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Incidentals: "Little Black Sambo" tomorrow afternoon at the N. E. Mutual Hall by the Tributary Children's Theater, the Latin Quarter night club at 46 Winchester Street, the Harvard-Dartmouth game, Soldiers Field Road, tomorrow afternoon...
Just Follow the Crowd. Among Negro intellectuals, the Zulus and all their doings are considered offensive vestiges of the minstrel-show, Sambo-type Negro. To Armstrong such touchiness seems absurd, and no one who knows easygoing, nonintellectual Louis will doubt his sincerity. To Jazz King Armstrong, lording it over the Zulu Parade (a broad, dark satire on the expensive white goings-on in another part of town) will be the sentimental culmination of his spectacular career, and a bang-up good time besides...
...antiSemitic, then by similar reasoning Shakespeare's Henry V is anti-French and Little Black Sambo is anti-Negro...
Died. Helen Bannerman, eightyish, shy, retiring author and original illustrator of The Story of Little Black Sambo, which has delighted moppets for nearly half a century (though it has lately been cried down by the Association for Childhood Education as a fomenter of racial discrimination), has been translated into many a foreign language, was once published simultaneously in the U.S. in 15 different pirated editions; in Edinburgh, Scotland...
...represents about 39,000 "progressive" educators, called Helen Bannerman's 46-year-old child's classic "an undesirable book. . . . These drawings create a distorted and ugly picture that becomes fixed in the white child's imagination." In Manhattan the Interschool Conference of Youthbuilder Clubs joined the Sambo-hunt because it "disseminates racial and religious prejudices...