The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-04-08
Uptown DOwnbeat
Jay Morris

Hit of the Month Our town is
waiting for wide-awake schemes and
1t took those far-seeing Dunbar Asso-
GATES to come up with the killer-diller
menu of "a Hit A Month" Early
IN the year the boys came on with Don
Dedman and not satisfied with that
they went to the top and brought on
the Duke. Then 10 and behold, Tues
day evening they had Count Basic
walk his beat . A capacity crowd
was on hand for this latest carnival
OF swing and y'all have my word that
the joint was really rocking. Helen
Humes on the vocals, assisted bv
Jimmy Rushing, provided a jumping
background for the Count, Lester
Young and all the boys. Miss Humes'
rendition of deep Purple" sent MANY
of the bugs into the DTS and when
brother Rushing broke forth with
Don't va Miss Yo' Baby" even your
correspondent shouted "halleluiah"
Lester Young has long been one of
our favorite entertainers and his solid
saXing, plus his antics, bore out our
contention that he's among the tops.
The entire crew, in fact, is simply too
much and so we submit as the newest
King of solid Swing, Count Basic
Round Town {. one of our spies is
wondering what Vic Joseph is dom
now that the basketball season is over
incidentally, if you haven't vet got
load of Alice Wilson, SHADES lovliest
waitress, cast yo' peppers on her some
time and get thrill . the other am
the boys held one of those good ole
good poker sessions and a couple of the
married guys had difficulty explaining
their hardness =. The most delight
full feature of bachelorhood is the need
lessness of explanations. No one
meets us at the door early Sunday
morning with the query, "Well
where's dem victuals ah sent you after
last night?" The race horse fiends
around town are marking time these
days as the opening on April % of
,Gansett draws near. Bal Taylor
Paul Elliot, Otis Galloway, Freddie
Wheelock, 0. K. Jones, John Lane and
even yo' correspondent are among
those who are getting their glasses
focused >. Brother, have you got a
deuce? One of the lovlier little
charmfuls round these parts is dim
pied Theresa Jordan. She has a boy
friend bearing the passionate monikel
of Joe Love-but he works nights and
sometimes the lady gets 5000 lonesome
go. The "Debs About Town" are toss
ing their initial formal on Friday next
and this newsboy will be on hand tc
shoot vail the dope on the pretty foot
sizes who will grace the affair with then
presence Of course the Service
Club swingeroo on Monday evening
will be the thing. You'll have to hole
tight that night if va want to weather
the storm. . Later on in May, the
Junior League is tossing its annual
formal out at Green Acres where BOZ
Hawkins holds forth. The gals
/ should make history with this one.
And so, the near future looks bright
for the yawn patrolers but before you
go get a load of the Dunbar hit fol
May. The boys are presenting the
twentieth Century Gabriel" Erskint
Hawkins, and his torrid trumpet direct
from the Savoy Ballroom where he has
been sending the cats to iitterbug
heaven. The date is the 9th of May
and if YOU miss hearing Gabriel
when he hits that first high one, ole
st. Peter is liable to put thumbs dowr
on va =. This week has been event
full for the column. One of our toot-
sizes took a powder but into our life
came three feet of loneliness in the
person of little Miss Eleanor Elaine
Fraser. In case you missed our raving
about her when she was born, just
four years ago we might add that the
lady is the columns first niece, daugh-
ter of the former Gwen Robinson. She
arrived here Thursday along with oul
dear mother who had been enjoying
tropic breezes during the winter
months. We hope we won't spoil her
but it will be difficult for she is our
first niece and our parents first grand
child 80. So from here out please give
us our proper title of "Uncle"
And so, now that things are picking
up perhaps We'll be seeing va next
week, until which time l remain just
a kid named jay who found that "class
will always tell."-S'long.
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