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THE SHOW-DOWN   Page 2

'Broadcasting'
From Tulsa
By "Little" Phil Dorsey

Draw your chairs close, folks, and listen to news that will gladden the hearts of those who like to trip the light fantastic or the connoisseurs of real swing music. Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson and Claude Hopkins are headed this way during September and October, so kiddies please start saving your pennies. Old "T" town is really getting her share of big names this season. 
... A certain well known band leader wrote and asked me why animosity and petty jealousy were so prevalent among musicians. I am answering him through this column: "Any aggregation has this to contend with." I can name at least six or more bands of the group that have made drastic changes in the past year. Sometimes for the best. So, my "fran," don't be discouraged, you are still tops and your men are all for you... Ted Armstrong and his Music Masters, a 12-piece combination, are again at the Ritz Ballroom in Oklahoma City on a six-month contract .... In 1932 Bill Robinson, billed as "The Dark Cloud of Joy," was then tap dancing his way into the hearts of the vaudeville patrons at the salary of $250 per week. His life and career has been colorful and today Bill will tell you that it is the inspiration of his charming wife, whose we all call "Little Bo," that has carried him to the top.  Nearing three score years, Bojangles is today in good health, earning a lot of dough, and is setting pretty financially from the income of his recent cinema successes. His weekly salary for vaudeville this year is $3500. ... 
Victoria Spivey, motion picture actress, is slated to make a Chicago appearance soon. She has her own orchestra and is said to be versatile in new songs and all round entertainment. ... Since Jesse Owens won several events last month in Berlin, you can expect to see a new dance step called "The Jesse Owens Truck" ... Well, here goes the column's first apology. Last month I mentioned in an article as to why producers hire chorines and instead of paying them, pocket the money.  Even if it is in Kaycee, St, Louis, or anywhere else, I still say the girls can't walk back. I don't mean any local theatre is involved and I think the men who approached me know just about whom I am talking.... The fight between Dallas and Fort Worth is really making big business in the music world. Almost every band of note has been down to the Lone Star State. Claude Hopkins, now playing an engagement in Boston, is the latest band to make the Centennial when his New England tour terminates.... So often talented young people come to Tulsa with so much to offer and get in the wrong environment. There are numerous places where one can register and if positions are not available at once, at least they are on the right road. Take for example the young chap who sold a certain ballad for $34 and the publisher who gypped him coined thousands. ... The following big time bands will be seen and heard in and around the great southwest this Fall and Winter, Anna Ray Moore, Ray Nance, Half Pint Jaxon, Choc Logan and Les Herte.... The "Show-Down" is on sale the first of every month here at the Okla-Eagle newsstands so buy your copies early.

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Talent Town Talk
(Charleston, S.C.)
By John D. Green
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This town goes for swing music in a big way, over a period of two years the following bands have appeared here; Walter Barner, Alonoza Ross, Snappy Six, Hartely Toots, Georgia Rhythm Kings, Smiling Billy Steward, Earl Hines, "Doc" Pettiford, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Sunset Royal Entertainers, (my favorite band), Don Albert, Jimmy Gunn, Little Genevieve, Blanche Calloway, Ruth Ellington, Anna Ray Moore, Louis Armstrong, Clint Black Diamonds, King Oliver, Snookum Russell and Jean Calloway. Rhythm galore.

Talent Town's newest swing band, the "Cotton Choppers" under the direction of Earl Henderson, is going places in a big way.  This band is only six months old and is swamped with engagements, appearing next at the Riverside Beach Park, sponsored by the local N.A.C.C.P.  The members of the band are George Arthur, John Judge, Henry Simmons, Franklin Davis, Frank Ware, Aaron Harvey, Addison White, Henry Meyers, Harold Nelson, Charles Green, Robert Miller, President, Earl Henderson, Manager, and Jimmy Thompson, Entertainer.

Everything is set for the night of September 2nd, when Willie Bryant and his orchestra direct from the Ubangi Club in New York will fill an engagement at the Riverside Beach Park.  Willie is well known by his antics at the 125th St. Appollo Theatre on Amateur Night.  All Talent Town awaits this popular band leader.

Acts I'd love to see again. "Pigmeat" trucking; Eddie Rector, dancing to the tune of "I'm a Japanese Sandman"; Florence Mills, singing "I'm a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird"; The Three Peppers rendition of "If It Ain't Love"; The Sunset Royal Entertainers, playing "Old Man River" and "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet."

So long until later when we will let you know how we received Willie Bryant.