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Noted Comedian Makes New Yorkers’ Sides Ache With His “Othello.”
(Louisville News.)
New York, June 18.—Bert Williams, premier comedian of his day, is again the star of Florence Ziegfeld’s “Follies.” Ziegfeld started his “Follies” in 1907 and each year he has outdone the preceding year in this type of show—which consists of elaborate staging, pretty girls and plenty of them, funny men, all kinds of music and dance, in short his “Follies” have been hash, a little bit of everything. Shortly after George Walker’s death, which left Bert Williams to travel alone, Ziegfeld did what no other manager or producer in this country would have done and that was to take a Colored performer into a purely white company. He snatched up Bert Williams, it was a bold thing to do—but it paid. Of course, the “Follies” can not go into some cities because of Williams, but that loss is over made up in the other cities. Williams has often saved the “Follies” from being pure and simple burlesque despite the fact Ziegfeld has most of the high priced white stars. This year the “Follies” have a Shakesperian travesty after the tercentenary in honor of the great Shakespeare. Bert Williams plays “Othello” in the play of that name. Space forbids a rehash of the scene—but if you’ve ever seen Bert Williams in anything, just shut your eyes and imagine him as the jealous Moor. You might then get a faint idea of what makes New Yorkers’ sides ache.
(From Amsterdam News.)
When the present European War was begun we gave it as our opinion that with the exodus of the foreign reservist and the cessation of immigration economic opportunities would be on the increase for the colored American. The results have vindicated our predictions. But has the colored man seized the opportunities presented? Is he taking the best advantage of the present situation?
Three times since the outbreak of the European War we have advised our young men and women to learn Spanish. Today the metropolitan dailies are filled with advertisements calling for Spanish speaking and enterprising young people. In many cases the need is so pressing for the expansion in South America of this country’s commerce that were a colored man to answer one of these advertisements there is hardly one chance in nine that he would meet with a rebuff. Little over a year ago the situation would have been exactly the reverse. But necessity and the Almighty Dollar work some awful changes. Prejudice usually disappears when it affects the moneyed interests. Colored men and women are holding down positions today that only eighteen months ago were tightly closed against them. And, what’s more, they can continue to hold those jobs even after the war, if their services are up to the required notch of efficiency. With many hundreds of them being used at present to fill places of the departed reservists still the advertising goes more emphatically on for more, yet more. Is the supply equal to the demand?
And the demand is even more urgent for Spanish speaking men and women to travel to the South American countries as the trade representatives of the big American firms. Will our people accept this opportunity, too? Or, now with opportunity thundering at their doors, will they ignore Ambition’s call to higher things?
Three times before we have advised them to learn Spanish. For a fourth time we reiterate the advice: Young man, young woman, learn Spanish! For behind that easily mastered language is the beckoning hand of increasing opportunities. Prepare yourself, and do your best on any job you accept. So when you leave it, another COLORED MAN OR WOMAN may be employed.
(Chicago Defender.)
Business, generally speaking, is a new thing with most members of the race, so it is not surprising to find a large percentage of failures among those who venture in it. There are a great many reasons why success does not come more often, the first being that hackneyed expression “unpreparedness.” A railroad man, for instance, may accumulate a little money and open up a grocery store. Having had no experience, he neither knows how to buy or to sell. If he prospers, it is simply by sheer luck and not due to any business knowledge.
As much of the profit lies in buying and keeping down overhead expenses as it does in the selling. Many large business houses have gone to the wall simply through poor management. In the identical place one man makes a failure, another makes a huge success. The first requisite is to have what the public wants and offer it for sale at an attractive figure—one that will permit of a fair profit yet meet competition. Make no misrepresentations; better lose a customer for the time being by telling him you haven’t in stock just what he wants than by selling him something inferior and claiming it is just as good. He might be fooled the first time but he will fool you ever afterward.
Many people open stores in the heart of what is termed “the black belt,” offer inferior goods, poor service, and ask high prices, and expect because the skin of those around them happens to be the same as theirs, that they are in duty bound to “trade with one of their own color.” In other words, the customer is asked to measure his race pride in dollars and cents. If he can get a good can of tomatoes across the way for 15 cents, he is expected to pay the same price or more for an inferior quality from the brother in mourning. If he refuses to so squander his money he is accused of todying to the white man.
We have learned the lesson well that as mechanics or any skilled workmen we must equal the best if we would even get scant recognition. The color line in the labor field is drawn taut, yet here and there the line is broken and employment given us. The new business man must realize he must be fitted for what he undertakes. He wouldn’t attempt to repair a watch without having gone through an apprenticeship in watch repairing. Why start a grocery, meat market, haberdashery, etc., before acquainting yourself with the particular line you wish to engage in?
We differ from other races only in that we are overconfident in our ability. We believe in starting at the top and sliding to the bottom; it looks so much easier. Climbing is hard work, but it is worth while, and when the top is reached, even though you are weary, you hold something tightly in your grasp that the world cannot take from you—experience. And, after all, that is the one great thing in life that brings success.
A Portland school teacher asked this question:
“Now, Johnny, suppose you wanted to build a $1,000 house and had only $700; what would you do?”
“I ’spose I’d have to marry a girl worth $300,” answered the young financier.
The physician was giving an informal talk on physiology.
“Also,” he remarked, “it has recently been found that the human body contains sulphur.”
“Sulphur!” exclaimed the girl in the blue-and-white blazer. “And how much sulphur is there then in a girl’s body?”
“Oh, the amount varies,” said the doctor, smiling, “according to the girl.”
“Ah!” returned the girl. “And is that why some of us make better matches than others?”
A darky walked into a restaurant, sat down to the table, and looking up, recognized the waiter as an old friend. “Huh!” he said, “I sees you is wuking here.” “Yes,” said the waiter, noting the sarcasm, “I’se wuking here, but, thank de Lawd. I ain’t eatin’ here.”
For years it has been dinned into our ears that we should not eat before going to sleep, and we have forgone many a pleasant bite for fear of sacrificing our good health. And now along comes a noted physician and tells us that many morning headaches were merely the result of hunger. This does not mean that we can immediately proceed to gorge ourselves with all sorts of sweets and not have to pay the penalty the next morning. Sweets should be eschewed during the midnight repast, and one should substitute some wholesome sandwiches—cheese sandwiches are wholesome and nourishing and can be eaten with impunity even during the wee small hours.
If lemons are old and dry, place them in a pan of hot water and keep the water at an even temperature for a few hours. As a result the lemons will become fresh and juicy again.
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A Live Book for Live PeopleHOW A NEGROSHOULD CONDUCTA BUSINESSTo Gain the Patronage of His Own PeoplePRICE $1.50 POST PAIDNow in press. Will be published about Sept. 1, 1916If you are in business or contemplate entering business, you should have this book. The book will contain Fourteen Chapters—not a dead line in it.SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS1A Brief Review of Early Negro Business Ventures.2Statistics of Negro Business in the United States.3Prejudice as it Affects the Negro in Business.4The Importance of Business in the Race’s Development.5What is Necessary to Secure the Patronage of Our Own People?6What is Necessary to Secure the Patronage of White People?7How to Buy Goods at the Lowest Price.8How to Establish Credit with Wholesale Houses.9What Constitutes Good Salesmanship?10Whom to Credit.11How to Make Collections.12How to Advertise.13How to Systematize a Business.14How to Conduct a Business in General.The price of the book is $1.50, but as a special inducement to advance subscriptions we will send it when published for One Dollar to those who will sign the attached slip and send to us before Aug. 20, 1916.Cut out this coupon, sign and send to us promptly.Date...................19....THE PROGRESSIVE BOOK PUBLISHERSChicago, Ill.Gentlemen:Kindly enter my subscription for one copy of “How a Negro Should Conduct a Business,” for which I agree to remit [to you] $1.00 as soon as you send me notice that the book is ready.NameStreet or R. F. D.TownState
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Date...................19....THE PROGRESSIVE BOOK PUBLISHERSChicago, Ill.Gentlemen:Kindly enter my subscription for one copy of “How a Negro Should Conduct a Business,” for which I agree to remit [to you] $1.00 as soon as you send me notice that the book is ready.NameStreet or R. F. D.TownState
Date...................19....
THE PROGRESSIVE BOOK PUBLISHERSChicago, Ill.
Gentlemen:
Kindly enter my subscription for one copy of “How a Negro Should Conduct a Business,” for which I agree to remit [to you] $1.00 as soon as you send me notice that the book is ready.
Name
Street or R. F. D.
Town
State