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

NEW FLICKER
The wheels are grinding out a new
film that will give the movies a brand
new all-colored opus that should be
interesting; with Lucky Millinder and
his ork, Edna Harris, Irving Miller,
Dewey Reinglass, Mamie Smith, Babe
Matthews, BBertie Davis, Lillian
Green, Helen Clarke, Billie Frink and
Merle Love-at South Studio in NJ.
Oran (Hot-Lips) Page, the trumpe-
teer from Kay Gee, is all talk about
his three year old son, Junior .
mother is the beautiful Myrtle Stew
art of Montgomery, Ala. That
sweet little brownskin Verna Smith,
former Cotton Club cutie, is still in
circulation, domiciled at the Dorrence
Brooks. Mr.. Phillip Brooks is in
concentration about the lovely blonde
from Cleveland . Prominent Soci-
alites, Marie Lyons, wife of the late
nX-Minister to Liberia, DR. Ernest
LYONS; Theresa Waters, of the noted
caterers. and her husband, Randy, all
from Baltimore, were homeward
hound after the Allcideans. and the
Louis-Godov fight highly enter
tanned by Bessye Bearden and others
dig" THIS ONE
A certain popular Harlem lady tells
me. "Ain't life grand? My hus-
band has just gotten a divorce from
me. I had to laugh at the Judges
decision. He gave i'm the children
and they wasn't even his'n. . Rosie
Guillard, one of Harlem's seasoned
damsels who tells me that she has
lust married Kenneth McGadden, a
well known railroad man. . Glad to
see Johnnie Davis. the daughter of
famed Den Davis of Georgia, now the
wife of DR.. Richard Mr. Carey, 1919
Seventh Avenue. Hortense Free
man, wife of Roscoe (Red) Simmons
is back in Wash. and Baltimore after
Harlem fling. .. Was Fannie Pen
nington the last love of Ray Scott, at
the White Tower? 80.
GOES SOUTH
Florence Thurmond, 370 Manhattan
is parking her keen personality in
HAVANA, Cuba, via Miami d. Willis
| McConnaly, of Alliance, Ohio, a social
service worker, is in the city doing
a 16-weeks course of special training.
=. Residing at the COOPERATIVE Eel
lowship House, 178 Waverly Place
D.. made possible by an endowment of
Filene, the Boston department store
magnate.
ALL THIS SNOW reminds me
that the Performer of Women's
Dress" in 1880 gave the girls of today,
old and young, a wonderful blessing
when she invented the comfy under
garments she was Amelia Jenkc
Bloomer, and the pants that I am
talking about got their name from
her 4. Coleman Hawkins, that hard
BLOWN sax man is still standin' the
critics on their eyebrows at the Col
den Gate Les Hite the heat wave
from California keeps their tootsies
warm too. Ran into a swell party
other eve at the G. Gate in honor of
George McClain Letitia Harris,
hostess was splendid in her role
so were Rose Ellen Jones, Joe Thomas.
Lemuel Bullock, Sam Daniels, Harold
Thomas, DR.. and Mrs. R. Mansfield
and Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Harris and
others.
HELLSAPOPPIN
The charioteers, four polite young
men from Wherefore University are
still tops down on Broadway . . Dan
Williams, Eddie Jackson, James Iric
and Harvey Williams, still clicking in
their fourth year with the Olsen and
Johnson opus and during many years
have been a sensation over WOR
radio broadcast. Edgar Robinson is
still giving great praise to his lovely
late wife, "Kate Ruth" Hope this
will give you some news for the week
-Snelson, 400 Manhattan.