The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-06-08
republic IN Africa a century ago.
BRIGHT LIGHT RANTER

d century o.
BRIGHT LIGHT BANTER
Harlem Coin Park Avenoo" is the
Worlds Fair show at the Kit Kat, hot
spot nitery on the Eastside =. . Connie
Mclean Ohk, the boy who can out
rhumba and conga with a galaxy of
hip shaking torch warblers including
Velma Middleton, a sweetchile with a
baby voice; Lucky Sisters, Julia Hun
ter, Cook and Brown comics, Lorenzo
Robertson, baritone soloist ct cetra.
got the lowdown on Michael Todd,
and his WHITE coachman, in "Gav Old
New Orleans" at the Fair. The coach
man owns the horses and the carriage,
and the horses have never been on the
stage before, so he (the coachman)
elects to handle his own steeds.
incidentally, the black & white show
set-up is big novelty, l hate to be
"catty" and say that the sepia gals
Guidance and out-sing the toys e.
but 1t has won the approval of such
luminaries as Al. Jolson, Martha Rave,
Betty Cradle, Walter Huston, Jackie
Coogan, Alice Faye, Walter Winchell
says it's killer-diller, so what! I've
seen it three times myself . . st. Elmo
Johnson, (choir) and Mary Bruce,
(dancers) buzzed me that everything
IS running as smooth as silk, without
any racial friction. Eyed that
ravishing brownskin Margaret Porter.
whose late hubby Arthur Porter was
principal in Green Pastures" saunter-
ing on 7th Ave. smothered in a flock
of Silver Foxes.
The Blue Room of Sugar Hill is still
a gay spot of the money-spenders and
blg-wigs. Some of the latest diners
were Earl Hines, Billie Holiday. the
Four Characters, of Hellzapoppin;
Betty Drake, Carrie Elmore, Ann
! Lewis, Helen Humes, Berry Bros,
Ihelma Abrams, Adelaide DeFrantz,
Bessie Augusta, Irene Wilson ct Get
era. A special party was given there
Saturday mite by the ladies of the Col
ored (Riverdale) Orphanage, under the
direction of Fannie Wick. The J. Wei
don johnson Literary Guild "pitched"
a Boogie Woogie at the Blue Room
Sunday.
Bea Higginbotham, wife of Jay C. is
Spring Laking in N. J. while her
spouse spends the summer in Chicago
with the Louis Armstrong ork .
Claude Sterrett, the playboy mortician
celebrated his birthday 1857 with a
slight blowout" after the Howard
University formal, at the Noisette
apartment in the Graham, Ct.
Harlem dolls have gone "1oco" over
the dapper baritone, Billie Eckstein.
with Earl Hines ork he's guessing
at the Braddock Hotel, and l saw him
the other dawning when Helen Holland
Cotton Club cutie; had him in tow.
Billy halls from Pittsburgh, but was
born in Baltimore, 26 years old
he's making records while in New
York
DAWN PATROL e. Your cruising
reporter met the milkman the other
am. and it isn't a usual custom.
but the Scotch and Soda was so mellow
at Dickie Wells on Harlem's Swing
Row (133d ST. and the gals were
right in the groove e. Oh yes, Wise
Ellis, the major domo buzzed me that
| Brenda (Glamour) Frazier, the foay
beauty from Park Ave-, was on deck
also Franchot Tone, the movie
star, and Burgess Merideth, the actor,
were on hand. The hot mamas are
chirpin melodious just at the break of
day: Wynette Wayne sings "When l
Grow Too DID," Carrie Woods, "Too
Romantic;" Dolores Alvarado, swings
mean torso, with ISL ST." Elizabeth
Dozier, with "Tippy Tim" Arty Nor
gan, declares" "I'm a Viper" and
Roger Leonard, means, Cant Get
Along Without You" Dickie Wells.
knows downtown big-shots better than
know the uptown little shots. Got
something there!
So long, pals, gals and my reader
public, Your cruising reporter, Smell
son, Drop me line sometime, 400
Manhattan Ave, N. Y. C.