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W. B. Ziff Co., 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Foreign Advertising Representatives THE LITTLE WHO GOT LITTLE BUSY GOT A "BR THE LITTLE BUSYBODY WHO GOT A "BREAK" By RUBY BERKLEY GOODWIN when they say, "We will call your method of permanent dismissal. But distance where the unexpected happen." —the land of rocket-like rises and story of startling successes and trailing-o'-the-wisp, it has lured many fire, to wait patiently or impatiently and actresses who crowd about Cohen for a "break." stars are staggering. Keek is a common term yet it is a term that select few—veritable Roberta Hyson, little pleasing smile, pearly antitillating brown eyes, who longed to be an I away cheerfully at her "break" came. Advising director of the her, "Of all the aphundreds of Negro loved to be the best there is no one so well Needless to say Roberta Hyson for that Mr. Cohen w every black woman I was anxious to that you, too, woul of this demure little her talk to you as her modest little books and pictures "My first advent movies was anyth berta began. "I make a screen test comedies. The off In Hollywood, when they say, "We will call you if we need you," it is a polite method of permanent dismissal. But here is an instance where the unexpected happened. HOLLYWOOD—the land of rocket-like rises and meteroic falls—can tell many a story of startling successes and tragic failures. Like the legendary will-o'-the-wisp, it has lured many from homes, from positions that were secure, to wait patiently or impatiently, with the throngs of prospective actors and actresses who crowd about Central Casting Office hoping and praying for a "break." The salaries of the stars are staggering. Ten thousand dollars a week is a common term heard in Hollywood, and yet it is a term that can be applied to a select few—veritable "Children of the Gods." This is the story of Roberta Hyson, little dark brown girl with a pleasing smile, pearly teeth, and a pair of scintillating brown eyes. It is the story of a girl who longed to be an actress but who worked away cheerfully at the task at hand until her "break" came. Needless to say the race should be proud of Roberta Hyson for her excellent record. I felt that Mr. Cohen was paying a compliment to every black woman under God's sun. I was anxious to meet Roberta, for I knew that you, too, would be interested in the story of this demure little brown girl, so I shall let her talk to you as she did to me as we sat in her modest little bungalow amid her beloved books and pictures and music: Al Cohen, who is supervising director of the Cohen comedies says of her, "Of all the applications we had from hundreds of Negro girls, Roberta Hyson proved to be the best type we could find. There is no one so well liked or admired on Christie lot. She is intelligent, earnest and one of the hardest working actors on Christie lot black or white." The White Rabbit has arrived in the MAR The little Busybody is here dressed in the manner that has made her one of the best dressed addresses among the colored stars of Hollywood. --- Illustrated Feature Section Washington Tribune ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION—October 19, 1929 We will call you if we get dismissal. But her unexpected happened. ket-like rises and me successes and tragic fall as lured many from being or impatiently, with crowd about Central. Needless to say the race Roberta Hyson for her ex that Mr. Cohen was pay every black woman under I was anxious to meet that you, too, would be in of this demure little brow her talk to you as she did her modest little bungalow books and pictures and I "My first advent into movies was anythingberta began. "I went to make a screen test for comedies. The officials w Needless to say the race should be proud of Roberta Hyson for her excellent record. I felt that Mr. Cohen was paying a compliment to every black woman under God's sun. I was anxious to meet Roberta, for I knew that you, too, would be interested in the story of this demure little brown girl, so I shall let her talk to you as she did to me as we sat in her modest little bungalow amid her beloved books and pictures and music: "My first advent into the land of the movies was anything except pleasant." Roberta began. "I went out to the studio to make a screen test for a part in the Cohen comedies. The officials were very curt, 'Why you won't do for the part at all. Your English is too correctly spoken in the first place, and then I don't think you are the type we are looking for. However, if we find that we can use you we will call you.' "I knew that my doom was sealed as far as Christie was concerned. I went home and back to my work at the Moulin Rouge on West Sixth street. I was an entertainer there at the time. A month passed and no word from the studio. But one bright morning, at the end of six weeks they asked me to come out and make a Vitaphone test. My voice recordings were good, so they gave me a small part in the 'Mellancholy Dame'. "Evelyn Preer played the leading role in the picture. As you know she is the star actress of the famed Lafayette Players and had been understudy for Lenore Ulric in 'Lulu Belle'. I was just the least bit awed because of her stage and screen experience, but I was determined to do my best. "We finished the picture, and I had the surprise of my life when they said that I had stolen the show and a two-year contract awaited me. I was stunned, and began at once to believe in fairies and Santa Claus and everything." "I am fond of my work in the pictures but I still like the cabaret work too. There you see the audience, there you hear the applause, there you see the smiles of approval when you have done a good piece of work. I suppose it's human nature to want praise. "When I am not working in the pictures, I am an entertainer at the Tavern Club in Wilmington. Each evening at seven o'clock I broadcast over KFOX in Long Beach. I like to be busy. "Oh, it's a habit I suppose. I've been that way all of my life. When I was a kid I had to be doing something. I always loved to read or sew or be banging on the piano. You see I never had the opportunity to study music as I would --- Roberta Hyson and Claude Collins in "Music Hath Charms," a picture that brought the actress much movie recognition. The two stars are often cast together. BLAKE F. Roberta Hyson, as she appeared in "Music Hath Charma." Her striking personality is very well shown in this picture. have liked to. If I heard a beautiful piece of music, I practiced it on the piano until I could play it." "Won't you play just one piece for me?" I asked her. She graciously consented and in a most pleasing and artistic style she played and sang "Violets," the theme song of Al Jolson's latest release, "Say It With Songs." Our conversation was interrupted by the entrance of a small brown woman whom Roberta proudly introduced to me as, "My mother." She was just the sort of mother I had associated with Roberta. She did not wish to intrude and was almost ready to apologize for having done so. "Tell me." I asked her. "how did you manage to bring up Roberta as she is? Most girls with her salary would think of nothing but clothes and 'whoopee.' "I don't know. As I now look back over Roberta's early life, there wasn't much I had to do. I just let her alone. She was always quite serious and staid in her ways. Today she likes clothes but she loves to design her own. We were always very confidential with each other and my job was largely one of suggestion." "You are a wise mother," I told her. "If only more parents suggested instead of commanding, we would have more Robertas." After she had passed from the room Roberta told me of other am- Illustrated Feature Section BEN DAVIS, Jr. Feature Editor arms," a picture that brought the ers are often cast together. bitions yet to be realized. "I long to be a star. I mean a real star. There are so many things I would like to do. So many people I would like to help." "Suppose you were to become a great star. What would you do with your salary if your check read thousands instead of hundreds as it does today?" I queried. "First. I would build a home for my mother. It would not be a palace, for she doesn't want one. It would be a very comfortable and homey one built exactly as she wanted it. Then I would create a trust fund for my invalid sister so that life could be made beautiful for her. (Continued on page two) Gaining and Holding Love at Seventeen Have you a puzzling love affair on which you need friendly advice? Write to Julia Jerome, care of this newspaper. If you wish a personal reply, please send a stamped, self-addressed envelope. 2 Julia Jerome CURIOUSLY enough we have three letters this week, all asking the same question and all from young ladies of seventeen. One is from Detroit.; one from Gainsville, Florida; and one is from Chicago. They all are in love with young men whose ardor, though once burning brightly, has for reasons which they do not state, begun to dim. Now, young ladies, if at seventeen all loves proved permanent and everlasting what would the public do for something to talk about? If our first loves always lasted forever we would get no experience and novelists would have nothing worth writing about, and no one to sell their stuff to. So we almost owe it to the REMOVING DUST FROM COTTON AND LINEN Cotton and linen clothes do not hold dust in the same way that wool and silk do; therefore, it is sufficient to shake them to remove the dust. 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Phillips Chemical Company and its predecessor Charles H. Phillips since 1875. MAMBA'S DAUGHTERS by DU BOSE HEYWARD Author of PORGY A Story of Sacrifice, Romance, Humor and Tragedy THE LIFE OF BERT WILLIAMS Finally, his young friend and protege, Will H. Vodery, Finally, his young friend and protege, Will H. Vodery, the composer, was called upon for a transfusion. He gave his blood gladly. INSTALLMENT III. The next morning found Saint occupying a third of a seat in a dirty little day coach, with a shabby telescope bag tucked behind his legs. The remaining two thirds was snugly filled with the substantial bulk of Mr. Raymond, bulwarked behind an outspread copy of the News and Courier. During the half hour of train travel the boy remained in ignorance of their destination and the nature of that chain which apparently represented the goal toward which he was to fight his way. When they arrived at the little station the paper was folded and stuffed into the man's overcoat pocket, and they climbed into the rear seat of a waiting buckboard. Then the employer turned his attention to the business of the moment. He had a straight man-to-man way of talking to the boy that both put him at ease and held his attention. He watched him closely but kindly, and he drove his ideas in with short, pointed sentences that ended with "understand?" It kept his listener's wits on tiptoe. There were no heroic visions now. It developed that he had been engaged as storekeeper in the commissary for the Negroes at one of the mining camps. There were other camps, each with its commissary in charge of a storekeeper, and over all of them there was a general manager. One of the storekeepers was destined some day to rise above the others to the managerial position and have the direction of the chain. So there it was at last! Saint experienced a feeling of relief. "In the meantime," the genial voice informed him, "you must watch your stock, send in requisitions for supplies when they run low, and stop a 'nigger's' credit when it runs through his next week's wages. Think you can manage it?" Out of the bitter past a fear leaped upon the boy. "The money—making change—keeping accounts. Do I have to do that, too, Mr. Raymond?" he faltered. "Oh, that's no bother. Everything's charged, and you won't be hurried. It don't matter how long you keep the 'niggers' waiting." The road that had approached the mines through the woods now left the trees behind and passed between abandoned fields that had been left to go to broom straw. The brisk January wind changed and veered over the warm brown expanse, roughening its surface like a squall at sea. Presently through the silence of the country there came to Saint a low, insistent rumble. Mr. Raymond pointed. "That's the washer," he explained, "where the rock is cleaned for shipment." Saint followed the pointing finger with his gaze and saw, far out over the marshes where the river drew a thin S of silver, a great building crouched at the water's edge like an antediluvian monster that had gone down to drink. Before them the road widened. The ancient Negro who was driving drew to one side of the open space and brought his mule to a standstill. "Well, here we are," said Mr. Raymond. Saint looked up and saw before him a small clapboarded building with its front gable covered by the ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION—October 19, 1929 80 PER CENT BETTER! HOW DO YOU FEEL? This made the great comedian rally and open his eyes. To the question, "How do you feel?" he replied, "Eighty per cent better." false square that always denotes the country store. Across its front ran a low, wide plaza, and upon the plaza three curs and an old Negro were dozing in the sun. Behind the little building a wide broom-straw field travelled east until it merged its gold-brown with the silver-brown of the winter marsh, carrying the vision in an uninterrupted flight on to the bright thread of the Ashley river. North, south and west, the little clearing was walled with virgin long-leaf pine. The towering trees swayed gently on their long naked trunks and stopped the shrill cry of the wind down to a grave, sustained monotone. Overhead swing a vast empty sky, blue-green over the treetops and almost purple where it dipped behind the warm line of the marsh. "All out," commanded Mr. Raymond. "Well, how do you like it, Wentworth?" The boy stood looking about him. His mouth had dropped a little open, giving his face an expression of vacuity, almost stupidity. In a clairvoyant flash he saw himself from outside his being; as his mother would see him, a failure facing this disgraceful surrender, conventionally respectable only because in his penny traffic with Negroes he was safely out of sight, and could be spoken of vaguely as being "in phosphates," and he pitied her terribly. He saw himself with the eyes of his employer, and he knew what he was thinking at that moment: that he'd never go any higher; that he would stay here until he rotted down into the very soil of the camp. And yet, deep within him, a frozen core was melting; warm new currents were stirring. Standing there, he almost caught the first faint answers to the passionate questions that his youth had flung against the wind. He turned to his employer and gave a strange answer for a man who presumably had his foot on the bottom round of the commercial ladder. He said: "Thank you, sir. I'll stay. I will be happy here." On a certain frosty January night Mamba sat in her immaculate room in the servants' quarters over the Atkinsons' coach house and took stock of her gains and losses. With the blinds carefully drawn she had allowed herself the luxury of stepping out of character. Her teeth, to which she had never grown accustomed, and which had become symbolic of the innumerable restraints and prohibitions of her servitude, had been cast aside for the solacing stem of her clay pipe. About her the Atkinson air, no longer clean and naked, coiled and eddied intimately in a visible garment of smoke. A familiar gurgling sound rippled the hated quiet of the Atkinson premises. As she sat relaxed in a golden-oak rocker with her bare feet thrust from the folds of an old wrapper straight before her upon the spotless bedspread that Mrs. Atkinson was wont to inspect in regular intervals, she gave an impression of physical well-being. But under the veiling fog of smoke her eyes had in them the look of an unsatisfied hunger. Six years had passed since she had turned her back on the delights of a bland and carefree senility among her own kind and had bound her forces together for her final adven- ture with life. In the big white house on Church street her enterprise had been crowned with unqualified success. She had to an amazing degree the racial adaptability that even are cannot stiffen into a set pattern, and in the part that she had played so long and seduously she was now letter perfect. She was, in fact, more than that, for she lived with that complete immersion in her impersonation that made her for the time being the character itself. With the passing years the old, almost unendurable longings had dimmed to a faint nostalgic yearning so far beyond attainment that it was as impersonal as the hunger of some remote acquaintance. The real pang of separation had come two years ago, when it had become necessary for her to leave her quarters with Hagar and Lissa, and live in a room over the Atkinsons' kitchen so that she could be near the children when the master and mistress were away in the evening. Those first days had been cruel. She had missed the strong talk of the court, the broad, frank humour, the smells the clashing colours, the curs, goats, buzzards, and, tumbling black babies. She had missed her pipe in the long summer dusks with the old men and women who were drifting happily with the days, gossiping and scolding the young Negroes to their hearts' content. But later her wild longings had found a tame consolation in retrospection. Then she was able to see her compensations. She had a genuine fondness for her white children. She was proud of them. There were moments when she doubted whether she was making a lady of Gwen, but she had at least made a man of Jack, for he could outswear and outfight any boy in the neighbourhood. Yesterday she had seen him meet the neighbourhood bully in the alley beneath her back window, pound him gloriously, and scorch his retreating back with a collection of epithets that would have won the reluctant admiration of Catfish Row. Yes, in spite of Mrs. Atkinson, Jack would do. Now there were food and clothing in abundance. Every week she returned half of her wages to Mrs. Atkinson to put in the bank for her, until now she had a tidy sum awaiting the inevitable emergency. And above and beyond all other considerations, she now had her white folks to stand between Hagar and Lissa and the impersonal justice of the state should evil fortune bring them to that. But if Mamba had moulded her life according to her plan as far as the big Church street house was concerned, the same could not have been said of the course of events in the East Bay tenement. Hagar had been in trouble several times. There had been nothing serious; no charges that involved a stay of more than a fortnight, or perhaps a month, at a time in the county jail. But she was getting a bad name with the police. When Mamba had told Mrs. Wentworth that her motive for seeking permanent white folks of her own was that she had a girl who was born for trouble, she had been as wise as she was prophetic. In the building with Hagar there lived a dozen women who made trouble. In the great honeycomb to the south, as many again. But they had attained the high art of complete invisi- 'A.W. RENNE GARNE. The doctor said the reaction from the transfusion might be only a temporary one so his will was drawn and signed, leaving the estate to his widow. bility in time of peril. Hagar, on the other hand, with her huge frame and her big wondering child's face, stood dangerously out of the picture. Also the police knew where she could be found. Mamba had given the woman a religion in Lissa. Deep into the simple intelligence she had driven the need to care for the child, to give it a chance. A Saturday night would come when the mercurial spirits of the neighborhood would leap beyond bounds. There was always a quantity of the peculiarly deadly corn whiskey, marked with the seal of the great commonwealth of South Carolina, and known among the Negroes as rotugt. Hagar would drink with the rest, and her enormous body, released from its slight control, would become one of the gesticulating, whooping dervishes in the ensuing orgy that inevitably resulted in a riot call. In the panic the big woman could be counted upon to rush to her room to see if Lissa was safe. The police knew this. A fruitless raid was humiliating to the force. There must be something to show for it at the recorder's court in the morning. All else failing, the officers would stand at the bottom of the steps, leading to Hagar's room and whoop for her to come out. At the sound of the summons she would become suddenly cowed. Still a bit dazed by the liquor, dumb and bewildered, she would come down the steps looking like a great child in disgrace. Then someone would go to the Atkinsons' gate and whisper to Mamba, who would come with money and arrange with a neighbour to care for Lissa until Hagar's return. And while Mamba sat in her room on that certain January night dwelling on the past and speculating upon the hazards of the future, in a very different room six blocks away in the black belt Hagar was putting her child to bed. Lissa was a well-grown child for her six years, with a faint colour in her cheeks under the light bronze of her skin. This seemed miraculous to her dark mother, who loved to stroke it with her finger tips. She got the little figure into bed, and sat beside it, singing in her deep contralto which, with her eyes, made up the sum total of her physical heritage from Mamba. It was a week-night, and the court was quiet. Far away on the tracks of the East Shore Terminal a switch engine laboured with a heavy burden. Hagar was singing a sad little lullaby full of minors: The soft tossing sounds beside her ceased and were followed by the rhythm of faint, steady breathing. The mother tiptoed over, dimmed the kerosene lamp, picked up a large bundle of clean wash, stepped out of the room, and closed the door behind her. Across the street and down the dim perspective of the wharf her gaze travelled and rested on a side-wheel river steamer lying at the pier head. The boat was motionless, but a steam exhaust beside the funnel wheezed up and blew a film of mist between her and the frosty stars. Steam was up. An hour now and perhaps the boat would be under way. Her wash was for the fire-room crew, Sam and Abel. She had 3 never seen the men before they had brought the clothes to her. And she did not know the boat. Perhaps it was just touching port for supplies and was going South. She did not trust the men altogether. 'Her eyes must be kept open; one could not tell about strange river "niggers." When she arrived at the pier head she saw that the fire-room hatch was open—just a square hole flush with the deck. She looked down and saw an iron ladder that descended into flickering orange light and sounds of low laughter. She stooped over the hatch and called: "Yuh Sam an' Abel. Heah Hagar wid yo' wash." The laughter stopped and a lazy voice called: "All right, Sistuh, bring um down." Silence for a moment then: "No, I ain't got de time. Come on up an' bring yo' two dolll." Sam appeared at the bottom of the ladder with his face thrown up toward her. His voice was beguiling. "Aw, come 'long down, Sistuh. What muk yo' so onsoclare?" The thought came to Hagar that they might touch at the port regularly and that customers were not to be discouraged. She still felt vague misgivings, but she lowered her heavy bulk through the opening. It was so low between decks that she could not stand upright. The men, who were both shorter than she, laughed openly and good-naturedly at her. This served to allay her suspicions. She chuckled at her own expense, and her teeth sent a white flash across the darkness of her face. Seating herself on an empty box, she said: "Well, dar's yo' cloes." Abel had not moved when she entered, but continued to sit on the edge of a bunk with a guitar in his lap. He had a round face with a spurious expression of ingenuousness upon it. Now he bent over his instrument and plucked a chord. Sam said: "Dat's right, go on an' play fuh de compny while Ah git de money." Then, as though on second thought, he lifted a pint flask from behind him and handed it to Hagar. "Go on, Sistuh," he urged, "he'p yo'veself." Abel was picking away steadily now: not a tune, but the intricate improvisation of chords so loved by the Negro. The music filled the close space. Before Hagar the red fire box, cut into segments by the black grate bars, grinned like a friendly mouth, and above her the winter stars beyond the hatch showed infinitely remote and pale through the warm light of the fire room. She drew the cork from the flask, and instantly the air was pungent with the rank fumes. She tipped the bottle and took a long pull, then passed it to Abel. He drank sparingly, returned the flask to Hagar, then took up his playing again. The music beat through the woman in recurrent waves of ecstasy. One broad foot commenced to tap the floor. She lifted the flask, and it seemed as though she would never put it down. Her eyelids dropped slowly, narrowing her eyes to bright slits, then closing them. 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