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184:'s Douglass University at its School of Expression based on theater and drama. The same decade saw her begin her practice of skits and character acts in front of an audience, including drama monologues that involved using multiple different voices to play characters. For these one-woman shows she performed as characterizations of figures such as Hattie Tyson from
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Hubbard became Swarz's professional theatrical manager in the summer of 1947 and she later used her newspaper column to help reunite Hubbard with his long-estranged sister. Swarz conducted another tour of shows across the Southern and Midwestern states in the final months of 1947, along with
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boxing match. This made her the first black woman to be a sports reporter for a national press chain. She later started her own newspaper column named "Lou Swarz' Jottings"; after the column obtained an international audience she considered renaming it "Around The Globe", before deciding to call it
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A program started by Swarz in the mid-1940s and made an official program for the Zeta sorority in 1947 was the "La
Cheerios" group that involved sending cheer cards to hospitals across the country every month and especially around holidays. Another program established by Swarz around the same time
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relief efforts. Alongside her Zeta sorority, Swarz spent three to four days a month doing USO performance tours until the end of World War II. She afterwards began doing a series of national tours in 1945, having added new monologues to her repertoire. In addition to starring in films, she also
325:, ran daily during the work week at 9 am, focusing on presenting recipes, beauty tips, general news, and different special features each day of the week involving community figures. The immediate success of the show resulted in her being signed to a daytime radio program with the
381:, an organization for speakers and monologue performers on stage. As a member of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority, Swarz was involved in community outreach and social improvement projects. She acted as a member of the Xi Zeta chapter and began in the 1930s with the rank of
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station before the end of
September. This new program was expanded to broadcast from Monday through Saturday for an hour and a half in the afternoon. The first half hour had the same segments and specials as Swarz's WWRL program, but the following hour was entirely
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through 1951, before becoming associate editor for the company and then associate director by 1955. At the same time, she had an ongoing newspaper column called "Charm.." that covered beauty, fashion, and other tips on how to portray oneself.
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Personality Development" classes in 1947 for the Sepia Hollywood Modeling Group. She also acted as beauty consultant for
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September 1952, Swarz was given her own daily radio show on the
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2167:"Audience Enjoys Lou Swarz With Moreland In "Tall, Tan & Terrific""
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943:"Lou Swarz Program At Armory April 2"
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2135:Pitts, Michael R. (April 25, 2019).
1881:"Women's Section NCNW Salutes Swarz"
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1138:"Southern Students Go for Lou Swarz"
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1944:"Brooklyn Zetas To Start Teen Town"
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