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...partners (Saylor and three other Record men) brought out All-Negro Comics, a 48-page, 15? monthly, the first to be drawn by Negro artists and peopled entirely by Negro characters. Its star: "Ace Harlem," a Dick Tracy-like detective. The villains were a couple of zoot-suited, jive-talking Negro muggers, whose presence in anyone else's comics might have brought up complaints of racial "distortion." Since it was all in the family, Evans thought no Negro readers would mind...
...plays is presented as if she were just too terribly cute, whereas she is actually playing a spoiled brat who has yet to learn that the world is not her oyster. Mr. Madison, pouting perpetually, matches her for infantilism and bad manners, point for point; and they talk a jive dialect in which one of the most intelligible words is "jeepers." Those who find such types attractive will get a lot of laughs. In spite of the handicaps. Miss Temple plays her sinister assignment adroitly and, now that she's getting to be a big girl, looks quite...
City Editor Lane, who had been thinking of starting a teen-age column, gave Val the job. Chicago's bobbysoxers screeched with delight. Val never preached to them ("Kids don't like that"), seldom used jive talk ("Kids don't talk like that unless they're showing off"). She simply reported the news of parties, juke-joints, new fads, new records...
...were dolefully slow. But sales of gay scarves were phenomenal. They were 1947's chief fad everywhere. Another fad: "shorty" coats (known in some stores as "swallow tails"). In Chicago, Marshall Field's offered a shorty specialty which was going like hot cakes among teenagers: a "hot-jive jacket" of yellow plastic with such sharp legends as "Natch" and "Slick Chick" printed on it. The "slicker" days of the twenties were back...
Nothing like it had ever happened to a Sigmund Romberg operetta before. In Detroit, the Civic Light Opera Association decided that Romberg's My Maryland needed a bright boy to jive it up a little-and they knew just the right boy to do it. Frank ("Sugar Chile") Robinson, a young Negro (who is eight according to his father, eleven according to school records), is a piano-playing natural...