The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-07-20

are enjoying thriving business thank
to the favorable turn in the weather
Miss Alberta "Bootsie" Perry popu-
lar Cotton Club soubrette, formerly of
Boston and Cambridge is welcoming
scores OF summer visitors at her pala-
tlal seaside mansion on School Street
IN Oak Bluffs where we hope to SOU
Journ during the last week of July ..
the clear salt waters of Nantucket
Sound which roll along the silver
strands of Marthas Vineyard are
warmed by the tropical heat of the
Gulf Stream direct from the Bay of
Mexico, and the weather is ninety
eight percent fair and warmer daily
hundreds of summer visitors from
the upper brackets to the non-relief
workers travel to these islands off
Woods Hole where you may board
your motor car or bicycle for transpor-
tat1on across via modern steamships
manned by highly intelligent and in
dustrious colored college students from
the sunny Southland, earning tuition
expenses :. tourists also find excel
lent accommodation on the gold
coast" at the exclusive Shearer Cot
tage owned and operated by Mrs. Sadie
Dugger-Ashburn of Everett and New
York whose guest list reads like the
social register there are several
show places at Oak Bluffs including
the magnificent summer estates of
Katherine Cornell, the James Cagneys,
the Adam Powells, the Bill Dabneys,
the Ralf Coleman's, the Sascha Hour
w1cke, the Irving Drews, together with
the Emma Foye and Fred Smith coun-
try houses . the race colony sports
high priced and super-powered motor
cars, speed boats and all manner of
sailing craft excellent for deep sea
hshlng =. other attractive summer
sports available are tennis. golf, Yacht
and sail boat racing grabbing with
netted poles, cycling, cliff climbing and
dancing -. all one can desire for
recreatlonal activity doubly enhanced
by the daily background of charming
FEMININE pulchritude CARRIED in shorts,
sarongs and all manner of sportswear
filling the eye with beauty and
what an eye-full! again amateur
criminal sleuths may read details of
the murder mystery now seeking solu-
ZION more real than any melodramas
ever presented at the Rice Playhouse
and who knows but perhaps you may
unearth hidden clue and win fame
J and fortune o.. it is also rumored
| that Big Butch has taken it on the lam
from Boston and is now in hiding on
Marthas Vineyard publishing a daily
ny paper and should you go on to
charming Nantucket Island be sure
and visit those New England pioneers.
the Glover family, formerly of Hyde
Park, who are now native islanders
the Holsters, clans and golden
corn are the finest on the Cane as are
also their huge blueberries which are
now in season . the inhabitants are
largely native Massachusetts Indians
whose tribal customs and ceremonies
attract thousands of visitors yearly to
Gay Head and Edgartown a large
number of Portuguese citizenry draw
their livelihood from the sea as hardy
hshermen headed by that giant pic
turesque character Black Jack Con
stacio who is titled King of the Island
the theatres run preview motion
pictures far in advance of Boston show
lngs and without further ado l invite
you to follow the crowd and Join the
summer colony at Oak Bluffs see
you all there =. Hammering Henry
Armstrong came out of the night and
chilled the championship prospect of
fiashy Lew Jenkins, the cowboy from
Texas, by technical knockout in the
sixth round at the Polo Grounds this
week when Jenkins fell to his knees
off his stool as the bell sounded for
the round to begin after taking a ter
rifle lacing from the King during which
he went down six times Henry
amt done by long shot and displayed
true championship form all through the
battle it was indeed unfortunate
the crowds of fight fans assembled near
radios along the Great White Way in
Boston were forced to listen to the
convention proceedings which took pre-
cedence over the world championship
match and missed that torrid blow
= by-blOw description which the Adam
hatters usually broadcast, but there
was singing in the streets when news
of Armstrong; thrilling victory finally
came through . . and over the air
waves we lived the sound and fury of
the National Convention of the Demo
, cratic Party at Chicago which received
an invocation by race Bishop Reverdy
, Ransom g. =. and the high note of the
: convention was the continual trumpet
} ing of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones"
: their new campaign song, because this
year Happy Days Aren't Here Again"
, and the boys went down the line
} for F.D.R. state after state with Massa-
l chusetts holding the thin red line for
r Farley . it will be a glorious presi-
. Dental election this year what with
Republican standard bearer Wendell
5 Lewis Willkie meeting the champ
: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in open
battle with the future of these United
States of America being entrusted to
the winner and Won NAV credit