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...Chicago last season the Federal Theatre Project launched the big moneymaker of its brief career with a rousing, all-Negro Swing Mikado. In Chicago last week an all-Negro cast kicked over another Gilbert & Sullivan lantern, hoping to start another blaze of swing with a Tropical Pinafore. But the show went over on its rich, husky Negro singing rather than as a shagging Harlemquinade...
...Likeliest, folksiest of last week's newcomers was MBS's Sheep and Goats Club, an all-Negro jamboree with an all-Negro studio audience (Wednesdays 8 to 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.). Entrepreneur is colored Actor Richard Huey (All God's Chillun Got Wings, In Abraham's Bosom, Porgy), a Harlem big shot who runs a barbecue near Lenox Avenue called Aunt Dinah's Kitchen, and operates on the side a theatrical booking office for Negro talent. As Bossman Huey explained the setup: "Over on the right here we got the sheep. . . . They sing hymns...
Hitherto Micheaux films have featured all-Negro casts. Producer Julian has other ideas: "Now, in our new picture, there are 18 whites. . . . When we need whites in the story, we are going to have whites...
Bitter was the feud in the all-Negro town of Mound Bayou, Miss., between Eugene P. Booze, Republican boss, and his sister-in-law Estelle Montgomery. Cause: both claimed ownership of the house in which Booze and his family lived. Eugene Booze apparently won the argument last month: in an altercation over a court order forbidding her to enter the house, Estelle attacked Booze and two white State policemen with a butcher knife, was shot dead...
...private enterprise the Federal Theatre Project last week handed over the biggest money-maker in its history: the Swing Mikado. After May 1, Chicago's Marolin Corp. will control the show, re-employ its all-Negro cast of 80. They will provide new sets since the present ones, being Government-owned, cannot be bought. They will up the admission from $1.10 to a $2.20 top, move the show from Broadway's outskirts to pleasure-seeking 44th Street, opposite a wildly glaring Hot Mikado. For the Hot Mikado's Producer Michael Todd, sore to begin with because...