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. Hallelujah” Could Have BeenFilmed Right in BaltimoreSimilarity Between Deep South and Monumental CitRevealed by Recent Film. ♦ —By RALPH MATTHEWSWith the possible exception , of the cotton picking scenes,“Hallelujah,” the motion picture version of life in the deepREPORTS SLIGHT GAININ EMPLOYMENTSouth, which graces the Urban League Bulletin In-Ecreen at the Regent Theatre this week, might have been filmed right in Baltimore.The audience at the Regent Mon-dicates Improvement in Construction Work.LEADERS AROUSEDday night, which packed the house to! Many Agencies Work for Incapacity. laughed ioud and long justj creased Opportunities.like . person viewing himself in one Wi(h constrnct,OI) „n(J domof those trick mirrors “• tads on the Kork uklni fhe ^ |n tn,pIoymtthe steeplechase. He realizes that the t iniiostrla.thing is himself; although it is ex- rprrnt idD5tr,al T*Plt;rt* Indicateaggerated, and he can't help laughing *ome little improvement.at himself. That’s the way Monday while it is evident that conditions nights audience took Hallelujah. arc Jar jrom satisfactory, some little Hallelujah was always a sort o. j advance was made in a few placesmystery to me. I purposely missed j Here an(^ there, chain stores placedthe Broadway premier and the con*| C)crks Philadelphia and Chicago decurrent opening at the Lafayette in, serve special rpentlon in this regard. Harlem because I didn’t think Id like ■ r-niir,- ___jiurjcjii a uivaa* w ^ rj||inr ci-iinn0It I dodged it in Brooklyn, in Phila^j f ”** Stat,®“delphla and in Washington fof'the! Filling stations provided employ-same reason, but finally, after ', ment for several men in charge, par-thought it had been relegated to tho j tlcular in Minneapolis. Employment store-room and my record was clea*\ by the -ity street railway of Denver I bump into the dam thing here in j was offered in construction work andBaltimore.Merely the Truthremoval of unused tracks; in Des Moines a colored man was employed at a new market, and a drug storeIt was a mystery to me what th“, and a hotel promised employment, darker brother found objectionable to] in Milwaukee an automobile plantraise a howl about. After seeing it. i took on its first colored employee; think Mr Vidor was very kind, iqr, in St. Paul the number of Negroesat best he merely portrays the truth. 1 employed in a prominent automobile Zeke. the -traveling evangelist, if anthing an improvement over tluia Jefinite policy; In Jackson, Mich., swallow-tailed Jacklegs who Inhabit an elevator operator was added to the the storefront gospel emporiums • city hall staff; in Newark twelve along Druid Hill and Pennsylvania; men were placed in a garage as por-Avenues, for. at least, he seemed 'o. tcrs.split his verbs only on purpose anil Near Jefferson City. Mo. 1.000 No-had seme idea of continuity in his Krors out °/ a total of 3.000 employeesdiscourse, which was more than w Scrcan aav of the average swlpt.ire In-Ichestrns werc engaged to fum?ah terpretor in the Monumental City, j music for an amusement park andSinging Excellent i night c,ub-And surelv no dissenting voice i Vocational Weekrould be raised against the slnelng.! More significant to the whole em-The voices were better trained than pioymcru situation has been the at- ‘ he average choir of even our fash- temion given by leaders among the! lonable churches, and the mass sin;-; Negroes to the conditions faced by! ing was far superior to the spontan- lt;’ colored wnge-eamcrs. For instance I eou.s outbursts of our b?st curbstone; the Ministerial Alliances of Rich*, tenors and unoecided sopranos who; mond and Dcs Moines are giving'worship here oj a Sunday iTiomin-T. • special consideration to improvingBaptisms Here j ^lc vocational opportunities open to II have heard it said that King VI-. tw?™ — !dor burlesqued the Negro race. I ,v,?fflli?r’. ithink the accusers owe him an apolo-, S *}},nn£ nSfi* ’T^ » ycv Tho *lt;*onr of tho crroat bantiV-n • National Lrban League, pastors •in the river was surelv no burlesqu-v ^ cities talked to their ,because did not the roof -.of our : ff1™conKrefaHons Aboutown swimming pool in Druid Hill improvements that should bc](Park rave in. breaking a half dozen !fdc, rA lbc.lr Personal conduct tosanctified necks as thov watched a tm, sr,s !Lf0'^ Aymen r» ' ’ j,*. : certain Elack Rillv Sunday souse the: ‘ -M.C.A.. working withheads of a hundred repentant sin- ! !^cc, , pson American,:ners in the water. I Legion, started a campaign to open! __ i up positions formerly denied Ne- [
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, May 31, 1930
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