for New Frontiers for his people. He was indeed a pioneer in the religious field. He rose to the position of president of the Fraternal Council of Churches in America . . . and helped to establish his church’s missionary service in Africa a country he loved . . . making several trips to that country during

his reign as bishop.

THE NATIONALLY-KNOWN Bishop was also founder of the church youth movement and was chairman of the Superannuated Preachers, Widows and Orphans Board of the church. He had been pastor of several churches in several metropolitan cities and held A.B., M.A., D.D. and LL.D. degrees from outstanding colleges and universities. He was educated at both Howard University in Washington, D. C. and Paine Col-

lege in Georgia.

VERY FEW PEOPLE know that the first CME Church was organized in the front room of his mother’s home in Philadelphia, Pa. . . . and this could have been the spark that set off the dynamic Christian asniration of his esteemed soldier for Christ. Who knows? But from this humble beginning he emergd into a man of stature ... in America and the world. What more can a man ask? The light has dimmed but the spark

still flutters.

WE KNOW the Bishop’s widow and son . . . daughter-in-law and grandson. They are all good people . . . and we extend to them our sincere condolences during their hour of bereavement . . . They have lost a good father and grandfather . . . and the city has lost a good citizen . . . and the nation has lost a good American . . . and

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month. Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, wife of the contemporary musician, has asked Mr. Biltcliffe to do a memorial concert during the month of August, in Massachusetts. He has purchased a home in New York and will be joined by his wife just as soon as their Indianapolis home has been disposed of.

PROGRAM OF NEGRO SPIRITUALS ON “LAMP UNTO MY FEET” AUG. 6 NEW YORK (ANP) — “A Joyful Noise,” a program of Negro spirituals by the A Cappella Choir of the Union Baptist Church, Montclair, N. J., led by Dr. Helen D. Gill, will be presented on “Lamp Unto My Feet” Sunday, Aug 6 (10:00-10:30 A. M., EDT) on the CBS Television Network. The choir will sing “Rock-a My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham,” “There Is a Balm in Gilead,” “Ship of Zion,” “Lead Me, Guide,” “Elijah Rock,” “I Am Seeking for a City” and “In That Great Gettin’ Up Mornin’.” The Rev. Deual C. Rice, pastor of Montclair church, will comment on the roots of the spiritual, the

Controversial 'Elmer Gentry' Film Opens Sumlay at Walker For 4 Days

The highly controversial film version of Sinclair Lewis’ bestselling novel, “Elmer Gantry,” will open Sunday at the Walker Theater, through United Artists release, Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons are starred in “Elmer Gfantry” with Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones, Patti Page and Arthur Kennedy. The film is a Burt Lan-caster-Richard Brooks production in Eastmancolor. Lancaster portrays Elmer Gantry, the itinerant evangelist minister. Miss Simmons co-stars as Sister Sharon Falconer. The set of “Elmer Gantry” was closed during the filming of the entire production, the screenplay guarded with strictest secrecy, full scripts being issued only to the principal players and top production personnel. Lancaster and Brooks adopted the policy of secrecy just as Sinclair Lewis did when he wrote the novel in 1927. The Noble Prizewinning author, before he submitted the completed manuscript to the book’s publisher, Harcourt and Brace, insisted that only the partners be allowed to read the novel, and then place it under lock and key until publication. “Elmer Gantry” brings to the screen “The Singing Rage,” Miss Patti Page, who makes her motion picture debut as the choir leader of the traveling Evangelical troune. Shirley Jones was chiefly known as the sweet young singing star of such musicals as “Oklahoma,” and “Carousel,” until she was cast in “Elmer Gantry,” as a lady of easy virtue. power of the prayer contained in it, and the meaning of spirituals to people today. Three readers, Earle Hyman, Roi Saunders and Paul Stevens, will intone the words of the 1 spirituals. “A Joyful Noise” is produced by Prentiss Childs for the public affairs department of CBS News. Marvin Silbersher wrote the script and will also direct.

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