New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00828
1963
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“Gone Are -
Days” Needs
Support
"Gone Are The Days," the Oi-
•le Davis • Ruby Dee film which
opened last Monday at the Trans-
Lux Theatre, 58th Street and 3rd
Ave. and received overwhelming
acclaim from the New York City
movie critics may have weath
ered the storm of lack of patron
age — but it still needs your
support.
When less than 100 moviegoers,
had seen the film by last Wed
nesday, the producers rushed out
a telegram, signed by Roy Wil
kins, A. Philip Randolph, James
Farmer, James Baldwin, Ossie
Davis and Ruby Dee imploring
ministers, the press and other or
ganizations to support the movte
which is a hilarious adaptation
of Davis' stage play, "Purlie Vic
torious."
Box Office Pickup
There were threats over the
weekend that the owners of the
Trans-Lux would pull the show
from their theatre, but when Sat
urday and Sundav performances
picked up at the box office it was
stated that it wul run there in
definitely. Rumors that a delib
erate boycott was keeping patrons
away could not be substantiated.
Still, Miss Dee and Godfrey
Cambridge, who is also in the
fildi, are not resting. They appear
ed on the Barry Gray radio show
this week imploring moviegoers
to see the film. And the produc
ers. the Hammers Brothers, have
held meetings with backers and
others concerned to see what can
be done to Insure the success of
"Gone Are The Days.”
Civic leaders have endorsed the
film and it is especially timely.
Continued efforts will, be made
to stimulate more interest in it.
SIlOW
Biz News
M • N. Y. AMSTERDAM
NEWS, Sat., Oct S, 1963
Brock Peters
Sings At Gate
■
By JESSE H. WALKER
reer has been rising as a film
Brock Peters, the nsing film star. Only this week it was an-
star returned to the Village Gate nounced that he has signed to
as a folk singer Tuesday night co-star with Rod Steiger and Lee
and to the heavy applause of J. Cobb in "The Pawnbroker"
the opening night crowd. -which will be filmed in New
Brock, attired in a dark suit York,
but with open white shirt, went His current films playing New
over well in such numbers asi^ork Theatres are The L-Shap-
“Another Man Done Gone", a ed Room with Leslie Caron and
slow mournful tune mindful of Tom Bell and Heavens Above
"Sometime I Feel Like A Mother- with Peter Sellers.
less Child.” His “Nicodemus”, a Also on the bill at Art D'Lu-
song of slaves planning insur- goffs cellar night spot are bongo
rection was sung with vigor and artist Mongo Santamaria and
appreciated vigorously by his lis- singer Dakota Staton.
teners
Santamaria, whose exciting
h‘s «*P-
Another tune received well were
"Love Be Mine My Own", and
famous for the Afro-Cu-
an unusual spiritual Brock found ban beat, also brought In a new
in the Library of Congress. "Why innovation to the club as she had
Dark Troubles Water,". He goes chef prepare hl, favorite Cu-
off with a resounding clincher pf di^' \no*n "
Con
"St. James Infirmary Blue*”. Majo wh'ch fcau^s black beans,
rice and chopped meat. Very
good. too.
Back Singer
Mike trouble tan opening nighti Miss Staton, the girl with the
bugaboo everywhere' did not di- big booming voice, style of her
minish Brock's singing. He was own and dazzingly dressed was
ably accompanied by Chief Bey in swinging form as she sang
on conga, Richard Davis on bass such tunes as "Broadway”, “My
and Turk Van Lake on guitar. Funny Valentine” and "Every
Brock debuted as a night club^body Knows You Left Me",
singer at the Village Gate four The current show is there three
Hi
OFF BROADWAY — Andrew
Dunbar appears In “Color of
Darkness'*: The World of James
Purdy”, which Margaret Barker
presented Monday at the Writ
ers Stage Play Is adapted from
the short stories of James
Purdy by EHen Violett .and di
rected by William Francisco.
Time To Register
Be a first class citizen by mak- years ago. Since then, his ca- weeks,
ing sure your name is on the
registration books next Week Lo
cal registration in your neighbor
hood will be held at your neigh
borhood polling place from Tues
day, Oct. 8 to Friday. Oct 11,1
from 5 30 pm. to 10:30 p.m.,
and on Saturday, Oct. 12, from: LOS ANGELES — After two,of litigation. Comedian Redd
Red Foxx Loses Suit
Against Record Company
7 a m. until 10:30 p.m.
'years, five months and 10 dayslFoxx’s nationally - publicized,
breach-of-contract suit against
Dooto Records, Inc., was
settled In Santa Monica Superior
Court last week.
The recording company,
headed by Dootsie Williams won.
Back in 1961, Foxx, called "the
funniest man in America,” filed
suit against Dooto, seeking to
cancel his recording contract on
the grounds that the company
was guilty of fraudlent practices,
underpayment of royalties, fail
ure to make proper reports. He
also sought "declaratory relief”
and asked that a receiver be
appointed for the company, to
guard his interests.
Denies It
Williams promptly denied all
the charges made by Foxx, who
allegedly had agreed to record
for another firm, contingent upon
his success in his suit against
Dooto.
During the course of the trial
in Judge John F. Aiso’s Su
perior Court, Foxx, currently
booked into Smalls’ Paradise
West, was defeated at every turn.
Judge Aiso found that there
had been no fraud, no under
payment or royalties to Foxx,
that Foxx had no cause not to
perform for Dooto under the
terms of a five-year contract
carrying a two-year option which
he signed in 1958. This was the
third of three contracts Foxx had
signed with Dooto since Williams
"discovered him for records” in
1955.
It was determined in court that,
instead of underpaying Foxx. due
to a bookkeeping error, the come
dian had been overpaid in the
•mount of $18,000 and that Foxx
still "owed” the company $11,000.
Earlier efforts to arrange a
"split” of the latter amount
between Foxx and Dooto failed
when Foxx, through his lawyer.
Burton Marks, sought a $25,000'
settlements
Sara Slack
On TV
The Amsterdam News’ Sara
Slack is on the panel of three
prominent newspaperwomen
who will Interview Dr. Edward
R. Annin president of the Am
erican Medical Association on
"Ladies of the Press”, Thurs
day, Oet. 3, 9:30-10 p.m.
The program will be seen on
WOR-TV (Channel 9). Other
members of the panel are Pat
McCormack of United Press
International and Joan Cook of
the New York Times.
Among the topics to be dis
cussed are medical care for the
aged, mental health, fee split
ting. "ghost" surgery, discrim
ination against Negro doctors
in hospitals, drug addiction and
the problems relating to the
high cost of medical care.
AT RKO THEATRES — Spart
aco Santony and Broderick
Crawford star In "The
Castilian", now at RKO neigh
borhood theaters, plus "Erik
The Conqueror".
Harlem Opera
Society Sets
Audition Date •
•f
The Harlem Opera Society will
hold its yearly opera auditions
Saturday afternoon. Oct. 5, from
2-7 p.m. at the studio of Albert
Clipper, 825 West End Avenue,
Apt. 1-E, enter off 100th Street.
According to Monte Norris,
manager, the 1963-64 Opera sea
son is ambitious and there are
many roles available. Among the
operas scheduled for presenta
tion are: La Forza Del Destino,
Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Car
men, Faust, I Vespri Scilliano,
La Giocnnda, La Boheme, Fidel-
io, Marriage of Figaro.
On Local
Screens
Two action spectacles In color
will premiere Wednesday, Oct.
2, at RKO First Run Theatres
— "The Castillian” and "Erik
the Conquero r.” “The Cas
tilian" stars Cesar Romero,
Frankie Avalon, Broderick Craw-1
ford and Alida Valli, and in-!
HEAD APOLLO SHOW - The
Caravans of Chicago head the
Gospel Caravan Fred* Barr and
"Doc” Wheeler are bringing
into the 125th Street Apollo
Theatre on Friday. Also on the
show are the Mighty Swanee
Quintett, the Gospel airs, the
Clouds of Joy, Gloria Griffin,
and the Lunenberg Travellers
who won the 1963 WWRL Gos-
pel Singing Contest. Professor
Hampton Carlton will be the
featured organist.
fn The Wings
By DAVE HEPBURN
The Negro musicians, or some faction of them, are
up in arms against Local 802, and since a meeting at
the home of Max Roach last week, have buttonholed
the president, A1 Manuti, with their grievances.
In addition CORE seems to have joined the hue
and cry and is accusing Manuti of not enforcing a part
of the principles as stated in the Union’s .................
constitution. What has hurt the musi
cians even more is the hike of union
dues. Some say they can’t pay the cur
rent $24.
Not New To Us
DEAD IN CALIFORNIA—Earl
Dancer, former husband of
Ethel Waters and producer of
revues which starred Ethel on
Broadway, died at his home
alone In Elsionore, California
last Monday night. His funeral
will be held at Perris Valley
Mortuary. Perris California,
Saturday October 5 at 2 PM.
DAKOTA
STATON
MONGO
SANTAMARIA
BROCK
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troduces Spartaco Santony and
HOLLYWOOD — The NAACP Teresa Velasquez. “Erik the
has won in this film capital as Conqueror" stars Cameron Mit- _
producers of the television series chell and the Kessler Twins, Al- N1Wy Maa > tram s».». rfVV
”
"Hazel" say they have hired a ice and Ellen.
Negro for the production crew The air-conditioned Morning-i
He was 68 years old. t
r*
Well, all of this is not new to us. Per
haps the only thing new is that CORE
has entered the proceedings. But when,
last year, and early this year, this col
umn launched an investigation and an
attack on Local 802 racial attitudes, double standard
scales and the very things the insurgent musicians are
saying now, we were greeted with resistance by thejcitai called "Kaleidoscope
HEPBURN
show's sponsor—the Ford Motor "The Couch” also "Decision At ;
Co.—unless a Negro was hired. Sundown". Saturday, Oct. 5, "As-
signment Outer Space" also
Soprano Martha Flowers leav- "Raw Edge" and "Night Crea-
es this week for a tour of South tures”. a chapter and 3 color
|ern colleges with her unique re- cartoons.
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The NA ACP had threatened a side Theatres. 116 St. and 8th
nationwide boycott against the Ave. presents Friday, Oct. 4,1
anri Sunday, Monday, Oct. 6. 7.J
!including with her Irving Barnes ("Gidget Goes to Rome", also
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“The Ter-
Doris Galiber. mezzo “WaU of Noise" and
baritone;
soprano
and Garrett Morris, ten-;ror
!xu7.ii „»
, „ ...
The Roosevelt Theatre will be
playing "The Castilian" and “Er-
Comedian Timmie Rogers is lk the Conqueror" from Wednes-
back in town after an 11-city dfly- October 2 thru Sunday Oc*
very people we were trying to help.
We mentioned then that Lester Lanin, and in
bigger way, Meyer Davis, controlled the union jpbs, or.
and the fact that, as a union member, he could also
hire bands for jobs seemed illegal. We mentioned, too,
that when we called the Davis office we were told that
tour promoting his record, "If I
they had hired some Negroes—three—in hundreds of were President.” He set up cam
he^<,ua,rt,ers,n Boston
bands that grossed some $20 million in pay.
We also pointed out that the big exchange hall ci New York Clty Washlngton
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where musicians gathered, looking for jobs, was no d.c. and Philadelphia,
more than another shape-up system. A white reform
group tried to oust the Manuti faction but after much
seeking, they could not even find a Negro candidate
for the slate.
Beulah Bryant appears this
week at the Tip Top Blue Room
on Fulton St., in Brooklvn, Oct
4-6
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Too Passive
Negroes generally have been too passive in 802.
Actor P. J. Sidney, a regular
on the “Long John Nebel Show,"
Much of this is their own fault. After our series of heard all night on WOR-Radio,
stories appeared, some called to tell us to “lay off discusses his ideas on the pro-
802,” that it was the most liberal of the show business 5ay^aroJ1ndSt2mastnboycott Thur,‘
unions and that Negro and white musicians had always
enjoyed a wonderful relationship. That there were two Duke Ellington, ill in a New
— or three Negroes in executive positions. In fact, despite De,hi Hospital expected to re-
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the fact that a pipeline into the union gave us all the oct^ToXrt^U"
information and Manuti had been called in to testify dras. The band is on a tour spon-
before the Powell committee, we found nary a Negro sore* by
the U S. information
Service. One member, Ray Nan
musician who wanted to stand up and fight. Not that
ce, however, was returned to the
they didn’t feel there was reason to require change,
States before the end of the tour.
but they just didn’t “want to be bugged, man ”
tober 6.
CARNEGIE NALL
SAT.. OCT. 12, 1:30 PJA.
in ■ GALA BENEFIT PERFORMANCE
aiiitttd by native dancers and frvmmart
Orchestra under direction Oershte Klafsley
I'nder SeeaMnblp * Far tho S«wni of:
JOSEPHINE BAKERS INTERNATIONAL
VXDEKFKIVILEGED CHILDRENS CAMF
(C. H Burney >—NAACP (Key WUUmI— 9CLC
(Dr. Mxrtfn Lather Klnyi—CORF. (JamM Farmer)
—8NCC (John Levla)
Mlaa Baker *111 appear (a a newly dMlfneC tne
quarter million dollar wardrthe.
Tickets: $50, 20, IS, 10, 5, 4
At Above Llated OryanHatlena. ar Bat Office, or
Of rtf' r G. Geratmap. Inc., ltd W ttnd St. LO «-«H
With the adroit aid of Abe Savage, a likeable pub
lic relations chief of the union, they announced that
they were going to give their usual concerts where
musicians were impartially hired and several musical
scholarships to all races and so on. The hue and cry
died down for lack of support.
It is strange how, with the current civil rights
spirit around, people see ghosts in saxophones where
they thought none existed before. But in many ways
they are getting the union they deserve. That’s what
happens when people don’t want to be “bugged.”
Seek Boy For Role
A dramatic role awaits a
talented Negro boy between
the age of 12 and 14 who has
a strong voice and dances well.
Leo Stern, casting director,
said he will see the boys, as
many as are interested, at
3:$0 p.m. this Saturday for
testing at the St. James Thea
tre. 246 W. 44th St.
Modern Etiquette
a
Q When I am mailing birthday
greeting cards to my women
friends, whom my husband
knows only slightly, am I sup
posed to sign both our names, or
just mine alone? -
A. Since these are your own
personal friends, you need not1
Include your husband's name.
If in dancing
WE TEACH IT
■Anderson's Studio
2323 7th Ava.(134th St.)
AU 3-0542
The title of the upcoming
play: “Dolly: A Dammed Ex
asperating Woman.” Produced
by David Merrick, the play Is
tentatively scheduled to open
Jan. 16, 1964.
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IHl MERRY YOUNG SOULS
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