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Playwright Asks PublicTo Back Young Artists

Roxane Players toPresent New Play

Talented Author Tells How “Father,Forgive Them/’ Was Written

Calloway And Robinson Are ‘Tops’New York—(C)—The appearance of the pho-

tographs of Cab Calloway and Bill Robinson in theadvertisement of the Cotton Club on Broadway lastweek proved the two Harlem entertainers are tops.This is the first time it is recalled that two menonly have been featured in an advertisement of asupper club with their photographs.

SPORT SCRIBBLINGSI Mm I By Wm. T. PATRICK, Jr.;

By Elsie RoxboroughNote: “Father Forgive Them,**4 is

the uriglnul three-act play whichthe Roxane Flayers are present-ing as their tirst offering of thepennon at the Art Institute, Fri-day, October 30.I admit shamelessly that it was

not until I had witnessed severaldays dealing with the Innumerable

conflicts and trials and tribulationsof various Jewish families, that itoccurred to me that the ups anddowns in colored families deservedthe same consideration. My pastexperience with the Negro, littletheatre could hardly be called re-munerative to the group or en-couraging to me. To my sorrow, Ihave discovered that the coloredcritics, who should be the strivinglittle theatre group’s best friendß,have been our worst enemies!

One biased Chicago critic claim-ed in print, after seeing my“Wanting,” that he couldn’t con-ceive of wealthy, polished Negroesdashing about in Europe and goingoff on yachting trips, conceding theimportant fact that he was pre-

diced to the Negro drama in anyform. Other critics have scolded meand asked me why I didn’t takeadvantage of the fertile field con-cerning colored life, while othershave pointed out that they weretired of seeing southern, "Mammytalking” plays chuck full of the“White oppression” angle. Conse-quently, I adapted Walter Whites“Flight,” which describes a well-bred colored girl dilemma and tomy delight they accepted it.

Eventually, after months of let-ting the theme grow and mature inmy mind, "Father Forgive Them,”was born. The play, contrary tothe religious title, concerns a col-ored family, living right here inDetroit, in the present day andage. My first problem, in construc-ting this play, was to decide just Jwhat conflicts in a Negro familyneeded airing, just what characters Iin such a family should be brought,to light. I wanted the play to be jrealistic, to make the audience feel 1that they too were a part of this [family. Little by little, I assembl-ed, “Dr. Henderson” and his wife“Mabel,” “Dr. Henderson,” is in-terested in politics, his sweet gen- jtie, oblivious wife, in her neverending domestic affairs.

Then I had to give them chil-dren. and in jJew °f the fact thatI have two very charming childactors, I gave them an older girland boy, and a younger girl andboy. “Ana,” the elder daughter, isfatuous and selfish, her only con-cern in life is how she can give upher own race successfully and go

' the other side. “Jimmy,” theelder son, is waiting anxiously tobe off to Meharry Medical Col-lege,, where his father and grand-father studied medicine. The chil-dren. at the present moment, arequite engrossed in their music les-sons, which they despise and theirmoving picture theatres, whichthey love.

That much accomplished, I need-ed comedy, and so. drawing froma real life duet whom I have stud-|ed, I developed, "Joe,” the doctor'sforty-second cousin and Mabel’sman-of-all-work, whose only sinin life is playing the “numbers,”,and “Pigmeat," the writer, whoobligingly keeps track of “Joe’s”dreams. To make them convincing,I had to do a lot of person-to-per-

son talk with the original Joe and“Pigmeat,” who gleefully told meall about “gigs” and saddles” andgood and bad dreams.

Then along came the musi-it “Mabel’s” younger sister, "Flo/who returns home at the death ofher white husband, and “MissRay,” the doctor’s very indispensa-ble and home wrecking nurse.Then. Then along came the musi-cal “Ina May Johnson,” newlygraduate from Fisk, brownskin incolor and to "Ana’s” horrorJimmy’s financee! And Dr. Char-es Fontaine, to abe the helpless

prey of Flo’s pursuit.The Henderson’s had to have

family friends, too, so I introducedthe gossiping and Creole “Mrs.Marie Breaux” and her two chil-dren, “Jean” and Juliet.” Julietand Ana, bosom' pals and partnersin the crime of meeting second-ratewhite fellows at corner drugstores,are the subjects of the very ardentdevotion of two brownskin boys:“Buddy Walker,” who is enteringinto interneship at Dr. Henderson’shospital and “Injun Taylor,” fresh-ly returned from a South Americanrubber plantation, where he hasbeen trying to earn enough moneyto make the conceited “Juliet,” hisbride. The girls ’folly in the mat-ter of leaving their own boys to goto the other side finally precipita-tes one of the greatest climaxes ofthe play, while the father's unin-tentional disregard for his wifebrings about the tragedy.

At first the doctor was quite aproblem to me, although coming

om a political minded family Ihave always been too much absorb-ed inthe drama to give the moreimportant politics of today muchthought. Then too, I realized thatan audience of this period, mixedas they are as to political view-points, are not any too eager tohear very much about any oneman’s opinion of the matter. So af-ter giving the doctor a couple ofgood rousing speeches, accumulat-ed from a great deal of research,I let it go at that.

Asa result, I can now only hopeand pray for the opening night andits outcome. My greatest prayer toyou all, is that you will patronizeus. We do need your support, in es-tablishing, as we are, a permanentdramatic company in the city. 1assure you a swashbuckling, ex-citing. emotional performance thatshould strike home to all of you.The cast including many of the“Stevedore” stars who had beenborrowed from our company forthat show, includes: Nimord Car-ney, as Dr. Henderson; ConstanceMiller as “Mabel.” Toni BaquestWebster, as “Ana,” George Higginsas "Jimmy.” Billy and LaurieMumford as ’Velma’ and ‘Sonny,’Eulalia Gaines as “Miss Ray,” JohnFrazier as “Pigmeat” EsthurDwelle as Mrs. Breaux, ArthurWise as Jean Breaux, VirginiaRoxborough as “Juliet Breaux,”Eileen Motley as “Flo Morris,” No-la Cox. as “Ina May”, Tom Spenceras “Buddy Walker,” Herman Jack-son as "Injun Taylor,” Willis Cole-man, as "I)r. Fontaine, EvelynSolomon as ‘Mrs. Reed,” and LeonSmith as the preacher.

The music for the show has beenwritten by Jack Smith and TomSpencer. The play will be present-ed at the Art Instute, in the smallauditorium. Friday, October 30.8:30 p. m.

‘Youth's Dilemma toBe Staged by Clubs TANYA, sensational young acrobatic dancer

who, in this pose, shows why she is given the titleof “Brown Beauty-” Those who have seen her a-mazing contortions have added “boneless” to com-plete this most accurate description. Tanya has thestarring role in Joe Johnson’s new revue at Skoller’sSwingland Case, in Chicago, the same nightery whichlast year under its old name of Dave’s Case “dis-covered” her. This talented young miss, who is on-ly 19, also operates a green grocery store on Chicago’sSouthside known as “Tanya’s Food Mart.”

Hamtramck’s premiere distance star was the winnerclosely pursued by his younger brother John, whocaptured the runner-up position- A small crowdwas at the finish line to witness the stretch dual bet-ween the White boys and Orville Palmer of BedfordHigh. The out come was doubtful up to the final100 yards when Taite breezed out into a comfortablelead of eight yards and John stood off a closing bidby the Bedford lad to take second by a yard.

There comes a time in the lifeof youth when it is called upon tochoose between parental guidance'and the ambitious conflicts urg-

ing them along the path of theirown visioning. The degree of de-viation from the 'guide posts’ ofthe older generation is relative totheir qualities of toferance andwise forebearance.

In “Youth’s Dilemma” which isto be presented at the Lucy Thur-man Y. W. C. A. early in November,Sylvia, played by Miss Marilyn Mc-Donald, finds herself at thesecrossroads—pitting her headstrongyouthful ideals against her ty-rannical uncle; and she finallyhas many stormy disagreementswith him.

After all, one wonders if it is

And “Father Forgive You,” ifyou don’t come out and encourageus!

i right to so carefully shield a child•In its up-bringing especially ini planning its future.

i To understand the way modern, youth solves its ‘dilemma*—see

| this stirring drama “Youth’s Di-lemma” at the Lucy Thurman Y.W. C. A., November 6, 1936. Thisis just another one of those heartthrobs from the versatile pen ofAudrey Boulding who is also di-recting the cast.

Handsome Horace Holloway „isalso featured in this swift-actingdrama, which the Wilberforce Al-umni and the ‘Little Theatre ofHighland Park* club are present-ing for your enjoyment Therewill be dancing after the play isover.

blows without crumbling up. Buthe is a fine boxer. However, it'sover now and goes down in therecord books as a victory over theonce-mighty Max Baer—and that’sa genuine selling point for Oli-ver’s future battles.(HANTS MAKE FINE SHOWING

It was not until after they hadlost a tough game to the CalumetAll-Stars, a white professionalteam, that the newly formed Chica-go American Giants Football clubrealized just who they had beenplaying. It was the Giants’ secondgame, yet they held the victors oneven terms throughout most of theaffair despite the 14-0 score.

The All-Stars last year causedthe Chicago Bears, then defendingnational champions, to turn on theheat to win in the second half by19-6. They are coached by FredGillios, former Chicago Cardinalsstart! The line-up which defeatedthe Giants consisted of these for-mer college sensations: Wilson,Northwestern, and Vairo, NotreDame, ends; Shearer( Drake, andClancy, De Paul tackles; DemsharColumbia, and Kekich, Indiana,guards; Schumacher, Illinois, cen-ter; Saluski, Indiana, quarterback;Wattenberg, Chicago, and Craven,Illinois halfbacks nnd Sutton,Northwestern, fullback. Each hadwon all-conference or all-sectionalhonors while Vairo was All-American.

If the Giants stick together, theywill be plently of trouble. Alreadythey have received voluntary men-tion over the radio by sports com-mentators. And that bone-crushingfullback, Nile Andrews, is one of

[ the smartest players and hardest! bitting line plungers ever seen,jCHANCE FOR EMBARRASSMENT

It would have been most inter-s ting, doncha know, had whitesprotested over the decision ofHoward university to leave its

j white squad member, Irving Lem-pert, at home when the Bison wentto Alabama for that recent gamewith Tuskegee. Just as sepia scrib-es go up in the air when a coloredplayer on a white team has the

i day off when his squad plays aPixie school, the Caucasians couldhave made similar complaintsThey missed their chance to createa most embarrassing situation.eiiDsß;-a5 otfi WfiomZbaE

Lempert is 19, weighs 230 poundsnnd is a freshman. His fathergraduated from the Howard dentalschool five years ago. The son. ac-cording to Howard officials, is thefirst member of his race to don aBison uniform. Lincoln university,Pa., is preputedly the only otherracial institution to have had awhite grldster. He was “Vic” Har-ris and played there in 1931.

. oCOPPER COLOR SUPPLANTS ...

sepiaNew York—(C)—With the intro-

duction and clicking of "CopperColor Gal” by Cab Calloway at theNew Cotton Club on Broadway, theterm "Copper Color” is supplant-ing “sepia” descriptive of coloredchorines on Broadway.

World ofSPORTS

(By F. M. Davis for ANP)

OLYMPIC BOXER WHIPSMAX BEAR

Chicago—Max Baer and hisfriends have done a pretty goodjob of covering up a fight last weekat Platteville, Wis., in which theformer heavyweight champion losta six round decision to Arthur Oli-ver, Chicago sepia fighter who re-presented the U. S. in the recentOlympics at Berlin and who re-cently turned professional.

However, maybe you have heardabout this fight. And then againmaybe you haven’t. According tothe story, Baer agreed to "go easy”with his opponent and pulled hispunches in order to permit Oliverto make a showing. In the secondround he dropped the ex-Olympicfighter and mabe could have finish-ed him. But Max didn’t. The boutwent the full six round limit—andthe referee gave the Chicagoan thedecision.

After the defeat, Maxie’s camp tri-ed to keep the news from the pub-lic but without great success. Theaccount went out in a garbled man-ner with the credit for the victorybeing given to a “Willie Davis."When Oliver saw the story, hetelephoned newspapers to givethem corrections.

Consequently sports editors areflopping on Max for his clowing inthe belief that he threw away afight he could have won easily. Asa matter of fact, he should be ableto whip Oliver, for the dusky bat-tler lacks experience and a goodpunch and can't take too many

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Owens Comes To TownJesse Owens blew into town Monday and was

enthusiastically received at the station by a throng ofadmirers. He was escorted to the City HJall, but ourmayor was not in, neither was his assistant. Welearned that the reason for his absence Was due toillness in his family. Nevertheless Owens was thereand someone had to greet him, so the next in orderwas the Corporation Counsel, who betook upon him-self the honor of welcoming the great Olympic heroto our city. From here he was whisked to theTwelve Horseman Club where he met a former ac-quaintance in the presence of Joe Louis. Pictures weretaken amid the flashes of bulbs, etc. Following thiswelcome the Appomattox Republican Club playedhost to the star and his party at the building of GreatLakes Mutual Insurance Company. It was at the latterplace that we got our first glimpse of Jesse and be-lieve me we were well pleased with what we saw.

Standing before us was a rich bronze face flow-ing with pleasing personality. He was engaged indiscussions with several leaders and easily held hisown in all problems launched upon-

In an interview he told us that he was on thistour in behalf of the Republican Party and that it willend this week after he has journeyed throughCharleston, S. C., with Philadelphia the last stop.Shifting our conversation to the cinder track, welearned that he planned to reenter Ohio State thisJanuary.

Still In TrainingWas he in training now?“Yes, whenever the weather is favorable, I go

out and do a little running,” was his reply to this in-quiry.

At this time he propped his leg up on my chairand I wondered if he’d ever had any trouble withthem and was obliged to ask him that.

“No, I’ve never had any trouble with my legs,no tendoms pulled or anything like that. On c e Iwas spiked, but that did not amount to very much.”He didn’t know anything about the scandal connect-ed with Howell King over in Berlin, but stated thathe knew the chap and that he was a nicei fellow. Hetold listen-ers-on that he was glad to be in Detroitbecause he had never been here before to see the city.Once before he stopped over for an hour or two,

but that was all.Asa whole, Jesse had a pretty busy day; for,

following this fine reception he appeared at the Y.M C. A., along with Joe Louis where the two spokein behalf of a membership drive; then he made hisway to the Calvary Baptist Church to urge the col-ored voters to support Governor Landon.

Slater ComesThey sent for Duke Slater, former All-Ameri-

can lineman, to go over to lowa to aid the Hawkeyeline in preparing for their tilt with Illinois last Sa-,turday. Slater went for his dear Alma Mater, butit did little good as Oze Simmons was unable to breakaway with any of his famous touchdown drives andthe two teams ended the battle engulfed in a bitterscoreless tie.

The fame of Simmons is gradually diminishingand in his stead a bright new star is looming forthin the horizon in the person of Northwestern Uni-versity’s Bernard Jefferson. The latter had a bighand in the Wildcat surprise victory o* Ter Ohio Statelast weekend when he tossed one of the touchdownpasses as well as supplying most of his team’s punt-ing. He is only a sophmore and has been praisedfor his fine work in each of the three games playedso far this season. He is fast taking the place Sim-mons occupied last year and he had a pretty good

bunch of fellows to aid him.White Wins

Last Thursday, for the first time in severalyears when Art Gassaw’ay ruled the cross-countrypaths for Northeastern, a Negro won the annual two

mile jaunt over the River Rouge course. Taite White,

Clef ClubMusicNotes

(By BILLY ROACH)

William Christopher Handy, the“Nation’s Grand Old Gent of theBlues’’ will appear Sunday, Oet.25, 5:00 p. m., at the Lucy ThurmanY. W. C. A., directing and playingThe St. Louis Blues. The St. LouisBlues will he played in its originalcomposition, and local musiciansshould he present to hear it. Re-cently in an aggregation of 15 men,only two knewr St. Louis Blues asit was written. Come out and seewhether you know it or not, andpay tribute to a man who hasbeen acclaimed everywhere.

Madam Yolande Maddox, DeWittJones, Zenobia Irving, NorvellMorton, all join in helping to pre-sent at Clef Club Premier, one ofthe iinest concerts of the season.Song writers are especially urgedto attend this concert, as some firsthand information will be forth-coming.

Wash Hardy, remember themention made in last week’s col-umn about him. Wash not only hasproven to be a number one Solo-mon, but a number one defender ofthe law. Congratulations.

Leonard Reed from over at theClub Plantation is trying to beatWash Hardy’s ticket-selling record.To date it’s a close race ;the win-ner will be announced next week.With Your Entertainers:

Ruth Hjolliday is bidding forfirst place against Mike Morganwith those phone calls. The nameis commonly masculine, but withplease remember Mike Morgan isstrangely becomes feminine; so

i please remember Mike Morgan isstrictly feminine.

I Rusesll Cowan did a disappear-ing act on Pitts the other night inthe Lobby of the Norwood Hotel,very much to Mr. Pitts disgust.Columnists soon learn to disappearin order to avoid the wrath that isto come.

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