Further south at a Brooklyn dock, we find a recent arrival and an impending departure, both in the name of science. Departing for Lima, Peru, tomorrow night on the Grace Lines steamship Santa Lucia is the Hayden Planetarium-Grace peruvian Total Solar Eclipse Expedition. Tonight they will enjoy a farewell party at The Explorers Club on West Seventy-second Street in Manhattan. For entertainment, swing music is at its height in 1937. Duke Ellington's band along with Ethel Waters and the tap-dancing Nicholas Brothers.
Good movies abound.
It's still early enough for the 50 cent matinee show. One of Bing's regulars, comedian Bob Burns, always brings his comic musical instrument made from a whiskey siphon and a gas pipe. In a few years the name will be transferred to a new and more deadly device. The ladies cheer and promise to endorse La Guardia for reelection. Back in the borough of Queens, a no confidence vote for the mayor causes a police lieutenant's transfer from his regular duties to more menial ones.