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; ' T ? I 2 I De] 'Taken From W. C. Handy, Originator of "The St. Louis Blues, Coming to Columbia. October 7th. tickets UlTered Tn Advance Tor Local Clubs in All Parts of the kg! State. Show Begins at Eight-Trirty. (By Special Corre? pondent) The Nina Mae Literary and Dra matic Club, of Columbia, will feain a thrw-act, play?in the Township Audi'torium, October 7th. The play will present son''' nf| the hett. talent of yoeng people, who are being trained for sta?.e performo ?-ance hv*ie and elsewhere. j. In order to make special accommodations for th ? out-of-to\Vn club members, the management "Xvill^have advance ticket sales, and it is suggested that all clujb mtflnbers get their tickets befofe hand by writing to Thu-Palmett^ Lead . -er's office. One of the biff "feature? of the "Cavalcade of the Blues" in the H Township Auditorium, October 7, will be the appoaran c of W. C. "BB * ~=TT!ifTr!\"r,"1 Uh gei'son},' onglhato'r "of the "St T .unis Rliiae " The "St. kSfl Louis Bluets" has bad a swing around the world and is in itself f a- big hit when placed as* a part of any entertainment. \V, C. Handy is. a composer of many numbers in high class music, in which he features with ease Negro Spirituals ip music-composed by himself. He has written and is writing many sacred songs thai?can | be used rn .churches and schools] and fur this reason The" churches }f St. .Louis staged his big recital ast week. His book of SpiritA-eek and ready for distribution to Dramatic Clubs in the chain of clubs sponsored by .The-Palmetto Leader, under the auspices of the Nina Mae Literary and Dramtic Club. " Handy Is Magnct5c Artist ^\V. C? Handy introduced the indigo hue to AMERICAN MUSIC c when he gave the world "The* ifpmnKi-J Rlnne M A .. warn r...? r"1" ?gW-? this song sent i!d Crump to Congress arid TTan iy tu Broadway. Itl $ 3 was here that he adapted political i wofds, to" a wo^isong, snappy! fcjl rhythm that welled-. straight out | K9 .. of "hw being. Audiences had been Ka listening patently ' f" , hn " """Tore, but after he gave them the ** rj| music that is native to his people' *39 they went wild with enthusiasm. After "The Memphis Blues" ? came the ""St. Loin's""Blues," the "Beale Street Ttluos" ana scores |9 of others.? America?took to the Blues and from the initial impulse 'supplied by Handy, went on Ira to jazz and swing. * Handy was born- in Florence, I 19 Alabama. His father and granrl-J father were Methodist preachers, but Handy would pass^ up a sermon any Sun^ay^tohear the river men sing their mournful songs as th(?y toiled. He can mfl_kx> a cornet talk, and he is one of the. bestliked musicians of Amerrca. Endorsed by The Press :a have not only endorsed Mr... Handy as a great artist .but have I m given to nis work many columns of space with big head line an-; Em nouncpmetits.. We find interesting and newsy ; articles, editorials and comments! ?:T Bfl from editors of the "Sports Maws '] running through America-g best | B iournalo!?Hauji Maillll 111 "F66tlights and Flickers," The ?om [ mercial Appeal, Memphis, says? The suggestion here Wednesday j that W. Or- Handy, ''Father of Jazz," bo invited to lead the or-1 chcstra of Paul Whiteman, "King! jw of Jazz," in a medloy of Ilandy'rj blues at ont of the Cotton Carni-| I Coli I ?f Ol 1 Ionow i Admission: es r ' mmammmmmmi ==NINA MA avalo Diet in ff The I .iff the Carton, "BIRTH OF r - --- -- T? Member, val balls met: with an immediai response. Charlie Morgan brings wo that the committee?in_char?o -U egraphed Whiteman at once, as! ing his approvad-.of an invitatic - , To-the elderly Negro composer lead the Whiteman orchestra "Memphis Blues," "Beale Stre one of the Carnival dances i Ellie Auditorium. I feel sure that Whiteman \vi join in this gesture of honor to great Southern Negro who ht brought honor to 'Memphis thr the gentle humility of hi*s ow ??career an well aa* the~renown ~c his music, * Since the NBC stations froi coast to coast are to broadcast 3 minutes . of the Whiteman mus: during the- ball on Tuesday?mtf* of carnival week, it has bt?en fui ther suggested that 4he tribute t * Handy be,paid during that tim so that the world can hear th T white ^cftple of the South hone a Negro who deserves such recos nition and who will accept it hun bly, yet happily, in the spirit i which' it is given. Tvni'Cal of the voncfinn t<-> 1 Handy suggestion is the followin lette? from Mrs. Frank Hayder widow of the Memphis banker: imbia ? " CO =ridtiy P From 8:30 to I '. ?:??? THisrpXEMETn E LITERARY PRESE * ade o A PLAY IN TI . ; J D:__ _? 117 >. auu i\i5c ui vv , By Mary Am ? A SONG," Published by STARRING: (IT HF HjV K^ 9b I v*^ ^JH fl American Society of Com Ui_. "Pear Mr, M.nrtinr }-4 ?I "Your suggc?;tion of asking . W. i'i id C. Handy to^ lead 6ne number of c d-Paul\Vhiteman'P orchestra"tftnrmgrT k- the Cotton Carnival, I think ex- j t! >n ^cellent. & e to "I would love to see the white ii m people of Momphis pay W.C. Han- tl et ly this tri'bute which I think ho v at "ThIs idea -of -yours f Tfurfk is * , Very broad-minded and kin~ly for e 11 one of your years. Very sincerely, j"f a "JESSIE MATSON HAYDEM." j A rs : ? 1 b u| The California Eagli? was furP.fi n nished this story fro mits New >f Yorlf correspondent as of Aug. 11: "1" 1 ? i \ Handy on Broadway 20 Years n New Yorkw Aug. 11. (C)?W. tr 0 C. Handy, father of the "Blues," ir ie; has been on Broadway for twenty c< years, he rovonlcH i*fr'a~~cp"ir>pi-il rr?? t'erview in the office of- Handy , li 0. Brothers Musie Co., Friday;?Mr.? ie Jlondy will be G5 years old on' w ;0 'November 1G, and is still active, r, >r managing the affairs of his world jj > i Wide-organization himself. Asso- \\ i- ciated -with him in the business is '? n his brother. C. E. Handy, and his p | son, \V. "C. Handy, Jr. m e' Mr. Handy practically earns g his living now from royalties on.fhi 1,; "The ScT ours Blues." As a mem-: si [ Per of the American Society af [ .ft r Towns LUMBIA, SOL) ?Jitc, Ocl 1:00 ^ = msmsmammmmmam d leader " lND drama i :nts? f TH jpff. afts , C. Handy As ] lie Bunting American Society of ( >J PF.RSOM) , --y - g ^ . ??^ ?? NDY posers, Authors and Pu rs, his rights aie amply protect- i t d, and his income runs around; b 20,000."a~~y.e-ar from all rights to [ c tie song. His firm is active, how-! c vcr, in the publishing field, andlc i making a special effort to cause Y ic public to know better the! orks of Negro authors. A new i a ieio the?firm has pubtlshecT lip Drum Corps with Bugle," a mod- j h in treatise by A. Jack Thomas,; jj-'mer bandmaster of the - U. S.1 rmy, many copies of which have rr een bought by the government T 3r the CCC camp banda. j w From tho Editorial Page of the t^ ^w-Yerk Journal: - ~ Beale street, Memphis'a hum- h iinj* Negro thoroughfare, is go- [r ig to croon the hi lies. during the! 0 >tton carnival in May, but it - tl on't be because Of > any tough m ,ck- i ' j k: Oh the contrary,- Beale street i oi ill be celebrating, pnd with good ! "1 qason. For during^the carnival b< . will hail its most famous son, oi r. C. Handy, the composer of the b< Beale Street Blues," "Memphis th lues" amL the universally known er 3jt. Lours Blues." | to Handy, even during his lifetime in iccesses are firmly imbedded in j w f ihip A Th CAROLir tobe r 7 Dance ? ' ; nc CLUB= ; Blu< King of The B1 Composers, Authors ant t ISP"3* v & J .' i *? *' A*> - 'i ? -. 4 v--3 . . _; -z A : .;>, tj '; ' '?/"j '. y'sx y ?'< - ' S^S ': I -V J, blishers he other. When he leads the and during the carnival, and re. ? eives the tribute of hTemphis's itizens, New York wril have ocasion to be proud, too. For New ork, that is Handy's home now. Beale street and Broadway alike ppreciate standing roponent of jazz and a credit tc is race and his nation. TraHmg down the father of lodern blues, The Boston Eveming Tanscript gives, a descriptive rite-up in a three-column editor^ tl- from which we clip the first vo paragraphs: For" the past few days Boston as been -enterttifining, and has 1 turn been_ entertained by, one f the most important figures in ie history of contemporary-- A- erican music-'-Wrlliam C. Handy nown to musicians inside - and itside of Tin Pan Alley as thi# ?ather of the blues." There has ien much controversy about the -igin. of the blues; there ha? jon much debate, indeed, about le precise origins of jazz, wheth regional, racial or thematic. As i* the part played by Mr. Handy lifting the blues out of theii ilavive obscurity into the bright hitvs lights?eventually-of Broad ay, there is much less doubt. i i uditor VIA 1938 From 11:00 t ; v Saturday, Scptrrnhcr 10, 193 >. hhmb i ' 2s ues 1 | v i Publishers - Hod it nut been for this iNegro musician, whose life has been as as most of us ar? concerned, obscure, it is not very likely- that - today we shield be?humming ?==^~ songs of indigo hue, in whicr the sorrows and the humors of an en- " tire race have found such origi- EgN ' A nal expression. Thu prejudice against jazz and against the blues, as words and . istic rather than an aesthetic canon.Nftt. ft smnll r?r?r+ir*n nf fKo splf-annrifr prejiwlira?is rqOal. If ?r?" happened that modern jazz , has bqen developed,, whether as^ to artistic expression or commercial exploitation, by the Negro and tho Bj Jew?two races against which, even in the United States, thefre still remains a remnant of,. shall Bj we say, ill feeling. ' I -have pointed out before, certain curious affinities existing between these races?affinities that may be sourc ed in a common ultimate Oriental origin, as well as in their historical status as oppressed peoples. Whatever the reasons, surely these , strange blend in such phenomena - a? the development of jazz. Big Entertainment for South Carolinians South Carolinians, white and ? I colored, will be given the biggest entertainment of a life time Oc- |S ' .tober 7th, wHeh~they come"to~set the performances of the set-up in the . Drama in Three ^Acti,?"The _==1B - Uovaloade of the Dluna, wrlttah* by Miss _Mary_Annie Bunting, un- Wj der the auspices p* the ? oH Literary and Dramatic Club, be--4?g?sponsored by? The Palmetto H Leader. The biggest feature of the. play ?-?' ^B in the Township Auditorium a i iH r that time will be the part played by W. C. Handy, who will be |H here, IN PERSON, and who will {? display his great ability as an ar- pa tist, musician and interpret the _ M fullest meaning' of JThe St. Louis _ tS Blues" and the new meaning ot la] Your trip to Columbia, October * j . "th will briny to vnn information |jj worth while, recreation of the highest type and you will make a fundamental contribution to the ||? initial advent of the Nina Mae LiteTaTy and Dramatic Club. Yuu k] will show your gloriotis apprdcia- ^"7" . tion for the cfforto being put forth Kj by The Palmetto Leader rn sponsoring what will be a great liter- * HS ary venture for the employment ral of so many of our young people. Blues Composed by Mr. W. C. Handy SAINT LOUIS BLUES I YELLOW DOG, BLUES H HESITATING BLUES LOVELESS LOVE (BLUES) B MEMPHIS BLUES AUNT HAGAR'S BLUES JOE TURNER BLUES FRIENDLESS BLUES CA R EL ESS LOVE : HARLEM BLUES T ' | BEALE STREET BLUES AND TO BE SUNG IN i "Cavalcade of the Blues," Oct. 7th H ium I n * - ^^ o 2:00 1 - 6G Cents J i