New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00485
1963
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By DAVE HEPBURN
Sullivan's Hour
Concerts
When you talk to CBS officials about the Ed Sul- i
livan Show, everybody loses that frown for a minute
and puts on a big, wide grin. It's the star in the net
work’s diadem, the solid money-maker, the cornucopia
that seems bottomless.
Last Sunday the Sullivan Show celebrated its 15th
anniversary, the longest running show
on television, the winner of numerous BHBRQH
awards, the grand-daddy of variety tele-
vision The end is not yet in sight and HHhMH
still chipper at 61. Ed Sullivan looks
like he'll go on forever.
20,000 Performers
In that decade and a half Sullivan has jHEhMh
presented some 20,000 performers, many
of whom were making their debut on TV. BWMI
He has spent a whopping $20 million for HEPBURN
talent alone. It is hard to realize that the first show
had a talent budget of $375 for stars like Dean Martin
and Jerry Lewis. Today the budget per show is around
$125,000 and he paid Elvis Pressly the all-time high of
$55,000 for three shows.
Translated to his relationship with Negro perform
ers, we have to admit that Ed Sullivan has run ahead
of the pack. Last week the Celebrity Club gave him an
award for just that reason. While he may not admit it,
| we know that sponsor restriction through fear of south-
€ to market retaliation at first held Sullivan back from
using more Negroes on his show.
In the main he has made a valiant effort to use the
the best Negro talent he can find and it is one of his
sayings that he has received no hate messages from
the South because of it. This is hard to believe. But
he did help the likes of Brook Benton, Jackie Wilson,
Della Reese and even Lena Horne In giving them net
work exposure. Last Sunday he did not use the “Mem
ber of the Wedding’’ film of Ethel Waters, because on
examination they found it was worn out. He has used
Ella Fitzgerald, given half of the show to Harry Bela-
fonte, Eartha Kitt, Louis Armstrong, and Nispey Rus
sell. He practically unveiled the potential of Mahalia
, Jackson as a TV property. Whether you like Pigmeat
Markham’s humor or not, he has given him substant
ial work 30 times qn the show. He has showcased Dia-
hann €arroB; EttoI Garner-Leemtyne .Price,^Johnny.
Right nowhuvis nuts atyout a Drand 'new multi-!
talented team, Heirjz, Hem? and Brown whom he has
used on the show and who are coming up again soon.
They are new $$rformers and in the general run of
things would not make a major TV show on their first
big-town date. One of Sullivan’s favorite stories is_howf
Herman Talmadge talked him into using a brand newj
Negro performer on his show sight unseen. He was so
shocked to hear this coming from Talmadge he
couldn’t say no. He has Myrna White in his chorus line.
Guggenheim Memorial Concert
Last Wednesday evening was There was a tender re
an ideal night for the opening of the lyricism of the eoftei
the 46th season of The Guggen- es. The audience reapom
heim Memorial Concerts featur- enthusiastic that Miss T
ln< the Goldman Band conducted called back to sing two
by Richard Franko Goldman. A Her porta la voce In “
capacity audience was present time" was brilliant,
on The Mall in Central Park. Maestro Goldman pros
Veronica Tyler was the guest a colorful conductor. W1
artist. Exquisitely gowned, her ing selections from "W
vocal beauty was equally as ele Story” he did a wee twist
gant. The refined delivery of Mo- of Cha-Cha and few <
zsrt’s "AHriaia” and Charpen- sorted dance steps. Als<
tier’s lovely aria from Louise, program were several
"Depuis le Jour" was projected that really pepped up t
with magnificent tonal colors, ram.
Ballet Folklorique
After a half hoar’s delay, the ty of movement
’
cause havlag been shrouded la Mr. Archer certainly establlsh-
utmoat secrecy, Haiti’s Ballet ed that he has an Innate feeling
Folklorique finally got under way for the dance, as ’’Araignee"
a.‘ Town Hall last Friday even- had an eerie originality. The
thrilling excitement, supple body
tog ■ „
Jo Archer, who choreographed movements and deep emotional
all of the dances, deserves great involvement In “Yacvalou Cere-
credit for his innovations in bal- mony," a Voodoo dance dedicat-
let dancing. To combine the prim- ed to Pambala, god of serpents,
ttive with the esthetic required a had a great urgency of expres-
deep understanding of the rhyth- si on. The costumes were most
cnic balance needed for a fiuidi- colorful.
Harlem Opera Society
The last opera of the 1962-63 this performance
season of the Harlem Opera So Curra^ The pro<h
ciety was presented at the Upper
Manhattan YWCA last Sunday >f-
k
ternoou. Verdi’s ”La Forsa Del and trioe were i
Destlno” was sung by Dorothy blending of vocal
Sturme, Elaine Nurse, Albert The Harlem Op
Clipper, Charles Gordon, Andre made tremendot
Dobriansky and Hartwell Mace, they will be tak
who sang the roles of the Marquis New York Sumo
Central Park at T
and Friar Melitooe
Miss Norse made her debut In ust 13 and Augus
Second Vesper Recital
The program opened- with Otto
Brown, baritone, singing works
by Handel, Gold. Wagner and
Boatoer. He projected especially
well to the aria from "Tannhau-
aer." Anna Jackson, soprano, had
the audience at her feet with her
fine delivery. Gilbert Steadman,
basso, gave great depth and beau
ty to an aria from "The Magic
Flute."
not securely held. ~ Marjorie
Strickland Greene gave one of
the most dramatic readings of
Poe’s “The Raven*’ that we have
ever heard.
The program closed with Roy
O’Loughlin, tenor, giving a stirr
ing interpretation to “Parmi ve-
der le lagrime” from Rigoletto
One could tell from the manner
In which he sang that, for him.
singing is a labor of love.
Simon Outlaw Paintings At YW
Aa exhibit of representative June 30, sponsored by the Cul-
painttogs by Simon B. Outlaw torsi Arts Committee of the
is bring shown at the art gal- BrAnclk ,,
,
.
.
lery of Upper Manhattan Branch
~ Mr. Outlaw’s work ranges from
to ,bitr.et and shows
Young Women’s Christian Asso- highly disciplined experlmental-
ciatioo, 361 W. 126th St., through ism.
COLLABORATORS -Band
leader King Curtis and linger
Bobby Darin have collaborat
ed on the latest hit dance, “The
Monkey,” which they hope will
replace the Twist. Their new
album on it was released this
week
NAACP
Benefits In
Concerts
Editor In
MGM Film
Francois Andre, one of Holly
wood’s most talented Negro ac
tors, has been signed by MGM
for an important role In "The
Prize.”
Associate editor of the Los An
geles Herald Dispatch, leading
Negro publication and also direc
tor of the Showcase Arts Group
Theatre, he Joins PauLNev.maa.
Edward G. Robinson, Elks Som
mer and Diane Baker in the film
which Mark Robson is directing
for Producer Pandro S. Berman
Singer Johnny Mathis will don
ated minimum of $20,000 from bis
feea for performances in Chicago
and New York, to be divided
equally between the NAACP and
the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, it waa Jointly an
nounced by Mathis and the two
organizations this week.
Mathis, who will perform in
a series of three concerto at the
Arle Crown TheSWr WffiKI
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of the gross receipts in that city.
He will donate half of his fees
to the two organizations.
On August 10 he will perform
in a concert at the Forest Hills
Stadium in New York, where his
fee will also be a minimum of
$20,000 against a percentage of
the gross receipts. He will sim
ilarity
half of his gross
fee from hit engagement to the
two organizations.
In discussion- ^ith the Rev
erend Martin Luther King. Jr.,
president of the Southern Chriit-
ian Leadership Conference. Math
is and his managers, Helen ad
John Noga, have conveyed the
singer’s willingness to perform
in fund-raising shows under the
group’s sponsorship to Atlanta
and in various other cities, being
set up for next fall.
There is also agood possibility
that Mathis wdS undertake ad
ditional fund-riising appearanc
es for the NAACP.
At Roosevelt
The Roosevelt Theatre, for one
week, June 26 to July 2, Wednes
day to Tueaday. will feature
"King Kong vs. Godzilla,'* plus
the associate feature "The Trai
tors.’’
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Nora Holt Concert Showcase
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Williams, soprano; and Lawrence
Winters, baritone. -
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“The Blacks
A second company of Jean
Genet’s "The Blacks,” now In
the third year of its odf-Broad-
way engagement at the fit Marks
Playhouse, will play a summer
engagement starting July 9 at
the Studebaker Theatre in Chic
ago.
Sidney Bernstein, co-sponsor of
the play In New York, win serve
as coordinating producer for the
Chicago company, which will be
directed by Gene Frankel, who
staged the original production.
The Blacks” is the loogeet-
run drama In the history of the
off-Broadway theatre. It opened
at the St. Marks Playhouse In
May. 1961.
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