The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-02-24
COURTESY

COURTESY
There is no color, race or creed
when it comes to courtesy and deport-
ment, according to correct teachings,
I've been told. Did you read the item
HAT appeared in the "VOICE" in
nortroDolitan daily the other day:
tCOT0RED COURTESY in New
York City by Nordic woman: "Has
anyone else ever noticed how court
cons most colored men are to women
Of an colors? The average colored
man is the first to offer his seat to
Iadv take off his hat in an elevator,
and I'm various other ways show that
he is real gentleman. Some of our
white men could learn a few lessons
from our colored citizens"
COUNT Basic LEADS
had the pleasure of making a
"aata" with my pal Count Basic from
Kansas City over to the Orange New
Jgrsav) Armory Monday night, for
the monster Lincoln VS.. Morgan bask-
etbaU swingfest, and believe me it was
monster in all the categories. l have
never seen SUCH a mob of people gath
cred at one event at one time outside
Of big Gotham in all my life. I would
rather not say they came to see the
basketball teams or the Count, but
they were there by the thousands.
After some space of time the Count
eo5 into action and Boy, things were
too terrific.
Recent developments bring out the
fac. that Count Basie's Swing Band
wa. voted 1895 best-that is in
swing rhythm. I can't take that away
from them, and if you have heard that
aggregation of swingsters "get-off"
you would easily smile with approval
Lot. If luck to the boys in their whole
sal. iamboree of swing. They're in
Mes England this week. Ask Helen
Huu,s and Jimmie Rushing, they're
t-re too.
HERES MY CENSUS
NAME .. Floyd G. Snelson, AID
DRESS 400 Manhattan Avenue,
CITY .. New York, Where Born? .
Oh farm in Georgia, When E. IT,. some
time IN 1891, will be so years old
sometime next year -. father, brown
SKIN mother e.. a high yellow
wife divorced for non-support
property owned 6. typewriter and
radio, two suits of clothes and a
dozen shirts POSITION E. dirt
and scandal writer for dirty news
papers What kind of women do
you like? mostly light, but others
'pleasingly plus" What do you
eat? -. Pork chops and chicken when
can afford it, but roast duck other
wise What are your hobbies out
SIDE OF drinking liquer Answer
trying to do what Confucius says.
HAVING CHILDREN
Some unkind person passed the
word that when woman of the stage,
radio and screen gives birth to a baby
she's through. I'm not in accord
with that saying, whatsoever. l am a
son, father, brother, (former) hus-
band and sweetheart of women, and
IhaJ means that l am not trying to
promise what l try to preach. If it
We're not for the handed-down where
would we be? People with genius must
give genius to others in their off
spring. Glory to others that bring
CilIlofen INTO this world with the same
aspects as their forebears.
The latest that came to nv notice
Is Is Jhe beautiful and talented Lena
horne one of Brooklyn's prettiest
SoCIeCy girls, who gave birth to a son
Lew weeks ago. Lena is the wife of
SVEN boy, Louis Jones, of Pitts
Dufgh; AS we remember, Lena Horne
was the 1T" girl of the Cotton Climb,
ana the leading lady of Blackbirds
a SltG ) sun leading and pretty-in my
NINA MAE MCKINNEY
ITS solid, it "solid" is all that 7
could hear from the Jitterbugs at the
savoy the other night. That means in
I Ivy, -eStlmatiOn that NINA MAE Nc
h1lNNEY and her band were DOING
a.lflght, the last I heard of them. There
s Sc UIIe liCue gal that l glory in whose
f tbo 4; 10 see her doing big things all
ne, rne Ilme' She's been a victim Of IN
o "ouaI circumstances, and she always
f oi!es out smilin'. l remember the
o. 49, IIIne met Nina Mae-backstage
go lev LeSlle,s Blackbirds. She didn't
~ Gn nave a Job but she stood in tbe
"%b' noIg3, line until she found her first
,. break. She's got her own hand no NJ,
anu Knows just what to do, her NM n'
H. bou$ 4gyTations and clowning satisfy
n rae JlCCerbugs; and that's ali that is
n nooJ sal to keep the box-office in
bo Ni ma halls from South Carolina. but
was Deen living in Harlem since She
Co S'o d wee wee; and her mother Mrs
Won vTUig ga Minor, is the happiest mother
and and J EVER saw to see baby 90 places
bt5u 40 things; and so am /. too Nina
R has plenty Of sex appeal. and # WON'T st
Diva iohg before that band stuff will
sTye me her a streamline profile Thew
W w uSaV o shes solid-a solid senderl -
oot mat rumor, that Mural Xellop was
gord g married; and there's not a
h horo OF it true-she's Harlem,s mn MN |"
G Gtt one 1t" girl born and bred ii0l'
c av.orney Harold Tyler, once a Chi.
r%go piiaiyboy, may become Harlem's
o oa Sa Businessman soon. if his aims
Wo SIIdIaSight; -. Vera James hopes the
WV lords Fair opens soon SO She can IAN
syT another book of tickets to see the
M World of Tomorrow" Marie
lCLearV rpturpo1 r.