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Entered as second-class matter February 26, 1926, at the Post Office in New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1878, Subscription rate $3.50 per year. SWALLOWING A CAMEL THE Harlem editors who every time Governor is a bad break had a letter to the guests an annual Democratic rally, the party's national platform shing a policy of non-interferen Governor's suggestion was maneuver calculated to win where wholesale drinking is South, where wholesale lynd Harlem newspapers seize the most of it. It shows, Governor Smith has uncondi ern mobocrats, assuring them tion and the election they anti-lynching legislation. Pe do not know. Whatever it is of the very Republican Sena can State of Pennsylvania m ar'em editors who jump up and claw every time Governor Smith makes what bad break had a jolly time last year to the guests at the Jackson Democratic rally, the Governor advisional platform should include a piece of non-interference with local or suggestion was obviously a shrew calculated to win support both in sales drinking is a local custom the wholesale lynching is a local or newspapers seized the latter point it. It shows, they exclaimed Smith has unconditionally surrendered, assuring them that if he wins the election they need have no fear legislation. Perhaps it does me. Whatever it means, the follow- Republican Senator Reed of the Pennsylvania means the same t THE Harlem editors who jump up and clap their hands every time Governor Smith makes what they think is a bad break had a jolly time last week. In his letter to the guests at the Jackson Day dinner, an annual Democratic rally, the Governor advised that the party's national platform should include a plank advocating a policy of non-interference with local customs. The Governor's suggestion was obviously a shrewd political maneuver calculated to win support both in the North, where wholesale drinking is a local custom, and in the South, where wholesale lynching is a local custom. Harlem newspapers seized the latter point and made the most of it. It shows, they exclaimed gleefully, that Governor Smith has unconditionally surrendered to Southern mobocrats, assuring them that if he wins the nomination and the election they need have no fear of federal anti-lynching legislation. Perhaps it does mean that. We do not know. Whatever it means, the following statement of the very Republican Senator Reed of the very Republican State of Pennsylvania means the same thing. Senator Reed speaking: We talk of State rights. For declaration for State rights was the Democratic Party. You have to as an illustration the well-known eighteenth Amendments throughcut the I do not believe that is any of our those Southern States. I believe them should be received here, as Southern States. If it is O. K. for Senator himself in favor of non-interf why isn't it alright for Gov thing? To call one holy and gnat and swallow a camel. State rights. For a long time, for many State rights was the foundation stone in the Party. You have thrown it to the wind on the well-known evasion of the Four students throughcut the primaries in the Dale that is any of our business. I believe in States. I believe that the men they elicited here, as they come as ambassadors, for Senator Reed, a Republican favor of non-interference with South Carolina for Governor Smith to sell all one holy and the other sin is to allow a camel. We talk of State rights. For a long time, for many decades, the declaration for State rights was the foundation stone in the platform of the Democratic Party. You have thrown it to the winds. I put to you as an illustration the well-known evasion of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments throughcut the primaries in the Democratic South. I do not believe that is any of our business. I believe in the rights of those Southern States. I believe that the men they elect to represent them should be received here, as they come as ambassadors of those Southern States. If it is O. K. for Senator Reed, a Republican, to declare himself in favor of non-interference with Southern customs why isn't it alright for Governor Smith to say the same thing? To call one holy and the other sin is to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. ```markdown ``` SMOKES TO SELL SMOKES NO, LADIES and gents, just a rather trite put the following remark Stores. Not including the store community on 125th Street there stores which draw at least two from colored smokers. These amount of money out of HH moderate smoker, spends 20. The United stores, because we usually get that twenty cent we spend something like $7 the stogies we buy for fellow expensive cigars we purchase are only 10,000 people in HH for smokes the aggregate su paper and figure it out for a more impressive. The point is this. All the goes out of the community amusement resorts and some business in Harlem return so them in the form of salaries. I have ever seen in United store up men. We think it would be Cigar Stores Company to put their counters to pass out customers. It would at least in their spick and span interior business also. As for the could be easily taken care of the business. DIES and gents, it's not a tongue a rather trite pun to draw your following remarks about the including the stores on the fringe 25th Street there are no less than draw at least 90 per cent of the smokers. These stores siphon money out of Harlem. The writer boker, spends 20 cents a day for stores, because of their convenience that twenty cents. In the course something like $70 for smokes, we buy for fellow journalists and ears we purchase for men we respire 1000 people in Harlem who spend the aggregate sum is—but take figure it out for yourself. The f ive. It is this. All the money spent in the community to stay out. The resorts and some of the chain Harlem return some of the money form of salaries. But the only col- n in United stores were customers think it would be a fair move for the Company to put some maduro cigars to pass out maduro cigars to should at least improve the color and span interiors. -Perhaps it we o. As for the white clerks dis- ply taken care of by the natural NO, LADIES and gents, it's not a tongue twister but just a rather trite pun to draw your attention to the following remarks about the United Cigar Stores. Not including the stores on the fringe of the community on 125th Street there are no less than six United stores which draw at least 90 per cent of their revenues from colored smokers. These stores siphon an enormous amount of money out of Harlem. The writer, who is a moderate smoker, spends 20 cents a day for cigarettes. The United stores, because of their convenient locations, usually get that twenty cents. In the course of a year we spend something like $70 for smokes, not counting the stogies we buy for fellow journalists and the more expensive cigars we purchase for men we respect. If there are only 10,000 people in Harlem who spend $70 a year for smokes the aggregate sum is—but take a pencil and paper and figure it out for yourself. The figure will be more impressive. The point is this. All the money spent in United stores goes out of the community to stay out. The theaters, amusement resorts and some of the chain stores doing business in Harlem return some of the money spent with them in the form of salaries. But the only colored men we have ever seen in United stores were customers and sweep up men. We think it would be a fair move for the United Cigar Stores Company to put some maduro gents behind their counters to pass out maduro cigars to their customers. It would at least improve the color harmony of their spick and span interiors. Perhaps it would be good business also. As for the white clerks displaced, they could be easily taken care of by the natural expansion of the business. HARLEM DRUG STORES RECENTLY we stood in and noted the variety saw rubber goods, jaws waffle irons, phonograph recoctles and hip flasks. Curious, they were selling sandwiche flasks with. When we asked of quinine pil's he looked like What we want to know is stores? CLLY we stood in front of a drug snoted the variety of articles on rubber goods, jack knives, coffee phonograph records, dog leashes, inflasks. Curious, we sauntered in selling sandwiches and something. When we asked the clerk for a it's he looked like he was going to know is why do they call ECENTLY we stood in front of a drug store window and noted the variety of articles on display. We saw rubber goods, jack knives, coffee percolators. waffle irons, phonograph records, dog leashes, thermos bottles and hip flasks. Curious, we sauntered inside. There they were selling sandwiches and something to fill the flasks with. When we asked the clerk for a dime's worth of quinine pil's he looked like he was going to call a cop. What we want to know is why do they call them drug stores? 272 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. The Editor of the Initer-State Tattler. Dear Sir: Maybe you can find space in the three monkey column for the following. I have endeavored to get something in for the past three weeks without any success. Not that I care but I would like to know if any drag is necessary and who I must see. Please don't offer any excuses, as they are uncalled for, besides time is valuable. Too many sheiks seem to be the case of one Flatbush vamp and I don't mean maybe. She is nice and attentive but who can depend on what she says. I will not call any names this time but watch your step The Prince Hall Dance brought out a lot of folks from the sticks. Some one told Morse, the radio man that they were going to bar all rats and he believed it so well that he did not show up, although he had two paste boards for admittance. By the way, the other radio man was there from Brooklyn, but he was so busy that I did not see him. Wonder who all the pretty girls were that was with JWW. F.JK. and even those that we thought were staunch bachellors. Eh' I wonder. Some came late and others early but if any there did not have a good time, see the Secret Order Man. T. W. W. I notice by the papers that a preacher that hit a colored woman over the head is protecting other colored women Why not protect them all. Business is business and you can plainly see that you still cannot discuss Marcus Garvey with any certainty of not getting crowned. I am looking for this article but I don't expect to see it. The high hatting season is on and unless you are a member of some Frat, to the waste basket you must go, in order to read what you sent in. Yours truly, F. J. KING. Note: Since courtesy demands that Mr. King be given an answer, may I take this opportunity to state to him and our readers that the Tattler is no longer interested in initials and thaf it would appreciate its contributors sending in matter of a higher calibre. We call your attention to the Uptown New Yorker, Brass Tacks, Billious to Bill and Hash as spicey models and to our writers in Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Durham, Los Angeles, Kansas City and New York as examples of social chatter. Mr. King apparently has ability and we regret that he would elect to squander it on the "T. R. met M. C. on the corner of U Street" type of news. Yes, you have to belong to the Frat of clever writers of interesting material to escape the waste basket. The high hatters are in power. The Uptown New Yorker Black Catacombs IT is an open secret that night life are sponsored. Villagers and Bronxites. guests are as scarce as Saturday nights even the Cane have more than their seekers. One really has the phere in Harlem Town. I before three o'clock in the dawn, night life or, more a with abandon in several of these must most certain if struck at the right more to talk about. For some re as a rendezvous by those it been called the Fairy Palace has it become that the price has recently been raised a dollar. This hangout is after costume balls, etc. The Sheeps Club is all are not admitted. It is na be intimate and possessed There is no entertainer; no almost all professionals, wness of entertaining others drinks remain twenty-five Fletcher Henderson recent in no other place. Mexico with the footlight people. various widely known jazz hold impromptu and friend result which would set Bro a favorite among them. is it possible to discover waffles. This also goes for IT is an open secret that the show places a night life are sponsored by and cater to the managers and Bronxites. In nearly all of the hosts are as scarce as the proverbial here Saturday nights even the Capitol Palace and one have more than their quota of pale face skiers. One really has to KNOW in order to be in Harlem Town. Even then it is quite more three o'clock in the morning. From the town, night life or, more appropriately morning, abandon in several of the hidden catactes these must most certainly include "Lulu Bustruck at the right moment, will afford the talk about. For some reason or other, it has a rendezvous by those in the "twilight sex" can called the Fairy Palace; also the Lesbian it become that the price of drinks, not now recently been raised from twenty-five a dollar. This hangout is picturesque to no other costume balls, etc. The Sheeps Club is also worthy of a visit, not admitted. It is nattily decorated, small, intimate and possesses an old-time band there is no entertainer; none is needed. The most all professionals, who, having complete ties of entertaining others, here entertain the drinks remain twenty-five cents even uncutcher Henderson recently ended his birthday no other place. Mexico's is another cataclysm the footlight people. Very frequently menvious widely known jazz hounds congregate impromptu and friendly contests. Redult which would set Broadway aflame. Dus favorite among them. In no place in all but possible to discover such delicious fried flies. This also goes for the chile con car IT is an open secret that the show places of Harlem's night life are sponsored by and cater to Downtowners, Villagers and Bronxites. In nearly all of them, pigmented guests are as scarce as the proverbial hen's teeth. On Saturday nights even the Capitol Palace and the Sugar Cane have more than their quota of pale faced amusements seekers. One really has to KNOW in order to find atmosphere in Harlem Town. Even then it is quite impossible before three o'clock in the morning. From that hour until dawn, night life or, more appropriately morning life, abides with abandon in several of the hidden catacombs. A tour of these must most certainly include "Lulu Belle's", which, if struck at the right moment, will afford the naive much to talk about. For some reason or other, it has been chosen as a rendezvous by those in the "twilight sex zone." It has been called the Fairy Palace; also the Lesbia. So popular has it become that the price of drinks, not necessarily soft, has recently been raised from twenty-five cents to half a dollar. This hangout is picturesque to no end, especially after costume balls, etc. The Sheeps Club is also worthy of a visit. Unknowns are not admitted. It is nattily decorated, small enough to be intimate and possesses an old-time bar rail, and all. There is no entertainer; none is needed. The clientele are almost all professionals, who, having completed their business of entertaining others, here entertain themselves. The drinks remain twenty-five cents even unto this day. Fletcher Henderson recently ended his birthday celebration in no other place. Mexico's is another catacomb popular with the footlight people. Very frequently members of the various widely known jazz hounds congregate here and hold impromptu and friendly contests. Red hot melodies result which would set Broadway aflame. Duke Ellington is a favorite among them. In no place in all of New York is it possible to discover such delicious fried chicken and waffles. This also goes for the chile con carne. (To be continued next week.) MOW that the "Flame that Freezes" is put at thehetic ice in refrigerators operated by the Uptown New Yorker is not overly taken at the building on the northeast corner of Lenox Avenue has very recently enjoyed matched with "cold steam." Investigation has not that the cold steam method is a comparative innovation; in fact, it has been in operation months. The Harlem building is the second New York. A generating plant on wheels, its appearance the old sand-blasting outfit, consists of burning engine and a small compressed air surface to be beauty cultured first is softened and acid solution. A twin-nozzled appliance is used on. One nozz'e conducts the steam to and pressure, which is met at the point of the stream of cold water; hence the trade name crowds of Uptowners marvel daily at the phantom at the cleanliness and the absence of their accompanies sand-blasting. It has further use of not cutting into the surface to be rented. anvhow, who advertises "Save the sun we all"? Burning Icicles NOW that the "Flame of synthetic ice in refrigerator the Uptown New Yorker is that the building on the road and Lenox Avenue has very washed with "cold steam. light that the cold steam is innovation; in fact, it has months. The Harlem built New York. A generating appearance the old sand-black oil burning engine and a surface to be beauty cut' luted acid solution. A twir turned on. One nozz'e compound pressure, which is made a stream of cold water; her Crowds of Uptowners mark remark at the cleanliness and ever accompanies sand-blackage of not cutting into the is it. anvhow, who advertise save all"? Now that the "Flame that Freezes" is producing synthetic ice in refrigerators operated by ordinary gas, the Uptown New Yorker is not overly taken with surprise that the building on the northeast corner of 135th Street and Lenox Avenue has very recently enjoyed having its face washed with "cold steam." Investigation has brought to light that the cold steam method is a comparatively recent innovation; in fact, it has been in operation a mere six months. The Harlem building is the second job in all of New York. A generating plant on wheels, not unlike in appearance the old sand-blasting outfit, consists of a crude oil burning engine and a small compressed air plant. The surface to be beauty cu'tured first is softened with a diluted acid solution. A twin-nozzled application is then turned on. One nozz'e conducts the steam under a three pound pressure, which is met at the point of application by a stream of cold water; hence the trade name "cold steam." Crowds of Uptowners marvel daily at the phenomenon and remark at the cleanliness and the absence of the din which ever accompanies sand-blasting. It has further the advantage of not cutting into the surface to be renovated. Who is it. anvhow, who advertises "Save the surface and you save all"? Charmaine, Take Notice ONE Harlemite, upon ret West, recently dropped him seemed just like a lo The Uptown New York the odor, one experiences ows, reminded him of. NE Harlemite, upon return from the great West, recently dropped the wisecrack that seemed just like a lot of Newarks all Uptown New Yorker has often wodor, one experiences driving across the'M, reminded him of. ONE Harlemite, upon return from the great and glorious West, recently dropped the wisecrack that Chicago to him seemed just like a lot of Newarks all put together. The Uptown New Yorker has often wondered what the odor, one experiences driving across the Newark meadows, reminded him of. Midsummer Night's Dream IT has been brought to that this week has been Will some one of the baro New Yorker from which or following oft-repeated dialo Attendant: "Sire, a lae King: "Without what? Attendant: "W'thout fo has been brought to the attention of the that this week has been set aside as Shaker some one of the bard's admirers inform Yorker from which one of his brilliant wowing oft-repeated dialogue taken? Attendant: "Sire, a lady awaits with out King: "Without what?" Attendant: "W'without food and raiment." IT has been brought to the attention of this department that this week has been set aside as Shakesperian Week. Will some one of the bard's admirers inform the Uptown New Yorker from which one of his brilliant writings is the following oft-repeated dialogue taken? Attendant: "Sire, a lady awaits with out." King: "Without what?" King: "Feed her and bring her in." NI * * * --- Page Three places of Harlem's to Downtowners, and them, pigmented when's teeth. On ice and the Sugar faced amusements order to find atmos- quite impossible from that hour until morning life, abides atacombs. A tour of Belle's", which, and the naive much it has been chosen sex zone." It has usbia. So popular it necessarily soft, five cents to half no end, especially to visit. Unknowns are small enough to bar rail, and all. The clientele are completed their busi- themselves. The unto this day. Birthday celebration atacomb popularly members of the aggregate here and Red hot melodies. Duke Ellington is all of New York fried chicken and carne. (k.) Is producing syn- by ordinary gas, broken with surprise or of 135th Street and having its face has brought to comparatively recent nation a mere six second job in all ofells, not unlike consists of a crude and air plant. The afflicted with a di-plication is then under a three of application by name "cold steam." Phenonenon and of the din which further the advan-renovated. Who's surface and you great and glorious that Chicago to all put together. Wondered what the Newark mead- this department makesperian Week. Form the Uptown writings is the out." NIGHTHAWK. Social S GERALDY Since this is the sport iss cooperate by writing on socie Since this is the sport issue, I suppose I am expected to cooperate by writing on society sports. So, here goes: THEIR FAVORITE SPORTS Burke Horne Jimmy Harris Eddie Josnson Jennie Johnson McCleary Stinnette Puss Sanders Emmett Scott Hap Delaney Hap Delany Anna Braxton Geraldyn Desmond H. Binga Dismond A'Lelia Walker Edna Thomas Dorothy Harris Bobby Branch Clyde Carlisle Eva T. Parks Inez Wilson Ruthie Giles Carlotta Grant Ethel Baird Floyd Calvin Alphonse Tribie Jack Givens Aiken Pope Sol Johnson, Sr. Sol Johnson, Jr. Rose Ellis Irene Alexander Bennie Butler Willis Cummings Stella Castro The Chicago Club Henrietta Jackson Anne Buckman Carl VanVechten Ida Epstein George Morris U. Conrad Vincent Marshall Ross Louis Wright C. S. Johnson Lloyd Thomas Henry Branhan Dewey Curtis Bill White Frank Andrews Earl Johnson Harold Jackson Paul Meeres Sam Delany A. Clayton Deming A. Philip Randolph James Weldon Johnson Clarence Tisdale Bessye Bearden Lillian Bagnall Laura Homes Wilhemina Adams The Vagabonds Marion Moore Day Joe ..... Jris ..... Jon ..... Jason ..... Jatinnette ..... Jrs ..... Jott ..... Jvy ..... Jon ..... Jesmond ..... Jesmond ..... Baker ..... Las ..... Jris ..... Ich ..... Shake ..... Lee ..... Las ..... Attending ..... ..... ..... Riding ..... Ant ..... 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The young folks still complain that they miss Miss Gertrude around the Country Club and at their dances. Page Four * * * Dancing ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto Poker ditto ditto ditto Dieting ditto ditto Bridge ditto Hoeing Shaking her head Alibying Attending meetings ditto Riding to Jamaica Selling hats Marcelling Broadcasting Casting for Broads ditto ditto Making punch Going hatless Being late ditto ditto ditto Eating ditto ditto Coming Uptown ditto ditto ditto Attending to business ditto ditto Being mysterious ditto Pitching parties ditto ditto ditto Being handsome ditto ditto ditto ditto Being fascinating ditto ditto Wearing orchids Telling jokes Being beautiful ditto ditto ditto James Randolph, brother of A. Phillip Randolph, died Sunday after an illness of a week. We extend our sincere sympathy. Rose McClendon, Evelyn Ellis, Zora Hurston, Drucilla Poole, Roberta Bosley and Frank Wilson are sponsoring a barn dance to raise money for a scholarship. The date has been set for February 17 and Adah Ward and the Berry Brothers of the Cotton Club, and James P. Johnson, who makes Q.R. S. rolls, have donated their services. At the Renaissance. The popular Sidney Wells, law student at N. Y. U., is at the Knickerbocker Hospital for a minor operation. * * * * * * Forgot to tell you last week that Gladys Hall is Noah Thompson's niece and Rose Fauset and Edith Harris are his sisters. They left Sunday for their respective homes. * * * Ruthie Giles, Graces Giles and Hallie Smith were about in Harlem Wednesday. The Ruthie had on real, honest-to-goodness, sweetsmelling roses. For that, she lives in Jamaica. * * * Lieut. J. Williams Clifford left Wednesday for Cleveland. Six weeks in the hinderland. Poor Jay! Unless he finds the Paynes, Owenes, Christophers, Hodgeses and Taylors. If he does, lucky man. * * * Had a letter from little Lenore Scott. She enjoyed Harlem. But why shouldn't she? Harlem took a terrific flop for her. And how! * * * Lillian Gish, the movie star, is now a full fledged $10.00 member of the N. A. A. C. P. Carolyn Downs of the Auxiliary brought in her contribution. *** Hilda Offley Thompson had a breakfast party last Sunday for Gladys Hall and Rose Fauset of Chicago, Edythe Harris of Baltimore and Noah D. Thompson, and on Wednesday entertained at dinner Beatrice Lee Cooper of Paris. Mrs. Thompson is the charming other half of the talented Creighton Thompson; so you see, the Sunday affair was really a small family reunion. * * * The lovely Mabelle Payne has promised to send us news of the social doings in Cleveland. So be on the lookout for a new red-hot column. * * * The Convivial Coterie of Brooklyn has announced its twenty-fourth annual dance for February 3rd at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Its membership roster reads like a page from the Brooklyn Blue Book. * * * We had a surprise for Gram Johnson Saturday night at Dr. Gerty Curtis's. It was an honest-to-goodness surprise. She never once suspected. I was supposed to take her to the theatre at seven o'clock and of course arrived an hour late, but to the Alhambra we went and had the best time. \* \* \* While we were enjoying the show and eating ice cream, all the Sol Johnsons, the U. Conrad Vincents, the Earl Johnsons and Mary Harris, the Eduardo Castros, the Marshall Rosses, Anne Buckman, Clarence Tisdale, Jimmy Lightfoot and the McPhersons were getting together the roast pig and applesauce, sweet potatoes, black eye peas, potato salad, liverwurst, cheese, cake, ice cream and the punch. * * * I told her some tale which she believed and ushered her to Dr. Gerty's instead of home. A yell that shook 135th Street greeted her arrival. We talked and ate and ate and drank. The fascinating Clarence Tisdale sang to her and all the men including Dr. Dismond, made love to her. * * * The Busy Five were at the Savoy Friday night for the benefit of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. They had a gay time being busy. Saw Roy Lancaster and met Mrs. Lancaster, but not a sign of the A. Philip Randolph. Tough luck. * * * Mrs. G. E. Townsend, the beautiful mother of the handsome Clarence Spoof Green, came into Harlem last Wednesday for the afternoon. These people who live in Jamaica certainly are charming. * * * The Auxiliary to the Urban League has announced its officers for 1928. Eva T. Parks still heads the organization, and associated with her are Florence DeLoach Richardson, 1st vice-president; Mr. J. T. Bonner, 2nd vice-president; Mae Hubert, corresponding secretary; Mrs. James Redd, assistant corresponding secretary; Anna James Robinson, recording secretary; Alice Douglas, assistant recording secretary; Nettie Deming, treasurer; Helen Smythe, assistant treasurer; Nan Washington Brandon, press representative; Blossom Holland, chairman of the entertainment committee, and Lucile Phelps, chairman of the committee on decorations. * * * J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks, was the principal speaker at the Mass Meeting Sunday at Salem Church under the auspices of the Women's Stop-Lynching League. Bessye Bearden presided and on the program were the Hon. Fred R. Moore, Cleveland Allen, A. T. Mitchell, the Rev. Blackburn and ex-Assemblyman John. * * * Beatrice Lee Cooper managed to tear herself away Thursday and start for Chicago. Her passage home to Paris was booked for the 15th. but she forgot also about home and hubby. Harlem will get like that to you. And Rose Ellis is a marvelous hostess. ★ ★ ★ The cute and tiny Eloise Walker is ill at home in Baltimore. Aw, get well and come on back. That's no fun. * * * Grace Atwater and her hubby entertained at bridge last Saturday evening. Among the guests were Thelma Berlack, Frankye Dixon, Olyve Mae Thomas, Messrs. Red, Gilbert, Wills, Russell Stewart and the Lockharts. * * * Aren't teas the popular things these days! The Ladies Auxiliary to the Citizens' Welfare Council entertained at Tea Sunday at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. Oma Henry Price for Senorita Melita Fuentas of Mexico, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, who is affiliated with the inter-racial movement at the International House. Bessye Bearden poured tea, Roberta Bosley was master of ceremonies and Senorita Fuentas gave a splendid talk on Mexican women. * * * The clever Dancing Dolls of Amanda Kemp, who have so generously donated their services for our society benefits, will appear at the New Star Casino Friday evening in their Annual Exhibition. There are a few boxes left and they may be obtained by phoning Edgecombe 2671. * * * Mrs. Inez Richardson Wilson, chairman of the Woman's Committee of One Hundred, has announced that the Annual Mid-Season Dance for the benefit of the National Association for the advancement of Colored People, will be given on THE INTER-STATE TATTLER the tenth of February at the Manhattan Casino. As a special dance attraction the committee is offering Ford Dabney and his Original Rang Tang Orchestra. * * * The Auxiliary's affairs are social events of the first water and already the mad scramble for boxes has begun. Fortunately this year, for the first time, the tables circling the dance floor have been made into private boxes, thereby providing an extra tier for the eager patrons. * * * In accordance with the policy of the Auxiliary to underwrite its annual balls, two of the members have planned minor attractions to raise funds. Mrs. Holloway is sponsoring a cake sale for Saturday, January 29th, from 12:3 until 11 P. M. The committee will donate the cakes which will be sold from some vantage point on the Avenue. Then, on Sunday afternoon, February 3rd from three thirty until six, Mrs. Nettie Roach is giving a musicale at her residence on Edgecombe Avenue. *** Arthur Wilson, Dr. Melville Charlton, Stewart L. Whiting, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Allen, Dr. Frank E. Chambers, Junius Green, Sadie Patton, Attorney Stanley M. Douglas, Alexander Gatewood, Caska Bond, Embry Bonner, Merrill Work, Miss Carlotta Thomas, Chauncy Northern, Gerald Wilson, Mrs. Bessye Bearden, Mrs. Rebecca J. Emory, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Northern, Miss Frankye Dixon, Miss Margaret Pennybacker and Miss Olyvee. Mae Thomas attended the organ recital by Edward Syphax of Washington, D. C., last Friday at St. James' Presbyterian Church. Mr. Syphax, who is a pupil of the late Dr. Bischoff, is organist of Shilo Church. * * * Blanche Ross had a marvelous birthday party Friday night, thanks to her mother, Mrs. Viola Ross. Her apartment, at 321 St. Nicholas was filled with the prettiest girls and men galore. There were Ethel and Mabel Graves, Vera Adams, Mildred Stone, Maude Payne, Anna Miller, Augustine Faulkner, Dorothy Parkham, Daisy and Marguerite White, Gladys Armstrong, Lauretta Noisette, Dorothy Clark, Eula Whithey, Mayme King, Dorothy Taylor, Maude Hazel, Alice Simpson, Gladys Hunter, Muriel Wiggins, Sadie Patton, Bessye Bearden, Gene Holmes, Burke Horne, Frank Hailstolk, Royal Banks, Dr. J. H. N. Jones, Dr. Meredith Brooks, Dick Thomas, Dr. Frank Andrews, Harold Floyd, Skeeter Gorham, Bobby Clopton, Thomas Elder, Dr. Saunders, the Dismonds, Andy Johnson, Bob Clark, Charles King, Clarence Perdue, James Trotman and this could go on forever. A large table was covered with presents—rhinestone bag, gloves, stockings, lingerie, candy, books, flowers, handkerchiefs, jewelry. I arrived later than usual but I saw the remains of chicken salad, ice cream and cake and everybody was in the best of spirits. Blanche must be a good girl and very popular. * * * Thomas Hall, whose private recital last Wednesday is still the sensation in musical circles, will be the guest soloist Sunday with the newly organized Harlem Trio of the Y. M. C. A. --- Last Friday, the North Harlem Medical Society held its Eighth Annual Banquet at Laster's Dining Room (formerly Craiggs). On the entertainment committee were Doctors John H. Riley, Marshall E. Ross and Aaron L. McGhee, and the guest of honor was Dr. John F. Connors, Director of Surgery at Harlem Hospital. Dr. Connors very frankly said that he had been opposed to Colored physicians being admitted to the staff of Harlem Hospital, but that since they were there he would do all in his power to aid and assist them. * * * After remarks by the president, Dr. Louis T. Wright, Dr. Connors delivered an address on Urgent Surgery of the Abdomen, a discussion of which was led by Doctor F.er M. Murray, Lucien M. Brown, Alonzo DeG. Smith, Wiley Wilson and Jose N. Cesteros. * * * Mrs. Laster served a supper of half grapefruit, relishes, cream of tomato soup, half broiled chicken, candied sweet potatoes, fresh peas, ice cream, apple pie and coffee. And on their hips—plenty. \* \* \* "I imagine the chagrin of Dr. James H. Williams, who, fortified by his usual professional mien and sturdy business acumen, fulfilled an appointment on Monday evening which proved to be a dinner! The affair, which was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Randolph, was a testimonial and goodwill get-to-gether, sponsored by the Directors of the Corona B. and H. Holding Co., Inc., of which the genial Doctor has been president since its organization in 1920. * * * Well, the formal announcement has been made by Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Burghardt DuBois of the engagement of their daughter, Nina Yolande to Countee Cullen. The wedding-at Easter time. And that's that. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Richard Williams were host and hostess to their sister, Isabella E. Williams of New York and her chum, Alice R. Walker, of Worcester, Mass., on the eve of their departure for Colorado. Miss Walker, who is a former student of the Worcester Art Museum School and a teacher at the Harlem Academy in New York, will find untold inspiration in the glorious Roles and among the primitive Indians. Miss Williams, after extensive tracelling, also has decided to make her home in the West. * * * At last there is a shop in Harlem that makes a specialty of finger waving. Mayme, the sister of Lulu Fields Burney, has an attractive new shop in West 139th Street and on her card is finger waving. \* \* \* Frankye Dixon was the guest of her teacher at the private recital by Dr. Spaeth in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Roosevelt last Saturday. * * * Invitations are out for the Hyacinths' Ninth Annual Reception at the Renaissance on the 27th. And thank goodness I am among the lucky guests. Next issue-Ah! * * * Alyss Hershau was on the sick list last week and Lenore Scott spent the week-end in Harlem. Result: No Atlantic City society news. Florence DeLoach Richardson is down in those Carolinas getting proper rest from the wear and tear of the banking business. I envy her. I would leave for Durham tonight if I had the necessary pennies. * * * Got this letter from Roberta Bosley telling me about her birthday party: The Nordics and assembled on Friday evening, January 20th, at Laster's in honor of Roberta Bosleys birthday. They talked over art and books and everything, despite the fact that everyone was starved, while waiting for the waiter to appear with his tray. (Service was rather slow. And what appetites we all had! I hadn't eaten much that whole day because of rehearsals, exams, etc. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hubert ,Leland Pettit, a real, blond man, Miss Gladys McDonald, Miss Sonya Krutchkog, a Russian brunette of Cleveland, Ohio, Miss Olyve Mae Thomas, Malcolm Dodson, Miss Carolyn Dublin, Henry Coshburn, Miss Virginia Powell, Emile Holley, Miss Laura Smith, Maceo Smith, Miss Clarice Wynn, Miss Mary Louis Wallace, jolly Scotch-Irish girl, Herbert T. Miller and O. Richard Reid, who gave us all an artistic once-over. I meant this to be a letter too, to you. I am a very loquacious person at times. Don't I show it in this letter? You should see all my beautiful presents. Heaps of flowers, too. \* \* \* Already Fred Marloy, the Bertille Harises, the Samuel Shavers', A. K. A. Sorority, the F. E. Millers. the Robert Wllis', the Binga Desmonds, Harry Corley and the Howard Beardens have secured their boxes for the Kollegiate Karnival at the Renaissance on the 30th. There will be confetti, good music and your friends. B. Y. O. L. Mrs. Daisey Posey, well known and honored citizen of Pitsburg, died Monday morning at the home of Miss Carolyn Dublin of Brooklyn. where she was visiting. * * * Bessye Bearden was unanimously re-elected Chairman of the Local School Board. And she is still wearing orchids. * * * Mrs. Rosa Caines entertained Mrs. Bertha Williams, Mrs. George B. Dickerson, Mrs. F. E. Lee and Mrs. E. J. Barlowe of Mt. Vernon, at dinner Sunday. * * * The first annual dance of the Sphinx Social Club. The Renaissance. February 8th. Who are the Sphinx? John De Bruhl, president; Charles Burke, vice-president; Edgar Dozier, treasurer; John Thompson, financial secretary; Joseph Miller, recording secretary; William Del Pino, chaplain; James Crump, sergeant-at-arms; James Anderson, Emory Jackson, Percy Crump, George Marshall, Hiram Evans, Milvin Evans, Maurice Enriquez, William Miller, James Pinner, Harold Russell, Robert Hundley, William Sills, John Thomas. * * * Robert L. 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Dainty Dainty LINGERIE Mehron's Theatrical Make-Up (Viola Bond) STREET and EVENING GOWNS (Daisy Gilbert) 2143 SEVENTH AVENUE Cor. 127th St. (One Flight Up) --- The Theatre Big Hit at Lafayette Wen Talbert and his band head the program at the Lafayette this week. His company of four wonderful entertainers led by Miss Leithia Hill was received enthusiastically by the audience. If you think Gene Austin is the only person who can sing Muddy Waters, I ask you not to miss the rendition of it by Miss Hill. Brown and Jones, those incomparable comedians can make you go into paroxysms of laughter. They can tell you more about reincarnation in two minutes than you can read in a day. Humorous? Oh my! Cliff and Radcliffe win apprabation because of their nice apparel; they keep up interest because of their vivid personalities and their versality. Radclife's dancing, tenor voice and West Indian dialect keep the house in a decided uproar. Can Cliff dance? You can't appreciate it unless you actually witness the act. The chorus of twelve beautiful girls danced smoothly. Two numbers, Congo and Spider, were delightfully well done. The scenery is the most colorful that has appeared on the Lafayette stage. Is that show a "knockout" from start to finish! "I'm not asking you-I'm telling you," is how Leithia Hill would put it. At the Alhambra The Alhambra theater is all dressed up this week; not only are there new, colorful, finely decorated stage drops, to delight the eye, but beautiful settings that add so much to the artistic features of this compact modern play house. The manager left nothing unfinished the "stars" as well as the "chorus" are to be seen in the newest and latest stage creations; even Slim Thimpson has two new special suits for his tight-pants antics. The feminine of the group are very pleasing, scantily clad; single gentlemen in the audience were much in evidence. I believe that most of them were wishing the "stage door lookout" attendant a little hard luck; that is, a slight draft would, in all likelihood, have relieved the charming tan dancing maids of the weighted burden; two ounces, suspended from a light silk thread which occasionally slipped from their shoulder. Such a coincident would have served as the first step toward an art museum in Harlem. Nature has been so liberal and kind to these "Queens of the Cabaret." Go see them, for they are much more interesting than the cold marble figures to be found in the Metropolitan Museum. The Alhambra is, too, much nearer and easier to reach, within walking distance of all of you. "Foolish, Wise and Reckless" an amusing act in which a finely trained donkey appears should be good entertainment for the hard-boiled theater-goers I mentioned in this column last week. This act will give you the thrills that come only now and then, mostly then. "Joyner and Hopkins, a combination of original dancing and piano playing keep one keyed up wondering where, how and why don't they give us more of it. "Dolly Ross." She has all of it. "Billie Gulfport, George Cooper, Sterling Grant, and Slim Thompson as well as our own Kitty Brown, naturally add to the many entertaining features of high order that convince even the casual observer to the fact that the magnetic personality of the manager is a singular asset to the uptown theater. D'Andre. At Hurtig and Seamons Al Hilliard, gay and accentric commedian, and Joe Forte, leading man, are the featured members of the cast which will present the 1928 version of "The Lid Lifters", a new show from start to finish. The prima donna is Judy Butler, lately arrived from the Pacific Coast; Aleen Rogers, a girl already established in favor with devotees of burlesque shows; the Smith Sisters, Gladys and Pear, singers of melodious voice and light of foot when dancing; Don Gauthier, an English actor; Frank Bell, character deliniator, and Speed Eastman, a fast and funny comedian, comprise the full roster of principals. There will, however, be unusual interest shown in the chorus of expertly trained dancing girls who will also sing melodiously, in the full dozen of musical numbers. A striking novelty has been provided for each act in which the principals and chorus girls strive for supremacy; and, it is said the ladies of the "merry merry" very often succeed in receiving the greatest measure of applause and when they do the principals take defeat good-naturedly—and add their applause to that of the audience. The featured players are Al Hilliar and Joe Forte, comedian and leading man, and the prima donna is Judy Butler, a girl from the Pacific Coast and a real Beauty Notes From Newark By Chappy Gardner T. L. Walker, the successful manager of the Orpheum in Newark, is wearing a broad smile these days. One that looks like the new subway opening. Reason is his big theatre is undergoing over $30,000 of improvements. On the inside of the house are new dim lights and fresh paints, while a brand new pipe organ is on the way. Outside sandblast for the whole front, and a new canopy over the entire front door, lighted up like a regular Broadway house. It's a feeling like a king to be manager of a house seating more than 1800—no wonder he smiles. ```markdown ``` Those Bernardo brothers-three of them well known in Newark for many years in business and social circles are getting ready for their big restaurant opneing at 477 Washington street on the 21st. The popular brothers have put out quite a bit of money in making the place first class in every particular and look for many out-of-towners at the premiere. On the large windows in front are displayed two four-foot white enameled letters B. B., broadcasting Bernardo brothers. It's the sign of success. * * * "Smiling" Jimmy Wheeler, New ark's leading dancemaster, is again holding his Saturday evening sessions in the Elks' auditorium. By popular request Jimmy came down from Beacon street on the hill because many patrons found the localton out of way of bus and car line. Now the gang is all back home with the Smiling One, doing it proud with all latest steps. The prize contests are part of the program that have brought success to these large Saturday night affairs and made Jimmy Wheelers name a by-word of Jersey. * * * His fame for cleaning automobiles at his Morris avenue auto laundry is spreading all over New Jersey. So Reuben Wilson, expert auto mechanic and proprietor of his own business at 252 Morris avenue for more than one year has had such a trade that new machinery and more help are required. Last week Reuben and his star helper, Robert Hawkins, went to the automobile show at Madison Square Garden to select the most modern machines for quick work in auto washing. A couple of the newest machines will be installed by spring to take care of increased trade. * * * "Doc" Mayo and his celebrated jazz orchestra is still filling the bill at the Plantation Night Club on Halsey street. The many patrons of this pleasure palace enjoy the varied musical renditions of "Doc" and his boys, who have been there for several months. In Doc's bunch are some of the best musicians in the country, who were selected because of their expert ability. With the banjo Doc himself has few peers. * * * In the pit at the Orpheum is a tall, slender, good-looking young musician, a piano expert, graduate of Boston Conservatory of Music. They call him "Slim" Johnson. This fellow knows his business so well that he seldom makes a mistake. A fine fellow hailing from Boston, with excellent parents, both of whom are now living in Newark with him. Installment furniture stores over charge housewives because few understand furniture construction and textile values. SAMUEL FISHER Appraiser of Installment Furniture SMALL CHARGE FOR SERVICES It will pay you to phone me before paying a deposit on furniture in any store. Demand a Square Deal. 2234 EIGHTH AVE. Near 120th St., New York THE INTER-STATE TATTLER FORD DABNEY AND HIS ORIGINAL DIRECT FROM BROAWWAY AND ROAD TOUR RANG TANG Orchestra For The NATIONAL ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE Friday Eve. 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On his return he will make a new picture, the name of which has not yet been announced. * * . * Had a card from Al and Freddie with a hello from Alberta in Monie Carlo. It was signed "Moiret and Fredi." Lovely! They were at the Hotel de Paris and Cafe de Paris and reported marvelous success. They have been billed over an ofay act of no mean proportions which isn't had. They move this week to Nice. Alberta, so I heard, will return to London. * * * Isn't Marion Aiken a lolly? First girl on the left, front line, at the Alhambra. Wow! What a cute baby girl! * * * The Wright Quintette leaves Thursday for the wild and wooly West to appear at the Balaban and Katz houses in Chicago. Jimmy Lightfoot is the manager and the other four are the fascinating Clarence Tisdale, William Loguen, Jesse Wilson and Russell Wooding at the piano. Goodbye, but not forever. * * * In front of the Alhambra, read what D'Andre has to say about the shows. * * * "Bojangles" Bill Robinson gave a too bad benefit at the Lincoln Theatre in Los Angeles for the Florence Mills Memorial Fund on January 16th. This was his bill: Courtesy of Orpheum Circuit—Lew Cody, John Steel, Peter Higgins, Mel Klee, Trahan and Wallace, George and Jack Dormonde, Steve Juhaz, Eddie Wills, Ruth Roland and Ben Bard, Bon Bon Buddies with Gill and Warren and Bob Williams, Jack Redmond, Roy and Maye, Ruth Meade and Kimball Sisters, Edith Evans and Ray Mayer, Jack Dempsey, Mushy Calahan, Irving Berlin, William Desmond, Geo Mosby, Henry Starr, Cliff Ritchie, Sammy Cohen; Courtesy of the West Coast Circuit—Moss and Frye, Harold Ralsell, Bert Levy, Bennie Rubin; Courtesy of Doc Strain Company—Doc Straine, Johnny Lee and those Bilo Bronze Steppers; Courtesy of Hit the Deck Company—Jack Durant, Frank Mitchell, Frank Stoby, Lee Fong Quartette; Augumented orchestra under the personal direction of Curtis Mosby. My! My! *** The Pan-American Quartette Joe Loomis, Walter Hilliard, Charles Downing and Walter Meadows is hanging out with the Merry-Go-Round Revue. Last week the natives of White Plains enjoyed the excellent work of the four and the revue is booked by Washington (Loew's Palace this week), Baltimore, Pittsburg and Buffalo. Incidentally, they appear three times on the program. * * * Irving C. Miller is rehearsing a new show. The Four F's had a box party at the midnight show at the Lafayette last Friday. A too bad party! They had everything and everybody was happy. * * * Elida Webb had a group of her dancers from Show Boat at the William May Wright's reception for M. Ravel, the French composer. And I understand that she will train the ensemble for George Morris' Ne-Grotesque. * * * Which reminds me. I heard a gang of righteous tunes that Porter Granger is getting together for the same show. Have you seen Joe Jordan and his eveglasses? * * * Mae Barnes is on the sick list. Better, thank you, but not able to wring and twist. Just a bad cold, but that's bad enough. * * * The lovely Minta cato is in Baltimore this week. 1402 Durid Hill Avenue. You're welcome. \* \* \* And by the way. Hall Johnson has had an offer from Smallie to make trick choral arrangements. * * * Good heavens! Rumor has it that Zaidee Jackson and Laurence Brown are married. God bless you, my children. * * * Say, why didn't you attend the meeting of the Florence Mills Theatrical Association. If you don't show up, it will make me think you don't read this column. Naughty! Come out Thursday, February 2nd. Lafayette Theatre. Midnight. * * * Asked Bill White what has become of the Abraham Bosom folks since the closing of the show. He told me that Jimmy Dunmore had married and that he was studying culinary art at Columbia University. I don't know! * * * Learned today from William Edmonson that Marco Millions has only one set and that the twelve scenes are made by revolving different bits. I wondered how they could make the changes so quickly. Abbie Mitchell Thompson's husband is confined to bed with heart trouble. *** Charlotte Junius and Minnie Briggs are holding their own with their clever musical numbers in Show Boat. ★ ★ ★ Brown and DeMont's big act showed in Mount Vernon last week. They expect to sign a forty weeks' consecutive booking on the Keith Circuit. * * * Kid Bumpsky and his new partner, Gulfport, have a wow of an act. They knocked them cold at the Lincoln and are doing the same at the Alhambra. * * * Stagestruck would welcome personal notices from members of the profession. Address Stagestruck, care of Interstate Tattler. I thank you. Let us not be afraid in doing the Art Theatre since its organization right thing . . . To make these period to the present. little articles as interesting as possible The Little Theatre foregrounds sible we will make a complete will at least do one thing--that is study and trip with the New Negro to encourage. Little Theatre Foregrounds It is possible to approach, and to become enthusiastic about the little theatre movement from various points of view. It is many things to many men, and many communities. Because of this fact I am going to express my thoughts through the medium of a Negro Art Theatre which is now in its developing stage. To make things as interesting as possible we'll first look forward to a true Negro Theatre. I am sure everyone will agree with me that nearly everyone who thinks seriously of the theatre, will tell you that the ideal theatre for obtaining the best results for the players and all branches of the arts of the theatre, is the theatre where the system is one of repertory. In the next breath they will tell you that in America and in this "commercial age" such a theatre for Negroes is impossible. But remember they acknowledge that it is their ideal to see a true art theatre for the young Negro dramatist and they attempt to stifle their ideal by outlawing it to a particular age. This seems to me altogether ridiculous—when has an ideal of any kind had to stand with hat in hand, bowing before a dollar sign? Puffed-up mediocrity masking as art may do so, but never a genuine ideal. When a real Negro repertory theatre—the ideal theatre—comes into existence here in New York, in this or any othr age, the traffic police will have a busy time indeed. In developing a Negro Art Theatre I will attempt to smash the modern traditions of the theatre. 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Boyd Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday—Feb. 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Observations Flashed from the Sport What Our Athletes Should Do This Year 1928 was ushered in with little, if any prospects of a colored athlete, (or athletes) scaling the heights and winning a place in the sports hall of fame such as De Hart Hubbard and the late Tiger Flowers did last year. Yet I feel, that something startling will happen before another Christmas rolls around. Colored lads have a way of breaking into the limelight when least expected and 1928 should be no exception. Page Eight Bennie Butler Unfortunately, interest in Aframerican athletic activities are well below the fervor point. If any people in the wide wide world have absolutely no use for a loser, it is the colored American. As long as one of our champs is winning, we'll yell like Hell. But the minute he fails, we're through with him. Take the case of the late Tiger Flowers. After the two Jack Delaney defeats, the Georgia Deacon became the butt of ridicule and many a rabid joke was cracked at the Tiger's expense. But Flowers came back and won the middleweight championship from the late Harry Greb and once again he became the hero. Another case of our lack of loyalty even more conspicuous than Flowers, was that of Harry Wills. Wills, never rated a great fighter by the experts, was hailed by our group as the greatest ever and much was made over his many reputed virtues as a patriotic, honorable and law abiding citizen. The Negro newspapers and individuals lauded Harry to the skies. But, when defeat rung down the curtain, the Brown Panther's demise was the signal for derisive comment and expression. Unlike 1925, '6 and '7, 1928 has no outstanding figure to arouse and hold the (our) sport world's attention. Harry Wills, in dominating the pugilistic heights in the preceeding years, as the "Black Menace", the "Nordic Threat" "Jack Dempsey's Nemisis" and etc, kept alive the Negro's interest in the sport pages. But 1928 has no Harry Wills, although a "Black Shadow" in George Godfrev. This new threat to "White Supremacy' may once again awaken the Afamerican's interest in sports. There is no question as to Godfrey's class as a fighter of to-day. But the question is: will he force recognition as did Jack Johnson in 1908—9 and '10, to eventually win the world's heavyweight championship, or, will he permit the powers that be to side-track him as did Harry Wills for all of six years? That's the big question. If Godfrey forces the issue, then Aframerican sport interest will be fired again—it's up to George. As I said before, interest in Aframerican sports is at a very low point this year. It fell way down with the Harry Wills debacle and the death of Tiger Flowers. At no time has the colored American taken any too much interest in track and field athletics. Basketball for a while was exceedingly popular, but commercialism soon killed that off. Football also came in for much consideration as a college society sport event, but that too has gradually lost its hold on the public, (our public), if that last Thanksgiving game can be used as an indicator. In short, amateur sport activities have never appealed any too strongly to the Aframerican sportsman. A Harry Wills, Jack Johnson, Tiger Flowers, or a Chick Suggs, will arouse considerably more interest than a Howard P. Drew, De Hart Hubbard, Binga Dismond, or a Fritz Pollard. Yet the Drews, Hubbard's, Dismond's and Pollard's mean considerable more to us than the first named quartet. This being the case, I shall begin with our professional athletes, naming the foremost contenders in each division. George Godfrey To my mind, George Godfrey is the class of the present-day heavyweight division. If given the opportunity, he would clean up the so-called contenders in short order. Godfrey, scaling well over two hundred pounds, is as fast as most middleweights, packs a terrific wallop in either mitt and is a clever, methodical workman. When not under wraps or hobbled, he has won his bouts with little exertion. The one reverse chalked up against him, barring Sam Langford's stopping him years ago, was when Jack Renault stopped him here in New York. That defeat can be tossed out of consideration. Godfrey, just here from the sticks, was badly handled at the time, was nervous and over anxious. Since then, he has tried in vain to book a return joust with the shifty French Canadian. The heavyweight division, like the lightweights and feathers, has been getting worse with each succeeding year. It was bad enough last year, but this year, with the miserable crop of palukas rated as contenders, it will be the worst ever. Gene Tunney, despite the ravings of the daily newspapers, can be rated only above Jess Wil- GEORGE GODFREY lard. Tunney's record is the poorest ever presented for consideration, baring Willard's. Willard was the rankest apology ever to hold the title. Godfrey would not only create greater interest, but his competing in the various elemination tournaments, would lend class and dignity to them which is sadly lack- ```markdown ``` JACK McVEY ing now. Jack Delaney and Jack Sharkeny are the real class outside of Godfrey. Renault has fallen by the way side and will find it a difficult task to fight his way back again. Delaney, although a clever boxer, packing a knockout smash in his right kick, would find, if all other things were equal, that spotting Godfrey forty or more pounds an impossible task. But in addition to the weight handicap, Delaney would find in George the cleverest boxer in the game today, barring only Jack McVey. In addition to that, Godfrey's hitting would cinch the argument. As for Sharkey, well, the boys tangled once before. And while the judges gave the Bostonian Irishman the nod, according to the newspapers, Godfrey (who was under wraps) was really the winner. In this bout, Godfrey really tricked himself, according to rumor. He was eager for a tilt with Harry Wills and to this end, played possum to lure Harry into signing. But the cards had been stacked and George cut the pack just where it was intended for him to do so. Jack McVey To my mind, Jack McVey is the greatest fighter developed within the past twenty years. Potentially, he's another Joe Gans. True, he has not the consumate finesse, the masterly generalship or the killing smash of the "Ole Master", but Jack is learning fast. With the exception of the welterweight division, he will meet with stiffer opposition than any of the fighters in the other divisions. Jack is now fighting as a middleweight, scaling at his best, around 150 pounds. He can make the welterweight poundage in a pinch but 147 will rob him of considerable strength and vitality. So it is best that he confine his efforts to the middleweights. At the present time, McVey is just beginning to win favor with the fans. He is a calculating, methodical fighter, never hurries or allows a situation to excite him. When once tossed within the ropes of his victim, Jack's idea is to win. It makes little difference to him whether he turns the trick in the first or last round. If the opening presents itself while he's studying his rival, McVey will end matters then and there. Yet there's never no hurry or wasted effort in his masterly examination. It's a treat to watch him in action. The lazy all deceiving nonchalance manner of his steady, relentless attack; the masterly parry and blocking of his opponents leads; his footwork is superb, free and natural and his timing and countering of punches, perfect. Jack has but one weakness, that of feinting. He has not this department of the manly art fully at command. He has not acquired the knack of tricking his opponent into certain leads or blocking, for openings. He now merely crowds his adversary, making the latter lead as a defensive measure. Then Jack rips in hi scounter at the opportune moment. His hitting is exceptionally ```markdown ``` good, the best I have seen in many many years. If ever Jack hooks up with Mickey Walker, we'll have another colored middleweight champion to be recorded in ring history along with the late Tiger Flowers. Not only that, Jack will be a safe bet against any fighter within twenty pounds of his weight and that goes for Jack Delaney and Tommy Loughran coming in at 170 pounds. As for Jimmy Slattery, Dave Shade or Pete Latso, McVey is a sure shot, over either of them. Buddy Saunders In Buddy Saunders, we have another promising 142 pounder, who is well versed in the art of socking chins and altering maps. Buddy is a rugged two fisted taffy colored gladiator of the Queensberry game, who knows his onions. He's fast, game and as vicious as they come. While not the boxer, ring general and hitter as is McVey. Saunders knows more about the racket than most of the present day crop of beak busters. This youngster's greatest weakness is lack of self-control. He loses his temper quickly and then forgets all about ring craft and how to box. He'll tear in under such THE INTER-STATE TATTLER conditions, taking the wildest and most foolish of desperate chances in order to land a punch. When out in front, he's a crackerjack. Like McVey, he too is a counter fighter and believes in crowding his opponent. There's little if any rest for the other fellow when Buddy has the other corner. But, because of his temperament he finds it hard to make a winning up-hill fight. I saw him in his two tilts with Sammy Baker and then again with Willie Harmon Buddy rather liked Baker for some reason and the two were great friends outside of the ring. But Saunders did not like Harmon nor Harmon's manager. He wanted to fight them both when it was hinted that the Italian-American would tag Buddy with a K. O. punch. That got the quick tempered little West Indian's goat and he was raving mad when he climbed into the ring. Result, he was defeated. Buddy refused to box but gamely took Harmon's heavy body smashes with the utmost contempt. It was foolish bravado and more so when he was in such poor condition, having trained but three days for the fight. In his first Baker contest, he won handily. But the second time the riled Buddy and Sammy reversed the result of the initial contest. The Baker people defied Saunders to trade right hands with Sammy. Buddy was much the better boxer. Baker the harder hitter of the two. Just recently, out on the coast Jackie Fields copped a decision over Saunders in a ten-round set-to Buddy, who had just returned from Australia, did not have his land legs. Six or eight weeks on a ship and less than a week to train in. Buddy's condition was far from the best. Yet for four rounds. according to the press, he gave the crack Californian merry Hell. Fields was floored in one of the early rounds and had Buddy been in any kind of condition, he would have stopped the shifty Pacific Coast welterweight. It was this same Fields who made the going so hot for the lightweight champion, Sammy Mandell, some months ago. While I don't look upon Buddy as a really dangerous contender in the quest of the welterweight division BRUCE FLOWERS BRUCE FLOWERS Friday, January 27, 1928 because of his temper, yet he'll prove a performer worthy of watching. He's been in Australia for almost two years, fighting welter and middleweights with great success. He has had the advantage of constant boxing and that means a great deal. I certainly believe that he has improved and maybe by now, has his temper under control. 10J Bruce Flowers Bruce Flowers is the most popular lightweight boxer produced in many years. I believe that he's an even greater favorite than Leo Johnson, Eddie Dorsey or Wee Wee Barton was. Flowers is a fighter pure and simple. He likes to get in close and wing 'em over from the floor behind him. He's not much of a boxer nor does he pack a destructive wallop. But he has a knack of getting in there and hammering away that seems to take the heart out of his opponent. He's not a Joe Gans by any strcch of the imagination. Nothing he does is anywhere near the artistic work of the immortal ole master. Yet Bruce has about as good a chance as any of the other contenders to cop the lightweight crown. The truth of the matter is, that there's not a real good lightweight in the game today. All the lightweights put together if such a thing were possible, would not produce a Kid McPartland, George (Elbows) McFadden, Frank Ern, Bobby Dobbs, Rufe Turner, Battling Nelson or Jack Blackburn much less a Joe Gans. As I said before, the lightweight, featherweight and heavyweight divisions are getting worse every year. The lightweights of today are terrible. They are the poorest group of apologies ever seen in a ring. Here's Sid Terris, rated the logical contender for the premier honors of the division, whipped by old man Harry Cook, the Buffalo brunette. Cook had the east side flash down twice. Cook up to that time had seen about eleven years of ring warfare. Well, to make matters worse, "Nubby" Joe Gans, twenty-one years in the game, did everything but murder Cook. The New Orleans brunette was finally barred because his right arm was shorter by three inches than BIG MONEY CAN BE MADE MARCEL WAVING LEARN THIS PROFESSION AT APEX COLLEGE 200 W. 135th St., Room 110 EDGECOMBE Enter Anytime—Pay While Learning his left. His right hand was a nub, there being only a tiny thumb and little finger. "Nubby" was barred because he was showing up the lightweights of today. Al Brown Al Brown, the socking little bantamweight of Panama, should play a prominent role among the 118 pound elite of mutilated maps. Brown packs a killing wallop in his right hand and this, with his freakish built, all arms and legs like a spider, should enable him to win from the chunky short armed little battlers in this division. Unfortunately, Al is not much of a craftsman, unless he has greatly improved while in Europe. He has not much of a repertoire in the way of punches, depending mainly on a long annoying left and that deadly right. He fights best at long distance but in close, he finds his extreme length of arms a handicap. Fortunately, there are but one or two good boxers among these little men. Bud Taylor, the present champion, is also a fighter like All He's just about all the class that Brown will have to face, unless some of the midgets from foreign 4 shores rise up unexpectedly. Taylor has just about outgrown the division. If he does not lose the title when he and the Black Spider tangle sometime this year, he'll have to default. Bud has been battling among the 125 pound gentlemen, the line of least resistance. In such matches, he does not have to make weight. With Taylor out, Al will be an odds on favorite to cop the bantamweight diadem in open competition. Other Prospects All the above mentioned warriors of swat and parry, I have at some time or other, during the past four years, seen in action. Not just once or twice, but at least a half dozen times. I have seen them in bouts, against worthy foemen and I am rating them accordingly. But from the news possible to glean from the Associated Press and out-of-town publications, there are a number of corking good fighters who I have not seen, able to make the championship grade. Out on the far distant Pacific Coast, there are two corking good little men in Young Jack Thompson, a welterweight and "Baby" Joe Gans, a junior welter, who have raised cain in their respective divisions. Young Jack has been setting the pugilistic woods a fire during the past two years. He's a stiff puncher, game as they come, shifty on his pins and exceptionally clever and fast. He's hung up a great K. O. record and should be in line for a big shot soon. Several times it was reported that he was heading for the east and Tex Richard's New Garden, but as yet he has not arrived. The Baby Gans is something of an in-and outer or perhaps something still worse if there's any truth in the ugly rumors about. Gans trims the tough ones and then gets trimmed by the suckers. He'll run up a consecutive record of wins over formidable rivals and then dog it against a third rater. Another lad of promise is Jimmy Moore, who is now in our midst. This Moore person is a middleweight who has earned the nod over some crackerjack fighters out on the Coast. Moore is a likely looking lad but we'll know more about him after next Tuesday night.* * This article was written before Jimmy met Eddie Tiernan last Tuesday. THE BOXING FIGHTER Frankie Spicer is one of New England's youngsters seeking honors in the prize ring. Frankie has been associated with Chick Suggs for all of five years. He has a creditable record, having won 26 bouts as against four defeats. Page Nine LEARN A PROFESSION Are you capable of making enough money whereby you can soon become financially independent— Are you a "Wage Slave" who works hard making others rich and happy? 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In this great metropolis the majority of housewives (forced by economical conditions or desires for financial independence) spend some part of the day at some kind of business. And it is without exaggeration that many of these women make much more money than their husbands. A particular vocation for women which appears to be most appealing and at which there is more money to be made than any other legitimate business is the profession of advanced beauty culture. Peculiar as it may seem, there has been a new birth of appreciation among both men and women for the scientific results of this great art. Beauty culture today is considered as one of the leading of recognized professions. THE MUSICIAN MME. SARA SP EN CER WASHINGTON, Founder and President of the Apex Company, who will motor here from Atlantic City to attend the graduation exercises of Apex College at Grace Congregational Church, Wednesday Eve., February 1st. The necessity of cultivating beauty is very prevalent. Beauty in all things is, always has been, and always will be admired. And if nature, in the eyes of man, has been unkind to an individual, the beauty culturists have acquired the knowledge to bring forth the hidden charms by means of cultivation, just as a gardener does his plants. Society and business demand that one improve their appearance, hence so many beauty parlors within our midst who are doing such wonderful business. However, there is to be a very interesting free lecture on the "Progress of Women in Business" Wednesday evening, February 1st at Grace Congregational church. 310 West 139th street, at the graduation exercises of the Apex College of advanced beauty culture. The lecture will be given by Mrs. Mollie Givens Langford of Red Bank. N. J. She is a well known public speaker, great church worker and noted for her broad understanding and important participation in politics. There will also be an interesting musical program featuring Madame Marie Varrier Houston, well known soprano. The proprietor of the Lazar Music Shoppe calls our attention to an instructive article in the Detroit Bulletin, a paper published by the Better Business Bureau of Detroit. The article, which is printed below, describes practices which, Mr. Lazar assures us, are by no means limited to the Middle Western metropolis. Certain unscrupulous firms have a way of advertising attractive bargains to draw trade to the store. When the prospective customer attempts to purchase the advertised article he is persuaded to purchase something else. Even if he is hard headed enough to see through the scheme and leaves the store the prospective customer has been put to considerable loss of time and convenience. Incidentally his faith in all advertising has been weakened. The Better Business Bureau calls this practice "bait" advertising. We, in our more cultured manner, call it sucker advertising. Let it alone. Don't bite. By D'ANDRE Don't Bite The proprietor of the Lazar Music Store an instructive article in the Detroit Bullet Better Business Bureau of Detroit. The article describes practices which, Mr. Lazar as limited to the Middle Western metropolis, have a way of advertising attractive bargains. When the prospective customer attempts an article he is persuaded to purchase sometime headed enough to see through the scherzo prospective customer has been put to convenience. Incidentally his faith in all ened. The Better Business Bureau calls the We, in our more cultured manner, call it alone. Don't bite. P. A. STARCK CO. CONVICTED OF "BAITING" In a well-considered opinion which will doubtless be deemed the leading authority on "bait" advertising in the United States, Recorders Court Judge Charles Bowles found the P. A. Starck Piano Company guilty of violating Michigan's state advertising law. in his opinion, dated November 29, 1927, the court imposed a fine of one hundred dollars, the minimum which could be applied under the statute to a corporation. The Starck organization, an Illinois corporation, has long been under surveillance by Better Business Bureaus in a number of the leading cities of the United States, particularly New York, St. Louis, Boston, Providence, Cleveland, Chicago and Detroit. The Company's Practice for Years For a number of years in Detroit, as elsewhere, it has been the practice of the Starck stores to advertise a player piano for sale at sums ranging from $270 to $345. Constant complaints were received that when customers called at the store they were unable to obtain delivery of the advertised player. The evidence presented in the Detroit case showed that Ione Oldham, shopper for the Better Business Bureau, attempted to purchase this piano on September 19, 1927, and was at once offered a contract which she signed. Immediately on signing the contract, as is the alleged practice of this concern, she was told that the advertised piano was undesirable, that the keys were celluloid instead of ivory, that the tubing was rubber, and that it would be necessary to spend much money to keep it in condition. Mrs. Oldham was further told the player was not guaranteed, and was urged to buy a Starck player. The salesman, W. L Ince, referred to the advertised instrument as being "for the nigger trade only," apparently not knowing that Mrs. Oldham was colored. Instructed to return with her hus- We buy or Sell your Furniture Hassett's Auction AUCTIONEERS APPRAISE 207-20 (One door west of Seve Public Auction Sales Even STEPHEN J. HASSETT 'Phone Mornings GORTON RE SERVICE Hours: 7 A. M. to 11 P. M. 201 West 130th Street NEW YORK CITY band, whose signature was also required on the contract, Mrs. Oldham returned with Mr. Oldham on September 21. They were then told that Mrs. Oldham's original contract could not be located. After determined efforts to "switch" the Oldhams had again failed, a second contract was signed jointly by husband and wife, and prompt delivery promised. From that time on, first on one pretext and then on another, delivery was not made, in spite of repeated calls from Mrs. Oldham, and telephone messages left with P. A. Starck store employes. Finally, Mr. T. H. Taylor, manager of the Detroit store, was summoned to the Bureau's office. Immediately on receiving this phone call from the Bureau manager, Taylor phoned Mrs. Oldham he would make delivery. "Baiting Throughout Country Supplementing this testimony of the complaining witnesses was that of a number of others, including T. B. Mullen, who complained of bait advertising with a former manager of the store, who corroborated the people's claim of bait practices being encouraged within the organization; Robert Vaughn, who did likewise, and W. E. Arthur, a former salesman who had retired from the concern's employ only a few weeks before the date set forth in the warrant. Paul Doster, who entered the store on the same date alleged in Mrs. Oldham's complaint, said he paid $25 deposit on the instrument, was unable to obtain delivery, and finally closed the matter by demanding a refund. H. J. Kenner, general manager of the Better Business Bureau of New York City, testified to similar practices prevailing in the New York store of the corporation, and the court received in evidence a bulletin prepared by the New York Bureau containing a complete expose, setting forth the details thereof. Mr. Kenner testified that George L. Danner, representing An intelligent housewife would not wait until she had saved $300.00 before she would take out a $1,000.00 life insurance policy. But she would wait until she had saved $300.00 that she might buy her furniture in a strictly cash furniture store and thereby save a few hundred dollars. P. A. Starck Piano Company, admitted that the company used bait advertising in New York. Gordon E. Smith of the Better Business Bureau of Chicago testified on behalf of the people, proving the authority of Danner to speak for the Starck company. Testimony bearing on transactions other than that alleged in the warrant were admitted by the court as bearing on the guilty intent of the defendant corporation. The advertising copy of the P. A. Starck Piano Company has been unacceptable to Detroit newspapers for about two months as a result of disclosures made by the Bureau. The Detroit Bureau, the National Bureau and affiliated Bureaus elsewhere have been given repeated assurances by the Starck company of its good intentions; but up to the present writing these have seldom been borne out by performance. If advertising copy is again accepted by Detroit newspapers, it is understood that future offenses will result in the permanent loss of that privilege. The case occupied several days in trial. It clearly demonstrates the illegality of "bait" copy; that is, copy which represents an article as being for sale which the advertiser is unwilling to deliver. Judge Condemns Baiting Quoting Judge Bowle's exhaustive opinion: "In the first place, laying aside the testimony of Mrs. Oldham. the number of times this advertisement appeared in the local papers during the past year, which the evidence shows was approximately one hundred insertions at a cost of something over $25,000, considered in connection with the further fact that during the same period only five sales of this merchandise were made, and one of those to a representative of the Better Business Bureau, is very convincing proof that the goods were not actually for sale. "On the other hand, if said advertisements were placed in the papers simply to advertise the name of the defendant company and to get people to come to its store, it could only be at the expense of innumerable persons who would be led to the defendant's place of business under the deception that they could purchase its merchandise as advertised. If this be the purpose of the advertisement, it would be a gross deception and a trespass on the convenience of the public, which the state would be amply justified in prohibiting in the proper exercise of its police power, and would constitute a plain violation of the act in question. The Court, accordingly, finds that the advertising here complained of was false, deceptive, misleading and a plain violation of the law." The Bureau acknowledges with appreciation the painstaking time and effort expended by Duncan C. PHILIP FURNITURE RUGS - L Beautiful Bed-room Suites $75.00 Up ALWAYS TRY TO SA Custom made Living-room Suites: Three piece $65.00 Up Felt and Cotton Mattresses— Springs $4.00 Up 209 West 116th St. An intelligent housewife would not before she would take out a $1,00 she would wait until she had sa her furniture in a strictly cash for a few hundred dollars. Page Eleven McCrea, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, in the preparation and trial of the case. McCrea recently obtained two verdicts of guilty for violation of the advertising law, on facts also furnished by the Better Business Bureau of Detroit. 'Phones Monument 9253 University 6724 Estimates and Samples on Request S. FISHER Interior Decorator Luxurious Upholstered Furni- ture made to order Re-Upholstering, Repairing Slip-Covers, Draperies, Curtains CABINET-MAKING POLISHING 2234 EIGHTH AVENUE 1902 SEVENTH AVENUE New York City Only Store in Harlem Where You can Buy Tailors' and Dress-makers' Trimmings M. RAIBERT TRIMMINGS—NOVELTIES Lamp Shade Making Taught Free on Purchase of Material Fine Hemstitching and Pleating 2647 EIGHTH AVENUE Bet. 141st and 142nd Sts. New York City Telephone Audubon 4560 FRANCIS MULLER Interior Decorating CURTAINS; DRAPERIES; SHADES; CABINET-MAKING POLISHING High Grade Upholstering Long European Experience Reasonable Charges Estimates Cheerfully Given Samples on Request 247 WEST 145th STREET New York City Telephones: Office: Residence: Edgecombe 9254 Edgecombe 6251 The Next Time You Move! Let Your Furniture Be Handled By GEORGE BROWN'S Reliable Moving Express LOCAL and TRIPS MADE LONG DISTANCE DOWN TOWN MOVING and DAILY Boxing Pianos Shipping—Crating 2446 Seventh Ave., N. Y. Res. 295 WEST 150th ST., N. Y. GROSS - BEDDING NOLEUM Philadelphia Section MISS COOLBREEZE OF QUAKERTOWN Philadelphia Section MISS COOLBREEZE OF QUAKERTOWN UST returned from the perfectly "splendorous" automobile show. After spending hours, alibying, signifying, qualifying—for, to, and with cars—I tried to remove my dark anatomy from that door. Having placed an order for a Steam-Knight, Locomobile, Cadillac, Packard, Peirce-Arrow and Ford—I did a Lindbergh. Don't you think that I had to? Page Twelve Philadelphia MISS COOLBREEZE UST returned from the per- bile show. After spendin qualifying—for, to, and with dark anatomy from that do- for a Steam-Knight, Locomo- Arrow and Ford—I did a Lin- I had to? Visited the cozy, comfy Southern Grill, last Saturday night, for a bite to eat. The bite was indeed delicious but right in the midst of it all the clock struck twelve. In walked Mr. Eddy, the law and demanded that the soft melodious voice of Jene Austin be stopped. The orthophonic was shut off. Now, may I ask, what has the law got to do with my interest in the victrola business. It seems so utterly unfair. Herein lies my opportunity to become—like Chico—a very remarkable fellow. I demand an apology. --- Enjoyed the party, Wednesday; so much. Wilma and Susie know just how to do things. The sandwiches struck the spot; the punch passed the spot; the merrymakers danced on the spot. It was quite the spoty thing. Miss Lucas—Miss Hampton—where have you been all our lives? . ** May I congratulate a girl-friend? Miss Edna Hazelwood has been elected vice-president of the Students Association in the New York Training School for Teachers. Knew that you would do it, old girl. Even New York needs the help of Quakerites. You know what I mean? Carry on. * * * May I ask the Peerless boys a question. Why do you charge the men twenty-five cents more than the ladies? Is it that you wish their company and mean to encourage their attendance; or that you think that they are worth less? Never no partiality. * * * Saw The Bab Williams, bright as a dollar, just in from New Haven. To see Eab, reminds me of the good old days—when men were men and ladies were dependent. I love that! * * * They tell me that undertaker George is now living alone. I wonder who was reported. * * * Yes, the Crusaders are to give a revue. The score is being written by its members. Van and Schenck, Eddie Dowling, Sophie Tucker, the Four Harmony Boys, and the Africana stompers will be well represented. A riot is expected. --- Bridge has at last taken possession of the table. Don't know whether the Quaker City fad grew out of the Philadelphia-Camden bridge project or not. I have my thoughts. * * * Was so glad to see the Lincoln boys in town once more. They are such energetic yet contented bunch. Eating, sleeping, with clothes to wear; Good Gawd, they're satisfied! They tell me that "Joe-Joey" left the Layer in an effort to make Lawnside. Why in Jersey? But we won't bring that up. Miss Mary A. White is still in Pittsburgh. Our Sunday nights will never be the same. And how! * * * So, "Mac" has displayed her affection for the last time. Blue skies, blue eyes, blue heaven! Go back where you were last evening, I really "cawn't" use you anymore. What next? \* \* \* Publicity Slim "The Brain Child" of Africana was seen parked for one half hour in front of that certain party's residence. Mind you, "the love meter" ran all the while. I wonder if the cab driver returned those pins. Incidentally, "Meek Mose" opens at the Gibson Theatre, January 30. Do that "thaeng," Publicity Slim! \* \* \* At this time, I beg to introduce the "House of Many Headaches." You must come over! "Linking University Quiff- Quaff" What! No Lincoln men in town this week? Some say they're getting ready for exam-hammers, but have you stopped to consider that it's also getting too cold to catch "hops" on the pike? Well, "p'raps" we shouldn't mention that. Many "chiens" will fail to see the grass grow green, as the mid-years have bengun. Get scared "preps!" Quietly, we wouldn't be surprised if some sophs and upper-classmen also take the "Bored Trek." The "Dark Hole of Calcutta" was never so crammed as are some of the heads on the campus during these mid-year scuffles. * * * "Ma Winkler's breakfast club just won't "deperc." There are: "Turkey-legs" Bill Sinkler, "Chubby" Williams, Kirk, Ed Stratton, "Lank" and Frank et al. Buns and coffee must "hold that line" until dinner time. The Grand Exalted Yaphner and all the little Yayhnites expect to see everyone at the stampede February 3. Palais Royal is the place and the difficulty is six bits minus two jits. So there! "JUPENICK JOE." SANTAL MIDY MILLIONS TESTIFY to the great value of SANTAL MIDY which Safely Relieves IRREGULAR URINATION OF THE AGED Sold by All Druggists Palais Royal Foyer Learning to Walk Quakertown Elite is learning to walk. The dear little cherub took its first steps last night at the Palais Royal Foyer under the careful guidance of a bevy of charming hosts and hostesses. A dog will run for a bone; a cat is never too sleepy to catch a mouse; flies just love molasses; then how could society fail to cease its shambling progress and take its first real steps with such enticing prizes as the Misses Wilma Lucas, Lela Warrick and Marion Turner? Guests began to arrive before the hosts and hostesses could find parking space for their covered wagons. Like the mighty Mississippi, washing, crowding, jostling, hurrying, from all points East, the crowd came in a steady torrent. 10:30—A mighty swell! The tiny latticed door bulged to breaking. The Mississippi flood was no greater a calamity than that tense half hour was to the Foyer registrar. A deep sigh, a lull, and the on-coming crowd. Things began. The mighty Hester, immaculate, yet no more so than his masculine cohorts in the Crusaders, acting as hosts, started the evening with his "glug-glug" act. Harry Burnette's tenor delighted all. It remained for the famous Lincoln quartet to stalk away with the laurel wreath. They say that clothes make the man—never no that!. The man makes the clothes. Many a man has worn a "tux," but not with the same air of nonchalance, cool, calm and collectiveness as our young friends, Jack Ramsey, Dick Reynolds, Jerome Poindexter, Henry Brogden; in fact, the Crusaders brought form, fit, fashion, pure and unadulterated. For perfection itself, Miss Gladys Baxter seemed picturesquely beautiful in pink taffeta. Miss Pinkie Ayres displayed her lovely Irish characteristic in admirable green. The vogue designers was present in the fascinatingly chic Miss Phyllis Taylor. The keeper of the registrar, Miss Gladys Hawkins, displayed her pleasing personality as the rare rose of Chinaland. The Riviera couldn't compare with the Foyer for a colorful crowd. Folks from Baltimore, Washington, Wilmington, New York and all points East could be seen. Who was there? Just a minute, please. Let me get another piece of paper-- You hoo, Miss Coolbreeze, that list please. Right in the get-away. I thank you. Just the highlights please:—Mrs. Warrick, Mrs. Hope, Mrs. Norwood, Dr. and Mrs. Jamison, Misses Elizabeth Stubbs, Edna Loving, Veronnica Durham, Hazel Baxter, Barbara Matheas, Virgil Trent, Dorothy Tabourne. Messrs. "Dick' Nelson, Lindsay Murdah, Roger Freeman, Vallery Florens, De Forest Hawkins, Clarence Hawkins, and the collegiate Doug Murray. HOTEL EL RAE 805 NORTH 13TH STREET Philadelphia, Pa. Five Minutes from Broad Street Station MEALS TO ORDER S. Scott, Prop. J. Mix, Mgr. Phone Popular 5245 (Contributed through the courtesy of the publishers of "Who's Who In Colored America) RAYMOND ALEXANDER PACE Attorney A well known attorney of Philadelphia, was born in that city, Oct. 13, 1927, took his B.S. degree in Economics at the Univ. of Penna. in 1920 and graduated from the Law School of Harvard University in 1923. He married Sadie Tanner Mossell in 1923. She too is an attorney. Mr. Pace is a member of the Law Academy of Philadelphia and the Harvard Club of Philadelphia. His office is located at 1901 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa GARLAND N. ADAMSON Physician Who conducts the column "For Health's sake" in the Birmingham Reporter", was born in Benson, Ala., Sept. 17, 1896. He studied at Talledega College, taking his M.D. degree from Meharry in 1922. He is at present State Vice-President of the National Medical Association. He is a member of the John A. Andrew Clinical Society and the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. His office is 1723 $ \frac{1}{2} $ -20th Street, Ensley, Ala. ROSCOE CONKLING BROWN Dentist Who served in the office of the Surgeon General of the U. S. Army in 1918, was born Oct. 14, 1884. He went to the M. Street School in Washington, D. C., and graduated from the Howard Dental School in 1906. He is in the service of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Durham, N. C. He is a member of the Mu So Lit Club of Washington, D. 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ROBINSON, in Person ANT HELP NQUER NTEED WRITE or CALL FOR WHAT YOU WANT Medical Aid MAN STREET PHIA, PA. --- Concentration is a Master Power over all Conditions and makes Love Affairs Easy Friday, January 27, 1928 Persons and Things I Know The new Arctic Avenue Branch Y. M. C. A. swung open its doors Saturday evening with a big banquet to the Membership Drive Committee and other officials. Official opening and dedication was held Sunday afternoon, conducted by Dr. P. L. Hawkins, chairman of management committee. Opening prayer by Rev. Wm. B. Perry, A. M. Ph.D.; Scripture Reading by Rev. D. Grecian Donawa; Address by Paul M. Cope, president of Pacific Avenue Branch Y. M. C. A.; Chas. B. Boyer, member of Building Committee, presented Keys of the Building, accepted by Dr. P. L. Hawkins; timely remarks by Rev. C. Aken; responsive dedicatory service by Rev. Albert C. Sanders, D.D.; selection by Mrs. Gould's group; Rev. John R. Logan of Philadelphia delivere the Dedicatory Address followed with prayer by A. E. Chamberlain, General Secretary of Atlantic City Y. M. C. A. Other speakers were: Rev. C. C. Corbin, Rev. T. J. Cross, H. L. Reno, Geo. Deetz, H. W. Leeds and Walter J. Buzby. The building is a mcnument to the citizens of Atlantic City, centrally located on the Northside. It is completely equipped with every conceivable paraphernalia for the benefit of its members and much credit is due its Executive Secretary, C. M. Cain, and his associates for their untiring efforts in procuring this beautiful structure. Walter J. Buzby, proprietor of the Dennis Hotel, is said to be one of the sponsors of this wonderful accomplishment. The managing staff consists of C. M. Cain, Executive Secretary, assisted by R. T. Lockett, also Physical Director; F. C. Newton, Secretary of Boys' Work; Sylvester Thomas, Day Clerk; Elwood Davis, Night Clerk; Mrs. Chas. Hamilton, Matron, and James Johnson, Custodian. *** James A. Lightfoot, prominent attorney and counsellor-at-law, is one of the most fearless and clever practitioners of the Bar. In the Court of Equity, he is peer, and for wriggling out of intricate circumstances, he is indeed competent. It is little known, how often he is consulted by associates of the bar, his law citations are accepted so authoritatively. Though serious minded, he is unassuming and a jolly good fellow among friends. They tell me that the counsellor has a great passion for whist playing and is even very good at that. He sports a high powered Kissell Sedan which travels at the same rate of speed as he walks. * * * C. Lewis, better known as "Cash" Lewis ex-leader of the 2nd Ward Republican Club, proprietor of a Tonsorial Parlor, and Filing Clerk at the State Capitol, is a familiar figure around town, especially among politicians of every grade. He is called the "Daddy" of Republican organizations on the Northside and a regular Political Encyclopedia. He relates with ease the boyhood days of County Leader Enoch L. Johnson and other eminent politicians of the State and County. The surname "Cash" was affixed to his name because of his property holdings and neat bundle of "Herbs". * * * Watch for the date of the Tattler's Musicale and Ball in Atlantic City. ** ** W. L Evans, Master Electrician maintains one of the most beautifully arranged show rooms with electrical appliances. It is claimed OPEN ALL YEAR Steam Heat. Room By Day Electric, Baths $1.50 Up European Plan HOTEL DUNBAR A Select Hotel For Colored People 126 N. N. CAROLINA AVE. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Phone 9018 that he is one of the spotless men about town—and his earnest prayer is, "Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil, for I am an honest man, clean and beyond reproach, yet will I continue to portray myself before the whole community as an 'expert live wire man,' with sterling ability to serve." But say I unto thee, that among life's many complexities, thou art one, I cannot comprehend thee, thou art so sly. Now may thou grin. Ernest Jones, self styled "Big Boy" Jones, ex-police officer, is the Official Public Announcer. "Big Boy" operates a vehicular advertising billboard, daily traversing every nook and corner from Inlet to the "Outlet". He can be distinguished for blocks away by his high sounding gong which he delights M Either "Bewilderment" or a Romantic name characterize the weaker sex of Atlantic City. Miss LA ROMANA BRADLY is the embodiment of both. in striking. He is one of the most familiar figures on the island, and is to Atlantic City, what lettuce is to a dish of salad. \* \* \* Thomas C. Giles, postal employee and principal of the Giles Detective Service, claims to be a man with a conscience, but the half has not been told. There is a "Hidden Secret" which has just leaked out, that the boy friend got "hitched up" recently, to a certain young lady of Ocean City. You must have a conscience old top, and I congratulate you both. She has a splendid knowledge or business and an excellent voice which will be very handy to sing other songs besides Nursery Rhymes. You have a wonderful "bargain". *** Remember to watch the Tattler for the date of the Tattler's Musicale and Ball in Atlantic City. * * * Charlie Register has been sick since the madam came to town. All suddenly he flopped in the bed and insisted that the noise on the street annoys him so that he must transfer to upper room at the Liberty. This dude is wise, guess he wants to sidetrack the gang of "Water Lilies" while the "storm and strife" is here. Quick thought old boy, hope you'll soon get well. *** That Pajama Party was too bad old dears. Just imagine, only two men were in the party of a bunch of "daises". The outfit was sensational, especially that $22 Orange Silk Pajama, trimmed with purple and decorated in the back with a large sunflower, bought from a fashionable Boardwalk shop. But Midget, remember that you are not in Harlem and Mrs. H. G. better hide that ramble from the old man, because right in the midst of the real fun a serious accident occurred—when the men fainted as the Victrola played the Black Bottom. It was really a hot time. When my toe hurts I will go where Fred went. It must be nice to have a nurse so near who can sooth the toe so dear. The Doctor ordered Russ to take the sheets, the old boy is sick and it grieves him to send Pop Yancey to make his Pittsburgh calls, for such a bill Pop made, way up in the Dollars. Vie is head nurse at the Shack and hates to admit visitors because one Sheba dared to stroke the brow and kiss the cheek of the "Fire House Sheik". Such conduct, she said, she shall never come back. The den was crowded to its capacity, standing room only. Vie is "forty", but she is tight. Poor Russ. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Smalls of the famous Paradise Cafe in Harlem is at the Seashore on a week end visit. The couple is stopping at the Liberty Apartment Hotel. * * * Watch the Tattler for the date of the Tattler's Musical and Ball in Atlantic City. FREEMAN An Acting Captain in the Fire Department of Atlantic City is a creditable reflection upon the ability of RUSSELL A. ALLEN. Kansas City Society The Bethel Boosters are giving a Leap Year banquet February 2nd. This promises to be a nice affair and faint hearted young men of Kansas City are looking forward to it with a great deal of enthusiasm. One (married) gent has five invitations to "be taken" to the banquet, thus far. Our slogan is "Get your man and your ticket reserved." We are not responsible for anything that happens after February 2, however. \* \* \* Mrs. Ada Smith, charming matron of Omaha. Neb., was a recent visitor in our city and the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Jones, Kansas City, Kans. Mr. Jones, who is a designer, accompanied her here. While here social events were given for them by Dr. and Mrs. William Dyer, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Franklin, Mrs. Bessie Elbon, Mrs. L V. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Payne and others. Dr. W. Hubert Bruce and John Jones went into a ditch while motoring to St. Louis and were shaken up and bruised a bit. Dr. Bruce mistook a clod of dirt which was frozen. for a rock, and attempted to swerve around it. * * * A. Phillip Randolph, distinguished orator of our race, was a visitor in our city and spoke at the Forum Sunday night. * * * Mrs. Rhoda Lair, who before her marriage was Miss Rhoda Coursey, is visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. Elsie Lair Ross. Mrs. Lair hails from Los Angeles. * * * John B. Gainey, well known in this city, suffered a stroke and is still confined to his home. Mr. Gainey is the Government's representative who has been active in bettering the conditions in the postal service for Negroes. ```markdown ``` Atlantic City Society ALYSS MAE HERSHAW. Aren't you wondering what happened to my notes last week? It was just like this: I wrote them as usual and didn't realize I hadn't mailed them until Wednesday night. Now you're wondering, how, why and when I overlooked mailing them, aren't you? That's none of your business. An interesting engagement with an interesting party in an interesting place will cause one to overlook almost anything. Here's hoping, however, that it won't happen again—so "on with the dance"— Here's some good news* The new building of the Arctic Avenue Branch of the Y. M. C. A., located at 1711 Arctic avenue, was formally dedicated Sunday afternoon. This beautiful, well-equipped new building replaces that famous old "Wayside Inn" known and remembered by all visitors to the shore. THE MUSICIAN Although MISS RUTH E. WEST lives in Atlantic City, that is not our reason for holding a grudge against her. Nor is it because she is a school teacher. Emphatically it is not because she is president of the local Phi Delta Kappa Sorority. We harbor our grudge because, while Miss West is a frequent visitor to New York, she does not visit us frequently enough. Many from Atlantic City are planning to take in the Leap Year dance given by Phi Delta Kappa Sorority in Camden this week-end. This same sorority gave a card party at the home of Edythe Jenkins last Saturday. Much interest and enthusiasm is being shown over the coming of Richard B. Harrison, dramatic reader of New York City, to the shore early in February. He is being brought by the Atlantic City Study Center of which Julia Goens is president. Lenore Scott spent a red-hot week-end in New York doing "forty with the brakes on." She says that Bill White's party "didn't stop for the red lights"—and such ravings about "so-and-so" and "so and so" and "so and so" and one very particular "so-and-so." I've never heard in all my life. By the way, Rhetta Braswell is still talking about her recent trip to the big city. The luxuriously appointed Spanish apartment of Emma Sayton has been most accurately visualized to us, to say nothing of other unique experiences she had. Dr. Mordecai Johnson of Howard University spent a few days in the city as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Walker. The Walkers entertained at their home a number of friends in his honor. Mrs. Richard A. Walker motored to Bordentown to see her nephews, Harry and Richard Flipping, who are attending school there. She was accompanied by Ruth West, her niece. * * * * * * \* \* \* * * * \* \* \* \* \* \* City Society Adah Walls and Wilma Lacas "breezed" into town last week in the latter's "to bad" car. Well, the famous Faculty Basketball game will be pulled off in Bordentown Saturday night. We are all going up to see it "done up brown." Some who are looking for still more excitement are planning to spend Sunday in New York. Clara Lane entertained the Les Jolies at the beautiful apartment of Effie Daniels at 812 Arctic avenue. A bang-up time was had by all. Eats were "out there"—gangs of the best chicken salad, olives, pickles, cheese, crackers, cocoa, cake—and your imaginations can supply the "unmentionables." There has been recently formed a Saturday evening card club, composed of Grace Hodges, Effie Daniels, Constance Milby, Carrie Ester, Billy Jones, Mary Puckham, Lenore Scott, Clara Lane and some others whose names I don't recall just now. Before I forget it, let me tell you that Marceline Lewis, one of our little favorites, is driving the "Too Tight" Studebaker of James Ephraim—and I mean alone, too. Now just what does this mean? Laconia Fitzgerald, one of our popular society matrons, has just returned from North Carolina, and she reports a most interesting visit. While telling us of her trip the other night her little daughter, Harriette, was much "put out" because we were ignoring her extended trip to Lawnside, N. J., a distance of only a few yards from here. Naturally she thought her trip quite as important as her mother's. We extend to Dr. J. Hurlong Scott our deepest sympathy over the loss of his little German police dog. * * * Ruth Scott, one of the shore's "school marms," spent the weekend in New York City. The Parent-Teachers' Association met Friday evening at the Indiana Avenue School. The Dairy Council of Philadelphia contributed a health program. The auditorium was packed to overflowing. This was due to the fact that all of the teachers being "broke" spent the week end in town. Mrs. Eva Rogers of Philadelphia, a representative of the Dairy Council, and also well known in social circles in Philly, was the week end house guest of Mrs. Rhetta Braswell. HAVE YOU READ THE UPTOWN NEW YORKER THIS WEEK? With pardonable pride, the Tattler calls the attention of its public to the Uptown New Yorker. This sophisticated gentleman is distinctly metropolitan. The big city atmosphere lives in his column because he is so unquestionably urban. He knows his New York from the Village through the roaring Forties to the Bronx. He knows the South Side of Chicago. He is not unacquainted with the Montmartre or the Latin Quarter of Paris itself. Unlike Mr. Schuyler, he cannot boast that he has finished neither high school nor college; he is a graduate chapter Alpha man, an Elk, a Mason, a Knight of Pythias. Naivete is a beautiful word, but the Night Hawk is anything but naive. --- Page Thirteen * * * ♦ ♦ ♦ * * * * * * * * * \* \* \* * * * * * * * * * Brass Tacks WASHINGTON, D. C. Crying in the Wilderness DUE to an unprecedented the southern dominion Virginia, my acquaintance w misdoings of the mezzo-tint p ital has been sadly neglected entirely surrounded by civi has not been affected by its than that pertaining to the lynchings and the profound Jasper on the shape of the ture of the sun, is strictly o that the eighty-nine and four meat inhabitants of New Ye first crying in Virginia or in south, it behooves me to spe subject. It is a matter of con known stork is unreasonably locality most adjacent to the quaint habit of the stork ad many otherwise nice people delicate observation will save off by some irritable foreign tion. DUE to an unprecedented demand for my presence in the southern dominion known to its inhabitants as Virginia, my acquaintance with the doings, undoings and misdoings of the mezzo-tint population of the Nation's Capital has been sadly neglected. Although Virginia is a land entirely surrounded by civilization, up to this writing, it has not been affected by its environment, and news other than that pertaining to the latest and more fashionable lynchings and the profound views of the late Rev. John Jasper on the shape of the earth and the migratory nature of the sun, is strictly censored. In view of the fact that the eighty-nine and four-tenths per cent of the dark-meat inhabitants of New York and Washington did their first crying in Virginia or in the unchartered regions to the south, it behooves me to speak with great caution on this subject. It is a matter of common knowledge that the well-known stork is unreasonably disposed to drop one in that locality most adjacent to the bed of one's mother. This quaint habit of the stork accounts for the native land of many otherwise nice people. I am hoping that this very delicate observation will save my ears from being chewed off by some irritable foreigner of Virginia or worse extraction. Professor Karamanoff, the eminent Russian scientist who first gained fame by proving that the female dwellers on the Virgin Islands were not as stern and forbidding as the name of their birthplace might imply, and that in fact, many of these ladies are most charming and obliging, is making a study of the Virignian in his native lair. According to this authority there is much hope for the future of this state, as an evidence of which he points to its ham culture. "The Virginia ham," says Professor Karamanoff, "is equal to any in this world. The cultivation of this delicacy has reached its apex in Smithfield County, Va. Aside from Mortimer Harris, the Smithfield ham is the most famous in the world." Professor Karamanoff then takes up some of the peculiar native fetishes. He cites the fact that while the white Virginian does his praying to a cracker God, the dark brother worships a Baptist deity which resembles, in some points, the God of the Christians. "My studies,' says the Professor, "are inclining me to the opinion that in the final analysis a Baptist is a perverted and backward type of a Christian. I could allude to such pious dervishes as the Rev. Jernagin of Washington and the Rev. Powell of New York as hangovers from the religion of Virginia; on the other hand, that would hardly be fair to the religion of these benighted natives which at times rises to a hullabaloo surpassing Fletcher Henderson's orchestra. It has never been my pleasure to meet women more amiable and with such loving ways as those embraced at a Baptist camp meeting. A camp meeting is an aboriginal rite held at that season of the year when the familiar sap is at its highest." Professor Karamanoff then tells of the corn culture of the state. "Tender and loving care is given to the raising of this grain, which, as strange as it may seem, is not turned into meal, but into a powerful white beverage which tends to make the poor natives rich, the sad merry and those with no voices sing. This same beverage causes the married Virginian to kick his who down the stairs. It is said that many years ago the natives and demand for my presence in it known to its inhabitants as with the doings, undoings and population of the Nation's Capitol. Although Virginia is a land division, up to this writing, it is environment, and news other latest and more fashionable views of the late Rev. John earth and the migratory narcensored. In view of the fact per-tenths per cent of the dark-ork and Washington did their unchartered regions to the peak with great caution on this common knowledge that the well-disposed to drop one in that bed of one's mother. This accounts for the native land of it. I am hoping that this very me my ears from being chewed er of Virginia or worse extrac- of this state experimented in wine and produced a sweet liquid known as Virginia Dare. That is not heard of any more, but it is a common sight to see a youthful native laplegging it down the road, or, as they express it in their language, 'corned-up.' I found this beverage delightful." I will close this essay with one more quotation from Professor Karamanoff: "I have observed a queer custom among these people which I have been unable as yet to understand. This rite takes place after the setting of the sun, and is engaged in by loving couples or foursomes. I don't know what takes place at these ceremonies, but speculation is rife. Briefly the custom is this: A man and a woman enter a room and close the door behind them. The man comes out weaker." My People! My People! FOUR white gentlemen, jobless and broke, make a melancholy spectacle. Fallen upon sad days they brood over the bleak tragedy of their existence and are filled with the horror of their predicament. A quartet of smokes down with hard luck are screamingly funny as the best efforts of Johnny Hudgins with overtones of an A. M.E. Bishop. Hard luck, as the knowing admit, is the funniest thing in the world; but the Sambo is the only person with the high gift for turning a bad break into low comedy when the bad break becomes personal enough to ride him. A shine, broke, weary and with his Little Jumbo exposed to the winds of Winter, is a fellow all set to break forth with a very nifty Charleston at a minute's notice. This may prove that coons are crazy. On the other hand it may prove that God is merciful. Many men of many races have hot dog incomes and breast of pheasant tastes. The coon, alone among mortals, can stretch his hot dog income to cover the demand of his hot stuff ambitions. The Negro suicide is simply a bad actor cast in an ill-fitting role. The white suicide is a subject for pity; a black one for ridicule. This attitude even reaches the widow. * * * --- Dear Bill: I was reading in last week's Tattler about social prestige in Brooklyn, hinging on the ability of the elite to trace their lineage back to a bank janitor. In this connection I might mention for the enlightenment of "Hash" that the party of whom he spoke, Mr. Hunton, can do even better than trace his progenitors back to the porter's room of a Brooklyn bank. One of his ancestors, I know for a fact, used to manicure the floor in a Norfolk bank many years ago, for it was this ancestor of his who came over to the bank where one of my great uncles worked to borrow a door one day when there was a terrible wind storm in Norfolk. However, what I wanted to really ask you about is a very serious matter. I want to know is the Tattler going to stand idly by and let the Republican convention go ahead and nominate this Hoover man for President of these United States? As I understand it, eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, although I have bought Liberty for five cents. But what I want to know is, how are we going to have any liberty with a man like Hoover in the White House. If you remember it was Hoover who broke the staff of life during the war. When you asked for bread, you got a rock, not to mention the other articles of food this man tampered with. Years ago when a man was caught putting water in milk, he was sent to jail, but when Hoover put corn meal, peanut hulls, soap and glue in our bread, they honored him. When the Mississippi River broke loose not long ago, they sent this guy out there to superintend the distribution of food, which he did. I understand if you were hungry but dark, you couldn't even get some war bread. I think the Tattler should bring this out before it is too late. If the magazine is not absolutely satisfied with Al Smith, it should get behind a man like Big Bill Thompson, the Mayor of Chicago, who believes in live and let live. All these other Republicans can talk about is a surplus in the treasury which I don't think is necessary. I think the government should be run just like a colored lodge—that is to say, never let a surplus accumulate. Too much surplus is bad. If you don't believe me, ask Louis XV of France. He kept on surplusing and surplusing while the people were calling for bread until some fellow by the name of Goulettine, who said he was a doctor, invented a machine which was eventually used for the purpose of stopping Louis from thinking. Thus be it with all tyrants. If the government does not know how to get rid of the surplus, just leave it out there and we will get it. Whatever you do, don't let the Hoover guy get away. Please pardon me for going off like this, but at times I am really political. Every time I hear of big campaign funds, a lump comes up in my throat. What I want to tell you about however, is Miss DuBois. Miss Yolande DuBois you know, is the daughter of Dr. W. E. B DuBois. Miss DuBois I see by the paper, is engaged to marry one Mr. Countee Cullen, a poet, who does not even seem to have long hair. Mr. DuBois, however, was not always going to marry Mr. Cullen. It appears there was another fellow in the running who attends or attended Howard University. Miss DuBois is an anthropologist—that is to say, a man who investigates the races of man. Of course, you know about him being an anthropologist because he was once hooked up with another anthropologist. Dr. Moens. In fact, Dr. DuBois introduced Dr. Moens into Washington society—that is, he must have done so because he denied it. Anvway, Dr. DuBois investigated this Howard University fellow in Bradstreet and Bradstreet wrote that he did not live on that street but pos- The widow of the o'fay suicide receives sympathy for espousing an unfortunate. The black sister gets critical pity for marrying a fool. --- The Negro chronically experiences two evils. The one is to be jobless. The other is to have to work. --- As dignity and wisdom come on me along with old age and importance, I bend more and more to the opinion that pleasure is an elusive state which comes when no man listeth. A good time will often defy the best laid plans. One sober man or one gal with mistaken delusions about virtue can wet blanket a revel which has aged in the wood for months. Often enough, too, a good time will bubble up when a few hale fellows and a girl or two are gathered unexpectedly around a festive table bearing no more weight than a few sandwiches, coffee, and a bootleggers' pint. Yet I am reliably informed that there are misguided and inexperienced souls who save and pinch to keep their pleasures on tap for holidays and state occasions. Well, it takes all kinds of people to make a world; but the wise ones grapple with their pleasure catch as catch can. The other kind don't count. * * * Blessed are the dark of skin—but not in this world. --- Only Major R. R. Moton is made proud or glad of the fact that he is a Negro. Most of us reap few benefits from that unsolicited act of Providence. However, when my brown Alice and I are drunk enough we rise superior to all races save Irish policemen. Hotel Olga Arrivals YOUR CLUB Should Advertise Its Next Dance Affair In The Interstate Tattler sibly on Beale Street. This made Miss DuBoise give him up, so now she is going to be led to the "halter" by poet Cullen. You know, I always read what "Brass Tacks" has to say. Last week he tells me something about a pretzel going wild for beer and further back he tells me about a kink being sent through Poro College to be straightened. That makes me think of something I heard down here the other day. They have a new preparation in Baltimore that takes charge of the kink before it gets any bad habits. It seems that you rub this preparation on your head and right away it sinks down to the very root of your hair. When it gets down there, it starts out with the little kink before it curls all up. It gives it a heart to heart talk just like a father would do a son. Its conversation goes something like this: "Little Kink, why keep on acting like you do? If you leave from under the scalp like you intend to do without accepting my care and guidance. a time will come when it will be necessary to put you in irons, even hot irons. When you are put in these hot irons, you will come out looking nice, but you will be oh so greasy and when the grease wears off, you will be a kink again. Take my advise and let KOHINOOR start you off." Kohinoor will change the kink into a wave and you can even try on a hat when you go in a millinery store because Kohinoor is not greasy. Speaking of kinks, there was a men's day program at Bethel Church last Sunday but the program had a kink in it. The kink was no less a person than J Finley Wilson, the Grand Exalted Ruler of all the Elks. Finley put on one of his regular stunts. He did not show up. and in spite of the many telegraph stations, did not let any one know why he did not. Of course. I haven't anything to do with it, but I am sure this is a bad way to campaign for his election next August. Bill McCard, a local lawyer, met with a tough proposition the other day when he was appointed by the court to defend a man who had no money. In due time, Bill went over to the jail to see his client. Upon arriving at the college of arts and sciences, he made known his mission to the prisoner, but before Bill arrived some other prisoners had shown Bill's man that a lawver appointed by the Court to defend you could only get you more time. They, also, Attorney George Pendleton who once had a four minute talk with Justice Holmes of the United States Supreme Court on behalf of a client of his and Reese Whitemore, had followed the jail wagon into the calaboose and given the prisoner one of his cards. When Bill accosted the party behind the bars, the prisoner told him he had been interviewed by Counsellor Pendleton and asked Bill if he knew him. Bill is alleged to have replied he never heard of him. The prisoner then made it known that he did not see why he didn't know him when his card had the same address on it that Pendleton's had and furthermore he understood the building was owned and operated by colored lawvers in which case it could not be very large. Not getting any satisfaction, Bill beat it, only to be followed by the persistent Pendleton who came back again to see if the man had gotten in touch with any bucks. On being told by the prisoner that Bill had denied any knowledge of him. Counsellor Pendleton took the case for nothing and thereby knocked Bill out of his hundred dollar fee. Don't these Baltimore lawvers love each other? I might mention just here that the consideration from the Judge was eight years. To me it looks like a case of six in one hand and a half dozen in the other. THE INTER-STATE TATTLER Bye Bye. 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Surles RQ MASTER LOCKSMITH ¥ ( In all its branches 2196 SEVENTH AVE. om | New York i Telephone: Edge. 8516 Under the Palms at Palm Beach Mr. J. S. McClane’s: Big Special left New York January 13 for Palm Beach to open the doors of the Royal Ponciana Hotel for the win. ter. Mr. McClane has carefully se- lected his crew and is looking for- ward to a prosperous season. The staff is practically the same as last year. The trip was one of pleasure for his fellow workers. Comfort- able quarters are provided for all. And, too, a hcspital is added for their convenience. For amusements an _ excellent baseball club has been organized as follows: Catchers—John Cason, Berlin White, and Fluornoy; Pitch- ers—Smoky Joe Williams, Red Ryan, Luther Farrell, Rube Cham- bers, and Lefty Williams; Infield— ers—Jasper Washington, O. Rig- ins, Moe Harris, Chance Cummings, Cc. Thomas, C. Owens, Edward Pry- or, Mike Brown, Bobby Williams; Outfielders—Jule Thomas, Charlie Jones, Adams, J. Vaughan. A won- derful group of all star players composes this team and the Tattler will carry news of their activities during the season ~_ * ® . Lubby Lynn, leader of the Cake Walkers, has a red hot review for the coming season with Tillie Cott- man. formerly of Rang Tang; Ellen Brown, a nifty little dancer from New York; Tessa Crowdy of Stepa- long Review; Rosie Howard, the Atlantic City nightingale; Mary Wilson, well known for her Russian dancing; Erskin Writson, late of Follow Me Company; Joe Miller, Charleston boy; H. Heulan, Roy Tolson, and Lorenze Davis, better known as Happy. To mention these will just hold your imagina- tion as to what it will look like un- der the palms when all these things start. + * We also have with us Mrs. Bertie Champion, our most capable house- keeper, who deserves much praise for the creditable manner in which she handles the quarters. And such a kind, attentive and willing nurse we have, Mrs. Bessie Jordan. ee 8 Also with us is Billy E. Jones, tenor, featuring Blue Heaven and Broken-Hearted. se : An interesting event of the social season is the third annual Lincoln’s Birthday Ball given by the Royal Poinciana Cocoanut Grove Boys, under the direction of Count La Forte, to be given Monday evening. February 13, at St. Patrick’s Par- sh Hall, Sapodilla Avenue and Tourth Street. * e # Tattlers will be on sale at the Poinciana’s Hotel Quarters Barber Shop. CHARLIE WHITE. Miami, Fla. New faces, exchanging of greet- ings, social registers booked to ca- pacity, ladies displaying their freakish frocks, “Butter and Egg” men giving freakish parties, caba- rets aglow with gayety, scandal] starting anew——. Don’t you know what it is all about. Folks, the season is on. Here is hoping the new arrivals as well as the old ones a pleasant time. The Royal Palm crew is down with us again. Smil- ipg Rose is back and we wish her much joy. Harrison and Tate seem to be undecided as to which shall Have the pleasure of going with ‘'Nephi.” Mr. and Mrs. R. Q. Beams, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Smith, Mr. and Mrs. James Merriwether. and Mr. James Murret motored down to enjoy our hcspitality and sunshine. Little Jimmie, watch your step. Dave Reid continues to be the sweet man as well as “Wholesale Butter and Egg Man.” * ¢ & Now let us say that Bernard will be more careful about greeting ladies so jam-up or something rash will come about. We don’t know what that will be though. ._ + * Julia’ W., see the Tattler man quick or else he will let go some scandal. Wow! -_ 8 * “Peaches,” the sheik taxicab driver, seemingly has settled down. Well, Peaches, old boy, they do it in the best of families. Davis, in the future watch your step. Tur- key Brest, see Dave Reid, Wiley Jackson, Doug. Brown and Peaches. -_ * * Oh, James Murray, you certainly did settle down. Now tell us more about these certain parties on the beach. Durham Society EEE The Schubert Shakespearean Club met Thursday afternoon with Miss Fortune at the residence of Mrs. W. C. Pearson with President Jas. T. Taylor presiding. During the month of January the Club has been studying Negro Life. Thurs- day the meeting was unusually in- teresting. Prof. Arthur G. Davis, head of the English Department at the North Carolina College, dis- cussed Negro Poets and their poetry. Prof. Davis read several selections from Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and commented on the lines of each of these writers. se A violin solo—Nobody Knows De Trouble I’ve Seen—arranged by Dett was rendered by Mrs. Lillian Buchanan. Those present at the meeting were: Prof. and Mrs. I. H. Buchanan, Misses K. Champney, E. Haltzlaw, A. Fortune, Mesdames Martha Donnell, W. G. Pearson, Prof. Jas, T. Taylor, Wm. Allen and A. Davis. zs. + * The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity had their monthly meeting with a Social Dinner at the Tavern Tues- day evening, January 24th. .- fc # Off and away again is Mrs. Nell Hunter—song bird of Durham—on a two months’ concert tour. She will cover points in North Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois and Argansas. She is expected back in this city some time during the month of March. see Mr. Thad Tate and his son Thad Tate, Jr. were in the city this week visiting their son and bro- ther, Mr. Wm. B. Tate. The Tates all come from Charlotte, N. C. ee We hear that wedding bells will be ringing soon for Mr. Wm. B. Wonder who will be the next Leap Year Bird. This is the year to catch them girls. ss 8 Mrs. Sadie Sumner Ingram is wearing a “too bad’ mink coat while she is in Durham. She just told us that she had just visited her sister, Minnie, in New York pefore coming to Durham. Now we have been wondering whether Minnie needs her coat or whether it is really Sadies’ eee Coach Martin with his basket ball team from Petersburg was in the city Saturday, January 21st, to battle with the N. Carolina Col lege team. Too bad the N. C. Col- lege team is loosing both at home znd abroad. The score was some- thing like 9 and 20 favoring the visiting team. *. 2 @ This team from Petersburg’ to- sether with Mrs. V. Stokes of Bal- imore were visitors at the North ‘arolina Mutual Forum on Satur lay morning. The program was nteresting and enjoyable. There yas a paper by J. W. Jones, read- ng by F. C. Gilmer, short address y Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, extracts on insurance by B. A. Wilson. The President, C. C. 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