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Josephine, 45, who got her start in the all-Negro musical Shuffle Along (1922), gave the Strand's customers her latest continental routine. When she came onstage in a skintight, rhinestone-encrusted, white satin gown designed for her by Parisian Couturier Christian Dior, her brown-skinned elegance made bobby-soxers gasp and their boy friends whistle. Anybody who thought a quarter-century in Paris might have made "Josephine" languidly European soon realized his mistake. For all her high-styled gowns, Josephine was still mugging, swaggering and strutting with the free & easy abandon of a pig-tailed...
...three short years of separate existence, the Air Force had done well. Prodded by the committee, and with some misgivings, it broke up the all-Negro 332nd Fighter Wing, set about distributing personnel of other Negro units throughout the service. By January of this year, three-quarters of the Air Force's 25,000 Negroes had been integrated in mixed units. All training schools and all jobs were open to them, all "racial strength" quotas were abolished. "Commanders testified that racial incidents had diminished rather than increased," reported the committee...
Coincidentally, the current issue of Ebony, a U.S. Negro picture magazine, finds that Negro entertainers are winning better roles in TV than in any other entertainment medium. "At one time in recent months as many as ten all-Negro shows were being telecast in the U.S., including one in the South." Ebony quoted Georg Olden, who heads the Graphic Art staff for CBS-TV: "There are and will be lots of openings in all departments. The only question is [will Negroes] be prepared to take advantage of them...
...asking too much if we expect Negroes to see Christ's church in an organization that seems (to them at least) to be run by whites, for whites, and according to white men's notions . . . No matter how shabby a store-front church may be, most Negroes would unhesitatingly prefer it to the most magnificent Catholic church -in which a Negro would be shunned, stared at or given the deep-freeze treatment. Most Negroes would prefer such a church even to our so-called 'Negro' churches in which an all-Negro congregation is served...
...other networks, only CBS even tried special competition. In the hour-long spot opposite Berle, CBS was trying an all-Negro show called Uptown Jubilee, a succession of variety acts enlivened by Maxine Sullivan and a visually exciting ballet troupe...