Their Singing Carried To Men Overseas

Daily becoming more famous for their well- | modulated cadenzas and obligatos are The Chario- teers, golden-voiced qu ntette. which is making its sixth appearance on “JUBILEE,” the armed forces’ short-wave show. .Here the Charioteers are shown

going through ,‘Ride Red, Ride,” in answer to

scores of requests. The show is produced weekly by the Radio Sect.’on of the Special Service Di- vision in Los Angeles.

Rochester Surprise Visitor L41 Camp Campbell, Ky.

C omedian Cheers !

Soldier Patients

At Post Hospital CAMP CAMPBELL, KY.—(SNS) —

Sddie Anderson, better known to

creen and radio audiences a.s ‘Rochester,” visited Camp Camp- jell, K.v., Tuesday.

He spent the afternoon greeting he man a,t) Station Hospital cheer- ng the patients of the various yards. Later he had dinner with he Personnel of Company B, 40th signal Construction Battalion. In the evening Rochester ap-

eared in the USO Camp pro- iuctioti of ‘‘In the Groove,” with 'ddtr- Bracken, motion picture star, t post theater No. 2. The Personality, so noted for

Slighter on the Jack Benny radio hows, drew rounds of applause rorn the delighted soldiers. Mrs. Ruth K. Edwards. hostess

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HAZEL SCOTT IS SIGNED FOR ROLE IN NEW SKELTON FILM

HOLLYWOOD—(ANP)—Hazel Scolt, famous pianist who hails from Trinidad, land of the calypso singers, has signed to

play a special number in the new Metro-Goldwyn production, ‘‘I Dood It,” starring Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell.

.Miss Scott, who won fame in New York’s popular Cafe So- ciety, is well known for her many p ano recordings. Recognized p as a talented exponent of classics, the artists devised a clever method of presenting such selections for boogie woogie devotees, hirst she presents the classical version of her number and then, very gr adually, swings into a version of the original.

Great Race Singer, is Now A Private JEFFERSON BARRACKS, Mo.,—

(S N S)—Back in 1913. two am-

bitious young singers attending the Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, California, decided to make singing their career. They studied, worked together, took vocal lessons from the same teacher and graduat- ed together in the class of 1915.

One of the boys was named Lawrence Tibbett.

The other was Dewey Johnson, now Private Dewey L. Johnson of a

training group at Jefferson Bar- racks. Missouri. «

Like his classmate. Private John-

I son continued his career in music. He received an A. B. in that field from the University of Southern California and his Master’s degiee

at Service Club No. 3, was in charge of arrangements for Rochester’s visit.

After spending the nighfi at Guest House No. 3, Rochester ex-

pressed satisfaction with his stay at Camp Campbell, and expressed regret at being unable to stay longer.

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from the Chicago Conservatory of music.

Now attached to the Special Ser- vices Division, the Negro soldier has spent his whole life in the field of music. He has appeared in Australia in “Showboat,” singing the lead role. He has sung at tlie Palladium in London, the Folies Bergere in Paris, the Kings Theatre in Madrid

: the Winter Garden in Berlin and in I many famed Russian music halls.

In this country, where he receiv- ed his professional start at Grau- man’s Theatre in Los Angeles, Pri- vate Johnson has acquired a rich background in many phases of the

theatre. He sang from coast to coast on the Pantages and other well-known vaudeville circuits. His night club experience includes sea-

sons at Ne\v York’s famed Cotton Club and Londons Kit Kat. And mere recently, after his return from

; Germany in 1938, he has been con-

nected with radio on the West Coast.

Dick Campbell Is

Back From Tour NEW YORK CITY—tS NS)—

; Dick Campbell, actor, playwright, ; producer and director of The Rcse

McClendon Players of Harlem re-

turned this week from an extended ! lecture tour of Negro colleges in

the South. Campbell was recently appointed

1o 1he War Council Commission of

non-Profit Theatres which was

initiated by the National Theatre Conference in New York.

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Couple Escapes To Mexico For Surprise Riles

Bride Is Mother

Of Nationally Famous Dancers

LOS ANGELES—(A N PI—With not onlv the screen, stage, busi-

ness, and society circles here sur-

prised. but even the bride herself.

Earl Dancer, internationally known

theatrical figure, and Mrs^ Viola

Nicholas, mother of the famous

Nicholas Brothers dance team, were

married at Tia Juana, .Mexico,

Thursday afternoon.

The surprise to the bride lay in

the fact that when she thought

they were headed for the marriage

bureau in Civic centre, Los An-

geles. to make the three day ad-

vance application for a license un-

der Califorma’s ..strict ..law, Mr.

Dancer was speeding to the Mexi-

can border. She asked in surpiise, “Where are we going?’’ “To Tia

Juana, where couples can get married right now,’’ answered Earl

as he hit the highway for the

more than 200 mile romantic er-

rand.

SON S WIFE WITNESS

Accompanying them was Mrs.

Fayard Nicholas, young daughter- in-law, wife of Fayard Nicholas, now in the army’ whom they had

brought as witness to the applica- tion. Arriving at San Diego, pass-

ports were secured without delay and they hurried to the office one

of the justices of peace so plentiful in this Mexican “Gretna Green.” In

a little while they were made one,

but not before the news had spread like wild-ftre that famous folk were getting spliced.

They know and love the sensa-

tionally dancing Nicholas brothers in Mexico, and all in the vicinity took up the cry. “Viente! Viente! eet ees the mama the Neecholas muchachos.’’ So by the time the

justice proclaimed “Ora ye pro- nuncio hombre usteded y esposa” there was a crowd of witnesses ap- plauding gaily. HONEYMOON ON RANCH

The happy couple returned at once, and arranged to spend their' honeymood on the Dancer ranch1 at Eloinore, some 50 miles from Los Angeles. They plan to make this their future home, where the new Mrs. Dancer, who is fond of country life and chicken raising, will super- vise the lucrative poultry business which Earl plans to enlarge.

While the bride is attending to this, Dancer, who numbers among his many theatrical achievements the discovery of Ethel Waters and

Jeni LeGon, will put his new elaborate stage show “Africana” be- fore the footlights. Rehearsals started last week at a downtown theatre, with the Mayan planned for the locale of the opening. Fol- lowing its Los Angeles run, it is to hit the road for some key cities already bargaining for it.

Hampton To Offer Moss-Kaufman Play

HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va.— “George Washington Slept Here,” the Moss-Kaufman comedy hit, will be the final dramatic presentation of the year afi Hampton institute, Mrs. Marian Wall, director of the Communications Theatre, an- nounced. The comedy is scheduled to be presented on the evenings of Friday and Saturday, June 4 and 5, in Ogden Hall a,t 8:15 p. m.

Miss Joyce Sampson, a senior, from Sumter, S. C., will undertake the feminine lead in the production appearing as “Annabele Fuller,” domineering wife. Other students who will appear in the play are as

follows: “Mr. Kimber” James H.

Henderson, Henderson, N. C.

“Madge Fuller, Pauline McDaniel, Atlanta Gia.; “Steve Eldridge,”

I Russell Roberts, Worchester, Mass.; “Katie” Lottie Richardson, Trentt

I on N. J. “Mrs. Douglas,’ Pearl

Frisco Cheers His Show

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.SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. (SNS)-—Enthusiastic audiences greet- ed Bill Robinson's new musical, ‘‘Born Happy," which set a record breaking run at the Alcazar theatre here last week. Robinson, the old master, war, adjudged at !>i$ best, ably supported by fiabe Wal- lace, the Deep River hoy:, and {Viable Scott.

Dorothy | Called 'Negress

CHICAGO — (ANP) — Dorothy Donegan sensational young pianist whose concert! at Orchestra hall Saturday night brought her added fame, is a “Negress” in the eyes of Jack Hess, white press agent who

handled publicity for tne recital. In advertisements appearing Sat-

urday in local daily papers, pre-

Reed, Lynchburg, Va.; “Clayton Evans,” Clarence Cooper, Wash- ington N. C.; “Hestier” Evelyn Sears. Norfolk, Va.; “Raymond,” Eugene Williams, Guidon Aik. •‘Tommy Hughes” James Cooper Liberia, Africa* “Sue Barrington.” Margate Leake, Raleigh, N. C.; “Mr. Prescater,’ Wendell Johnson, Topeka, Kans.

pared by Hess, the offensive term was used as follows:

Joe Sherman presents Dorothy Donegan. A recital oy the distin- guished teenage Negress -”

The concert itself brought a

huge crowd inside Orchestra hall, ordinarily reserved for the leading exponents of classical music. Miss Donegan, who plays Bach with a

boogie-woogie touch and changes Beethoven into the blues, won the approval of the town’s leading critics as wrell as the hepcats with her brilliant and rhythmic pianis- tics.

The young musician has already i become to Chicago what Hazel Scott

is to New York, with many experts)

Wee Willie Is Now Blowing Licks For Navy

Former Lunceford

Sax Artist Is

At Great Lakes

GREAT LAKES, 111.— (S N S> —

Willie Smith, one of the Ration’s top saxophone players, has report- ed for recruit training at Camp Robert Smalls—training center for

Negroes at the U. S. Naval Train- ing Station here.

“Wee Willie,” as he is known in musical circles, blew his saxophone hot and low for more than ten years before he exchanged his civilian clothes for the Navy’s blue.

In joining the Navy, Willie fol- lows in the wake of scores of musicians from leading bands and orchestras who have reported at Camp Smalls. After completing re- cruit training the men were form- ed into Navy bands and assigned to duty at various Naval bases.

JOINS LUNCEFORD

It was in 1931, after lie had play- ed for two years with small bands In New York City, that Willie Smith broke into the big time with Luneeford, a former school- mate at Fisk University, Nashville, Term. He played first alto in Jimmy’s sax section from that time until last summer. The band has appeared in well-known hotels, ballrooms and night clubs through- out the country, toured Europe In 1937, and performed in the movie, “Blues in the Night,” and several flicker shorts.

Willie, who is 34 years old and terms “a train” as his home, left Luneeford last summer to join Charlie Spivak’s orchestra. He was with Spivak’s outfit when it play- ed at Great Lakes six months ago, and made his last appearance with the man who “plays the sweetest trumpet in the world” in April 1943, at the Palace Theater in

j Akron, Ohio. I In the recording field, Willie is best remembered for his sax solos and vocalizing on Jimmy Lunce-{ ford’s platters of “My Blue Hea- ven,” Knock Me a Kiss,” and “The Flight of a Jitterbug.” Born in Charleston, S. C.. he attended Avery High School there and Fisk University, before embarking on his musical career.

I rating Miss Donegan superior to Miss Scott.

It is understood that this is the first in a series of concerts to be given by Miss Donegan. She has had lucrative offers from both Now York and Hollywood but has thuc far turned them down to star at the Downbeat room of the Garrick Stage lounge in Chicago’s loop.

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Is Given Award

NEW YORK CITY — (PPS) —

On the heels of his triumph at Car-

negie Hall, where he and his great band recently appeared in concert, Duke Ellington was recipient of the New York Newspaper Guild’s 1943 award for “Great American

1 Musician of the People,” Friday, April 30. The Guild’s spokesman eulogizer the master musician, at Hotel Asrtor, where the newspaper- men’s annual ball was in progress, over a nation-wide hookup. Among

i the many things said were "Duke’s music was as American as the Lib- erty Bell.”

Freed By Nazis

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HOBOKEN, N. J. —(PP) — Va- laida Snow is back in America after suffering many hardships from the hands and heels of Nazi agents. Miss Snow, former Broadway star and an ace trumpeter, was the toast of Europe prior to the war. In 1940 she fled to Holland as the war clouds began to gather over France. Later, in Denmark, she led an all Danish orchesrta in one of the popular cinema houses with a long term contract—then Hitler moved in! Nazi agents soon imprisoned Valaida for a year where she was treated fairly well, until the attack on Pearl Harbor when the Nazi reins were tightened on the Ameri- can actress and she was caught in a merciless net.

Thrown into a Nazi concentra- tion camp, her food consisted of a few white potatoes daily. She claim- ed that she was horse-whipped each day. Miss Snow is alleged to have been struck on the head with a sword by one of Hitler’s brutal beasts; her head bears a scar as proof. Through the kindness of a police commissioner of this Danish city, she was given help. Washing- ton was immediately notified and the State Department took charge of the case.

Arrangements were made to ex- change the famed actress for a German manicurist, Anna Hoff- man. Leaving tne filthy dungeon where she was kept prisoner for many months, Valaida was led into the camp office for her release. The Nazi agents refused to return her ?5,000 in American money, $3,000 worth cf jewelry and her mirk coat vanished.

They gave her old discaided clothes to wear, he’*, trumpet,- and a little money. From there a Nazi guard escorted her to an airport, where she took the plane to Lisbon! She was put aboard the ship “Grips- holm” with twenty cents in her pockets. Weighing only seventy-six pounds, her body still bruised and numbed as a result of her impris- onment, the former Broadway songbird again set foot on Ameri- can soil, via New Jersey.

Mantan Moreland Signed For Six Films By Monogram

HOLLYWOOD —(ANP) — Man- tan Moreland, comedian, has been signed by monogram for six pic. tures of which two will be made before Dec. 1 end a minimum of four in 1944. Moreland’s first assignment is “Revenge of the Zombies,’’ scheduled to start in May, with Steve Sekely directing directing for producer Lindsley Persons.