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Page 12 THE SHOW-DOWN [[box]] Talent Town Talk (Charleston, S. C.) By John D. Green [[/box]] The theatrical season is here again and we wish the following members of the profession from Talent Town a most successful season-Willie (Jimmy Lunceford) Smith, Saxophonist, Julia Noisette,(Chorine) Cotton Club, Macio Anderson, (Tap dancer) Four Step Brothers, Sam Green and Teddy Frasier (Tap dancers) George White's Scandals. Lonnie Simmons and Freddie Green (Musicians) Black Cat Cabaret. Last but not least the Carolina Cotton Pickers, the band that's rising like a thermometer on a hot day. HAPPENINGS HERE AND THERE With Miss Lorene B. Ford, at the helm the Ladies Progressive Club, will begin their season with an old Fashion Cake Walk and dance at Dart's Casino, Friday evening November 20th. State College Collegians will furnish the music; more about this affair later. [[line]] Mr. Orange, Trombonist with Jimmy Gunn's Serenaders trying to locate Aaron Maxwwell. [[line]] An individual complaining about the size of the Show-Down for fifteen cents, not stopping to think that it's an all colored magazine, that you and I were small before we attained our present size and finally the Show-Down, after it has been read, may be given away or saved but a drink once it goes down, is gone forever. [[line]] Fall is here and things are brisk along VARIETY ROW (Upper Ashley Ave.) and it's intersections-Dances, avenue strollers, laughter, gaiety, taxies going and coming, drug store cowboys, parties, playboys, Fingaters (Ford Cars to you). [[line]] Jimmy Stender's Modernisto Barber Shop, a thing of beauty. At the Moon Glow the recordings of Jimmy Lunceford is tops, if he (Jimmy) had to play as regular in reality as his records are played, he would drop from exertion. His recording "Dream of You" has me dreaming of the day when he will make a personal appearance in this city. [[line]] Mr. Fred Duncan, who has been with us for several weeks, has departed for Mississippi, he will be missed by Theodore Watson, and patrons, a regular fellow. William (Organ) Campbell, greatly resembles "Pigmeat Markam". [[box]] Denver Dots and Dashes By T. S. Williams [[/box]] Eli Rice and his Swing Band who recently played to a packed house here, has been received in the Northwest with the same enthusiasm, according to Press reports. At the Coliseum, in St. Paul, dancing space was at a premium. This Nationally known organization in making its third tour on the Pacific Coast under Stecker Brothers of Minneapolis. Mr. Rice, who has a fine tenor voice, demonstrates his showmanship in the work of his fourteen piece ensemble of musicians and entertainers. Rogers, renowned tap dancer and buck and wing specialist, completed several circuits on Orpheum Time coast to coast. Dick Rice, director is well known in prominent broadcasting studios throughout the East. A zippy, peppy floor show completes the setup that gives the public just what it has long wanted in one complete organization. [[line]] The Harlem Play Girls Orchestra that made Denver really know swing rhythm, has been booked to appear at the Roxy Theatre November 24th. These girls are making good throughout the Northwest with, not only their music but their floor show. This is another Stecker Brothers attraction. [[line]] When we read about Andy Kirk's Orchestra, we are glad to remind you that we belong to the "I Knew Him When" Club. Denver is proud of Andy and all other groups from this glorious West that are swinging all over. [[line]] Logan Harper and his Orchestra have stepped out in front this season. An eight piece combination that is really going places. His training began at Weslan College in Nebraska and his early experience in the game with Joe Price's Orchestra of Nebraska places him high up on the scale as a personality man. This bunch are with the Beverly Garden Night Club. The band personnell. are John Clark, Melvin Gentry Charles Lynch, Herman Robinson, Gene Montgomery, Harry Chambers, Harold Hamlet. [[line]] It is reported that Happy McGowan bet a young lady that he could duck any blow she might send his way, he lost, and was counted out to the tune of ten. The birdies sang sweetly while he slept. Happy now walks another beat. [[line]] Most of our public refused to be Jim crowed when Green Pastures was shown here some time ago, they knew the picture would return to the Roxy. It is billed for the first of November and when you shall have read this, the lasting impression of the picture will be fresh in our memories. Of course there are always a few of the group who manage to find fault with any Playhouse that gives them equal accomodation and never miss an opportunity to knock, this makes them feel justified to sit in a designated corner of the upstairs of some downtown Theatre to witness the same picture that is billed, immediately after release, at the only Theatre in the city where they can sit where they please. Denver knows these people at sight. Some of them are professional people who preach equal rights from the housetops. Mayhaps I am egotistical but I boast of the fact that I avoid every instance that I can where I am to be discriminated against. [[box]] COMPLIMENTS OF LEE LONGLEY and his Royal Six ORK CLUB 4 ROSES [[/box]]
