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1963
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Another Girl
With London’s
•‘Funny Tilling”
“A Funny Thing Happened On
The Way to The Forum,” the hit
at the Alvin Theatre which chalk
ed up Its 600th performance on
October 12, also has a Negro girl
dancing in the London, production
which oepened there last week.
In New York, dancer Myrna
White appears ill the show which
stars comedian Zero Mostel.
In the London show, Faye
Craig is featured among the chor
us. English comedian Frankie
Howard is the star in the London
production.
Surprise TV
TV fans were surprised by “An
Evening with Nat King Cole,” a
half - hour program of songs and
pianistics by the entertainer last
Sunday on ABC-TV at 10 p.m.
The program replaced a prev
iously announced ABC News’
“Cosa Nostra: The Business of
Crime”, which was postponed
until Monday.
The Cole show was taped last
July by the British Broadcasting
Corporation in London and pre
sented Nat in a one - man show,
backed by the augmented Ted
Heath Orchestra and the Cliff
Adams Singers.
'Black Mafic
What’s On TV?
June integration crisis at Univer
sity of Alabama. ABC, 7; *) p m.
MONDAY, Oct. 2J — Sing A-
long With Mitch; Leslie Uggams
: sings gospel song, NBC, 10 p.m.
MONDAY, Oct. 21 — Amanda
Randolph is featured on the "Dan
ny Thomas Show," CBS, 9 p.m.
MONDAY. Oct. 21 — East Side-
West Side: "I Before E”, a story
by actor-writer Ossie Davis about
a dedicated school teacher faced
with delinquent student problem.
Mets catcher Jesse Gonder ap
pears briefly as himself; Cicely
Tyson oo-stars — CBS, 10 p.m.
TUESDAY. Oct. 22 — Mr. No
vak: "A Single Isolated Inci
dent," story about a racial inci
dent at Jefferson High School,
featuring Gloria Calomee as a
student, NBC, 7:90 p.m.
THURSDAY, Oct. 17 - Former
light heavyweight champion Ar
chie Moore appears in drama
tic role as a bartender and
strongman in a mining town mur
der story on the "Perry Mason”
show, CBS. 9 p.m.
FRIDAY. Oct. 18 - Pearl Bail
ey and Joe Louis guests on the
“Jack Paar” program, NBC. 10
p.m.
TUESDAY, Oct. 22 — Ruby Dee
and James Edwards guest stars
in “The Fugitive,” dramatic ad
venture series, ABC, 10 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 23 — “The
Eleventh Hour,” with Diahann
i Carroll as guest star, NBC, 10
p.m.
Malialia On
Grammy Show
Mahalia Jackson, Connie Fran
cis, Les Brown and Henry Man
cini are among the musical cele
brities who will appear on the
one-hour special, “The Best on
Record,” Sunday, Nov. 24 (NBC-
TV, 10-11 p.m).
The program salutes the past
winners of the “Grammy" a-
wards, the recording industry’s
top tribute to performing artists.
Miss Jackson will be introduc
ed by Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
and she will sing “The House I
Live In”.
FRIDAY, Oct. 18 — Fight of
the Week: Luis Rodrigues vs Wil
bert “Skeeter" MdClure, from
Madison Square Garden, ABC,
10 p.m.
‘ SATURDAY. Oct. 19 - Mer
cedes Ellington with June Taylor
Dancers on the Jackie Gleason
Show, CBS, 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY. Oct. 19 — Folk-
gospel singers Joe and Eddie fea
tured In a “Hootenanny" from
campus of Unitersity of Arizona,
ARC, 7:90 p.m.
SATURDAY, Oct. 19 - Nancy
Wilson sings in “Jazz Scene,
USA” WOR (9), 10:90 p.m.
SATURDAY, Oct. 19 - Show
time at the Apollo, WPIX (11),
11:90 p.m.
SUNDAY, Oct. 20 — Talk Back:
Jackie Robinson moderator, WOR
(9), 9:90 a.m.
SUNDAY, Oct. 20 - Look Up
and Live: A religious series, CBS,
10:90 a.m.
SUNDAY, Oct. 20 - Football:
New York Jets vs Oakland Raid
ers from Youell Field, Oakland,
ABC. 4:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, Oct. 20 — Baseball-
Celebrity Golf Tournament a t
Palm Springs, Calif., with Tom
my Davis and Junior Gilliam a-
mong the competitors, CBS, 5
p.m.
SUNDAY, Oct 20 — Ted Mack’s
Amateur Hour, CBS, 5:90 p.m.
SUNDAY. Oct. 20 - Shirley
Verrett, opera singer, guest on
the Ed Sullivan Show, CBS, 8
p.m.
SUNDAY, Oct. 20 — Manhat
tan Battleground, a youth gang
drama on the “Du Pont Show of
the Week". NBC. 10 p.m.
MONDAY. Oct 21 — Nipsey
Russell appears on “Missing
Links" show, NBC. 11:90 a.m.
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riet Tubman's first experience
as a conductor on the Under
ground Railroad, on "The Great
Adventure,” Friday, Nov. 1
(7:90 - 8:30 p.m.) on CBS-TV.
Miss Dee plays Harriet, Miss
Waters her mother. Brock Pe
ters stars as Joe Bailey, a pas
senger Harriet picks up and
Davis stars as Harriet’s broth-
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• N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat, Oct. 19, 1963
Jesse H. Walker
. THAT WAS ACTOR Hari Rhodes you saw on j
those Gillette TV commercials during the World
Series and on Friday night fights. A good thing,
huh? . . . Who says Broadway play tickets are scaled i
too high‘s You can see two of the current hits for as ,
little as 90 cents. They’re the new “Chips With |
Everything” at the Plymouth and tlje continued
success, “Enter Laughing” at the Henry Miller.
DO NEGRO MUSICIANS in New York City
really have a legitimate complaint when they say I J
that producers, bandleaders and contractors refuse
to hire them because of their color? Well the grumb
ling is getting louder and the complaints growing—
one to the extent that a popular musician we know,
long established and, we thought, satisified here
in New York City now says he hopes to go back
on the road again.
“IT’S TOO MUCH for me here in New York
now,” this fellow lamented to us. “To work, you’ve
got to be a great politician. If anything, never say
anything against anything. You’d be surprised,” my
informant went on, ”to know that in this day and
age and in New York City many Negro musicians
are Uncle Tomin’ in order to work. What’s more,
there’s one studio that makes a number of demo -
records that marks (col, next to the names of colored j
musicians. They’re slowly moving Negroes out of the
recording business except for a chosen few, like bass
and trumpet players.”
TV REGULAR — Actress Cic
ely Tyson is shown in a scene
from the CBS Television Net
work’s new dramatic series,
East Side - West Side." with star
George C. Scott Miss Tyson
plays Mr. Scott's secretary in
this new series dealing with the
problems and challenges of a
ment, Alpine, Philip Morris re
gular and king size Command
big city social worker. “East
er, and the new Paxton king
Side . West Side” is sponsored
size mentholated filter cigarette
by Philip Morris Inc., manu
facturers of Marlboro, Parlia
in the HumiQex plastic pack
age.
HUY THE LATTER CLASSIFICATIONS? “Be- j
cause mostly Negroes can play the high parts of the j
trumpets and mostly Negroes can keep good rhythm j
on the bass. Saxes and trombones are out.” Going I
further my disgruntled friend stated that the only |
time a Negro violin player can get a job is when |
he’s hired by a Negro contractor or the A&R man
at the recording sessions demands some Negroes.
THERE’S MORE, BUT it will have to wait until I
next week. But one disclosure my friend made can’t
wait. It was when he charged that the musical con
tracts for the World’s Fair which opens in 1964 are
already out and claimed not one Negro has a con
tract. If so, we thing CORE’S probe into the musi
cian’s charges and their union, Local 802, should
dig much deeper.
SHIRLEY VERRETT, the mezzo-soprano who
was acclaimed in Moscow for her “Carmen” will be
seen and heard on Ed Sullivan’s CBS-TV show Sun
day, Oct. 20 . . . Gloria Davy, another soprano of
note is to sing at the La Scala Opera in Milan, Italy
in January after appearances in West Berlin and
Trieste . i . And at the City Opera, Juanita King
is debuting in “Joan of Arc” . . . And Brock Peters,
winding up his current engagement at the Village
Gate on Sunday, sings for the National Lawyers
Guild on Friday.
THEY’RE FILMING “The Pawnbroker” in East
Harlem these days. Film stars Rod Steiger, Brock
Peters and Geraldine Fitzgerald . . . We’re sorry
we missed “Pianists Unlimited” Saturday night in
the Village, featuring Ray Bryant, Spaulding Givens,
Sadik Hakim, Joe Knight and Randy Weston . . .
Talking of pianists, Horace Silver and his Trio go
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into Birdland on Thursday ...
AND UPTOWN in Wells’ Upstairs Room there’3
Mary Lou Williams and her Trio, featuring Mike
Fleming on bass and Dave Pochonet on drums. Mary
Lou’s a gal who enjoys her own playing as you will
note when she’s swinging and nodding with “Boss
Chord”, or “I Get A Kick Out of You”, or “Love For
Sale” or the lilting “Easy Blues”. Or even with the
slow, thoughtful “It Ain’t Necessarily So”. She’s
good to hear.
“MR. DEE JAY” is the name of the new maga
zine now on the stands devoted to discjockeys, re
cording stars, records and record ratings . . . Lionel
Hampton and his band doing a benefit for Birming
ham bomb victims at Cole Hotel in Albuqurque, New
Mexico ... Rose Murphy has signed pact with Regina
Records that guarantees her $50,000 annually . . .
Battle has released Mongo Santamaria’s “Mongo At
The Village Gate” which should please all his fans.
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IN TV DRAMA - Ruby Dee.
Ethel Waters, Brock Peters
and Ossie Davis star in “Go
Down, Moses," story of Har-
Hollywood Sets
Rights Benefit
HOLLYWOOD — Sammy Davis.
Jr. is currently busy whipping up
a big civil rights benefit show
tentatively scheduled for presen
tation on Nov. 25.
Frank Sinatra. Dean Martin
and Count Basie are helping him
prepare the “stars for Free
dom” show which it is hoped will
reap about $70,000.
An equal share of the proceeds
will be turned over to the NAACP,
CORE and the Southern Chris
tian Leadership Conference.
ETHEL WATERS
Where else caa you get Martin
Luther King, Jackie Robinson.
Roy Wilkins. Poppy Cannon, Ger
trude Wilson, Jimmy Hicks and
Jimmy Booker bat In the Ams
terdam News. Out every Thurs
day.
Brevoort Theatre
2 Musicals
For Children
On Weekends
Two musicals for children are
being presented by Producer Jo
seph Beinhom at tile Judson Hall
Playhouse, 185 W. 57th St., and
the Gramercy Arts Theatre, 138
E. 27th SI
“The Prince and The Pauper,”
Twain’s great story to now run
ning at Judson Hall with two per
formances every Saturday and
Sunday at 2 and 3:39 p.m.
“Little Red Riding Hood”, a
hit musical comedy, to at the
Gramercy Arts. Two perform
ance* are staged every Saturday
at 2 and 3:90 p.m,, and a single
performance on Sunday at 1 p.m.
watt i s Finest
CHUCK
JACKSON
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