The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-01-17


these days what with 'Porgy
and Bess" doing tremendous
business at the Shubert Thea
tire Dusty Fletcher, Jimmy
BaSquette and Susaye Brown
rolling them in the aisles at the
Globe Valda, leading race
exponent of the body beautiful,
popping their eyes at the old
Waidron Casino all these
folks and more too turned out
for the Press Club reception to
the principals and members of
the choir of the Cheryll Craw-
ford "Porgy and Bess" produe-
ton which was held late Mon
day evening at the Stanley
Brown Dance Studio . a bar
was installed and supplied
through the generosity of
Company Manager Clarence
Jacobson (Who toured the
country and abroad as Shep-
herd of the Green Pastures") |
and a bounteous smorgaSbord
of assorted cold meat cuts
was served through the kind
donation of the P. w. Rounse-
veil Company, 103N Blackstone
ST., whose star meat salesman,
Melvin Buddy" Williams is a |
favorite among Saturday even
ing marketgoerS soft col
ored lights and recorded popu- |
lar music provided excellent |
entertainment for over a hun |
dred guests famous in the |
newspaper circles who attend
ed Press photographers
were kept busy clicking groups
of such celebrities as Anne
Brown, Eddie Matthews, Avon
Long, Harriet Jackson, j. Rosa /
mond Johnson, Warren Cole
man, Ruby Elzy, Catherine
Ayes, Ralf Coleman, Marie ].
Brown, Mildred Davenport, |
Jimmy Basquette, Lionel
Hampton, Dusty Fletcher, su-
sage Brown, Preston Sande-
ford, Tobias Harris, Harold |
Faulkner, Cynthia Silva, Ever
EFT Darlington, Bill Howard,
Bernice Saunders, Doris AShby,
Sammy Sampson, Lincoln
Kinds, John Mcintyre, Prof.
Richardson, Alyira Hazard,
Alice Smith, Josephine Round
tree, Paul Du Pont and William |
Richardson our distln-
guished host, Stanley Brown, |
former feature dancer at the
Cotton Club in New York, is
one of Boston's most brilliant |
dance instructors and numbers
quite a few of the cream of |
society debs among his large
group of students :. the serv-
ices of the highly talented
dramatic combination of Di-
rector Ralf Coleman of the
Richard B. Harrison Players |
and playwright Prof. Hender-
son have been engaged by the
Women's Service Club Of Bos-
ton who will present their lat
est opus "Color Line" on the
stage of the new st. Mark |
Gymnasium Friday evening, !
Feb. 6, with an all-Star local
cast of thespians for the bene-
fit of 464 Massive recent |
parties to be remembered were |
Larry and Nudge Lees Xmas
eve celebration at which BROTH
err Joe Lee announced his hap
py engagement to lovely Lou
Use 'peh-shout-town" Scott |
with the gift of a gorgeous
sparkler the Orion Formal |
at the Roberts Post Clubhouse
where the glanorous ladies and
gallant gentlemen of the upper
crust gathered to make merry, |
and the affair was truly fine
the New Year Ewes festivities |
at the Buddy and Dolly Will
liamses in Cantabrigia which |
really came on until Sixayem |
what with barbecued spare
ribs, Steaming pig trotters,
blackeye peas and rice topped
off with the finest of choice
liquors and the old year
wasn't the only thing that
passed out congratz to |
Johnny Parnell and charming
Uarda McKenney, who went to
town in the grand manner this
week, from Uncle Paul and all
the gang Cliff Crawford,
Herbert Jaxon, Larry and Joe
Lee flew over to Gotham this |
past week to watch Joe Louis |
and all had a wonderful time |
making the Hotel Theresa
their headquarters for visiting