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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1934
Page
5
The extraordinary three day engagement arrives at Beechor Theater on Sunday Monday Tuesday March 18 19 20 with 1000 surprises and sensations hundreds of Hollywood beauties and 20 head line stars. A greatest musical show featuring breath taking spectacle surpassing famous productions of 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933.
A neighborhood meeting of unemployed and CWA workers at 4174 East Ave was halted by police under a permit claim. A protest to Public Safety Director Hoehler argued indoor meetings are a workers’ right, likening policy to fascist controls. threats of future police presence were rejected.
In Los Angeles Hollywood debates the talents of Stepin Fetchit versus Bert Williams as rivals in burnt cork comedy. The Rough Coast scene stirs verbal clashes over who best embodies the gentler art of racial caricature.
The piece catalogs Mr. Stepin Fetchit on Fox sets and compares him with Mr. Bert Williams, notes upcoming projects like Flat Heads from RKO with Lou Brock, and mentions Clarence Brooks as an African seer and Gail Gordon as lead. It covers Etta Moten, Earl Dancer, the Mills Brothers, Theresa Harris, and Ada in various industry contexts and charity efforts.
In a playful note the writer mentions Otis Rene wiring an attachment between a baby's cradle and a washing machine, described as rocking. The Washington matter and Photoplay cut show Mr. Sheldon as male lead with a hare whip, but the detail seems inconsequential to the overall clinch of the scene.
The article praises Ted Lewis as a champion of colored artists in his five year show. It highlights Charlie Whittier known as Snowball Whittier, the Dixie Four Harlemites Lefty Benson Chick Fisher and twins William and Charles Immett, plus Teddy McDaniels as Ted Lewis Jr. The group totals seven and travels with Lewis, who treats them like family.
Paris Commune meeting to honor the Paris Commune to be served by the International Labor Defense March 18 at 8 PM in Richelieu Hall 9th and Plum streets. Organizational Committee promises speakers and music and honors Austrian workers fighting Fascism. Public urged to attend.
In a security move, detainees were kept inside Baltimore city jail to prevent mob violence. Authorities described heightened tensions after the incident, with officers on alert and inmates secured behind reinforced barriers until further notice.
Washington CNS reports Senator King of Utah proposed a bill in the Senate to transfer the authority to appoint the Recorder of the District Commissioners amid local gossip that a Colored man may not succeed Jefferson Coage.
St Louis report says Mrs. Kate Vineyard Cunningham, 86, who once refused 90 000 for three letters written by Abraham Lincoln including a marriage proposal to her mother, died in Hemple Missouri while visiting relatives. Her mother Mary Owens met Lincoln in Illinois and Kentucky. Cunningham gave one letter to nephew George Vineyard of St Joseph and another to grand nephew Jesse Vineyard of Kansas City.
Sam Jones a 55 year old Black man was acquitted by a jury in Princess Anne Maryland on February 6 of the murder of Mrs Margaret Brumbley at Marion Station on New Year’s Eve His alibi placed him elsewhere in the county the verdict prompted surprise and the judge warned against demonstrations in court past the verdict
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