Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alabama Aces are twelve colored musicians, formerly with the Little Harlem Night Club, whose feature is "Sweet Sue," played on Coca Cola battles...
Kirkland lads and their lassies will hop to the rhythms of Joe Novils' Alabama Aces, a coloured band from the Little Harlem night club in Boston, on Friday evening, from 10 o'clock to 1. The tickets will be $2.00 a couple, $1.50 stag...
Next morning, sportswriters hailed Joe Louis with all the superlatives they had used for Max Baer two years ago. In his Harlem apartment, a reporter asked Louis how he liked being married. Said "The Brown Embalmer",* ''One night is not enough to tell." His plans included a world tour, a Chicago apartment home, one fight a month, a chauffeur for the Lincoln car he gave his wife for a wedding present, a bout with Max Schmeling next June, another with Champion James J. Braddock next September...
Production difficulties for the Gershwin opera have been to teach the Harlem Negroes a Southern accent, to drill by ear those who were unable to read a note, to help some members of the cast decide on names which will look imposing in the program. Great advantage has been the fact that none of the singers was handicapped at the start by having real grand opera ways. The principals, Porgy and Bess, have never sung on the stage before. Bess is one Anne Browne, a product of the Juilliard School of Music. Porgy is Todd Duncan, a Gershwin discovery from...
Rich old Rev. Daniel Joseph Jenkins, in his institution's Northern headquarters in New York's Harlem, scrutinized detailed weekly reports of his bands' doings. Collections in Saratoga, even with five youngsters passing hats and wheedling coins from bystanders, were good only when someone with a kind heart produced a windfall. Last week Daniel Jenkins sent Band No. 2 back to Charleston, where Band No. 1 would rejoin it, playing its way southward by way of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond and Durham. Daniel Jenkins also is soon returning South. "I ain't got long to stay here," he cackles...