Noted Negro’s Visit

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 229, 27 September 1940, Page 8

Noted Negro’s Visit

PROFESSOR ALLEN’S LECTURE The past and present generation havi heard much of the music, story and sonj of the negro race. It has always beei popular with European and Easton races for hundreds of year?. The jazz rumba, fox-trot, shuffle; in fact, all sue! dances have come out of darkest Africi right down to the present day. And s< with the appearance of the noted negrn orator who opens at the Opera House to-morrow night, the public will have

lan opportunity of hearing a lecture by a gifted member of the negro race, a native of the West Indies, now a British possession, but formerly under the fiery rule of the Spanish and then the French Governments. The visitor is what is really known as a Creole, the same caste as the Empress Josephine, the first wife of Napoleon, also from Trois de France, a part of the then French West Indies. The professor besides being un orator is au ex-pearl diver and gave many exhibitions in different parts of the world. It was while engaged in suoff under-water swimming that he came under the notice of his late Majesty, King Albert of Belgium, and other royai and distinguished personages.