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Newspaper Page Text[topics ^WNWWOKLt> 'only NEW k THE WOK CD MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS W A SCOTT Editor and Publisher Frank Marshall Davi. Managing Editor PUBLISHED DAILY AT 210 AUBURN AVENUE, N E. TELEPHONES: WALNUT 1459 and 1460 THE WORLD assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscrip’ sent into the office. _ a DVE RTI SI N G K E PRES EN T A TIV n W. B ZIFF CO., Chicago, New York. Los Angeles This Young Negro Does Things About five years ago a young Colored man, now 2! 1 years old, started a weekly newspaper in .Atlanta. Georgia. Later he added other weeklies in Birmingham. Ala.. Colum bus, Ga., and Memphis, Tenn. His business grew and in stead of issuing his papers weekly he grew to bi-weekly is sues, then tri-weekly—and now announcement has just been made that beginning next Monday. .March 11th. his paper “The Alanta World" will be issued daily. Employed on this daily will be forty-seven trained young Negro men and women. This is a forward step that deserves the felicitations of the American public—of all races and creeds. 1 hesc young people, but 70 years removed front slavery, proscribed in many ways in their native land are fme examples of what can be acci^nplished through training, hard work, honesty and fearlessness commonly called “guts" by some ot us- The Register congratulates the Atlanta W orld and its kindred papers on this achievement and recommends its publishers as tit subjects for inspirational study to the Young' Negro boys and girls of this nation. We urge that every teacher of the youth of the Negro race, every preach er, or leader who has to do with younger or older groups, read very carefully the news item referring to these young people, found on the first page of this issue and see to it that it is read to their students, congregations and other hearers. This younger generation of ours needs all of the inspi ration and all of the encouragement that their elders can give them. Take this seriously! The Atlanta World is doing a mighty fine thing. —San Antonio Register Digesting The News By Clifford C. Mitchell Introducing a Daily. An approaching election < al ways a stimulant for new journa listic enterprises. From the < xten sive records that we maintain we discover that during the po-t fw. years th re has been as many new newspaper ventures, in the color ed field on the eve of an elect on. which collapsed immediately aft< r dect on, as there are bona fide publications that exist year in and year out. Therefore, the launching of a new colored newspaper, in an elec tion year, <l,, not carry with it a very great news value, t , pecial ly if it be in a held in which our people are verv active, poltical ly. Among the new venture.- al ready started, tins year or the proposed ventures, however, ionic, the announcement of a new color ed daily new.-paper. In tin:- - pa i other colored daily lew papi r have started hut none have I.; ted very long The circumstances surrounding this new daily are so unusual that they are worthy of being thorough ly digested for the benefit of cnloi ■ ed readers.. Is this new daily, then just another attempt to control the colored voters through a daily propaganda sheet Our answer i-. “No,” as the following fact- w 11 indicate, and thus the new daily becomes an epoch in Negro jour nalism This new daily, The Atlanta Daily World, is in the city of At lanta, Georgia. In former time times we have had some very pow erful colored poFticians there ami still have -ome who are very ae BROOKLYN COP IS EXONERSTEOFOR MUROEROFPAIR I ’ ' BROOKLYN. N Y Mar 17 (ANP) Ass : tant District Attorney Anthony J. Di Giovanni. exonerat'd Patrolman Thomas Slow of ah blame in connection with the kill ing of Mrs. Gertrude Sickles and George Lewis at the home of th. former during a vice investigat on hetje Thursday afternoon. Patrolman Slow, along with Pa trolman Matthew Farrell, accord ing to th° ieport, went to the hom< O* Mrs Lewis to investigae a com plaint that hadjoeen made again-• her. They found Lewis at th< live ami nationally known, ’ a they are not connected, d r illy, . or indirectly with till, new daily. 1 Neithci do . . iiml the colored I <oi I ■ any gr. at ai ti\ ■■ a.- oiding any important of . , .11 the cty government of Atlanta nor in the slate govern ment < f Georgia, for that matter. We do find however. some young and. progressive pioneers in tile colored newspaper field there. About four years ago they organi ized the Southern Newspaper Syn dicate and by giving their readers news that was timely and pertinent | they built up a large circulation in a chain of World panel's in eve ral cities in the south. When this syndicate first start ed they must have then had vis ions of someday publishing a daily for the'r papers had not been long si the field before they started the ystem of issuing two issues a we; k and thus became the only ni-weekly publishers in the field of ','egro journalism. With their headquarters at At linta and centering their activi • > s there they gradually educated lie colored readers out of the hab .: of reading but one issue of a olored paper a week and not long after their bi-weekly was estab li.-hi'd, they started a tri-weekly. In the meantime securing the best newspaper talent available and now after nearly a year of suc i-'ssfuly publishing a tri-weekly thev have extended their aet vities still further bv publishing six is u“.- a week By owning several napets. having experienced and trained workers and annlying •rictlv busne- method ihc "ew daily should prove uice-ful ( on gratulations house arid when th-y inform' d Lewis m I Mrs. Sickles that thev were officers. Lewis and Mrs Sickles are alleged to have attacked the offic-rs with iron bars. f'-llingi Slow and injuring Farrell. Lying an th. floor Slow pulled h.. gun and -hot Mrs Sickles kill ing her instantly and Lewis was fatally injured when he leaped ; r< rn a window in the effort to c. - , ■ape. Alter listening to the story : il the officers th.- Assistant District j Attorney declared 'hat the slaying ; was in self-defense and in the Im. of duty. PREAC HER SLAVER OF MOTHER IN-LAW GIVEN .30 YEARS LENOIR. N C. Mar. IT -'CNS' ■ A 52 year old minister. Walter Hor j on wiio shot and killed his moth • r-in-law front ambush some time i ago. was last wee) convicted of I econd degree murder and sent ! ne.-d to serve 30 years in the peni- I 'entiary EDI TO RIA 1 Harlem i Flashes H S Reston, political wntei pre : .ded oy. r a debate at Concord Bap tist Church. Brooklyn. Sunday after noin. between the Literary Debat ing Club and the 2.3 rd street Y on •'Unemployment Insurance " The West Indian Review, month ly magazin edited by A M Wen dell Malliet fas just brought out its i ,mth iM.-rcm number and announces that Vere E. Johns, lor meHy with the Tattler and m- Boston Chronicle, is no longer u si.-tant business manager n o r ( ..n'vi ied oith the magaz ne. Its of fiv are m.w located at 111 Wit 131:1 street B- cause of a visit last week to Washington by F. Q. Morton, mem ber o- the Civil Service Conn:" sion. and Judge Charles E. Tomy, a m ws dispatch was sent out by the Capital News Service saying Mr. Morton is after national democratic lead-rship. The National News, edited by George S. Schuyler, went back to 16 pages in its fifth issue this week, after dropping to 12 pages alter the first issue, in this issue Mr Schuy ler's “Views and Reviews" app ars for the first t me unde; that name since he resigned from The Pitts burgh Courier a month ago. D, ari Raphael O'Hara Lanr-r < f Florida A. and M College Tallahas see. was in the city ovei the week end. He is doing special work at Harvard on his Ph D. degree. Tfi e Chicago critics 1 ked "Zombie'' when it opened Sunday night according to a letter re ceived from Etta Moten a member of the cast, by friends here. The Tribune referred to Miss Mot* n as being "excellent a s a terrified quardroon." P. L Prattis of the As soc ated Negro Press attended the premiere. Harlem is experiencing it sec ond week of real winter for the season. The thermometer was down to 28 and snow flurries came spasmodically during Monday. December. January and February were comparatively warm, while March so far has been exceedingly cold Eubie Blake, is at the La ayette this week in a musical comedy sk- t<’h called ' Plenty of It " Mr B': be was with Noble Sissle when • S-r .wo- ■" p..\ 1 the way f.-r 11,. Negro act'ir on B.oi.dw: " later he helped produce "Choeob 1 Dandies.” another Broadway h'.t. B':)!: is .1 musician of bd .til ability, and he hails irom Baltimoie. In reviving his "Views and Re- . views" George S. Schuyler made i the statement this week that: "It I doesn't matter whether the next president comes from Maine or Mississippi so far as We are con cerned." In taking a shot at den tists Mr. Schuyler says: "New after the tentists (eager for bucks) have scared us to death declaring that ! we don t clean our teeth after each meal they’ll decay, comes the report of a British dentist who recently examind th teeth of the 163 in habitants of the island of Tristan de Cunha in the South Atla'O.<-| ■Dental decay’ says this traveling, i dentist, is rare. We examined 156 n dividuals. ranging in age from a few months to 92 years, and of th- se 131 are entirely free from decay, and the general dental condition can only be described as perfect In no case did the examiners find an islander who had ever cleaned his teeth.' ” Miss Lenora E. Pritchett, who was awarded her M. A degree al Columba on February 24. will speak on "Some Problems of the Negro Child" at the Broadway Tabernacle on April 9. She is from Atlanta. Georgia. The Negro World devoted a me- I article in this week's issue to the j forthcoming daily Atlanta World in Atlanta. Georgia, published by W ; A. Scott. 29. and edited by Frank ■ Marshall Davis. 26. Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York wrote John Barton Payne of the American Red Cross advising him of economic distress due to unemployment among Negro es in the North, and said: "I trust you will take immediate steps to se cure the approval of President Hoover for prompt distribution of government wheat where the emergency is greatest, among our colored population in Harlem and other Negro centers in the North." Mr. Payne replied, under date of March 9. "The approval of the Pr< s ident for the issuanc- cf the wheat has been obtained, and nothing re mains but to put the matter into operation " Dr. /Xmbrose Cahver of the De nar’ment of Education. Wash ngton. D. C.. spoke at Columbia Unive"- sity last we< k on "Service o the United States Office of Education to Negro Schools Dr. Cahver was formerly dean of Fisk University The hunt for the Lindbergh babv reached Harlem, but was confined to Italians near Centra! p al k ,n the 111th street district , Rose McClendon, who starred in । Never No M->re." the lynching drama which thrilled Broadway re cently is now rehearsing m a new ■ play. "Black Seal Wallac e Ttiurm.in writ- i and .UiUkh n repot ted t" have "Id to: | sfiatc- of Hal lem to Umvelsal | Picture- Coipoiat on .n d will !• .iv. ’ for B-.-rmuda so> n to - pend -i-veral month' That inan also wrote "Blacker the B- try a novel He i* a native of Salt Lake City Utah Ft ank Wilson star of Po: ,;v j and recently a main enaracter in I the radio sketf-hes "Carelis> l."Ve ' I I- rehiar-ing in a new play "Hloo'i ' .-trearn. Tile play is to open at tie i Selwyn on March 30. The east is ' eoinposed only of men, and other I m i' w tn Wilson are Percy Ver way ne. Waykind Rudd and Ernes' , Whitman, all Well-known actors Nma Mie McKinney packed 'em , in at the Roos- veil in Harlem । Monday and Tuesday with her part I in Safe in Hell.” i Marguerite Lee. well known as a । sing'-r. pianist and actress, is now । hostess—enterta ; ner at the Owl in West 136th street. She was in "Keep Shufflin' " and "Sugar Hill" on Broadway. She is a native of Des I Moines. lowa. Mrs. William Pickens. Jr . who r< signed her position as Girls Re serve Secretary of the Y in Philadelph a. is coming to Harlem to live. She was formerly Miss Emille Piermont Montier Brown, native ot Seattle. Washington. Bill Pickens. Jr., is a lawyer, educated at the College of the City of New- York ana Fordham Law School. His father is field secretary of the i N. A. A C P . and a frequent con । tributor to the press. I Congressman Gavagan from Har j lem has intioduced a bill to make i March 5 Crispus AttucT.s Memorial i Day for the observance and com- I memoration of the death of Crispus Attucks, who died in the massacre of Boston Commons. j oP tfel pen I— ' BjlZ_ HEIGH-HO EVERYBODY! This is not Rudy Vallee. However, who cares.’ On with tile column! FLYING THOUHTS I am not frozen, but . . you know . . 1 have been chilled bv the cold frost Of deception . . . Underneath . . there is really a smouldering fire Ready at a moment's notice To be kindled . . C-i 'lgo ; —Redb. i d. I SAY THERE Spelman. Clark.! Mor, hou-e. A. U.. Tu-kegee. Ala bama Stat in fact all you schools, -any chance of gifting some con-i tributions? This is your column, vou know: so—send'em in. Get your thinking caps on and flood us with contribs. We'd like it! SONG OF THE WORKING MAN Sunrise- and a weary pilgrim starts on his daily grind. Struggling, striving to earn daily bread- sustenance for his kind. Yearning scheming, trying to do his share For those who are dependent those who are in his care. Noon-day and his trials are otflv half through. Trusting, trying, he goes hoping that he can do Things that seem at the outset so hard: and then A n- w- thought dawns and it seems it's his time to win. Evening -and a shadow treads his weary way homeward With blessings and Thanksgiving upon his lips to say “Onward!' He trods to his palace, 'ere it be so humble. And takes life as it comes wth ■ neith, r a sigh nor a grumbb . । Atlanta Riley. HUMAN POSSIBILITIES From a telegram, without punctua tion as usual— LARGE CROWD SNOWING OUTSIDE" We presi-nt a masterpiece in let ter-writing. with appreciation and thanks to whomever it belongs: Among the humorous fitters bear ing a serious vein received in Wash ton during the war: Mr Headquarters U. S Armory Dear Mr Headquarters: Mv husband has been induced in to the surface long months ago and I ain't ree d no nay from his sine-' he was gone Please send me mv elopement as I have a four m(>”i!:'< old babv end he is my onlv sun port and I kneed it every dav to buy food and keep us fnclo ed I jam a pyor woman and aii I hav. at the Tront. Both sides of mv pa | ents are verv old and I can't su<- I pect anything rom th«-m a s my ! mother has been in bed 13 ye n - | My husband is in charge > f :< spitoon. Do I get nnv mor. than I ■ am go ng to get? Please send me । ‘ letter and tell me if my husband made application for a wife- form to fill out I have already written ’ Mr Wilson and get no answer an * if I don't hear from you I will writ; What Sam Auburn WJ; Avenue : 'Says Lißw w ■■KtuVn,' , * 4 A \ LP.REY^OLDSW^- TO MY WAY of thinking, every time you ride on a bus in prefer ence to the railroad for cheaper transportation, you fool yourself thinking you have saved a small amount The railroads have been considered the back bone of Ame rica's prosperity and when the railroads are idle a vast army of men are unemployed, and unem ployed men can not have money to spend to contribute to the wealth of the country. A merchant will boast of his saving on a trip where , he went by bus instead of by the railrcad. Yet, he complains of how scarce money is and how peon'e are paying their bills so slowly. The railroads pay big revenue in taxes in every city it passes through and maintains great terminals that employ multitudes of men, repair shops that require h ordes of skill led and unskilled lab. r. So when the ramming down the throats of are unemployed. To my way of thinking, the ma jor cause of this depression, is the ramming down the throate of the people the prohibition laws and the withdrawal of the patron age of the railroads. SINCE WRITING in yesterday’s i.-sue about railroad men. and par ticularly firemen it is brought to my attention that Mr. J. T. James, proprietor of the James hotel was a railroad fireman, Mr. A. Price, propr'etor of the Price Coal com pany. whs one, and they say, in years gone by, when he would ar rive on his run, you could take a spoon, and dip salt, accumulated from perspiration, from him. They sav there was no chance of “Price” falling off an engine once he got his “legs” and “feet” set. Mr. N D. Jackson, of Engineer at the Odd Fellows building, was once a rail road f’reman, Mr. J J. Crawford, the mail carrier, who carried mail around Boulevard and Edgewood, once was the man on the Dixie Flyer, every night; and la t, but not least, our old “Ras” Brown. 1 don’t know just what ‘ bu iness” he is in at present, was ome a railroad fireman. A. B- CUMMINGS, once a busi ness man and a familiar figure on the AVE. is dead. “A. B.” as he was familiarly called, was an un dertake and embalmer. His re mains are at the Daivd T Howard establishment, where he first serv ■ d is an undertaker in the employ of David T. Hoiward. At the time of his death, he was conducting an undertaking establishment in Jackson. Ga. The beautiful side of “A- B.’s” life was the loyalty of his faithful wife and her devo tion to him when he had the mis fortune of losing his eyesight He will be funeralized Sunday from his church. Allen Temple. BESSIE SMITH comes to town todav to appear at the EIGHTY ONE theatre, the place where she started a career that was destined to make her name become the bye word of America when anyone spoke of the BLUES Bessie is a BLUES singer who really entrances one whi n thev sit under her vo ce; and though the Blues singing is not as popu lar as in former years, I am unite sure when you hear Bessie, either today, tomorrow, or Saturday, • bat old time yearning for the Blues will be revived. THIS EVERYDAY writing is working the Oh. 1 iust a* well say it — the hell out of me. 1 ju»t as well say it as you and my self think it. I JUST FOUND OUT vdmre “Chrio” at the ECONOMY DELI CATESSEN, got that ni'kname Miss Myrtle, I don’t know her Inst name, a charming voung ladv. whil> “Chico” was fixing h°r ore iho-e "nod sandwiches said: “Tha*’ th" sweet name his grl calls him." Uncle Sam and tell about you and him. Yours truly. Mrs. Quinn P S. My husband says that he sets in the Y. M. C A . very nit.- with the piano playing n his uni form. 1 think U can find him there. THE YEARS Last Year— I said I'd forget you Said I’d erase your face From out mv memory; 1.. • another fill your place. This Year — The same old heartache throbs; I sfi. p much less at night. Another year of sighs And I still crave your light Bee Hargrove Troy. Alabama IT’S I IKEI.Y THAT’S THE ONLY PLAC E WE LL 1)0 IT From an ad in the Tattler, in which the printer mad" a mistake: • Nina Mae McKinney in SAVE IN HELL" Were vamping ’till ready. Phas, com.- op with the voice* -L. C L Those Wild Radio Waves WGST 1 :0() We ibi o o k C.insmvatoi > Player 1:15- Ann Leaf at the organ. CBS. I 1:30 American School of the Air CBS 2:oo—Eamtin d,. Valera broadcast from Ireland. CBS. 2:3o—Rhythm King’s, CBS 2:45 -Virginia Arnold, pianist 3:00—-United States Army bund. CBS. 3:10 News. 3:15 -United States Armv Band CBS. 3:30- George Hall and his Hotel i Taft orchestra. CBS. 4:00 Tu > Guizar, Mexican tenor. CBS. 4:15 The Ambassadors, male trio. CBS 4:3o—Bertha Arrowood. 4:45 McMich n’s North Georgia Apple Kno. ker.-. 5:00 T ilk bv Comander J M Kenworthy. CBS 5:15 R.-is and Dunn. CBS. 5:30 Three Minute Oat Flakes club with Aunt Sally. 5:45 Pertussin orchestra. CBS 6:00 Snowball and Sunshine. CBS. 6:15 Studio 6'25 B. C Sp rts Review. CBS. 6 30 -Dtirian Cohen. 6:45-Junior High anti-hoarding winner 6:45 Cam 1 Quarter Hour, CBS 7:00 News. 7:15 Phillips Dental program. CBS. 7:30 —Lige ana Lucy. 7:45 Kid Red Rock. 8:00 Vaughn De Leath. CBS. B'ls Tuneful Twosome, 8:30 Musical Album. CBS. 8:45 John Clotworthy in a St P : ,, 'ick' ■ Day program 9:00 H r. S haffner & Marx T.umpet rs. CBS. 9:30 Chesterfield's Music That Satisfies. CBS. 9:4s—Arthur Jarrett. CBS. 10:00 ToS' ha S idel. violinist, with concert orchestra, CBS 10:15 Atlanta Constitution and Roy Robert. 10:30 -George Olsen and his orches tra. CBS. 10:45 Bing Crosby and his orches tra, CBS. 11:00—Salvation Army program. 11:30 -Hirchel Brown and his Wash board band. Langston Hughes Acclaimed as Great on Return to Home Town in Kansas Bv L. Bluford I AWRENCE, Kan. Mar. 17. A dapper young man. Langston Hugh i s who might have been mistaken for a student at the University of Kansas, had one no clue to his iden t'ity. save his unassuming" air, mingled here for several days with the old home-town folk, who km w him, not as accomplish d artist, but as a lad, who had learned reading, writing and 'rithmetic at the Pick years ago. ney school here, over seventeen Langston Hughes, acclaimed as one of the two greatest living Neg ro poets, read some of his poems in Fraser theatre on the campus of the Univeihiity of Kansas on Wednesday, March 9. before an au dience which claimed him as "the Lawrenc.' boy who n(ade good." He was presented in a lecture reading by Delta chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, which leads Greek letter social organiza tions here in sehdastic rating. His recital kept him here just one night, but Hughes was in the town, which he knew as “home" : until h P was thirteen yiprs old t on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sun day, renewing acquaintances among ! those who as youngsters had suf fered from the hickory limbs along ; with him; making new ones with college students whose reputations . ar,, yet to be mad?; and greeting : oid-timers. who knew his mother. ! Mrs. Carrie Langston Hughes Clark. 1 now of Cleveland, when she was Carrie Langston belle of the com munity. and daught r of Colonel I Langston, once th,, most wealthy man of Lawren e. Mrs. Clark served as deputy county clerk in I the district court here some thirty years ago. ! Mr. Hughes' audienc?. on the night of his recital here, was es pecially appreciative of the work done- by the thirty-year old young man. whose feet hava landed on the soil of nine countries, three : continents, and who knows how' many cities? The persons, who gathered to hear him including white and c >lor d students, towns people and members of the Univer : sity faculty were generous in their applause of Mr Hughes' interpre ation of his po ms, interspersedi j with bits of autobiographical data. 1 In most cases, h.. told where andj under what , ireumstan es he wrote! ouch p em. which information add-* ed to the audience’s appreciation of! his genius. i Th? poems which proved most! popular are: \ “Cross." whose last lines read:< I wonder where I shall die being i 'neither white nor black.' “Broke." J which Mr Hughes wrote when h?. was down and < lit: "Mother to I Son." known as the "crystal stair”( I poem: "Suicid. Note" the shortest) i poem ever written by the young ! author: "I. Too Sing America’:” i “N gro Dancers." which was inter i nreted in a characteristic dance. : floor rhvthm: and "The Weary Blues" the ponn whi h first called attention to his work Others ".'hi' h f ".mJ favor with the midi enne an "Whit- Shadows” "Wat-1 erfron Streets” Rivers," de-j dieated to Dr WF B Dubois | Mr. Hughes’ books have long wsn 100 Metropolitan Opera Coin i |xmy, NBC 3:00 Home Devolutions, NBC. .3:15 U. S Navy Band, NBC 3:30 Frances Collins. 3:45 Sarah Adelle EastlacK. 4:00 Dam ing Shadows orch stra. 4:30 Sunset Club. 5:00 "Recent Books for Children " 5:15 Shorter College Program. 5:45 Erskine College Program. 6:00 Georgia Cracker Program. 6:ls—Beatrice Fairfax, NBC 6:3b-Si ebbins Boys. NBC. (I:4s—News. 7:00 Fleischmann Hour. NBC. 8:00 Maxwell House Ensemble. N BC. 9:00 Lucky Strike Hour NBC 10:00—Amos ‘ri' Andy. NBC 10:15—Prim’e Albert Quartec-'Honr. NBC. 10 .30 Frigidairians Orchestra. 10:45- Llovd Cade, Irene Leftwieh. 11:00 Ralph Kirbery, NBC. 11:05—Coon-Senders Orchestra NBC 11:15 —Prohibition Poll. । 11:20—Coon-Sanders’ orchestra.NßC । 11:30 WSB-Hired Help Skylark WJTL ; 1:00 Correct time. 1:01 Anti-hoarding program I 1:05 Merchants on Parade 1:30 Vaughan Ozmer. i I:4s—Studio program. 2:10- Contemperaneous Civiliziti ai 3:10 —Dr. Witherspoon Dodge 4:lo—Dr. H. J. Gaertner. 5:10 llistorv and Interpretation of th,. Bible. 6:oo—History and Appreciation ol Music 6:50 Recorded Music. 6:55 - Anti-hoarding Program. 7:00- Correct tinr'’. 7:01 Jeff MacFillan and his or chestra. i 7:3(4 Minit Rub Sports Squibbs. 7:35 Aileen and Helen Stephem i 7:45 Seaboard Securities I 8 00—Correct time. 8.01 —Vaudeville of the Air. 8:15- 'Frances Horfi v ! 8:30 Our Gang Fun'Club ! 9:00 —Sam and Sal. । 9:15 -Colonel White. ! 9:3o—Theatre Around the Corner 9:45 — Old Philosopher 10:00—Rosaline Simmons. 10:15—Street Players. 10:45—Bill Gatins and his Jug band 11:00—Sleepy Town Express 12:00—Sign off. been favorites on this campus, if their circulation in the University library is any indication of their popularity. The sale of his books and the clamor for autographs al ter the performance also indicated । the attitude of this community to- ward the work of young Hughes. i Turning from poet io man, Lang- I ston Hughes is a modest, lovable I lad. devoted to his mother, who met j him in Lawrence to be with him [ when he read to the home-lolks. । Hughes isn’t the conceited c ‘lebrity | who “can't be touched" now that । his works which have been trans lated into four different languages, i hav? won for him several awards including the first Opportunity poe try prize in 1925; the Witter Byn ner Intercollegiate poetry contest in 1926; The Harmon Gold Award for Literature in 1930. His first and only novel. "Not Without Laught er," has been judged by the Ameri can. Library Association as one of the forty most outstanding books published in 1930; and the Same novel was recently selected by the League of Nations as the book to b ‘ I used as the basis of a sociologi cal study. He mingled freely among the town folk as if he had been gone only a short time and hadn't done anything commendable in the । interim. And, he isn’t the famous person, who has grown above his previous (Surroundings. While here, he stopped with Mrs. W. J. Campbell, I known familiarly as “everybody’s aurj;'’ ough jji reality she is hardly anybody's relative. He still calls her “aunty.” as he did wh< n ! he wore knee pants and played mar bles in her front yard. 1 He isn’t so sure of hints If that 1 he doesn't welcome criticism, fav | orabl ( . or adverse. He hardly ever ' gets any adverse comment, how ever. "Il's nice of you to tell me.” : he says to some one who expresses 1 pleasure over hearing some parti-' I cula.r poem. “I didn't know wheth- I er she plan of bringing a collecti m 1 of books was a good on • or not. I'm glad you told me what you think." he confides io one who was interested in the two suitcase loads of books by Negro authors that he [and his manager carry with them I in their Ford touring car. ' Yes. he ha s a manager, but W. Radcliffe Lucas, a classmate of his at Lincoln University in Chester County, Pa., and he are mare Ilk ' companions than manager and ar tist. Asked what h,. is going to do when the pres nt tour which be gin last November, terminates in May when he will appear in Cali fornia, he replied, modestly. “Guess. I'll try to write som thing else.” "Another novel? he was asked. "Yes." “What about?” “I don't know vet but it'll have a city background." He probably has the plot all de-J •tailed in the back of his mind, but] lik-' all wise authors, he will re-| frain from comment until he gets his publisher’s O K upon his, manuscript. He is now working on a plav in collabroation with some- 1 on,, else in New York but he said less about that than about his new- op I N I ON A ICTS / I \By Hdmi LevetFe । For The Associated Negro Press) HOLLYWOOD. Calif. With California's stnn-tropical rainy^ season scoring an unusual lot of" inches last week, work fur movie extras dropped quite a bit, there being only 2 989 calls for atmos phre players, in the 28 features working at 13 studios. This was because most of their work was to have been in out of door shots; yet Ihe full average of regular a clors and “bit" players reported. However, there was more work for colored players during the week than usual and quite an en couraging diffi rence in the em ployment figures of the same week last year and this year. Turning back through files of Charles Butler of Central Casting Bureau we find that in February o > 1931 only 58 calls wire made wh Ie up to the 19th of February this year 198 players have been employed and a number are still working Rushing Chinese War Stores With feverish haste most of the studios are rushing into the cycle of Sino-Japanese war stories or { touching up Oriental stories al leady on hand. Writers from four large studios are Tjußding stories j based on the war-news. "Roar of i the Dragon" is to start at R K. O. ‘ with John Holliday and Harding stars. Gentle Jimmy CHICAGO.- Pike Davis and his big International orchestra with Rhapsody in Black Rtf Chicago Saturday night with the show and with a million new friends and good wishes. Cab Calloway, the new Spirit of Jazz with his Cotton Club or chestra is playing his third week in Chicago over the B. and K. Circuit. No leader of any orches tra perhaps, so typifies the spirit of • xhuberant jazz tunes as does Cab Calloway and his boys from the Cotton Club. Cab was ill dur ing his engagement until last Fri day when he broke loose with Minnie the Moocher and held his audience spell bound for many minutes. Cab is stopping with his mother on Michigan Boulevard and denies the rumor in regards to his trying to prohibit his sis ter Billing herself as Cab's Little Sister. This, of course is an east ern rumor. Ida Mae Maples and her Meldoy Masters play Friday Nights for the Century Civic Chin's weekly dance, at Warwick Hall. Johnny Long and his Troubad ors play Tuesday nights of each week for Professors Watts and Penn at the Forum Hall. Theology Students Meet at Howard WASHINGTON. Mar. 16. -(CNS)^ —Approximately 125 theological s'udents were guests of Howard University last week at the ninth ( annual conference of the Middle Atlantic seminaries connected with the interseminary movement. Meet ings of the group were held at the Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel of the University. Among the speakers at the con ference were: Mr. Mordecai John son. president of the University; Dr. 1 Peter Ainslie of Baltimore; Repre sentative Franklin Fort of New Jersev: Kirby Page, publicist. New York; Elbert Russell, dean of Duke University Col. J E. Yates, chief chaplain. United States Army; the R v. George Stewart, chairman of the interseminary movement, and Dr Joseph Matthews, secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. novel. Hughe s is intensely interested in young folk with a literary turn of mind. He was scheduled to be entertained by Rhadamanthi, a Uni versity poetry society, immediate ly after his reading, here, but the line waiting for autographs in his books was so long that it was too late for the affair, when the artist . had finished writing his namd untilJ| his fingers were numb. From hi:, outward appearance, however, no one kn?w that he was tired in the least. He was the guest of honor at a tea given by the group which spon sored his lecture on Sund,- - Mar. 13. He read in Topeka, Kan. on Monday. March 14; in Kansas City. March 15 and 16. from where h” will go to Wichita. Kan. He will da vs after completing his Kansas itinerary, but will soon resume hist tour in Texas.