The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-06-24
II A r Z E n
"RACE CAPITAL of THE NATTON''
By FLOYD G. SNELSON

NEW YORK

panies from the west and from Dixie
are running special excursions to New
York for the double feature, the fight
and the Fair, the duo attraction. The
Harlem Reception Service Bureau, 227
LenoX Avenue, of which the writer is
director of publicity will entertain
few carloads of visitors who will arrive
for the grandest time of their lives. If
you want to be entertained with the
greatest convenience and save time and
money, and really get the biggest look
see for your short or long stay, drop
me line at once, and | will put you
on our list of guests. Send stamp for
reply; your cruising reporter.
GIFT OF CAB
Joe Louis, why don't you buy DR..
Biers Pompton Lakes camp? Stop
paying out 500 bucks a week remit
that old rumor that you were to pur-
chase the skyscraper Theresa Hotel at
l25th st. and Seventh, is old and mil
dewed. The Royal Britans heard
genuine American Negro spirituals for
the first time at the White House-and
Marian Anderson did the honors The
first lady insisted that Marian receive
$1,000 for singing, even though she in
sisted on singing gratis Nina Mae
Mckinney, the eyeful movie star cee-
brated her 9th natal day Friday, while
entertaining at the swank night club
The Frolic, at Boston's Revere Beach,
Mass. l.. Father Divine figured in the
royal reception at Hyde Park, when
somebody pointed across the river to
! his Kingdom, where the Is cent fried
chicken dinners are the vogue. =.
Paula Hazard-Harris the good locker
is back to good health after recent sick
siege, and her sister, the glamorous
Grace, is wearing one of the niftiest
fox capes in Harlem.
When you see that sepia flicker
"Moon over Harlem" you'll look twice
when that lovely Texas lady Izenetta
| (Tears) Wilcox comes on the scene
She is one Of those gorgeous dark-eyed
brunettes, with a soft ivory complexion,
that YOU love to touch. | first met the
chamer at Wiley College, where she
was graduated in '36;-her daddy is
a prosperous mortician in Austin she
is the wife of Wilcox, the pianist with
Jimmie Lunceford DIRK Others in the
piece are Bud Harris, Alex Lovejoy,
Walter Richardson, Slim Thompson
and Sidney Bechet music. Charlie
Davis, the dance producer, has rounded
out galaxy of hot mamas, easy on the
eyes, with fancy toes for the Paradise
Gardens, the Atlantic City hotspot :
1t goes without saying that its hot"
revue, with Charlie Johnson DIRK the
dancers: lone Sneed, Bernice Aiken,
Lovey Lewis, Lorraine Harris, Dorothy
Jackson, Grace Dash, Marie Wilson,
Mae Fortune and Rustina Banks. The
principals are that hot article of love-
liness Mae Diggs, Edna Mae Harris,
who played in the Joe Louis flicker,
Bill Bailey, Babe Wallace, Alethia Hill
and Grice & Allen; premier June 30.
}. Mayo (Ink) Williams and Liz
Armstrong motored over from the
Windy City to do some recording for
Decca platers by the way Lip is writ
ing the biography of her former hubby,
Louie Satchamo, for a publishing firm.
Leroy Tynes, playboy wage-ealner for
the beautiful Hazel, by the same name
is Bleaching on the shores of Easton
Maryland. Erskine Hawkins, the
Doth Century Gabriel and his ork is
blowing high C's at the Pythian Tenn
pie, Louisville, Ky. GATH. --latest
reports are that Chick Webb is serious
ly i'll at a local hospital following a
major operation; here's hoping the lit
the drum major will survive successful
the band with Ella Fitzgerald are do
ing one-nighters in Florida. -. On a
tragic subject, my heart goes out fol
the charming Ina Duncan, clever ac.
tress songbird of "Shuffe long" fame
who was critically wounded, being hit
by an auto on Lenox Ave. Sunday am.
and may lose one Of her shapely limbs
J Thank boys for bid to grand opening