New York Amsterdam News — 1964-10-21
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ETHEL WATERS fans, many of whom have been
asking about her lately, can get a glimpse of her next
Monday, Dec. 9, when she appears oh Art Linkletter’s
“House Party” on CBS-TV . . . Richard Gehman, the
prolific writer of folks in show business and the allied
arts is preparing a piece for TV Guide on the Negro in
television . . . Have you been worrying when you’ll be
able to see,“My Fair Lady” on the screen? Well, it
premieres here at the Criterion Theatre on October
21, 1964.
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THANKS TO Dan Morgenstern’s ASCAP Jazz
Notes we can report that Cab Calloway marks his 56th
birthday on Dec. 25 and Eddie Wilcox, former arrang
er and player with Jimmie Lunceford observes his
same natal day on the 27th . . . Bennie Powell is pro
moting jazz shows on Monday nights in the renovated
Skyline Room at the Hotel Theresa . . .
SOMETIMES THE CRACKERS just crumble
the wrong way. These things happened this past week.
In Chicago some nuts have started a letter campaign
against Langston Hughes’ “Black Nativity” which
opened there Monday under sponsorship of the Roman
CatholTc Church. Seems the writers call Mr. Hughes’
poem “Good-by Christ”, anti-Christian . . . Then poor
Coant Basie and Jimmy Rushing were sabotaged by
Joe Crane’s
Gospel Shoic
At Apollo
For the third successive year,
Joe Crane’s Gospel Highway will
enliven Harlem during its pre
sentation at the Apollo Theatre,
where it will hold forth for a per
iod of ten days beginning Fri
day December 6.
This is a “big” program. There
are more than 40 singers and mu
sicians in the cast. These include
the Swan Silvertones, The High
way QC's, the Gospelaires. Jul
ius Cheeks and the Knights,
Charles Taylor and the Taylor
Singers, The Sweet Tones and the
Meditation Singers.
Among the star - singers are
Claude Jeter, Luis Johnson, Bob
Washington, Julius Cheeks, Lau
ra and Ernestine Bundles. Gaines
Camp is the organist, Shep Shep
pard helps with special effects on
the drums.
BACK ON THE SCENE —
Singer Kenny Preston, well
known in uptown nightclubs. Is
back on the scene after being
confined to Medical Center for
10 days.
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somebody in their Philharmonic Hall Thanksgiving
Eve appearance with dead mikes or over-amplified
audio and just about everything possible to run one
mad.
THE FATES STILL hit hard when Dinah Wash
ington found herself at the wrong end of a 175,000 sland
er suit by a-Las Vegas wig stylist who claims Dinah
made disparaging remarks about him and his firm
during her show at the Thunderbird. .
. And Pearl
Bailey was a flu victim and had to bow out of her en
gagement at Detroit’s Elmwood Casino . . . And only
recently singer Frankie Lymon aqd his wife, Mickey,1
lost their first child two days after birth.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S unbelievable assass
ination not only cut short Duke Ellington’s State Dept.-;
sponsored tour, it also has caused comedian Timmie
Rogers to stop pushing his album “If I Were Presi
dent”, caused comedian Vaughan Meader to lose out
on several TV bookings and to drop his spoofs of the
Kennedys and put an end io the mushrooming “Dizzy
Gillespie for President” publicity campaign.
“IN WHITE AMERICA” is to be recorded by
Columbia Records and, from all we’ve heard, we’re
going to go back again to see “Ballad for Bimshire”,
which, incidentally is being recorded and distributed by
London Records . . . Singer Johnny Rainbow is back
in town after a year in Europe, mainly in Sweden and
Denmark. He's looking for a manager, but, meanwhile,
in order to eat, he started work Monday in the Ad-!
missions Department at Hunter College.
FORMER DANCER AMIEL BROWN should
take bows. His constant campaign to get Bob Hope to
take a Negro on his Christmas trips to entertain the
troops has resulted in John Bubbles going this year on
the Viet Nam trip. Ten years ago Brown was responsi-
Two NY
Cotillions
The Philadelphia Cotillion
Society is presenting its 15th
anniversary Christmas Cotil
lion at the Hotel Hilton on Jan
uary 3, 1964 for the benefit of
the New York City NAACP
and the Heritage House of
Philadelphia. Commissioner
Bessie Buchanan is chairman
and Mrs. Margaret Turner is
co-chairman. Dr. J. Wayman
Jones is executive director.
The National Council of Ne
gro Women is sponsoring Its
annual International Cotillion
on January 2, 1964 (which is a
postponement from November
29 in respect to the M-day
city-wide mourning period for
the late President Kennedy*
and will be given at the Am
ericana Hotel.
Commissioner Bessie Bu
chanan is chairman. Miss Dor
othy Height la president of the
Council.
Puppet Show
Every Saturday
“Little Red Riding Hood ’, a
puppet show for children enter
tainment will be p es_..t... uy
Rose Lynch at the Royal Play
house, 219 E. Second Ave. at 14th
9L, every Saturday at 1 p.m. be
ginning Dec. 7.
“Hansel and Gretel”, a fairy
ble for the Two High Hatters making the Korean trip.
He’s now trying to get two Negro models also on the
Hope trip . . . Dizzy Gillespie and Terry Gibbs share
Birdland honors beginning Thursday . . . Give a listen
to jazz pianist Phineas Newborn Jr. on Contemporary
label under the title of “The Great Jazz Piano of Phin
eas Newborn Jr.”
WE DON’T USUALLY GET in other people’s
arguments but when C. Sumner “Chuck” Stone wrote
Variety a couple weeks ago he chastised the producers
of Ossie Davis’ “Gone Are The Days” for allegedly
not advertising in the Negro press in New York. The
film closed after a few feeble weeks at the Trans-Lux
East Theatre downtown. Last week, in Variety, Thomas
Hammer of the Hammer Film Corp answered Mr.
Stone and alleged, among other things, that the New
York Negro press ignored the film. He’s wrong. We
looked back over the files. The film opened on Sept.
23. We carried a photo of Godfrey Cambridge and Sor
rell Brook, anouncing the opening in the Sept. 21 is
sue. In the Sept. 28 issue we carried a review by yours
truly under the heading “Gone Are The Days Is A
Howl A Minute.”
ON OCT. 5, the Amsterdam News carried a
story under the heading “Gone Are The Days Needs
Support.” And on Oct. 12, in this column we noted that
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee were beating the bushes
drumming up business for the film.
THE DEFENSE RESTS.
Set Casting
For Saroyan
Play At YW
Interracial casting for a Feb
ruary production of William Sar
oyan's “The Time Of Your Life’’
will begin next week at the West
Side YWCA, 51st St. and 8th Avs.
The drama calls for a cast of
27 characters whose ages range
from 16 (a girl > through 40. It is
being produced by the Resident
Drama Company of Clark Center
for the Performing Arts which is
located at the YWQA building.
According to Miss Joanna Hal-
pert, assistant director of Clark
Center, the castings will be held
without pay or fee for six weeks
beginning Dec. 9. She requests
that applicants send a picture
and resume to the company.
Provincetown
Opens Season
The Provincetown Repertory,
Inc. will open its season of Gil
bert and Sullivan light operet
tas with the perennial favorite
“Tile Pirates of Penzance" which
will be presented Wednesday
through Saturday evenings with
a Saturday matinee from De
cember 4-21.
"Candida
For Equity
Equity Library Theatre will
present “Candida”, a comedy by
George Bernard Shaw, as its
fourth production this season. The
play opqns Saturday. Dec. 7 at
the Master Theatre, with a spe
cial preview on the Friday be
fore opening night. The cast of
six features Miss Terese Hayden
in the title role.
Others in the cast include Jon
Cedar. James Evering. Stephen
Gray, Ruth Preller and Garnett
Smith.
Under the direction of Irving
Vincent^ a young man making his
New York debut, the play runs
through the Sunday matinee of
Dec. loth- It will then tour Brook
lyn and the Bronx on Dec. 27th
and 28th with the cooperation of
the New York State Council on
the Arts.
Brooklyn
BREVOORT
Bedford Ave. & Fulton St.
MA 2-6294
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in person on stage
JERRY BUTLER
the DRIFTERS
MAJOR LANCE
Coris Troy, Bobby Scetts Band
A SAMPLING — Loretta
Fowlkes, part-time clipping girl
at Columbia Records and stu
dent at Juilliard School of Mu
sic sings a sampling for Col
umbia Masterworks record
ing artist, pianist Glenn Gould.
Loretta sang at the recent $100
a plate Annual Equal Oppor-
tunity Day Dinner of the Na
tional Urban Le«ue at the
Waldorf Astoria.
There's somethin! for YOU on
every page of this issue of The
Amsterdam News. Check and see
—every week. Out every Thurs
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X - The Man with the X-Ray
Eyes. He will be on 125th Street
(between Lenox and St. Nich
olas Avenues) on Wednesday,
December 4 only (between 1
and 2 p.m. and 7 and 8 p.m.).
If you recognize him. show
him this story and he will give
you a guest ticket to an RKO
Fifst-Run Theatre. X’s Decem
ber 4 only visit is to help
celebrate the opening day of
"X - The Man with the X-Ray
Eyes” and “Dementia 13" at
RKO First - Run Theatres.
Guest tickets are limited to the
first 25 people who recognize
X and show him thia story.
adults will also open this Sat
urday with performances every
Saturday at 2:30 p.m.
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