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WINGS THEATRICALBy FRANKLIN FRANK (ANPyft j ,V sATCIVKLMOrTIf style on Hay his way of talkitYg a!AND HKOI IlY.lt COOK ] sin ing They go hand in ham!CfJ K'AGO--On Friday night. There was nothing wrong with ,-ri 9 tnP. Reverend Stchelniouth ! Amanda Randolph torch wurb-.:lt;! his ihchoir moved into the Minu or Bill Bailey s amazing hoot-• !ei‘.{ huumn Yeast temple toi hah houj- revival services ■ tin Nation1, it Broadcasting iV:ni);i|]y hi Up 11,A work FC\V IKV! part, the Specie* Ajramer-jc.iiiiis rejoiced at this recognition -.ven otv* ot the most diligent ••.'-•nil's ol SwingB'i! i.ot so Broihrr Will Marion a leading deacon in the urn-•a 1'ii.niregotion since tile 1890-.s l'i.•’ hpi Cook is something of a Fimclumenta.lisi and hasmg. And as lor Gee Gee .Jains.oand Eddie Greene. their comedyon tin- initial broadcast whtchbrought down Brother Cook'swra-t.li was ipouensnv. It was .1routine which, with little variation, could have been donu by Helen Broderick and Vidor Moore of the Twin Stars- air show.George Givot and parkyakareas have fattened their pocknbooks through the1 use ol Greek * dialect;ditto .Jack Peal and others as G. iman comics; Russian dialect is:,.i p.uioncp with antics' of the Holy .: i; sepia rnlert nunment S° ! pUmtilul 011 air la.nes.^ lh ‘.•( hid telegrams to the yeastm-t'and tlie press, asking a t of Massa Floischmann lor ’ lie disgraceful Louis Armstrong1 ’i':'. 1..m. 'In all fairness. Brcrfher Cook »s - i,r n! the few still aotiv,. pioneers 1 •! Atramertcan music. He helped i : «aa,way io 1896 IVom btack-• minstrelsy and the coon-o;vwas a father of syncopn-Yiddish variation of (lie English :lanwim-gp has given plenty 01 money to comedians, many of them . Jews. In all cases th*-y talk as the general public ha.s been led to believe tiles., races and national- , itios speak. And nobody kicks. They go right ahead, and in the -ease of Hebrews, often lake their i earnings to contribute to -Jewish • ! progressive organizations a 11 n .toirned the first genuine col- i chanties . ;;r*u orchestra which was named But not so th, colored brother 1■ v. Memphis Students. and gave j He hangs’ around with a loaded I •l, world's first concert of sym- j gun waiting for .some member of p.mnic ;azz wljich was almost K* j his race to get ahead so he ran , •■nr ahead of Gershwin and j talclt;- aim and shoot him down on ;Whit..maths • Rhapsodv m Blue. 1 the basi.; he is hurtiu' our goodBui that hrvcver. does not j name Mill-r and Lyles, two of 1make Brother Cook a one-m».n su- * file greatest comedians the wouilnr. me cou'rf to rule °n sepia en- i has ever known, had that expert-'»: tainnient As a matter of record, j cnee around five y. ars ago when jn was associated with several ; they went on CBS sustaining to 1 rij ni.-al comedies around the turn : counteract Amo,s' and Andy Our j -i di- century—and you know : black' wolves helped haul them 1 t hasn't been a successful col- j down from that high* porch. iNow if Brother Cook wants 10 :do .something bmWinal, let him a lutes ;tre pleased to call typical pvcrpar(. the script for an all-col- 1'gro humor. ' But of course j orc*«J radio show ol the jazz variety type and get. his fellow-howlers and the gen.rat sepia public toMi.'d musicomech yet that didn't have liberal .sprinklings ol what-•«VnunBio Cook. I never passed 11 •.• 1. is no record of Massa Plols-..Iimai.n putting him on the pay- f petition somL- sponsor lot' its useroll for the Armstrong show.While I have come to expcel ouecr ni- ntal gynimuJicN from Brother Cook. I never elapsed him until now as a sorehead. He falls into that officious grouping ^‘,0 which nothing is right uTil*.ss rf-?v »!-• it It's a question as to wnirh floes most to retard progress—they or the pressor.our racial White Op-on 0 broadcasting chain Until he rtoos thai nobody omhf to pay any a-tlenrioii to the chrome kick.- ;C*TS. -As for myself. 1 consider the. Louis Armstrong program th.. most significant development vet. This monks milestone Th,. first step ' has been taken toward real dollars1 and (•entlt;f*iv.eogn'ition of our musi-j cians and en'crtamer's l-v radio-(ot the thereThuit explains one -wl’.v pce.viouslvnever been a colored commerei.il variety program until April of this vea.r Lo a expcrienee lias taiigiu Die radio bosses that il AJrnmer-ii'ims will not a.sk in large mtni-ivi's that their stars be placed on the air '2' whenever any do n-•-,.ive broadcast work, the nu-lt;*• ither sends in virtually uo con-i.Tatulatorv letters or else lavs| land. More sponsored programs or 'W- j all descriptions' should follow m had ; nm nniu ui desire of «onc compuir’ to oilt-do its rivals But if the NBC officials andFieischrnaiin's Ycnsi llst.-n to thebuyings of Brother Cook and hismentally constipated followers.they will .soon throw this mig out and pass th(*j?,vord around to other white companies. Then what w«-have gained will l)e utterly lost.Idown a barrage of e'ritieism sinu-'*^fesk for other ■ types of programsJar to that o£ Brother Cook.Louis Armstrong did nothing on tlie radio different from what he does'ordinary. So .far as T know he •■routed his method of '•muggin'.' You might as well condemn his individual and sensational trumpetif you wish—but in order thatyour plea might b‘P ‘ ev- ntuMly heard, let's keep Louis Armstrong on the air by sending in letters of thanks- for this opportunity to both the NBC and the Fl-isch-mann's Yeast.
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Galveston Guide
Galveston, Texas, US
Sat, Apr 17, 1937
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