PRINCESS WHITECLOUD
2020.... REVISITED ...
More clippings and info on the Princess. Clearly she was a true showman (or should I say show woman?) - the likes of whom would have given Liberace a run for his money!
She knew how to dress, how to speak, walk and above all play that grand Hammond Organ in the window of the Werlein's at Edgewater Mall, Gulfport, Mississippi -
Be sure you open the various comments from readers in this blog - I see where someone researched the old gal, and proposed a WIKIPEDIA article (which doesn't appear to have materialized.)
Here is the latest in my scrapbook of memories of a lady who was a consummate entertainer.
As always, double clicking on a pic enlarges it.
First, an advertisement from a 1944 Billboard music year book, page 315.
Enlargement from above - Princess Whitecloud -- Singing Sweetheart of the Sioux.
The Rendezvous Lounge address is in Alexandria I.A (Louisiana). There's a Rendezvous Lounge still there today - according to Google. I wonder.....
She was a feature performer in a circus wild west show -- note the attribution "first cousin of Will Rogers"!
And finally, an unusual piece about her program for the National Women's Security Corps.- Note her billing as a "princess of the Sioux Indians.".
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National Security Women’s Corps Is
Seeking Members
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Indian Princess to Give Program at Initial Meeting
Tomorrow.
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Recruiting of women for South side unit of
the National Security Women’s corps, a nation-wide volunteer organization, will
begin at a meeting at 8 pm tomorrow in the Hamilton park fieldhouse 72nd
St and Normal Blvd. The corps is a
semi-military organization that trains patriotic women interested in aiding the
war effort.
Entertainment as well as information will
be provided at the initial meeting. Neioma Whitecloud, princess of the Sioux
Indians, will interpret the habits and customs of her people in a program of
Indian music. A lecturer as well as a
musician, Miss Whitecloud has prepared in addition a special talk, “The
American Indian in the Service Today.”
Princess Whitecloud is employed by the
federal government in Chicago at the present time. During a recent tour of the country, she sang
at the Indian reservation at St. Michael, Aria, was a guest of the Hobby Lobby
radio program and presented a program of Indian melodies at the Sportsman’s
show held here last April. She introduced an original composition, “Hopi Indian
Slumber Song” at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. two years ago when she
was guest of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
For her musical selection, Miss Whitecloud
has selected the “Sun Salutation,” a Tlingit tribal melody that she arranged, “By
the Waters of Minnetonka,” by Lieurance, and a Cadman composition, “From the
Land of the Sky Blue Water.”
Prospective Southtown recruits for the
corps will be greeted by Lt. Betty Krone, Chicago division commander. The purpose of the corps will be explained by
Lauraine Radike, 7259 Harvard ae., who has been selected to head the new
Hamilton park unit.
Volunteers are divided into two groups,
the juniors, 14 to 17 year old, and the seniors, 18 to 35 years old. Membership requirements are American citizenship
and a physician’s certificate of health.
Dues are not charged by the corps, but there is a fee for each class
taught. Members must provide themselves
with the steel blue uniform of the corps.
Beginning with the first meeting tomorrow,
the Hamilton park unit will meet every Thursday thereafter in the park
fieldhouse.
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This snapshot taken in 1967 ... Princess is performing under a mirror overhead - tilted so the audience can see her keyboard - the postcards along the edge are from admirers all over the world! It was a relaxing time - no heavy disco - no rock and roll - just the Princess playing old standards ranging from Waiting on the Robert E. Lee to the popular join-in Alexis from Texas the Prairie Fairy.
In 1969, Hurricane Camile came through and wiped out the KoKo. The morning before the storm landed a crew of able bodied admirers descended on the KoKo and helped clear it of anything that was not tied down - Including Princess's beloved Hammond Organ.
1 comment:
I have fond memories of her performances there. She played on for hours with no break!
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