The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1938-07-01
Swingaroo
Eunis Mott

vivid, you will obtain the real Nc
Coy by consenting to be my guest
as I take you to the land of Swim
CARGO. On entering the Fraternal
Hall, you check your wraps with
Mrs. Henrietta Marshall and truck
upstairs where Mesdames Duncan
and Ingersoll relieve you of your
tickets. Then, you look in on
what you thought was the dance
hall, but instead you see one of the
swankiest nighteries of the dance
season. Around the walls are chan
deliers, glowing with lights of pas
tel colors, made effective by col
ored papers inserted around the
globes.
AS you take in the decorations,
you are greeted by hostesses Ber-
nice Williams and Eunis Mott who,
with anengaging smile, welcome
you and escort you over the floor
to booths of chance. AS you pass
the laughing girls and boys, you
smile with them as they swing to
the torrid tunes of Teddy Wilson,
Duke Ellington, Chick Webb, JIM
ME Lunceford and others that are
impersonated on records spinning
in "goola box" Presently, room
is made for you to pass through
an exciting crowd, surrounding a
beautifully decorated booth. Be-
hind this are the charming little
girls, Mary Ellen Duncan and Jes-
sic Mott, who instruct you how to
play the game of skill, "Sambo."
To play, there is small fee of one
cent, and since yesterday was the
18th and payday, too-you give a
coin to one girl while the other
gives you a play gun inserted with
rubber arrows. You test yourself
as Oman by trying to shoot an
arrow in the middle of numbers
around Sambo: a grinning boy,
poised on a cardboard. The first
time-you miss, but after all, that
Oman had to unload his gun on
Dillinger before he finally got the
prize. You win prize and before
you know it, are out on the floor
cutting steps with dancers. Be-
ing very generous person, you
walk up to the .goola box" but
one of the hostesses interferes, by
telling you that the music is free.
Then you are escorted to the nois-
lest corner of the hall. You find
yourself facing a long table on
which are numbers arranging from
one to twenty. Behind this table
are Messrs. Terry Eugene Duncan,
VIM. F. Browne, Roy Lee Spicer,
and Edgar Williams. They are
shouting "Place a dime on any
number, folks, and we will give
you a prize. Come now, one more
before we turn the wheel-thank
you lady, and now - round and
round she goes, where she stops
= nobody knows" Everyone is
excitingly yelling as the wheel
slows down. And to the winner,
No. 5 why, that's you'll You
then pick your choice of leather
goods, pottery, silverware, knives,
etc. But wait, there is Fred Flow
ers yelling "All those who played
| the wheel of chance are entitled
to free pop = right this way
You finish your pop and have time
to rug cut" two pieces before
Herman Whaley announces his
fine floor show.
Al Pierre is at the keyboard and
Jerry Reed of the Green Front is
rhythmically beating out tattoo
with his taps as the crowd eagerly
supports him. Next Happy Brown
also of the Green Front, keeps
the audience interested with his
rich baritone as it flows through
the hall in the fashion of Lone
some Road" Naturally the Green
Front had to spare Fulton Alex
ander and his version of 'Nagi
Sake" To break the monotony OF
male entertainers, Margery Cliff
ford renders a unique style of the
old favorite "Shanty in Old Shan
ty Town" OF course, Ralph Will
lis is always sure get with his
taps and stunts which deserves
him the title of 1.-THE dancer" With
the courtesy of the Broadway Inn
and the Capital Theatre, the fine
team of MA and Pa" kept the
floor show speeding with their ORR
ginal style of song and dance. Yes
the best always comes last and
that was little Alfonso Scruggs,
who shared his act with Herman
Whaley and Ralph Willis. AL Pier
re, who continuously tickled the
ivories throughout the show, repre-
scented with Ralph, Margery, and
Herman, the Swing Club Nightery
A huge and very fine floor show;
but Swingaroo must go on and SC
you play and dance until the
wee hour of 1870 o'clock. Nice
what? Now don't you wish you