The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-03-11
HARLEM
Race Capitol of the Nation"
By FLOYD G. SNELSON
New YORK
At A BALL THAT'S ALL

three thousand or more white and col
ored patrons of the arts Wednesday
evening at their second annual hall
at the Savoy. The Guild is headed bv
Bill Robinson and Noble Sissle, hon
orary and active presidents respec-
lively.
Many white celebs from Broadway
came in the hope they would not he
too bored with attention or pestered
bv autograph seekers. This gives
them an unusual opportunity to have
a heart to heart talk with a fellow
artist Of color without being mobbed.
1t goes without saying that fashion.
tnery, feminine beauty, glamour and
enchanting suavity were at their best
with touch of extravaganza.
Cab Galloway and Erskine Hawkins
furnished the toe tickling music for
the dance. Guests assembled late
pleasured plenty and left for nearby
hot-spots where they talked over
events Of the evening until GIN.
Hamtree Harrington, the actor and
now official photographer delegated
me to make personal arrangements
with the boxes to take pictures, and
it happened to be pretty nice lob
1t was pleasure looking over the CAV
box parties. Abbe Mitchell was in
style with a party of friends from
downtown: Carroll HOLSTER, DR.. Mel
bourne, Derry Gastreau, Owen Isaacs.
Assotta Marshall; Ethel Waters and
her husband, Eddie Mallory, Cotv Cot
tingham, Beatrice Ten Walck, astoria
Minis, Charles Turner, Ruth Thomp-
son, Ollie Burgoyne, Frank Wilson,
Willie Bryant, Josephine Hall-Smith,
Aiken Pope, Billie Rowe, Lou Layne,
AcCleary Stinette, Fannie Robinson,
etc
4 SLANT AT A GLANCE
The Thomas Johnsons from Boston
uald visit to Harlem over the week
end and were highly entertained by
friends. A large group of Harlem
les will spend the Easter weekend
i'm DC. to witness the outdoor concert
to be given by Marian Anderson, noted
contralto. Chick Webb ork with
Ella (Tisket) Fitzgerald will play the
n. Y. Paramount the week beginning
Mar 8, having just concluded an en-
gagement at the Park Central Hotel
The Southernaires and a roster of
Harlem entertainers will complete the
bill.
Nick Kenny advises "Bluebirdisks
are going like hotcakes, thank to Fats
Walters killer diller recording hot
plate of Hold Tight and its twin side,
You Outsmarted Yourself and Bruins
wick recording have sizzling platter
M Teddy Wilson's growing of More
than You Know other sided with
sugar that are very commercial, and
ust hear Ella Fitzgerald's 4 promise
You and Gotta Get Some Shut-Eye'
Decca platter
Charlotte Hawkins Brown, president
of Palmer Memorial Institute, Sedalia,
N. C., informs that she would highly
appreciate the patronage of her many
friends in attending the piano recital
of Jonathan H. Brice given by the
Knoxville College Club of New York
on Sunday afternoon (12) at the
Junior High School, 135th and Edge
combe, for the benefit of the N. Y.
Urban League. Mr. Brice is a gradu-
ate OF Knoxville College and has stu
died at Juillard School of Music. He
elected most favorable comments from
the press when he accompanied the
Sedalla Singers on concert tours in
symphony Hall, in Boston and Town
Hall in N. Y.
THE SWING MIKADO by a race
unit Of the Chicago Federal Theatre
which opened Wednesday at the New
Yorker Theatre, is an amusing and
frequently Enthusiastically comic joke
on the uneXceptionable style of Gilbert
d Sullivan. Fully half the opera is
sung IN traditional style, and none too
well, but several times during the eve
nlng both the orchestra and perform
ers go creditably berserk. Mrs.
FRANKLIN D. Roosevelt was among the
hrSt nlohters. Marie Saunders; Mer-
cedes Gilbert, Gertrude Haynes, Frank
HallStalk, Lloyd Thomas, Wilhelmina
AshWood, Edna Thomas, June Rich
mond, Cora Greene, Emory Richards,
Jean Roundtree, Wilbur Youngs, Jack
Dabney, Rich Kemp, Jack Jackson,
Chrstola Gearden, Daisy Brown,
Lionel Monagas, Gerald Aliens. Dewey
Curtis, McCleary Stinette, Ida For
Syne, j. Rosamond Johnson, AL Mon
roe.
=, Grace Brooks, Henrietta Hayden,
-, "0Ntlo' DOWNRIGHT, Andrew Anderson,
Claudyne Hurte, Maude Smith, DR..
and alnd Mrs. Kenneth Williams, Alva C.
hhlmbrough, Wilson Burtons, William
Carrots, Elsie LIE Nome, Ina and
Laura Duncan, Billy Butler, Eta
bankS, Lille Evans, Otto Hall, Paul
IN me Hackney, Estelle Nolan, John H.
thompson, Maude Osborn, Florence
Blackstone, Lillian Hunter.
Drs. Wiley M. Wilson, Frank An
ddrews, H. Binga DESMOND, Ira Nc
Cowan, Subbeal Anderson Junius
Green, Perry w. Cheyney, Clarence
H5ogans, Absalom, Marques; Carol An
GGerson, Frank Schiffman, Algernon
RISoanes, Clifton Hutchinson, Bernice
Wartleld, Allen Priest, Lorenzo Tuck
er; Tom Mabrey, Ethel Sheppard,
John Yates, Harriet ad-Butcher,
Or and Mrs. Louis Wright, Inez Will
son, Percy Verwayne, Geraldine Dis
mond, Reginald Goodwins, Vivian Har-
rls, Kendall Fosters, Marmetta Mikell,
asa asa Boones, Joyce Robinson, Edward
Gunther.
Wade Blocker, Nell Mae Hamilton,
Lulu King, James Sampson, Nora
Johnson, Regina Andra1ye Fl,oar Gov