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I rt WW Eard (Sonnu) Murrain Wwyn 7 Just a reminder: Time is get ling snon. ii you Haven't been clipping coupons to send your pas tor away on vacation In our "Salute to Ministers" contest, you'd better hurry. The pack is pulling away. CENTS PREFER JANE With all due respect to the authors of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and golden haired Marilyn Monroe, the gents in the preview audience at the Roxy theatre Tuesday night showed a marked preference for brunett Jane Russell." Talk about "Double Jane cut loose with some dialogue which must have caught the John son office napping. For example: The buxom Amazon' description of a swain, as "half sweet and haH acid" (Please, Mr.

Printer, no mistake) had the audience rolling in the aisle. And her comeback to an athletes admission that he was the only "Four letter man" on the team occasioned a roar throughout the Broadway showplace. As one reviewer observed after the show: "Marilyn is the sex, but Russell is the star." You must see it! RED FACES Talk about "faux pas." The mir ed her in animated conversa Won (not about croaultmoleo In tha loDoy or tne Center theatre follow ing the Ford anniversary show telecast. Jimmy Ricks has followed his record click "She's gotta go" with a terrific ballad "Love is the Thing" While RCA Vlctor has just released an album of eight songs featuring the exotic stylings of Eartha Kitt in five languages. This was prompted by the over half million sale of "Uska Dara." 'B'S BACK Tonight (Thursday) is the night! Billy Eckstine marks the fifth anniversary of Birdland by opening with th6 Lester Young quintet, Bub Powell's trio and Charlie Parker.

will also be the vocal headliner on four July stanzas of series which will originate from Birdland. The entire show will be heard. Dancer fearl Primus left these parts Wednesday to teach a group and study with the ShanSo and Afro Caribbean dancers of Trinidad. Miss Belle Rosette, one of the foremost performers of Trinidad, will assist the group of students accompanying PearL Mrs. Blom." familiar to view ror had a Lulu last week.

In its ers and listeners most srooer' form th Pmk dhJu.i'. berg's closest nounced the Bronxville wedding of socialite Barbara Ann Olsen and Rodman Clark (of the) Rockefellers. "The High toned announcer concluded with: "The bride was introduced at the Westchester Cotillion (SEE you're never too old). While on the subject, Ruth Nelson Sawyer can't get over the affability of billionaire auto magnate Henry Ford, 2nd, who engag as Molly Gold 7 RUTH BROWN bana lounge. Tops on the 88 key menu will be Billy's own compo sition "Early Morning Mambo.

Lionell Hampton's vibe rations are still rocking the Bandbox. Charlie Ventura is adding to the mayhem Although we bad an Invite, pressing business (as a nart time cleaner) kept us from friend and family Harlem in Atlantic City Thursday confidante, will be seen and heard night. Read our cohort Allan Mc for the first time in the 23 year history of the program when "the Goldbergs" return to NBC TV tomorrow night (Friday). TAYLOR LNTO ELEGANTE Pianist composer Billy Taylor brings his jivey trio into the swank Club Elegante in Brooklyn tonight (Thursday) after a 24 week record engagement at the Copaca Jesus, first prize; and (back row) Dorothea noimes, lourtn prize and Nettie Reese, fifth prizes are shown receiving scrolls. Making the presen tmtlnim II .1 I tun urpmy niiauon commissioner Salvatore Greico, Glester Hinds, chairman of the PCW association, and Harlem's "Mayor" Willie Bryant, (Lewis Photo).

YOU ARE ALWAYS WELCOME 6 1 jr i 1 tmmi C2n I at. KENTUCKY'S FAV KITE KSKY CO MPANY, 10 Ul till It KINlJ.CKY 11001 Fl Vr TnY I iei Something special in the way of entertainment is always on tap when a holiday rolls around, and, for the July 4 week, beginning Friday, one of Harlem's (and the, nation's most popular record' stars the sizzling revue. The star is Ruth Brown, blues queen, ballad singer, and one ot the finest all around performers. With an almost supernatural knack of picking songs particularly suited to her styling, Ruth has turned out one hit after another; her current rave being "Mama, He treats Your Daughter Mean." STITT'S DEBUT Another youngster making his mark on the entertainment world is Sonny Stitt, making his initial Apouo Tneatre appearance as a band, leader. Formerly starred with Gene Amons, Sonny's band realizes the promise he offered in bis wonderful sax solos with the Ammons band.

Also on the bill are the Crickets, MGM Rcords' newest disk stars, making their Apollo bow during the crest of a Washington Heights library, is the intnirtnr catching the opening show at Club, BPTTV It seems that we no sooner get Millan's account on the opposite, U5CU "nuDerani young set jLoiumnist eiectruying our ottice, On Tuesday and Thursday eve then it's time for her to graduate nings from 7:30 10:00, painting nd leave. First it was Peggy and drawing classes for men ana cnmusiasuc women will be added to the Sum mer activities at the Harlem branch YWCA, 179 W. 137th st. Ponular Sam Countee. who has been conducting classes at the w.

ffflnftrtfr, iirf iiiigiriiaajniir iaiiMMJwiMUuJjJia i as ssMaaawJ CLEAN SF'EEP Winners or the People's Civic and Welfare association's slogan contest, to dramatize the group's efforts to clean up the streets of Harlem, receive! their awards during a ceremony to front of Blumstein's Saturday noon. The finalists, front, left to right, were: Nilsa Cintron, third prize; Doris Bennett, sixth prize; Ellen Carson, second prize; Janice De editoral writer, Betty Butler is quitting the scene for plateaus of high education. Good Evelyn Davis, well known TV actress and recording secretary of the Negro Actors Guild will appear on the W'estinghouse summer theatre show "Studio One" (CBS TV) on Monday, July in "Beyond Reason" The advisory committee of the Association for the Advancement of Caribbean education, held its initial Garden cocktail party Sunday. The Silver Burdett Company, the Sound Book Press society and Audio and Video Products company played host at a cocktail party at 730 Fifth Tuesday afternoon to introduce a new li brary of music on both discs and tape. It marked the first time a musical presentation has been released on both discs and tape.

FIREWORKS AHEAD With so many invitations pour ing to guests at the top resorts in this area (Thanks to Edwins "Round the Resorts" Johnson) we don't know what road to take come July 4. Wherever the road leads, we'll try our best to drive safely and give the other, fellow a break. Why don't you do tt r. I i 1 timet nappy nuuuayi General, Lady Penned Up For Dragging Cage General Harris. 33.

of SIS W. liceman collared the weed. The General, with several con victions to his credit, was held without bail for the Grand jury while winsome Frances, having her first affair with the law, was held in $1,000 bail. The textile and apparel industries use more than eight million tons of coal each normal year. 7 hi Ail r.

Pi I 'I 1 IN FILM DEBUT Handsome Mashood AJala, who rode a bicy ele across the country, won a Hollywood contract, was Jailed on a parental charge, and recently attempted suicide In Los Angeles, Is one of the featured stars, in "White W4ftb Doctor," 20th Century Fox's technicolor film which opened st the Roxy en Wednesday. Susan Hayward and Robert Mlt chnm are co starred. p. a SONNY STITT Dominoes and 'others. FREWORKS Add to this tip line up the com.

edy of Spo Dee Dee, the Rhythm tapping of Shorts Davis, and the breathtaking acrobatics of the Two Cantons, and you see why there'll career which rnore fireworks at the Apollo seen them compared with the Ra beginning Friday than anywhere in town. mm PrysockGives Party By Phone I Crooner Arthur Prysock plan ncd a party and was home to help his wife, Jean, buy the fix ing, but he had to participate in it over the telephone. The occasion was the latest in a series of events Prysock gives for members of his Fan club in the New York area. Several times a year the kids are "coked" and i dined in the Long Island home of the Trysocks. This latest shinding was planned on a date the busy baritone was to be in town.

However, a change in booking plans put Pry sock in Atlanta's Peacock club that evening. Rather than miss the fun altogether, Arthur called home be tween shows and spoke to 18 of the 40 odd youngsters there. The phone bill was $44.63 plus tax, Says Arthur, "I don't recom mend this way to enjoy a party. You don't get any refreshments." 7 i 0 BANDBOX BOW "Good Cheer" was oa tap at the Bandbox last Tuesday night when Lionel Hampton and his "Flying Horns' orchestra opened at the Broadway Bandbox. Chock Williams (right) of Schenley Distillers is shown presenting Lionel with a bottle of his.

favorite brand, ps gesture, of good will en his cmash opening. Britain Hurts Jamaican Investors: Bustpmante LONDON ANP) leaving England, tors. I have asked the colonial i 'i Hil.lV mm Before'coUection, but they havt refused. ru su rname, chief minister of Jamaica "By buying cigars from Cuba, rising bitter feeling aeains'Britain ha rulned wt la Great Britain because of the col dies' cigar trade. We are not beg The General and his lady, charg lection Britain of Income taxes ging.

All we ask is that Britain ed with violating the narcotics on ye proms oz nnusn us of ,0 law, was arraigned Monday after in i py noon in Manhattan Felony court before Magistrate Nicholas Delagi. uucai leaaer commented, 11 is like robbery without violence The Jamaica Government gives 145th and Frances Soriano, years free of income tax to all nt ms i.Tsth wr an Mted new industries by British inves Wednesday evening on Morning side near 120th by Officer Austin C. Webb of the Seventh division. The officer noticed the couple passing the "gay stick" back and forth, getting their kicks as they walked down Morningside ave. Harris tried to swallow the cigarette when the officer demanded to see it but the sure handed po much from Cuba or other countries where the British flag does not fly.

"I have urged that Britain take more sugar from the West In dies which could produce another secretary and treasury to end the 100,000 tons. From Fathoms ih Person DON CORNELL if 1ST Mil At THf PIANO FRANK FONTAINE The 5 DE MARCO SISTERS m'lTinfjnPn iMM AllillAU i DOSBT UTRNc NOW DOORS OPEN 10:30 A.M. ami? ia CarL 11 one of the greatest ovations of her spectacular career. SHY STAR Sarah, who is ordinarily shy about discussing her emotions was free on this occasion in admitting that her moment in the spotlight during the Baptist affair was one that she would always cherish. "Even though they were "The Lord's Prayer' for me Book Designer Sfages Show CHICAGO (ANP) Art for the masses got a healthy boost recently as the result of the highly successful one man show of Stan Williamson, art director and book, designer for the Wilcox and Follett company.

The month long exhibit of over 30 watercolors and caseins closed here at the South Side Community Center last week. Art Center officials viewed as significant the fact that the main support for the Williamson show came from 'the rank and file Chi cagoan, although notables as Mrs. Earl B. Dickerson, Eartha Kitt and Gordon Parks, Life Magazine photographer, attended. Williamson, book designer for one of the largest publishers of children's books and adult non fiction, was also a recipient of a the Chicago Book Clinic for his designs.

Auto manufacturers use more cotton each year than the makers of shirts, carpets and rug wmmmmm4MCt MCM'slAUGHRlOTI 11 SiMi mm'' toc R00NEY BRACO STEWART Record Stan NEW YORK AGE Saturday. July 4, 1953 Vdughn Causes Tern At Baptist Conference Sarah Vaughn's appearance before 15,000 persons at the National Baptist Sunday School Congress in Brooklyn last week provided the singing star with memories of the days when she was a child singing in Newar choirs. "Sassy 's" rendition of "The Lord's Prayer" before the overflow audience was perhaps the peak moment of her career. Listeners were forced to dry their eyes and afford the song stylist in the wrong key," said Sarah "The Lord was with me and it came out right. I'm so glad it did because every youngster in that audience reminded me of myself and my young dreams.

I wanted them to know how I felt down deep in my heart." Srhnnl'tOnif! Waawwa mm 9 Danny Kay eh: School's out and the doors of the cool RKO neighborhood theatres all over town opened Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock on a big all technicolor holiday show. Danny Kaye, the sensational entertainer who set "In Person" records recently at the famous Palace theatre on Broadway, is the star attraction in "Hans Christian Anderson" which ran for six months on Broadway. With Danny in this Samuel Gold muxical that boasts eight new hit songs are Farley Granger, Jeanmarie, the petit French dan seuse and many otners. "Seminole," on the same twc for one color show, features Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn and Richard Carlson. World standard time is reckoned from Greenwich, England which is regarded as the prime meridian.

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