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Last week in Harlem's dingy Lafayette Theatre, while a sophisticated audience squinted and chattered about esthetics, the von Grona blacks were officially presented as Art. In the pit an all-Negro "symphony" orchestra, sporting a single saxophone as a concession to racial idiom, played lukewarm jazz, the Star-Spangled Banner and Bach's Air for the G String. The evening's most pretentious item, Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, was played on a phonograph...
OLLIE Miss - George Henderson - Stokes ($2.50). All-Negro novel, well and simply told...
...demonstrate the efficiency of their radio patrol system by having two policemen call on Mme Maurois in her hotel room, M. Maurois cried: "Good heavens, no! To have two policemen suddenly appear in our apartment would terrify her." Miss Hurst next took M. Maurois to Harlem to see the all-Negro apartment house built by John Davison Rockefeller...
...past few summers has heard smooth, suave jazz played by Paul Whiteman, Rudy Vallèe, Guy Lombardo. It has also heard Negro syncopators who scorn sweet stereotype melodies and easy orthodox rhythms. But this summer Europeans will have a chance to hear hot, pulsing jazz played as they never have heard it before. Last week on the S. S. Olympic Negro Edward Kennedy (''Duke") Ellington sailed with his 14-piece all-Negro band to play in London, Liverpool, Glasgow, later on the Continent...
There are in the U. S. some 250,000 Negro Catholics, of whom about 100,000 are represented by the Federation. There are three communities of Negro sisters: the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the Sisters of the Holy Family and the Franciscan Handmaids of Mary; many all-Negro parishes and parochial schools...