The guardian., 1940-11-16

leading seplan magazines such as the
Tatler, Abbott's Monthly and the thea
tr1cal pages of our national weeklies
together they toured the big time
as Sawyer and Boyer" until Elizabeth
signed a contract for motion pictures
during the advent of colored flickers
while Bobby took a flyer in politics
running for the House of Representa-
tives in old Ward Nine where he made
a host of political contacts during a
very hectic campaign in which he was
a close runner-up to Mike Ward d.
since then his fortunes have steadily
climbed as his wife sacrificed her career
for the more important duty of being
mother to two fine children, Bobby, Jr.,
and Katherine, who are now domiciled
In their lovely New York home at
Mount Morris Park since leaving
this city, Bobby became a fixture at
the old Cotton Club in Harlem where
the Three Aristocrats Norman Asst
wood, Jimmy Basquette and Bobby
Sawyer sang and played the hit parade
OF harmony as leading artists in each
edition of the sensational Cotton Club
shows :. . and when the hot spot folded
up in Harlem and moved downtown
brother Bobby went with them and
directed rehearsals and productions
which became smash hits each time ..
the 1899 and 1910 World Fair hit the
night club business hard in the Big
Apple and forced the plaisances to
vacate while the entertainers sought
employment at the Fair however,
Bobby did the rounds of the cafes and
society clubs which draw the upper
crust trade and did very well as a free
lancer j.. his present success at Ho-
gan's Irish House with Bobbie CASTOR
and the Profit Trio is well deserved
-. and so was that we at home re-
ceived a telegram indicating that he
was due to arrive at the East Boston
airport last Thursday evening E.
together with Larry Lee in his brand
new twO-tone pearl and French grey
DeSoto streamliner we rolled through
the Sumner Tunnel over the broad
stretches of the East Boston flats to
the vast Municipal airport which lay
spread beneath a jewelled sky where
the moon rode high in the deep blue
night it was all quite exhilarating
especially seeing former Governor
James M. Curley and his party off to
Washington for an interview with the
President E. the arrival of our Am
bassador to the Court of st. James in
England none other that Boston's own
Hon. Joseph P. Kennedy who was
greeted by host of friends to a seren-
ade by the Boston Firemen's Band =.
and still crowd remained in the spa
cious reception room where Bill Mel
son, George Vickers and D. A. Mann
busted themselves in snappy American
Airlines attendants uniforms it
all at once as the field land
ing lights were switched on for the
mighty roar of aeroplane motors
drowning out the stiffness of the night
like huge locomotive putting into a
terminal came the sleek silvered flag
ship of the American Airlines down the
ramp all the way from New York, her
headlights cleaning and her polished
sides rejecting a thousand facets Of
inirescence as she proudly
rolled up to the main gate where a
throng eagerly awaited her arrival
the passengers nonchalantly strolled
out of the cabin to be warmly greeted
by friends and relatives and then the
Big Three emerged into view we
were swept toward the plane in con-
certed rush Of admirers and were very
fortunate to get near the celebrities J..
there was the Mr.. Big of New York
City, known to millions as Bill Duffy,
attired in a draped top coat and muf-
fer with steel grey hair beneath a
Gotham slung fedora fanked on one
side by Johnny Dunn, labor union
executive and his inseparable compan-
ion while on the other side strobe
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