Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While black Elks last week danced through Harlem, shouting, in purple clothes and fine fettle (see p. 29), other Negroes held a less riotous convention elsewhere in Harlem. These were the members of the fourth Pan-African Congress, who had gathered from the U. S., the West Indies, Germany, Japan, India, South America, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Nigeria, Liberia, South Africa, to discuss racial needs. Speeches were made, newspapers commented, resolutions were accepted and published. Speeches. Said Dr. Wilhelm Mensching of Petzen, Germany: "The fruits of love as outlined by Apostle Paul grow in the soul of the African." Said...
Said J. Dalmus Steele, Harlem's defeated candidate for Grand Exalted Ruler: "I was quadruple crossed. My future in Elkdom is practically blighted and my faith in the order is virtually under- mined...
...several funny skits and Ethel Waters. Her 70-odd inches are topped by a small closely cropped head. She uses a typical husky, soft voice to unusual advantage, employs mannerisms frankly and disarmingly Negroid, understands the art of "living" her songs, so that they take on dramatic quality. In Harlem, she is queen. In Manhattan she stopped the show. The other feature is the chorus of many-tinted Negro girls, most of them well-made, whose hips keep up with vagarious jazz rhythms by going three ways at once. Rang Tang unfortunately starts off with a plot about two dusky...
...late Prince Scipione Borghesi is both Royal and Papal. There are, in fact, dozens, scores, hundreds of Italian noblemen whole titles are genuine and venerable beyond reproach. Therefore, it was not surprising that in Paris last week, famed Negress Black Bottom, and Charleston performer Miss Josephine Baker, once of Harlem, now mistress of a Montmartre night club, should have announced her marriage to Count Pepito di Albertini of Rome. Few of Miss Baker's race would have kept the secret as long as she said she had kept it-20 days-and when the announcement was cabled...
Meanwhile Negro friends of Miss Baker in Harlem, New York City, positively asserted that she was the wife of a Pullman porter named George Baker. By this time the confusion and sensation were international. The Associated Press put its Rome correspondents to work tracing Count Pepito di Albertini. For three days they ransacked Italian genealogical and police records-found no such name-announced the fact...