The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-05-06
Uptown DOwnbeat
Jay Morris


Swing Sessions The past few
weeks have been loaded with affairs at
which this thing called swing was the
order of the evening. The "Debs
About Town" are credited with the
gayest formal swingeroo so far this
season. but the Junior League, the
Kappas, the Forty-Niners, etc, all
promise to take over the top spot when
their jump sessions take place. :. . The
Junior Resthaven crowd tossed a good
ole good one Friday evening at the
Ritz while for those who preferred
quiet house-hop the girls at AGA obliged
with dim lights and slow music AS
we go to press the Junior League is
about to take charge of Green Acres
where they are tossing their annual
spring frOlic at which some lucky lady
will be made Queen of the MAY" and
other charmfuls will be selected as her
"1Jaijs-In-W Waiting" . That same
evening back in town the Kappa Kids
are Offering their yearly Masquerade
Ball which should draw a sizeable
crowd e.. On May 9 We'll hear from
the Dunbar Associates who are pre-
scrtug as their chit of the month of
May that torrid trumpet man from
Harlem, Erskine Gabriel" Hawkins.
The scene of the operations will be the
Roseland-State Ballroom and va
shouldn't miss it. Later in the
season. on June 9, the club 40 will toss
it, annual spring formal at Cam
bridges Cantabrigia Club. The clubs
two previous endeavors have met with
great success but this years session
promises to top all others. Mrs. Ruby
Agnew is this years chairman of the
affair and doing a good job Mid
night NemOs =. . The other pm. one
o.. our lawyer-friends whose initials
are John Lane had US in stitches with
the one about the guy who had been
keeping company with a floogie for
over five years and finally decided that
he'd marry the girl. During that five
year friendship they got along beauti-
fully together, and then again ones
conscience does begin to make itself
heard after five years. At any rate,
the two We're married Less than
q ear after the preacher pronounced
the fatal words, a judge pronounced
q sentence on him of six months on
Deer Island-for non-support!! -.
"aea brought to mind the one about
the upright young man who used to
boast OF the fact that he had reached
the age of thirty-five without having
seen the inside of a court-room-not
even for a traffic violation. But that
was three years ago before he got
M@ued. Since then he has been in
court more often than Philadelphia
lawyer. IT,. This is supposed to have
happened at one of the gin and sin
spots the other ayem. 1t seems that
Just as the emcee was about to intro
duce the next number, one of those
dear boys came switching up an
aisle, In case YOU are having difficulty
identifying that" observed the emcee.
] might tell you that His Heart Be-
longs to Daddy" Downbeat Edi-
Co. tal The column believes that it
would be guilty of criminal neglect if
sslied to give three rousing cheers
IHr Colonel" Dave Egan, feature
Writer on the DAILY Record" for his
-eafless stand against a member of
those forces which preach american
Ism and practice "Hitlerism." In
case the argument in question has NOT
F5O oeen brought to your attention, we
might review briefly the circumstances.
10 seems that in reporting on the re-
CENT Marathon Race, Mr.. Egan &C
ccUsed the B.A.A. of unfair tactics in
It's conduct OF the race and intimated
Chal the organization did not want
%afH-sklnned Tarzan Brown to win.
Cn Frday, April %, there appeared
IN Mr.. Egan's column a letter from one
harry Lincoln Clark one of whose
ancestors was first mate of the Nav
mower. In Clark's letter the bigoted
O'oKe animated that as far as he was
concerned Tarzan Brown is no Indian
al an, but Just another n-r. Then
'ne blue bIooded jackass goes on to
state that he is the father of six no.
Jenual members of the OAR. and two
potential members of the S.A.R. All
Ut "LIch makes him better than anyone
stSe IN America and naturally gives
nm the right to discriminate against
persons Tor racial or religious reasons.
- Inc blast which Mr.. Egan put on
lIIln was JOY to read and it would
seem TO TINS writer that if the Ameri-
ian I'd Legion saw fit to pin a medal on
waiter Winchell for his stand against
hitler influence in America, then that
same organization should put Dave
Egan on a pension for his stand
AGAINST American bigots who, after
aL, are doing more to undermine our
system OF government that all the die
TSCorS IN the world. Nuts to the
i DI,A'F'' the S.A.R. and all the other
patriots"