JAZZ BAND PLAYS AT PALACE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22419, 4 June 1938, Page 15

JAZZ BAND PLAYS AT PALACE

♦ THEIR MAJESTIES’ FIRST DERBY BALL GUESTS HEAR AMERICAN WOMAN CROONER LONDON, June 2. History was made at the Palace on the occasion of Their Majesties’ first Derby night ball by the appearance of an American platinum blonde crooner, Miss Evelyn Dali, aged 20, on a balcony overlooking the 1000 guests. Miss Dali, who wore a backless frock, and was accompanied by Ambrose’s orchestra, which supplanted the usual military band, sang “It’s Nice To Work If YoU Can Get It,” interpolating “Boop-a-Doop” refrains. It was a private ball, as distinct from the usual formal Palace functions, and all the guests were Their Majesties’ personal friends. The men wore evening dress with breeches, the United States Ambassador (Mr J. P. Kennedy) alone being trousered. Their Majesties joined in the fox trots and modern waltzes. U.S. KIDNAPPING , ——* TWO MEN ARRESTED BY FEDERAL AGENTS NEW YORK, June 2. Federal agents, who are searching for tb? abductors of the boy Jimmy Cash, arrested F. Braxton, a carpenter, and his son-in-law, Ray Rayburn, whom they questioned all night. The agents revealed that the abductors are almost certain to be residents of Princetown. They state that Mr Cash was + v 1 only resident able to pay the ransom, and the amount of the demand coincided closely with his bank balance. The kidnapper also drew a map requiring extreme familiarity with the area, and he displayed great familiarity with the interior of the Cash home in the commission of the actual crime. ,