The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-03-18
HARLEM
Race Capitol of the Nation"
By FLOYD G. SNELSON
NEW YORK
WORLD'S FAIR STUFF

NORLDS FAIR STUFF
If Won don't think Harlem is getting
ready for the great Fair, you're blase
or late. Bobby Sawyer the manager
of the brand new State Palace Ball
room, buzzed me that he can feed and
drink the Give thousand" with zone
fish" and have four left. In case You
don't dig what | mean, read the good
book about the five fishes and the five
thousand The latest addition to the
mite life Of Harlem opened its doors
Friday night at LenOx avenue and
li2nd street (site of the former Cotton
Club, now the Plantation) ground
floor, to the old New Workers, where
The old Douglass Theatre, of the last
decade was.
1t was the first time Harlem had a
real broadway opening" with the
a.cig lights and fan fare along with
silently Of excitement. 1t is positively
the largest and most spacious cabaret
in the [. S. for colored patrons. Lucky
Nillinder and Hazel Scott orchestras
alternate with the swing rhythm No
bar, Just bring your own. $50 boxes
for private parties. 1t will be solid
killer where our fair visitors from all
,yer the universe will meet and be met.
fhe service is in charge of Bob Saw
yer, manager; Frank Forbes, athletic
director; Pods Hollingsworth, floor
manager; Billy Bragg, headwaiter
some Of the first nighters were Com
missioner F. Q. Morton, Police Chap
lain, John H. Johnson, Judge Chas. E.
ToneN Tax Commissioner Hubert
Delaney Magistrate Myles A. Paige.
attorney Harry Bragg, Drs. H. Ringa
Desmond, Clarence (Shag) Hogans,
Farrell Allen, Kelly Miller, Hudson J.
Oliver, Comm Elmer Carter, Assembly,
man W. T. Andrews, Atty. Eunice
Carter
Also Leader Harry Perry, Senator
has. Perry, Herbert Bruce, f. Sims
'ampbel, George Gregory, Reginald
Goodwin, Duke Ellington, Edwin
omaIls, Al Richards, Morty Perkins,
John Dancer, Bea Ellie, Joyce Bease-
.,E, Bob Russell, Whitlock Forbes.
Joseph Breen, VIII Voedry, Carrie
FImore, Roy Morse, Fritz Pollard,
Amse Boyer, Elmer Sawyer, Dickie
Wells and gangs of others.
At THE FAIR GROUNDS
Five hundred or more bowling young
"utterbugs' broke ground for the
Savoy Theatre at the Worlds Fair with
the thunder of flying feet set to the
rhytho~ of swing. Under the approx
ing eye OF Grover A. Whalen, proxy of
The Falr the army of "cats" went to
work on the site with all the fury of a
thousand steam shoveIs. A roll of
drums, foot Of the cornet and they
tanched into a "jam-session" which
sent the dirt flying. Galvanized bv the
music Of Chick Webb and Erskine
hawkins, the youthful dancers spun
through the PAGES Of the Indy Hop,
me Big Apple, the Shim-Sham Shin
my the Shag until they were thrown
INTO exhaustion. Whalen made mock
inspection Of the site and declared the
ground well broken. Newsreels and
eameramen got into action, Ella Fitz-
gerald sang Star Spangled Banner"
FLASH-Just heard that the old
Savoy on Lenox avenue will be wreck
ed, and a Greyhound Bus Terminal
VIII occupy that block, for the benefit
OF the Fair visitors. You bus patrons
who come to the Fair can get off right
IN the heart of Harlem, 80 minutes TO
the Far grounds. Watch this column
for Fair news!
MARIAN AT THE FAIR
Lady Marian Anderson although
somewhat disappointed in not singing
at Constitution Hall, is well repaid for
9er efforts, having copied million
collars worth of publicity she couldn't
alford to buy for cash, and has lust
been notified that she will sing at the
W orlds Fair Musical Center, Nav Goth
thanks to Grover A. Whalen, Fair
exec
Dropped in Radio City the other day
and Miss Andersons office gave me her