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THE INFORMFR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1942
PAGE THIRTEEN
Russell Sweeps
East; Comboes
With Hampton
Indianapolis, Ind.—Playing to a capacity crowd here last Tues-
day night, Snookum Russell and his swing crew blew into town after
three solid months engagement at Cotton Club, Cincinnati, and
played the Victory Ball sponsored by the Young. Republicans in
. honor of the new mayor-elect, General Robert Tindall. Featured
■with Russell is a new star. Chris-
tine Chatman, boogie-woogie piano
specialist who received five of six
wncores for her rendition of Sea
Sea Rider.” Russel was en route
to Champaign, III., and other one
niters' and open for ten days start-
ing here Saturday, Dec. 19, with
one day out to play Trianon Ball-
room Toledo, Ohio for a charity
ball, Dec. 24, at which time, Lionel
Hampton will -blitzkrieg the spot
Russell will return for the Christ-
mas Day annual affair and the
house is already sold out. The
club has newly installed an extra
balcony, which will provide accom-
dations for nearly 250 more fans,
closing here December 28th. Russell
and his fine band will move into
Quincy, Ill. an dtake over the en-
tertainment for tour weeks. The
spot is Casino Club, strictly ofay
house.
Opening for a week beginning
Dec. 29, is Irvin C. Miller’s world
-famous Brownskin Models' with
Barney Johnson’s band which has
been augumented to ten pieces
“which with the pretty nearly all-
hgirl show adds up twenty-five
I people. Pha Terrell is also on the
bill and it seems this club will
present one of the biggest “name
attractions ever to play the holi-
day bill. .
Russell Fine Entertaining Group
Snookum Russell is a natural born
scat singer, a fine musician and
band leader and as an MC has no
equal. This aggregation which it
now may be said is “famous taint-
ed;” having reached the top the
hard way, is fast becoming one of
the leading sepia name bands. Not
so many moons ago, Jimmy Lunce-
ford started at the bottom and it
si said really got startea upward
after playing a ten day engage-
ment for an Evansville promoter
which barely netted wages. Russell,
like Jimmy, was forced to do the
same; but now has one of the finest
bands in America, with very few
open dates and on many engage-
ments receives guarantees in the
bracket of Lunceford, Hines, Hamp-
ton and Count Basie.
DEATHS
Robert Woods, 47, of 106 Man-
ning Court "
Hattie L. Shaw, 42, of 2716 Conti.
Miss Esther Reed, 46, of 1105
McDuffie. .
Mrs. Susie Randall, 61, of 3032
Buck. .
Minerva Murphy, 67, of 1021 Crete
street. .
William F. Moore, 39, of 15 Apine.
Ollie Milton Middleton, 50, Gal-
veston.
Willie Lewis, 30, of 2507 McKin-
" Mrs. Mary Jones, 70, of 822 Mc-
Call. . * .
Helen Ruth Jones, infant, 604 Bas-
travia Crockett, 17, of 4402 Lillie.
BUY A WAR
BOND TODAY
ITmAS.
LINCOLN
CHRISTMAS DAY SPECIAL
FRI. - SAT., DEC. 25 - 26
“NIGHT IN NEW
ORLEANS”
Featuring
Preston Foster and
• Patricia Morison
—ALSO-
Stage Show
Plus All American News, Serial
and Comedy
SUN. - MON. - TUES.
DEC. 27 - 28 - 29
‘THE BIG STREET’
Featuring
Henry Fonda - Lucille Ball
—Also—
New Serial, News and Comedy
Season’s Greetings
FROM
LEWIS THEATRES ....
Wishing for You and Yours a
Very MERRY CHRISTMAS and
Every Happiness and blessing for
1943.'
PARK 2813 DOWLINO
MIDNIGHT SHOW
SAT,. DEC. 26 — 11:30 P.M.
Also. Sun. - Mon. - Dec. 27 - 28
MICKEY ROONEY
“A YANK AT
ETON”
DeLUXE Gregg & Lyons
Near Wheatley High School
MIDNIGHT SHOW
SAT. DEC. 26 — 11:30 P M.
Also Sun. - Mon., Dec. 27 - 28
DOUBLE FEATURE
“Private Buckaroo”
Harry James and His Ork.
and the Andrews Sisters
—Also-
“About Face”
WILLIAM TRACY
RAINBOW
907 W. Dallas Ave.
PHONE P. 4583
THURSDAY, DEC. 24
Double Feature
“Are Husbands
Necessary”
RAY MILLAND
BETTY FIELD
Also
“Let’s Go
Collegiate”
MANTAN MORELAND
FRI. and SAT,
December 25 - 26
Double Feature
“Twilight On
The Trail”
(Hopalong Cassidy)
BILL BOYD
Also
“Borrowed Hero”
ALL-STAR CAST
! —Plus—
DICK TRACY Serial
LIN
HEA
YOUS
2110 DOWLING
SAT. MIDNIGHT, DEC. 28
also Sun. - Mon. - Tues.
Dee. 27 - 28 - 29
“ORCHESTRA
WIVES”
Glen Miller and His Orchestra,
With the Nicholas Bros.
Also
LATEST ISSUE OF
March of Time
I Plus Select Short Subjects
MERRY CHRISTMAS
We Sincerely Thank Our Patrons for Their Splendid
Cooperation and Wish Each and Everyone a
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a
HAPPY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
DOWLING THEATRE
F. W. STONE, Mgr.—LILLY C. MITCHEL, Asst. Mgr.
and Employees
Everybody Laughs--But Him
LEIGH WHIPPER is shown above as he appears in “The Ox Bow
Incident ” 20th Century-Fox’s picture of a lynching bee in a small west n
town 1885. He plays the part •' Sparks, who is jokingly invited alone
by , member of the self-appointed posse, “to do the praying. Everyone
laughs but Sparks,taking the invitation seriously, accepts.
BAND STANDS
BROWNSKIN MODELS, BARNEY
JOHNSON'S BAND
Dec 24—Monessen. Pa.
Dec. 25—Wheeling, W. Va.
Dec. 26—Louisville, Ky
Dec. 27—Terre Haute, Ind.
Dec. 29-Jan. 3—Sunset Terrace.
Indianapolis, Ind.
SNOOKUM RUSSELL AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
Dec. 24—Toledo, Ohio
Dec. 25-29—Sunset Terrace, In-
dianapolis, Ind.
Dec. 30 — Roosevelt Theatre,
Louis, Mo.
Dec. 31—Casino Club, Quincy,
CAROLINA COTTON PICKERS
St.
Ill.
HRISTMAS
HEER. 1942
ORCHESTRA
Dec. 25-31 week—Scotts Theatre
Restaurant, K. C., Mo.
CLAUDE TRENIER ‘BAMA
STATE COLLEGIANS
Dec. 25-31 week — Cotton club,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
JOHNNY LONG ORCHESTRA
Dec. 25-31 week—Deer Head Inn,
Lansing, Mich.
RUPERT HARRIS ORCHESTRA
Dec. 25-31 week—Glass Bar Club,
4* ----
☆
Now is the time when
all of us are more fully
conscious of the good-
ness that should per-
vade all mankind. Per-
mit us, then, to thank
you for your good will
in 1942; we wish you
all the merriest Christ-
mas possible.
ROYAL CAFE
502 Milam
• Nick Peet, Prop.
URISTIDAS
We thank you for
your loyalty to us
during the year May
you experience every
joy during this bless-
ed Yuletide of 1942.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Taylor, 8700 Main, boy, Duane
Alan Taylor.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Leon
Revis, 3114 Webster, boy, Lindsey
Revis.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee
Antoine, Sr., boy, Earl Eugene An-
toine.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard
M. Brewster, 3802 Stonewall, boy,
James Lorenza Brewster.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hol-
land, 7927 Cowart, girl, Ola Cor-
nelia Holland.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Neely Ben-
jamin, 2711 Lucinda, boy, Raymond
LeRoy Benjamin.
DISTINGUISHED TEACHER DIES
WASHINGTON-(A N P)—Death
came to Ulysses S. G. Bassett, for
many years teacher of mathematics
in Armstrong and Dunbar High
schools, Monday night after an ill-
ness of several months. Mr. Bassett
was the son of the first Negro
minister to Haiti and was brought
to this city at an early age. At the
time of his death, he had been re-
tired from the public school sys-
tem for six months.
WHITE ROCK NEWS
All churches were poorly attend-
ed on the account of bad weather.
The school had their Xmas tree ex-
ercise Tuesday, Dec. 22. It will be
closed until January 4, 1943. The
P. T. A. will give a box supper on
the 31st. All parents are invited to
help. The finance will be used to
build the lunch kitchen. The Men’s
night school is doing fine. The La-
dies’ Home Club had their pre-
Xmas party at th home of Mrs. J.
W. Anderson on Forest Lane. Many
gifts were exchanged.
Kuv, ss sabitol
BLAU. JAT
TAVERN
1902 SAMPSON
J. J. JAMES, Genl Mgr.
LUCILE JONES, Financial Mgr.
Happy Christmas Greetings to
my customers and friends.
Your kindness of patronage has
meant a great deal to our bus-
iness. We thank you most
cordially.
EAST TEXAS
CAFE
2802 DOWLING
ROBERT EDWARDS, Prop.
rogmocmo-pommoseerompocmoron-pesto
SERENADING
THE NEWS
BY TED WILLIAMS
CHRISTMAS IN A NATION AT WAR
Well, it’s Christmas again, our second in a nation at war. Course
this one’s a lots different from the last one. This time last year we
weren’t hipped to what we were in for. Things went on as usual
with everybody in the groove. We had all the gas we could buy, rub-
ber was 0. K., no W. P. B. to tell the cats to nip their righteous
drapers or a dim-out on the cut. Everybody was out for a good time.
There were many who sneaked down to the old homestead and put
their feet under the table laden with food that made mom famous
and joined the folks for a swell old time Christmas; while others stay-
ed in town and made Yule-tide revel with old friends by “knocking
themselves out by degrees.”
This Christmas, it’s a different story for us who are still on the
home front. We won’t be able to dig home to mom and the folks ’cause
got to give the service men a “break” and let them travel. In town
there’ll be a change. Many of the fellows that we’ve gotten together
with won’t be able to dig us on the cuts or tamp by our pads for a bit
of Christmas cheer. No, they are spread over the world fighting that
we may again have those free from-all-care Christmases in a free
world. There can be no doubt that we can't go all out for a good time
and feel right when we know that those fellows that “usta" be with us
on the fun are facing death on foreign fields. No matter how hard
we might try, we can’t help but think of those boys, when the bells
toll for Christmas morn, in Africa, Australia, and the many other
theatres of war, will be greeted with bullets instead of egg-nog.
Christmas to them will only be a memory. There’ll be no brilliant
lighted trees for them, only the blinding lights from bursting bombs.
The noise they’ll hear won’t be from crowds of merrymakers, but
from the ratter-tatter of machine guns, the roar of mighty bombers
raining tons of destruction deafening glasts of cannon hurling their
deadly cargo into the enemy’s line. Yes we can’t help but think of
those fellows and while we are thinking, let’s remember that if we
put more of our money in war bonds and less in a good time this
Xmas, the sooner those boys can come home and then all pitch a real
time. ,
THE LIGHTS GO OUT ON THE MAIN STEM
The City Council lost no time in putting a curfew on drinking in
the spots. The “Honkey-Tonk” squad went into action last week and
had the places clean after 1 a m. Course there were a lot of people
that wished they had waited ’til after the holidays, for this kinda
cramped their plans for those all-nite parties Christmas eve, and New
Years eve. But this looks as if some of the cats will be forced in to
get some much needed rest.
JIBBING THE JIVE
This stuff is straight from the cuff like a square from Delaware.
Jack, this line of the jive is rare. If the bits I dig don’t sound on time
just blame it on that two bit wine. . . . These slick young cats of 18
and 19 are now being put hipped by their “uncle” that he's knocking
them some righteous drapes made of khaki minus cuffs . . . they’ll
be ready soon. . . . Gustavia Goldberg, the Miss Jack Yates, is natural,
ly on time and got Roscoe Taylor feeling like Father Divine. . . . Now
ain’t that fine. . . dug Harry Wilson on the main beat, stashed with
one of Uncle’s latest khaki fronts. . . , flashing her glamour these days
and causing a blitzkrieg on the stem is Mary Eunice Johnson, an eye
full in any body's peepers.'. . . Rosemary Stafford’s new BF comes on
like Tommy Tucker and goes off like Henry Aldrich. . . . coming
mother. . . . Bobby Walker, formerly of the Rainbow theatre, and now
at Kelly Field, San Antonio, was strolling the bricks', letting the chicks
take a gander of him in his uniform. . . . Dig Ormond Powell, the
righteous Gray, making a play for certain little’ chicks on the way. . .
and her name wasn’t Christine, . . . which reminds me that Elgin
Hychew and his note book are due to cop his trill on Houston’s straight
come New Year’s day. . . . Now take this stuff straight from the dust, civic rally. According to custom
group tables representing every
the Serenader and all the gang wish all of you a Merry (sober) Xmas.
Brownskin Models
Groom For Tour Of
Southern Horizon
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. —Ferguson
Bros. Agency of this city recently
announced that Irvin C. Millers
Brownskin Models teamed with
Barney Johnson Band are all groom-
ed to head South on closing their
engagement at Sunset Terrace here
Jan. 3. The tentative itinerary in-
cludes engagements in St. Louis ter-
ritory from January 6 to 12; Little
Rock, Ft. Smith, Muskogee, Tulsa,
Wichita, Kans., Oklahoma City,
January 14 to 20; Lawton, Okla.,
Wichita Falls, Texas, Ft. Worth,
Dallas, Waco, Austin, San Antonio
Corpus Christi, Houston, Galveston.
Port Arthur and Beaumont, Jan-
uary 21 to Feb. 3rd; playing Lake
Charles, La., Baton Rouge, New
Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, Biloxi,
Miss. and Hattiesburg later going
into Florida, Alabama, Georgia and
South Carolina.
WRISTIDAS
uas
We thank you for
your loyalty to us
during the year May
you experience every
joy during this Bless-
ed Yuletide of 1942.
Lone Wolf Tavern
3332 Scott St.
LEROY JOHNSON, Prop.
B-33782
&
Mary Lou’s Famous
CHICKEN SHACK
3123 Dowling
Mrs. Mary Lou Morgan, Prop.
All Girl Band
To Play Jan. 3rd
The first Dance of the New Year
will greet Houstonians Sunday, Jan.
3rd, 1943, when Eddie Durham and
his All-Star Girl Band take up their
stand at the City Auditorium. Ed-
die Durham, former arranger and
Trombonist, has succeeded in group-
ing America’s greatest aggregation
of Glamourous musical girl stars.
who have thrilled music lovers
throughout the United States. These
Glamourous and lovely young la-
dies represent the finest talept in
the feminine musical circles, and
from all reports from up the coun-
try they are in the “A" class for
looks.
This marks the first time in many
months that the dance lovers of M
Houston have had the opportunity —
to enjoy the perfect combination of "
melod- and beauty at the same |
time. This girl aggregation has
plenty of pep and jive, and it's my 1
guess that the big shot boys around *
Houston will go plenty for them.
Featured with the band are “The
Four Durhamettes" who aside
from playing the various instru-
ments, will furnish lots of enter- :
tainment.
According to Julius White, pro-
moter, this will be one of the best
and most sensational presentations
for the season. Presale tickets are
now on sale at the Downtown grill.
Blitz In The East
SNOOKUM RUSSELL and his swing crewhavei Tons
the eastern niteries. He comboes with Lionel Hampton for an Ohio Char
ity ball, Christmas Eve. t____-
Third Ward Civic
Club Holds Annual
Auxiliary Fete
HOUSTON. — The Third Ward
Civic Club and the Ladies Auxili-
ary will conduct their eighth an-
nual banquet at the Jack Yates
auditorium December 29, at 8:15
p. m.
The banquet will be conducted
under the auspices of -the ladies
auxiliary. It will represent the con-
clusion of another splendid year’s
work in the community.
The community and all of the
civic organizations are invited to
join in a city-wide patriotic and
Mrs. Bertha Berry, 3514 Nalle
street, had as house guests over the
week-end her sister and brother-
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Terry (Mickle)
Gray of Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Mrs. Berry entertained with •
beautiful dinner party Sunday eve-
ning honoring Mr. and Mrs. Gray. :
A tasty three-course fried chick- !
en dinner was enjoyed by the hon-
orees, Mr. and Mrs. Gray, Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Lee, Mr. and Mrs. -
Leon Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Coy
Green, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Colson, and
Mrs. Della Smith.
bracket of endeavor will be teat-
ured. web
The funds will be divided this
year between the following proj-
ects: The Third Ward Nursery
school, the Negro Hospital, and the
Lighthouse for the Blind.
R. R. Grovey is president of the
Third Ward Civic Club.
The First Dance Of 1943
EDDIE DURHAM
And His All-Star Girl Band |
“Featuring the Four Durhametts]
“America’s Greatest Aggregation % "*""
Glamourous Musical Girl Starcas, *****
Sun. - Jan. - 3rd 9 p.m. NINEL,
r which please
CITY AUDITOR-
Tower Dictionary
ADMISSION & 75c ,_______-
A JULIUS WHITE ATTRACTS ......... —
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