Fuss Swings

The stately white & gold ballroom of Buckingham Palace, accustomed to the stricter rhythms of military bands, last week reverberated to one of Britain's best bands, Bert Ambrose's Prince's Restaurant Orchestra. King George & Queen Elizabeth were entertaining some 1,000 "personal friends" at the Royal Derby Night Ball. Among the guests were Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester, U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. & Mrs. Kennedy, Colonel & Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. The King and othermale guests wore the court dress of tailcoat and knee breeches. Lone holdout was Ambassador Kennedy, who stuck to his long trousers.

For the first time in palace history an American girl was allowed to "swing it" with the musicians. The swingstress was 20-year-old Evelyn Dall, a lissome ash-blonde from New York's Bronx. A onetime hoofer in Billy Rose's Manhattan Music Hall. Miss Dall went abroad in 1933, was leading lady with the Monte Carlo Follies for a season, then joined the London swing band. London cafe-goers know her as ''Ambrose's Bronx Bombshell." Miss Dall, whose real name is Evelyn Mildred Fuss, took her stage name from that of President Roosevelt's grandchildren.

Last week, attired in a slithering backless blue satin evening gown, she sent the royal hosts and guests swinging with hot choruses of the latest U. S. numbers. Said the ''Bronx Bombshell" after her performance: "I was busy as a bee the whole evening looking at all the famous faces. This is an evening that I will remember all my life.''

Said her father, a Manhattan postal clerk: "Evelyn's a good kid. She swings and sways like nobody's business. I hope she pleased the King and Queen."

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