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Died. Samuel H. Stiefel. 61, white man sometimes known as "The Father of Negro Show Business," who as a bigtime theater operator gave early breaks to such stars as Pearl Bailey. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Cab Galloway; of a kidney infection; in Philadelphia...
...most significant Democratic gain in Massachusetts was scored in the contest for the State Senate, which the party took control of for the first time. Biggest upset in the Senatorial contests occurred in the Back Bay where Democrat Richard R. Caples scored a surprishing victory over incumbent Republican James Bailey...
Nine young men stood in the prisoner's dock in London's Old Bailey and stared up at Mr. Justice Cyril Salmon. Three weeks earlier, armed with iron bars and wooden table legs, crank handles and an air gun, they had piled into a battered car and gone "nigger hunting" in a wild three-hour safari across the Notting Hill district, home of thousands of West Indians. They were, said their lawyer, victims "of the society in which they live...
...done told you?" said a minor actor rehearsing for Sam Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess movie, and there was thunder on Catfish Row. That sort of so-called Negro dialect, said Actress Pearl (Bess) Bailey, is "undignified and unnatural. I don't care if it's Negro or Italian or Greek or French; it's in bad taste." Producer Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger willingly told the Negro performers to leave out anything they did not like. Question: Will one of the show's most famed songs be retitled It Is Not Necessarily...
...world like a banker doing his civic duty, Belgium's ex-King Leopold III, who was forced by Socialist pressure to abdicate seven years ago, nobly accepted tutoring in the use of an American-style voting machine at the Brussels Fair from U.S. Pavilion Guide Beverly Ann Bailey. After the lesson, Leopold thoughtfully selected Lincoln as favorite statesman, Edgar Allan Poe as favorite author, Louis Armstrong as favorite musician. Poll completed, he issued a safe royal comment: "Very interesting...