The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-05-19
Bulletin Board
BY Ulysses w. Boykin
Just THINKING OUT LOUD

Right after the cureW had been lifted and we uoro
Getting ready TO Join the night life crowd again tho
sn,,semen front in Detroit got a dirty blow below tho
belt, We have in mind the Club Three Skies fire Flames
closed this popular spot last Thursday afternoon around
GEO The Three Skies in opinion was the finest and
most widely known night club in these parts that nrc
sented all-coored revues Now there's no place to 90
Reports are that fire broke out in locker room,
aid rapidly spread to the check room and bar Curtis
Roberts 90 Orchestra place bartender lost his life ~
was overcome by smoke Some witnesses said that photo
graphic materials exploded, throwing parts Of the burn
inc dark wall over Roberts.
Owners Sneed and Thomas plan to rebuild he Marc
and make II as smart as II was before Until then ven
miss The sophisticated Esquire Room and the llnrbeo,
crowd that added to the charm and atmosphere Al no
SKIES.
The & { club will now be known as the Club owens
and here might be entertainment The spot is beinc
done over in grand style.
Iaugson Hughes appeared with the Dupre Victorian
Choir Friday evening the Art Institute Hughes
fre--nc didn't get enough of him The choir On ver,
good but got too much singing of certain tyne Th,
crowd VAS very much impressed. Congratulations 10
Beuah Nhitby and her Lecture Series committee for a
variets songs and more Hughes. You dig?
Iangston Hughes has been visiting several Of the
army posts in the south and has very interesting
about the boys and how they holding M under
Ire IRON heel Of the southland Hughes said that Negro
Professional men making lots Of money down there
and that new arsocracy among Negroe, growing D
N the south
Moses X. Fritz is directing h. Negro Music Festival
this It's gong to be AT the Olympia instead Of Briggs
Sadim si in case the rains should appear Mava Louis
viii BE- mere for the festival.
< story is about to break in the fratcrnal world
that III throw some wellknown DetroitcrS into Jail on
sefera cnarges
Young DR.. Bill Lawson plans to spend few days
down Now York way.
Nitaeious Edalee Webster is back in Detroit after
sewers weeks in Mexico. Edaee is in love with the place
plans 70 return to spend Christmas there She told
that Belly Naples is down there entertaining in Mex-
cocty lght club. In fact she named several Americans
WHO are doing well in the gay capital below the RIO
Grandc
Forester B. Washington. director Of the Atlanta
#Sfoo ~ Social Work is in the Motor City directing the
raising ~ funds for the United College Fund 1t looks like
tie drse going 10 be this year. toe Moses
Walser .Ernestine Postes and Ernest Marshall the
srars plugs Mr. Washngton's staff here The chair
man Il tho fund this year is Dr. David Henry Of Wayne
4ua. orsiiy.
Johnson and Leroy Young. popular owners of
he 6o6-Horse Shoe bar, active in the Paradise
Naley Business Mems association. Watch this organza
tor y The approaching election.
We hear that Dummey George the owner Of the
famous r w club 18th street used 70 be called
hore' hoy when he waiting tables in Chicago few
years ago.
George Fields one Of the owners Of the FL Grotto
is The nephew Of our own Paul Fields.
Attorney Charles b Berry likes to play bridge They
he good the game he is at law, and believe
Us that's good
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