Sunday Chicago Bee

PINEY WOODS' ALL GIRL BAND ACCLAIMED

The Swinging Rays of Rhythm of Piney Woods college, the world's largest sepia all girl dance band, started hitting its stride in Louisiana and Texas last winter, is now being called everywhere the Bounce and Jump of Boogie Woogie Land.

Record breaking crowds greeted their return by "public-demand" in their recent tour of Florida within ninety days.

But if the occasion demands, these "Swinging Rays" bring out music of rhythmic sweetness that brings to mind the slogan "The sweetest music this side of heaven."

Their schedule picks up a few dates in Georgia and Alabama before their eastern dates that takes them as far North as Boston.

screen and radio will converge on LIDO BALLROOM, to prove that "Negroes can, and WILL underwrite and support their own institutions under the sweet banner of charity." . . . Miss Eleanor Hinds writes us that she has definite assurances that such celebrities as

CANAGATA (Canada) Lee, the actor of 1941 whose performance in"Native Son" has earned him ranking with the leading American thespians of the past 40 years, will be on hand; as Will MAXINE SULLIVAN, WILLIAM C. ("Father of the Blues") Handy,- ORLANDO (matchless VOice) ROBESON. EDDIE GREEN, funniest comedian the stage and radio has known in many, many years,--JOE BOSTIC, great young radio commentator,-DAN BURLEY, crack writer of the Amsterdam Star-News,- CLAUDE HOPKINS. FRANK A. BEASLEY, MARNETT MOORE, ALLEN DREW, HELEN STEWART, MOSS AND HARRISON, GEORGE STEWART. Al Babe) WALLACE, and many others.

Let's make it our business to hold a box office for this "Night of Stars" Theatre show, and don't force us to employ any pressure politics in beseeching one and all to come out that night and .

"jump with Dan Burley and-Al Moses."