Washington Tribune

MeetHer Majesty-Milady of the Chorus WHEN the curtain rises upon a musical comedy, be it one of those gorgeous things that command ticket scalpers' prices for the opening, or one of the tabloid miniatures with which those of more moderate incomes are more familiar, there are those captious critics who note every defect in the machinery of presentation. W. B. Ziff Co., 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Foreign Advertising Representatives Meet Her WHEN the curtain rises comedy, be it one of the that command ticket s the opening, or one of the table which those of more moderate familiar, there are those captive every defect in the machinery of Lydia Bourke, a choreine in "Blackbirds of 1928," rated as the most successful Negro musical comedy of the season. The well - drilled perform a n c e of the "Blackbirds" chorus indicated many weeks o f gruelling work and nervous strain. But this photo shows Miss Bourke has managed to retain her beauty. There are also those who wonder just how it all came about, and still others who take the show for granted as always having been just like the sun that shines daily. To the wondering one, that person who has curiosity enough to want to know how the show came into being, a visit to a rehearsal would not be without its compensations. The opening night of a musical comedy production marks the culmination of many weeks of gruelling work and nervous strain for all—the business organization of the company, the cast, and most of all the pretty little choristers whose svelt figures and graceful dances give essence and character to the show. It is the diminutive bit of femininity known as the milady chorus girl, upon whom the burden of grief that is called a rehearsal rests most heavily. For many weeks these chorus girls have struggled against the human instinct to err in order to become personified precision in the dance steps, drills, marches, entrances, and exits, through which they must go in future performances. Behold the chorister for just what she is, without the traditional idea that she is but a sublimated gold digger. Nothing could be more wrong than this popular conception of the majority of the girls who trip the merry, merry toe to the daily entertainment of tired business men, and many others not nearly so imbued with business, nor so tired as they might be. The girls are tired enough to make up for all on an opening night (for have they not walked, run, danced and ambled through nerve wrecking numbers until every bone in their supple bodies ached?). Washington Tribune A tabloid show has from four to ten numbers. The larger productions—those of standard two hour and twenty minute duration—include between sixteen and twenty-two songs and medleys with at least two lengthy finales to acts. Each of these requires a routine of dance steps that runs from half a dozen different cross-leg movements to as many as fifty different dance steps. To the well-seasoned chorister working under a dance director with experience, many of these steps are simple; but only so because the girls' stage-practice, and previous seasons of hard work have riveted the routine of many dances upon their minds, and habit has bestowed a name upon these steps as a sort of a convenient handle by which one might grasp them. However, the cry of the theatre patrons for something new compels the dance instructor to devise a new and different arrangement of dance steps for his every new production; and it is the chorister upon whom the burden of accomplishing these rests. The director having passed the critical first nighter's judgment, may find himself with a bonus for his work in thinking up those harrowing movements, but the poor girls who have executed them so faithfully as to create that happy judgment, keep right on doing it while the show lasts and drawing the same salary as that with which the show started. It is the girl who pays—this time in energy. In response to the "call" published in trade papers or following up the tip passed by word of mouth around the district where show folks live, move and have their being when "at liberty" the The success of every performance depends upon her ability to stand the gaff of many torturing hours of prancing before the footlights—and for her faithfulness she generally gets the shortest end of the box office receipts—and sometimes not even that. James A. Jackson, the writer of this story, now a business sp. specialist in the United States Department of Commerce, where he has charge of the Small Business Unit of the Domestic Commerce Division, is known throughout the country and to much of the world as "Billboard Jackson." This sobriquet was acquired because of his connection as an editor on the staff of the Billboard, the theatrical organ, where for six years he functioned as the mouthpiece of the Negro in the entertainment world. This was not his only connection with theatricals. His father was a basso with the first commercial troupe of jubilee singles organized; Mr. Jackson has been secretary to several of the great theatrical producers, including the corporation that launched the first travelling company, the late Al. G. Fields, Jules Hurtig and Ernest Hogan when Hogan and McClain were names to conjure with in theatricals. Albert Jackson, Jr., third of the line, is today a Keith circuit comedian and stage manager of a flash act. Mr. Jackson writes with authority born of genuine interest and intimate knowledge of the traditions and history of amusements. This is one of a series of stories from the pen of the man who has enjoyed a half century of the most diversified experiences, a great number of which involved travel. paper carrying the chorus words of an opening number are passed out and the vocal director, a pianist, plays the first piece. The director, if he is a young man, executes what he regards as a proper routine of steps for the number. If age has endowed him with too much surplus fat for that activity, or if rheumatism or some such similar alliment is his master, a girl is given an intensive period of instruction in the number and she becomes the model for the others. THE DANCE TEAM The famous "Blackbirds" chorus, probably the highest paid group of Negro chorines within recent years. Their success has been due to long and strenuous hours of rehearsing. girls begin trooping to the home office or office of the producer or director. Those holding promise, according to the judgment of that worthy, are instructed to report to a designated hall or empty theatre on a specified day. On that day, with little preliminary explanation, all present are placed in line, slips of Floyd G. Snelson, Jr., former editor of the Tattler and a widely known news paper man who has always given the chorus girl a "break" in the columns of his publication n s. He is now editor of the Apex News. words of an opening number and director, a pianist, plays the a young man, executes what name of steps for the number. With too much surplus fat for ism or some such similar alli- s given an intensive period of and she becomes the model for (Continued on page eight) Billie Rickmon, the New York stage beauty, formerly of "Keep Shufflin." 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Do this for as ei bate twenty times, pressing firmly careful not to bruise the ficsh. If you use this treatment for only a few days you will be surprised and ar. at the rate your second chin is leaving you. If you want to hurry the process though, here is something else you ee After you have given your little visitor its steam bath, and mas- ar you can do one other thing that es dissolve the fatty tissue that: up this double chin. Here is the way to do it: yourcan, if possible touch the body as can; if possible with the chin. Ther from this for- ward position of the head, lean sar head as far backward as you possibly can, Just at firs; you may have to do this little trick rather. slowly but in a short time you can do it rapidly, and itis true that a rapid swinging of the head, following the massaginz T have already explained, wi"! do won- a helping you have only one Remember this: I am always eager to help you. 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(Continued from last week) AFTER King Prempeh's surrender the invaders broke into his palace in search of loot. All they found of value was about $10,000 in gold. His celebrated dinner service of Dutch silver was gone. So were his golden hat and his golden chair of state; also the golden sword, Mponponsu, on which the chiefs swore allegiance, and the Golden Stool. This, above all, was what they sought. For, the Golden Stool was not only the emblem, par excellence, of the Kings of Ashanti, but it was the symbol of Ashanti power. No matter what happened, the Ashantis felt secure so long as they had it. This was why the Ashantis had yielded. They did not wish to take the sacred stool into a war which they felt sure they would lose. Cleverly Carved. The Golden Stool was a masterpiece of African art that art which is the fertilizing force of European art today. It was carved out of teak, and overlaid with gold; and the African goldsmiths, who are among the cleverest artists in the world, had lavished their choicest skill on it. It had been made three centuries before, and its beautification had gone on with the years. Almost every monarch since Osei Tutu had added some gem or bit of ornament, until its crude value stood at millions of dollars. Its most sinister bit of decoration were two casts of the head of King Adinkera of the Fantis. King Adinkera, hearing of the Golden Stool, had had one made like it; whereupon, Bonsu, king of the Ashantis, made war on him, and capturing him, cut off his head. Melting down the imitation stool, he made the death-masks, which he hung, one on either side of the Golden Stool. So sacred was the Golden Stool held that even the king, himself, could not sit on it. At certain ceremonials, when its power was to be invoked, the king would make pretense of sitting on it three times, after which he would sit on the chair of state, resting his arm only on the Golden Stool. Stool a Sacred Emblem. All of which seems a lot of fuss to make over what we civilized folk will call a fetish. But the Golden Stool was to the Ashantis what the Stars and Stripes is to the American or the Union Jack to an Englishman. Just as the President of the United States would not think of sitting purposely on the American flag, so the Ashanti king held his stool sacrosanct. One hundred and eightye years before the Ameri- can flag was made, the Ashantis had been using the Golden Stool as their symbol. Some years ago when the Princess Mary was to be married, the queen-mothers of Ashanti sent her a silver stool as a present. The senior queen-mother in giving over the stool to Lady Guggisberg, wife of the governor, said: "This stool does not contain our soul as the Golden Stool does, but it contains all the love of the queen-mothers." In short, the Golden Stool was to the Ashantis what the Ark of the Covenant was to the ancient Jews. It was their soul, their rallying point, and they felt that their God, or gods, would be with them as long as they had it. It will be understood, therefore why the British were so anxious to get it, but search as they would it could not be found. On their coming it had been hid in the bush with the rest of the royal treasure. Hiding Plac2 Discovered Four years passed and in spite of all rewards and attempted bribery, it lay hid. During these years, all seemed quiet in Ashanti. Not even the battles being fought by Samory, Black Napoleon of the Soudan, against the French, near by, seemed to disturb the tranquillity. Then, one day, news came that the hiding place of the Golden Stool had been discovered. A lame boy named Esumi had come to Accra and offered to point out the spot to Governor Sir Frederick Hodgson. The governor sent an armed expedition after it, but when the boy neared the supposed place, he was so paralyzed with fear that they were forced to return without it. The governor thereupon decided to go to Coomassie in the hope of prevailing upon the Ashantis to turn it over to him. Arriving there with Lady Hodgson and his staff, he a embled the chiefs and exhorted them to be loyal, promising them British friendship and protection. But perhaps no peace talk in history ever had such opposite effect; for, in the course of his speech the governor had said: "What must I do to the man, who ever he is, who has failed to give to the Queen, who is the paramount power in this country, the Golden Stoil to which she is entitled? "Where is the Golden Stool? Why am I not sitting on the Golden Stool at this moment? I am representative of the paramount power, why have you not relegated to me this chair? Why did you not take the opportunity of my coming to Coomassie to bring the Golden Stool and give it to me to sit on?" The "Voodoo Woman" Speaks Mrs. A. C. Harris Bilbrew, versatile actress, who played the part of the "voodoo" woman in "Hearts in Dixie." ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION eh and The some of which the rebels had fired Sir Frederick's words fell on a ghastly silence. The Ashantis could hardly believe their own ears. To give this hated invader their most sacred emblem to sit on—this symbol of all their past glory—this sacred object which contained the spirits of their dead kings from Osei Tutu to Kwaka Dua II! Verily, it was the crowning insult. That same night the chiefs met in The "Voodoo the tent of Opuku and drank fetish that they would submit no longer to British rule. Later Governor Hodgson declared that he had never asked for the Golden Stool to sit on, but the newspaper correspondents said that he did. In any event that was how his speech had been translated. The Ashantis Rebel A few days later, the Ashantis rose in rebellion, and Governor Hodgson. his wife, and the other Europeans found themselves besieged in Coomassie. Surrounding the fort, tens of thousands of Ashanti warriors chanted: "The governor came to Coomassie on a peace palaver. He demanded money from us and sent white men to bring him the Golden Stool; Continued on page four n" Speaks By Ruby Berkeley Goodwin CAN A WOMAN combine marriage and a career? It is generally assumed that she cannot, and for that reason many men marry professional women with the understanding that the wife will give up, or at least subordinate, her interests to those of her husband. Mrs. A. C. Harris Bilbrew is the daughter of the late Rev. S. L. Harris, formerly of Texas, but for the past nineteen years she has been a resident of Los Angeles. "Hearts in Dixie" is a distinct triumph for Mrs. Bilbrew, both as an actor and musical director. Appearing for the first time upon the screen, her role was the very exacting one of the Voodoo Woman. Critics say that she gave a superb interpretation of the part. The Bilbrew chorus of sixty trained voices which furnished the spirituals and folk songs throughout the production are proof of her ability as (Continued on page four) Do You Want Some EXTRA MONEY? Look Over Our Classified Ads On Page 10 The “Voodoo Woman” ~~: Speaks . - i (Gontinsed: from” page*“three) an. able’ director ~ 9 2.0. 2 “ "You see,” she ‘explained in“ her soft low eontralto ‘voice ‘after. prelim- inaries. were’-ever, “‘I:- didn’t.expect 6 take 4-role in. the picture: -E was there mérély to hélp“airect: my chor- us. It: was ‘a heavy-role and I.didn't feel equal to it for-it had’ been writ- ten for Madamé. Sul-Te-Wan, »who, before the ‘present influx of eastern neters, was considered -our. greatest setor. Then. there were ‘two -white artists, €ach quite: a_ famous” person, who made-up and tried cut for the pes but ‘none of. them were satis- ry. ee eee ee Nena BE ee ae | Beeb igo wsietae (ce Bee atclieites ele “Following an operation } was nervous, underweight, had no ap- petite and could not sleep, After tak- ing three bottles of Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound, | have gained twenty pounds and am in good spirits now. 1 am telling my friends about your medicine and I will be glad to write to any woman who is interested in Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound.”—Mrs. Henrietta Robeiro, 55 N. Pleasant St., Taunton, Massachusetts, by i“ bi | Ae areata IP TH AFC HUI Loslia E. Pinkhany Meds Ca., Lynn. 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Dae see e “““T was censured eevee for, play- ing. that part by-somé’ of the mem- bers. of our ‘group, -yet I ‘can't see .WHy “A Vobdoo womari was as much @ part ofthe. 1870 period group pic- ture as the old-fashioned ‘dress. and the Nellie Bly.. Our-race has a way of-shying at truth. We will never overcome. faulis that way. And ai- -ter.-all, the: Voodoo" woman is not confined to 1870: In many ef our communities the Veodco ‘woman is still known. It is true ‘that the number of people “who kiow and fear her is-smaller, but she /:. with us. today.. Even in this modern and up-to-date: Hollywood, it is, reported that there are“ Voodoo: eults, “The falkies have . revolutionized the’ movie industry. In silent drama the two essentials were’ beauty of ted and form, but brains are neces- sary for Movietoné work. .There ‘can be no coaching “or prompting from the director. Not.a sound can be uttered. unless it is essential to the play. The cost of picture pro- duction had always been enormous, but the talkies have increased the cost four-fold. The slightest mis- hap will cost thousands of dollars. “I see a very definite place in the movie world for our people. That is, if we will prepare ourselves and be ready for our big chance when it arrives. We have made a substan- tial entrance into the world of Movietone but how will we. follow up? “We have been. too prone to blame the cther fellow for our failures, but this is a day of a new psychology which ‘every Negro should adopt and hold fast ‘to, the psychology that. ‘No one can hurt us but ourselves.’ We have been over-critical of the other fellow and not critical enough of ourselves, “We have been taught by our lead- ers, to a large extent, that ours was a race nearly perfect, held back only because of our dark skins. But now the slogan of the world is efficiency. And in the future that is the thing that is going to count. It is time for young Negroes to stop bemoan- ing the fact that they are hindered by color and begin to become efficient along some line of efideavor. Not just get a smattering of knowledge, but secufe a thorough knowledge of whatever they hope to master.” Aside from her chorus work, Mrs. Bilbrew is equally as famous for her Ladies Minstrel which is a yearly affair on the coast; and her much known Bilbrew Quartette. This quar- tette has a two-year contract on the Orpheum Circuit. They were put on the regular bill for their tryout and they stopped the show. This quar- tette broadcasts over KNX and was the first and original ‘“Do-Nut” company. Mrs. Bilbrew’s oldest daughter, Mrs. Robert V. Edwards, is an emi- nent pianist. Her two smaller daughters, who are twins, are under a five-year contract: at Grauman’s Hollywood Egyptian Theatre. They scored their biggest hit when they did the prologue ‘with the Duncan Sisters in “Topsy and Eva.” They are only five years old but they show a ean fae above that of the average cl of that age. Mrs, Bilbrew is also a poet in no small degree. Some of her best known poems are, “Call to Arms,” “Volunteers,” “Black Boys in Khaki, We're Mighty Proud of You,”, “Pun- ishment of Love,” and “Eulogy to My Father.” As a writer of songs, one of her best. compositions is, “Tribute to Ro- land Hayes.” As a tribute to her chorus, music teachers and directors from the fa- mous Winn-Kearney studies and the Hollywood, conservatory of music urged their students to attend “Hearts in Dixie” to note the har- mony, Moviefone caught and brought to the hearers. Mrs. Bilbrew is a. dark brown- skinned woman of medium size and height, yet she has a way about her that makes you want to use the word “eute” to describe her. She possesses @ very charming manner and a Pleasing personality. She is a charm- ing hostess, a devoted mother, an affectionate wife. an able directress. KING PREMPEH AND THE © *- GOLDEN STOOL. ~ ° 1090 * Si fetes >| (boda 3 SS8 caer oS EE Gena Gee ae ec vs oH & as a & 30°28 3S HT PLZ nye 4 4 = PS Ci # #9 se H G Tablets < 83h : [toe Tae ae H DOSE: ter A Ry —— awe parorese HA — 3 NR ompany ay 7 aL rete ie Ya N z BAS 4 2 Nf li7Hudson” Zz yea SSH N 2S N N aioe \\y (es Rea \ R 1A a FE 2p Today, many people who once endured pains SS and aches have learned how to end them. They do it easily, just by the simple use of Bayer Aspirin. It acts so quickly; there’s teal relief from the time you take these tablets. Your own doctor will tell you they are safe to use freely; nothing in Bayer Aspirin could hurt anyone. Try, Bayer Aspirin when headache, neuritis, neuralgia, rheumatism or even lumbago; is filling your day with agony. ‘All sorts of deep-down pains give up before this tested remedy. Just one thing to watch. Be sure to get Bayer Aspirin! 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Captain Armitage, one of the besieged, de- scribes the scene as follows: The White Army Caged “The scene which was presented from the verandah of the Residency that. night beggar’s description, ‘The blazing houses in the cantonment and the Fanti ani Cape Coast lines, some of which the rebels had fired, cast a lurid light on the surging mass of humanity - clustering around th > fort. walls from. which-. arose © th2 wailing of women and the pitiful ‘ery- ing of little children, who wept with their mothers. out-of sympathy with- out knowing the danger realized by their elders. “Behind all, towered the :black wall 0: the forest which surrounds Coom- assie, from which were borne the tri- umphant shouts of the’ rebels, who had at last caged the white. man within the narrow. limits~cf the fort. It was a night never to be forgotten.” , Strange Ashanti Messages ‘ Governor Hodgson tried to get. a message through to Accra but it was Weeks before he succeeded: The first week in May, he sent to say that he could hold out but eight or ten days longer. On May 31, relief had: not ecme and provisions had been re- duced to their. lowest. Kobina Cheri, who commanded the Ashantis, demanded the _ return. of King Prempeh, and the abolishment of forced labor as the price of peace. In the meantimé, the Ashanti war- riors would beat out messages on their Septmeber 21,1929 Se ‘drums from camp to camp. } First Camp: Do-yov hear the buf- falo moving in the forest? x Second Camp: We hear him. | First Camp: We are like the buffae (Continued on’ page eleven) Sunnie GRAPEFRUIT > PRESER VF ~ . 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September 21, 1929 member of the family will be embarrassed because he or she does not know exactly what to do with some utensil, dish or cloth that is placed before him. From 18 to 20 inches of space at the table should be allowed for each guest. The number of forks needed for the meal should be placed at the left, in the order of use from left to right. The spoons and knives go to the right—in the order of use from right to left. THEY LEG Ardelle Meadows (right) right in New York. They are popular vious reasons for the rush to the RT WILLIAMS No. THE WORK His necessary humorous trend of thought led him to undertake the writing of a serio-comic hand book on anthropology, which he might one day have published, had he lived. His necessary humorous trend of thought led him to undertake the writing of a serio-comic hand book on anthropology, which he might one day have published, had he lived. 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Some ne especially high-priced shows as much as $70.00 for exceminal talent, but the requirements exacting and such openings are The majority of them draw dollars each Monday, if the st walks" at all. Costumes are lied, transportation is paid, and is all they have provided, except privilege of being called for adal rehearsals every time a newber is added to the cast or choir when the producer may define to change an old song for different one in any spot in the is routine of hard work is per- the greatest refutation of the stories one so often hears con- ting the ladies of the ensemble. one who cared for the easy road "gold digging" connotes would as hard as these little ladies do the neagre reward that comes to. They are first real devotees the art of terpsichore; and what ore prosaic, they are honest-to- ness working people. don't misjudge the chorister. She bit worldly wise. 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M back if you are not pleased, MY LOVE TANGLE This Week's True Story It Does Pay to Be Honest With Yourself and Your Race. It May Mean Giving Up Riches. In the End You Will Be Happy. Read the Episode in This Girl's Life. September 21, 1929 MY It Does Pay to Be Honest We It May Mean Giving Up Will Be Happy. Re This Girl WE ONLY LEARN FROM our own experiences or from the experiences of others. I suppose there are many girls facing and feeling the need of sound advice to save them from disaster. It is for the purpose of helping such girls that I am writing my story. Bear with me, then, and do not judge me too harshly. Eighteen years ago I was born in little town some miles below Atlanta, Georgia. I never saw my father and whenever I spoke of him to my mother she always turned away with tears in her eyes. Mother was right brown while I am lighter than he was. Up until two years ago I lived at home, attended school and kept house while Mother worked as a seamstress or several white families. When I graduated from the little clored "college" in our town, I saw that there was no future in the place or me, so I began to think about going up North. Mother strenuously objected. She knew nothing of our ace's progress up North. "I've been here for forty years," she said, "and I've managed to do pretty well. Iave bought and paid for this home and have a little money in the bank.oor people can't expect much more pan that." But I hated poverty. I hated the very idea of drudging out my life ewiring or cooking or washing for some white family of the town who would perhaps despise me because was so light and yet forced to do such menial work. I swore secretly that I would leave at the first opportunity. I knew mother would never live her consent to my going. She was conservative, satisfied with things they were, resigned to her small own life, with its dull, drab, uninterrupted monotony. Luck is With Me Fortune fell in with my plans in a most miraculous manner. An actress, Miss DeLanze, who was visiting relatives in our town advertised for a plored maid to travel with her, to take the place of her former one who had fallen in love with a young man and married him. Along with several other of the town girls, I applied for the job. Miss DeLanze looked us over carefully. She was tall, slender, supple, aristocratic, precise, immaculate, beautiful. She was just the type of great lady I wanted to be. "But certainly you're not colored, re you?" Miss DeLanze asked, looking at me. "Why you're quite as white as I am!" She seemed very puzzled, assured her that I was a Negro. "If you want a maid who can also o a little secretarial work, Miss DeLanze," I suggested, remembering the course in stenography I had taken, I think I'm the girl for you." "Is that so?" she exclaimed, looking at me with renewed interest. Well, I rather think you'll fill the ill then." She dismissed the other girls and employed me. I was overjoyed. Now I would have a chance to see the great wide world that I had longed to see. Now I would see the sights of Chicago, San Francisco, New York and maybe Paris! But mother stormed and refused at first to let me go despite all of my pleading. It was Harold that turned the tide in my favor. Harold was my ceau; a tall, handsome, curly headed brown boy about nineteen years old whom I had known all of my life. He had always been crazy about me, worshipped me, had tried his best to please me and win my favor, but I had given him scant encouragement. He was not the sort of man I wanted to marry. He was satisfied with the old home town. I was ambitious and wanted to get higher in the world than just being the wife of an insurance agent. So, Harold helped win mother over and I was grateful to him for it. When I was about to go he begged he for a kiss—it was his first one—and I didn't have the heart to reuse him. I thought I would never see him again and in a wav I was little glad of it. I didn't consider im my type at all, no matter what he other girls in town thought about is desirability. Traveling Around Miss DeLanze and I got along pendidly. She said I was the best maid she had ever had and I was elighted with my very light maid uties and secretarial work. She ave me beautiful dresses and towns that she had only worn a half dozen times. They made me look one hundred per cent better. For sixteen weeks we traveled from city to city. We always had a suite "When I was about to go, he begged me for a kiss—it was his first one—and, I didn't have the heart to refuse him." in the finest hotel in town and rich and distinguished visitors to our apartments were very frequent. By watching these people I learned much about grace and good manners. Then we arrived in New York City. The great Manhattan! The towered metropolis I had dreamed of often in my little Southern home. Unfortunately this was the end of the tour, I learned. Miss DeLanze was going to Europe and would need me no longer. She paid me off, adding a large bonus and gave me almost a trunkful of fine clothes. I was supremely happy and excited. In New York with over a trunkful of fine clothes and a hundred dollars in cash. Sixteen beautiful and alone, but without a job. "When I was about to go, he begged one—and, I didn't have In New York with its bright lights, its gaiety, its crowds, its theatres, its museums and parks! For eight dollars a week I got a room not many blocks from Broadway, and proceeded to see the town. I was taken everywhere for a white girl and I didn't take the trouble to disillusion anyone. Why should I have done so? It was good for the first time in one's life to be able to experiment as a white person. But what finally caused me to decide to become white was the news from Harold that mother had died the week before. He had taken charge of everything for me: attended to the burial, settled the estate and sold the cottage for a thousand dollars. Good old Harold! Enter Roger Devereaux After a month or so when I had gotten over my sorrow, I endowed to get a position. Money goes fast in New York and mine was no exception. With the aid of the recommendation from Miss DeLaue, I succeeded in getting just the sort of position I wanted—private secretary to a broker in the mid-town section. The salary was thirty dollars a week. Needless to say, I was overjoyed. My employer, Roger Devereau, was a young man not over twenty-eight years old. Tall, blonde, always nattily dressed, he was the type of successful business man, on the way to his first million, that I had always dreamed of knowing. He was firm, courteous and kindly, with pale blue eyes that reflected a fine soul within. I was apt and efficient and so we got along well together. I loved my work and was well able to do all of --- ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION ETAN Mr. Devereaux's correspondence myself. This evidently pleased him because he cast many admiring glances in my direction from time to time. Finally he came in one day and asked out of a clear sky: "Larra—er—a—Miss Bowman, do you ever go to the theater?" "Why... Why yes," I stammered. Could he be going to take me to the theater? I trembled all over with anticipation and lowered my gaze to hide my emotion. "Well," he continued, "I've got a couple of good seats for the 'Witch Woman.' How would you like to see that?" He glanced at me anxiously from under his long, sweeping black eyelashes, as he stood tapping his fingers on my desk. I told him I would be delighted to see the famous musical comedy. He asked for my address and said he would call at eight. I was walking on ah, as I hurried across town to my rooming place. No queen on earth was happier than I. Instead of going to my favorite restaurant for dinner, I went straight home and spent all of the time arranging my toilet. I wanted to look my best for Mr. Devereaux. At eight o'clock the front door bell begged me for a kiss—it was his first have the heart to refuse him." puzzed and old Mrs. McGraw admitted Roger Devereaux and announced him. After a decent interval of a minute or so, I descended to the parlor. I knew I looked well. I wore a burnt orange evening dress covered with sparkling sequins that Miss DeLanze had given me, and a gorgeous Spanish shawl, black with orange and white flowers, that I had picked up on one of my shopping tours. In my hand was a red ostrich feather fan. Mr. Devereaux, strikingly distinguished in his perfectly tailored evening dress, rose as I entered the parlor and then his jaw dropped with astonishment. "Why, you are perfectly gorgeous!" Le exclaimed. "You are superlatively beautiful! You will certainly be the best-dressed woman at the theater!" "How do you know, Mr. Deveraux?" I asked coquettishly, as we walked down the steps to the waiting taxi-cab. "Oh please don't call me Mr. Devereaux, except at the office," he objected. "Call me Roger, and I'll call you Laura. Let's drop formalities." I agreed. He was very attentive all evening and looked at me more than he did at the stage. In my beautiful evening clothes I was the very center of attraction. "Come," he said after the performance "suppose we run over to Nell's Rendezvous?" That's the smartest cabaret in this district." I joyfully acquiesced. This was the life I had longed for, dreamed of. Ease, luxury, brilliantly sophisticated conversation, refined surroundings! What a contrast between this and my former Southern home King Prempeh and the Golden Stool We entered. The floor show was on. Jokes, laughter tap dancing, singing, jazz! What a gorgeous whirl! Like new wine it sped to my brain and intoxicated me. I glanced timidly, thankfully at Roger. He glanced suddenly at me and I lowered my head in confusion. He was so handsome! The lights dimmed. Couples rose to dance. Roger held me firmly in his strong arms, close to him, very close, as we weaved in and out of the well-dressed crowd. It was over all too soon Three o'clock in the morning! It was a great thrill. Without trying to get fresh as many men would have done, Roger bade me adieu at my doorstep and disappeared in the darkness. swinging his cane. Courtship in New York Human existence is like a ball thrown down hill. It goes on and on, first this way and then the other. Each incident may either halt it entirely, slow up its progress or increase the speed of its descent. Our affair was like that. Two or three times a week, Roger and I went out together. It was hard to refuse when I really wanted to go. He was so fine and I was beginning to care greatly for him. Then one Saturday afternoon we drove far into Connecticut in his long, blue roadster. Clear blue skies! Rain-washed air! A brassy sun beaming down on budding trees. Spring! A time for love and languor! Suddenly Roger stopped the car and proposed to me. "Laura!" he cried huskily. "I want you... you are so beautiful; so accomplished... We ought to... get on well together... Will you... Will you marry me, Laura?". Such earnestness, such intense, honest emotion. His impetuosity swept me off my feet for a moment. I wanted to fall into his arms and say "Yes," but the knowledge of my secret restrained me, and then, somehow or other the thought of Harold Carson came to my mind. Would Roger love me if he knew that I was colored? Did I have a right to jeopardize his happiness? Suppose I should marry him and then have him discover sometime that I was a Negro! The thought stunned me. I begged him to wait a few days for my answer. I wanted a chance to get myself together—to think over this problem. Silently we drove back to the great city. Roger let me out at my door after begging for and receiving a kiss. I dashed up the stairs and fell across my bed in a paroxysm of grief. Harold Carson Arrived I had been lying there fully clothed (Continued from page four) lo in strength and bravery. Second Camp: We are like him, too. Four months passed and the garrison held grimly on. It seemed as if surrender to Kobina Cheri was inevitable. But an expedition led by General Sir James Wilcocks was fighting its way through the bush, endeavoring to reach Coomassie before it was too late; while the civilized world waited eagerly, day by day, to learn the fate of the imprisoned Europeans. At last, on July 15, the expedition arrived and raised the siege after a hard-fought battle. The Black Relief Expedition A significant fact: The relief expedition was composed, but for the white officers, entirely of Negroes—native soldiers and a West India Regiment. Also it was the native Africans, the Fantis and others, who by stealing out and bringing food had enabled the white people to hold out so long. This important fact about the conquest of Africa must be noted: it is the African soldier and African burden-bearer who has done the greater part of the task. Without their aid, the white man, it is safe to say, could never have conquered Africa. It is also by grace of black men that they still maintain their supremacy. Defiant to the Last Among those captured in the last battle was Kobina Cheri, who had been wounded. The next day he was hanged in the market place in the presence of the army and the survivors of the siege. His courage did not fall him and he died defiant to the last. For several months, the Ashantis fought on, charging with desperate valor sometimes to within ten feet of the machine guns. In the battle of Obasso, Opuku, chief commander. 11 for perhaps an hour. when the door bell buzzed and old Mrs. McGraw announced Harold Carson! Harold Carson! God! this was too much! With shaking legs I went down stairs. Mrs. McGraw looking suspicious, was in the hall, standing with her hands on her hips. I knew she was angry that I had a Negro visitor. The prejudice showing in her eyes infuriated me. In a flash I realized the danger and unfairness of tying myself to Roger Devereaux despite all of his wealth. Then I entered the parlor. Harold rose. How much handsomer he looked in his new clothes, new shoes and new hat. Seeing him aroused all the memories of home and the many happy hours I had spent in his company. A surge of affection welled up in my breast. He held out his arms in welcome, and before I could control myself, I fell into them and offered my lips to his. "Oh, Laura!" he cried. "I just had to come North and find you. I was dying without you. I had to see you. Won't you come with me, dear? I'm going to live in Harlem and work in the insurance office there. I can't offer you much dear, but I'll be the best husband in the world to you. Please, Laura, come with me, will you? Oh. I have loved you so, ever since I first saw you, when we were kids together!" After all, I thought to myself, I am colored, even though my skin is white. Harold is my own kind. I won't have to pretend or hide anything from him. With Roger it would be one continual fear obsession, one long reign of pretense and hypocrisy, Better to live a frank, open life with one of your own men, even though in ordinary circumstances, than a fearful existence surrounded with all that money can buy. So I decided to accept Harold. He was delighted. Mrs. McGraw came in and found me in his arms. She was shocked beyond words but I didn't care. Soon we, Harold and I, would be in Harlem, among our people, starting a new existence. We have been married happily for a year now. We will probably never be rich and I have long since given up hope of being surrounded with the expensive things of which I dreamed when I was a lot younger. We haven't been outside of New York except to Atlantic City and Coney Island and Bear Mountain, but strangely enough. I am happy. And vet there are times when I dream of noble and wealthy Roger Deverreaux and wonder how many girls in my position would have done as I did. THE END was killed; after which resistance began to lag. Peace, however, was not restored until 1901. In 1908 there was another revolt which was quickly suppressed. The Golden Stool Removed And what of the Golden Stool? Its subsequent history, as told even in official documents, reads like a romance. For twenty-five years it lay hidden, its guardians watching it with jealous care, and refusing all bribes to reveal its hiding place. Then in 1921, it was almost discovered by accident. A new government road was being built along the place where it lay buried between two great sheets of brass. The laborers were nearing the spot, when the custodians coming up, frightened them away by telling them that the spirit of the small-pox had been buried where they were working and would seize on any one who disturbed the soil. That night they moved the Golden Stool to a safer spot. The Golden Stool Stripped But they had evidently been seen, for soon after, the stool was discovered, stripped of its massive gold ornaments. An old woman, seeing a gold ornament that had been offered for sale, recognized it as belonging to the Golden Stool, whereupon the whole matter came to light. The robbers were saved from instant death only by being rushed to prison undner escort. 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