New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00583
1963
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NY. With her are, from left:
Evelyn White, who was third;
Marva Revli, MUa Beaux Arts
1963; Miss Turner. Itee Sim
mons, Miss Beaux Arte 1962,
and Sybil Lee, who was second.
(Weat Photo)
Cafe Collects
$500 For 2
Rights Groups
A crowd of more than 800
people gathered in front of Joe
Wells Restaurant last Wednes
day. to join In the outdoor cele
bration nt the "Gala Finale"
of the Freedom Night Fund
Raising Drive for the NAACP
and the Southern Christian Lead
ership Conference
A total of >500 wss presented
to the Rev. Richard Hildebrand,
president of the New York
Branch, NAACP by Mr. Wells.
It was announced that the pro
ceeds, collected over a five-week
period, will he equally divided
between the two civil rights or
ganizations.
Highlighting the affair was the
60-piece band ot Dr. William
Wheeler, with vocalist Richard
Kirby. Serving as Master of Cere
monies was the famous radio
disc Jockey Hal Jackson Also
assisting and participating in the
program were: Rose Brown, Dor
othea Merchant, L Joseph Over-
ton, Charles Rangle, Lloyd Dick
ens. and many others.
UlEEKEnO
ANDHISORCH.
14 • N. Y AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat, July 27, IKS tfNBC White
Paper*’ Set
On Powell
By DAVE HEPBURN
First Contact
Perhaps they have the right idea in Bermuda. At
The Rev Ad*m ciaytoa Power least a young man, in his early thirties, has the right
an(j television moguls won’t hire you,
rr . a controversial and eni*m*uc
1
*wp t cHgiziiziztf
Kene. will be the eubject of <n 0P«n y°ur own station. The young man in question is
■nbc white Paper" ea nbc-tv Monty Sheppard who, a little more than two years ago,
*** opened Bermuda’s second radio station under the name
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la the Swahili language of East lf-year-old Diaaaa White, who
Africa Karamu means ‘’center sang the rote of Yespina. really
of the community" or a "place «**,th* tho* Her ™nncpor-
trayal of an old woman, a tipsy
of feasting and enjoyment m#B # yjom-y **> done with
White there wa, ■» M* « perfect tuning The warmth and
of all the players
The Mall fat Central Park last
Tuesday evening. there was much
over into the audience
enjoyment when the Heights aa(j matje the listeners highly
Opera Association presented the
guest company. Karamu Theatre of ^1 the artisU, Henry Finney,
a a performance of Haydn s 5*^^^ had the best voice. It
xmue opera X mfedelta delusa was round. an<J nch in tonal
color. This is not meant to imply
(Foolish and Fickle).
Three years of ’'Lanning were that there wa* a lack in vocal
brought to fulfillment for the beauty of the other artiste. The
Karamu Opera Players of Oeve- entire performance had *0 much
land. Ohio - an Interracial group- fervor, sparkle and warmth of
had the singular honor of being projeetten that is seldom witness-
the first non-New York group ed in productions given by the
to participate in the Opera-in- big opera companies. Others in
the Part series. A grant from the cast who brought so nr eh
the Martha Baird Rockefeller joy to New Yorkers were Jeanne
rse of of the Capital Broadcasting Company,
n*** iiK'Hamilton with the call letters ZFB-1.
Ile | The station is not only very popular
in the island, but has a growing audi-
iinduai ence and is already showing a profit |
on the books Previously the island had
i com- one other station ZBM, controlled by an
Lebor. English company, entirely owned and
1110 by whites. ZFB is just the opposite,
id and It is locally controlled, and Monty, a
vbooe Negro, is the president of the company,
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HEPBURN
as well as the general manager and chief engineer, i
: jour- His staff includes some talented Negroes who are
Bauit doing a broadcast job of rare excellence. Ira Phillips,
sviiioa. 1 former newspaperman is handling news, and Marlene
tooths Butterfield, a pretty and sugary-voiced damsel spins
Mio* records and does some spicy patter in between. A
il *<Mr- Junior” — who couldn’t be over 18, holds down
r York a rock and roll stanza that pulls in the white listeners
sriem’s from the States as well as the natives. With this
including Monty's own late night show,
th‘ of limned
ZFB operates around the “clock on a 24 hour sendee
basis.
PLEASANT SIGHTS — Wilhc.-
mina Turner, with banner, won
the Miss Pleasant Acres title
at recent fashion show con
ducted by Lou Borders at
Pleasant Acres la Naponoch,
,
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Wants TV
Monty Sheppard had his first contact with radio as
an apprentice in the radio department of Masters Ltd.
ard in in Bermuda. Later he attended the RCA Institute in
B«rhn New York in 1947-48. He then spent three years in
ic^Tu- Canada taking courses in radar and electronics. He
Concerts This Week
THURSDAY. July 25 _ The
Amadeus Music Society In
“Faust" with Jeni Estill. Maria
Bartheri. David Hoeri and
Edward Watts: Colonial Park
.Amphitheatre. 148th St. and Brad-
burs: Ave., 8 p.m.
The Karamu Opera Players in
"Julius Caesar”, Central Park
Mall, .8:30 pan
FRIDAY, July » - The Ama
deus Music Society presents
» Swiss worked for General Electric in defense radar on a top
a eel®- secret capacity/ in Montreal, then switched to RCA
,aw7 in a job that, Yoic him all over Canada. Eventually he
--------beame the line maintenance supervisor of RCA work
ing on the famous DEW’ line and Mid-Canada Line.
It was then he decided to open his own TV repair
business in Montreal and worked in a field offering
anna:" community television distribution from one antenna,
itre, 8 jn june be came hack home to Bermuda for
er eB. a holiday and the prospects of TV and radio work
o p.m looked so good that he bought an interest in a TV
in the shop. He went to Canada, settled his affairs and re-
turned to open his own Capital TV Shop. Then having
obtained a license to start a radio station, he launched
27 _ Capital Broadcasting.
Concert
Kroph;' Obtaining a license always has its problems. Right
Wants TV
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wion includes performances by the
entertainers—and leading hands that
■wijohn now Sheppard has an application on file for a TV broad
cast license and seems fairly certain that he will get it.
Atioba How he will fare as regards obtaining broadcast mate-
i«r dir- rial. technical know-how, camera-men and so on, is
something else. But he is taking all of this in stride,
wcase What he has in mind is to base TV shows on a more
wood*, cultural and educational theme than the present pre-
sentations in Bermuda. ZBM (TV) offers mainly the
aa- syndicated material we send from the States, but they
do have a pretty Negro woman (Nell Bassett) with a
* Mar- fashion-fair type show on the air. Monty hopes to bet-
reoster ter them program-wise, and since he is an electronics
’ Phi1' engineer, foresees no problems which he can’t handle.
(Note: In our previous column which George Norford
_ cordially handled for us, SCHR (State Commission for
and Roseph Human Relations) which George wrote was erroneously
or at Lewi*- corrected to SCAD, the old title; also the column was
hv divided in two installments when he intended it to be
LhAbraham one an<* this made it slightly off-key. We want to
and Mel apoligize to him for this. DH).
AT THE HOWFF — The
uous form of Ida Capps is
Caribbean
Show Now
Cafe Feature
Raving presented the teider ofi
Kurt Weil! and the rebel songs
of the British Isles, Roy Guest,,
host ot The Howff, at 4 St.
Marks Place, is now turning his
new international folk muac cab
aret in the direction of the Car
ibbean.
Last Tuesday night he pre
sented “Summer Bacchanal"
starring Tony Mackey and the
Bahamians and featuring hand
some stager Jon Early. Describ
ed by director Guest a* a “frank
ly summer erotic festival of heat
and color," he is presenting an
all-Negro cast of eight in a revue
which includes Limbo dancers
Gospel singers, CMypsonians.
Twist experts and Bossa Nova
numbers. Along with "Summer
Bacchanal".
The Howff new performance
schedule presents two shows
nightly at 9 p m. and 11:30 Tues
day thru Sunday evenings re
maining closed on Monday nights
Ginger’s
For TVer
Ginger Gordon, the young
stager who appeared at Free-
domlaad with Clay Cote, will
appear on Jay Fraaklin s TV
show, serf Wednesday, Jnly 31,
at 12:» p.m. oa WOR-TV <»).
Ginger's rwrreatly making
the roaada pingging her Decca
record of "He Dmi't Love Me
Anymore.” She wrote the taae
herself. She’s abo scheduled
for a Talent Scoot audition
MUSIC FAIR
SCHAEFER AWARD — Ray Armor
Charles received the Schaefer sey.
award for "outstanding mus- joyed
ical contributions" from Mar- rd h
va Revis, the new "Miss Beaux Photo
Arts 1963". The presentation
took place at the Morristown,
Final Week
For Film
urn DANCING
w< TEACH n
Anderson’sStudio
JAZZ SEXTET
SONNY TERRY &
BROWNIE McGHEE
Folk Festival
Success Seen
Assured
Advance ticket eaieo indicate
that crowds in ereese of 30000
will attend the ) three-day New
port Folk Festival to be held
at Freebody Park at Newport
Rhode Island, oo July K. 27 and
28. George Wein, Technics! Pro
ducer of the folk event, announc
ed today “A Jazz or Folk Fest
lval usually needs two to three
yefrs to achieve a popular sue
cess.
"The assured success of the
1OT3 Folk Festival can be traced
to the intense interest of the
general public in folk music.
’ Such popular artists as Peter.
Paul and Mary. Joan Baez. Theo-,
idore Bikel, Pete Seeger and a
host of others are eestribuling
their usually high-priced services
at minimal rates to eateble sack
a Festival to take riaee."
Wein further Aled “Ton
much emphasis canot be placed
on the hard work of the Artist’s
committee that is completely
responsible for the artistac pro-,
duct ion and the overall policy
of the Newport Folk Foundation
which present* the Folk Fest
ival " The members of the com
mittee are Theodore Bike!, Bill
Clifton. Clarence Cooper. Enk
Darling. Jean Ritchie, Pete Soo-
i ger and Peter Yarrow.
of the joys of “Summer Bac
chanal." the exciting new re
vue at The Howff, the inter
national folk cabaret at 4 St.
Mark's Place In East Green
wich Village. Starred in the
show are Tony McKay and the
Bahamians, in a colorful, song-
packed display of Calypso, Gos
pel. Limbo and Voodoo fare.
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