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The Hotel Tattler, a broadsheet, and its successor, the Inter-State Tattler, a tabloid, were American weeklies published in Harlem – the former having run from 1922 through early 1924 and the latter having run from 1925 through most of 1932.

Hotel Tattler
The Hotel Tattler, self-described as a "snappy, society journal," was well-known for its gossip, but balanced with news and editorials covering sports, theater, literature, society, commerce, civics, public service, politics, civil rights, and human rights.


 * According to scholar Daniel Anderson, the black press, such as the New York Age and the Amsterdam News, took sides and found connections to sports in the Washington-Du Bois debate, the agreed on one point: their distaste for for Marcus Garvey and his theory of black separatism. The Interstate Tattler, by contrast, openly declared itself sympathetic to the separatist cause. Historian Ted Vincent cited the Tattler as one of the few Renaissance-era newspapers (along with the Boston Guardian, the Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City), and the California Eagle (Los Angeles), that consistently supported such radical causes, suggests that this position cost it popularity among intellectuals and, eventually, the public.

On the serious side, the Hotel Tattler ran an open letter to the U.S. Congress endorsing the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, a bill introduced in 1918 that passed in the House, but failed in the Senate, and after 200 attempts, passed again in the House in February 26, 2020, as the Emmett Till Antilynching Act.


 * was a weekly American society tabloid founded in Miami as the Palm Beach Tattler, by Floyd Grant Snelson, Jr., who, in 1922, brought it to New York and first issued it April 16, 1922 (Vol. 1, No. 1), under the auspices of the


 * The Hotel Tattler Publishing Co. (1922–1924)
 * 459 Lenox Avenue, New York
 * 201 West 138th Street (1925)


 * Pursuant to article by the Hotel Tattler, March 29, 1924, New York County Judge Isidor Wasservogel (1875–1962) rendered a judgement June 8, 1936, in favor of the plaintiff, Ransom S. Morgan, a real estate broker, against the Tattler, for $1,000. Because Morgan's lawsuit petition had asked for $10,000, the Hotel Tattler, prior to the judgement, had undergone a complete reorganization and changed its name to the Inter-State Tattler.

Inter-State Tattler
Inter-State Tattler – society, theatricals, sports

Separately, The Inter-State Tattler (later without the hyphen), was an American tabloid based in Harlem first issued February 27, 1925 (Vol. 1, No. 1), by Bennie Butler and Jack Trotter under the auspices of the
 * Inter-State Tattler Publishing Company, owned by The Hotel Tattler Publishing Co. (1926–1932)
 * In the middle of the night, February 1932, Interstate Tattler moved to the 200 block of West 135th Street
 * Inter-State Tattler
 * Palm Beach Tattler

The Interstate Tattler ran until 1932. Journalists and academicians have credited both Tattlers as having been the forerunner to
 * Ebony (founded 1945)
 * Jet (founded 1951)
 * Our World (founded 1946)
 * Copper Romance (found November 1953 by Johnson Publishing Company)
 * Hue (found November 1953 by Johnson Publishing Company)
 * Essence (founded 1970)

Brief suspension in 1926
Due to a disagreement among the partners on December 21, 1925, Alan Lowery Dingle (1896–1981), attorney for one of the publishing partners, Bennie Butler, filed a petition in the New York Supreme Court seeking an injunction to briefly suspend production in order to protect Butler's interest. The other two publishing partners were Andrew A. Jackson, Jr., and Cyril Reid.

History
In 1929, the Interstate Tattler Publishing Company, Inc., acquired the New York News.


 * New York Tattler
 * January 7, 1927, Vol. 1, No. 1
 * Andrew A. Jackson, Jr.
 * Wilfred R. Bain

"Tattler," in journalism, generically, means "gossip."

Competition in 1932

 * newspaper row

In 1932, African American owned newspapers in New York City included:
 * 1) The Amsterdam News (founded 1909)
 * 2) The New York Age (founded 1897)
 * 3) New York News and Harlem Home Journal (founded 1914)
 * 4) Hotel Tattler (founded 1922)
 * 5) Interstate Tattler (founded 1925)
 * 6) Negro World (founded 1917)
 * 7) Negro Nation
 * 8) National News, (founded 1932), George S. Schuyler, editor;
 * 9) The Daily Star (founded 1921), edited by Arthur V. Craig
 * 10) The Crisis (founded 1910)
 * 11) Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life (founded 1923)

The Great Depression
The Great Depression almost annihilated the once famous "newspaper row" north of 125th Street in Harlem. In 1932:


 * The Interstate Tattler, final issue, August 25, 1932.


 * Negro World, founded in 1917 as the official organ of the U.N.I.A. (the New York organization), split from Marcus Garvey and the U.N.I.A. in July 1932. Hucheshwar Mudgal, editor, 355 Lenox Avenue (in 1932), published under the auspices of the Negro World Publishing Co. Negro World was last published July 23, 1932. The publication briefly resumed from April 15, 1933, to October 17, 1933, published by M.L.T. Mena.


 * The National News, George S. Schuyler, editor, 2370 Seventh Avenue (in 1932), having been published for 17 weeks, first issue February 18, 1932 (Vol. 1, No. 1), final issue June 9, 1932 (Vol. 1, No. 17). It failed for a lack of support from its founding publisher, Lonnie Hicks (1882–1953), dba Hicks House of Service, Inc. The stride pianist Lucky Roberts credited Hicks, also a pianist, for influencing him to start a career in music. Hicks was also owner and manager of the Hoofers Club. Hicks went on to become a songwriter and arranger for Nat King Cole. The National News was a small newspaper for the United Colored Democracy, a Harlem based Democratic Party club, even though Schuyler for much of his life voted Republican.

The three suspended publications within 2 months, 15 days of one another.

Owners
Hotel Tattler
 * Floyd G. Snelson (né Floyd Grant Snelson, Jr.; 1891–1956), was publisher. He had previously been a waiter at the Royal Poinciana Hotel in Palm Beach.


 * Address of the Inter-State Tattler
 * The Gothic-inspired building on the southwest corner of 135th and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard was home Smalls Paradise and, fromk 1925 to 1932, home to the Inter-State Tattler. The building currently houses the Thurgood Marshall Academy, a middle and high school.

"D-FOB-Freehland 36 Inter-State Tattler – The Gothic-Inspired Building on the Southwest Corner . ..," November 11, 2014, generated by Strausmedia on New York Press

Inter-State Tattler
 * Bennie Butler, co-owner with Jack Trotter of the Inter-State Tattler from 1928 to 1932. Benny was the father of Teddy Butler (pseudonym of Theodore B. Jones), of the Smalls Paradise clan. He started as a sports writer for the Hotel Tattler. On the initiative of Butler, he and other sportswriters founded on April 10, 1924, the Eastern Sportswriters Alliance. In 1929, Butler took a break to work for Mayor Jimmy Walker's reelection campaign, while Wilfred R. Bain filled in, covering sports and theater.
 * When the Interstate Tattler was suspended in 1932, Butler moved on to become the theatrical editor of the New York News, edited for 22 years by George W. Harris (né George Wesley Harris; 1884–1948), then edited by Father Divine. The New York News was acquired by the New York Daily News in 1937. Harris, a Harvard alumnus, was New York City's first African American Alderman.


 * In 1935, during the Great Depression, Elmer Rice – head of the New York office of the Federal Theatre Project – appointed John Houseman to head a proposed Negro Theatre Project, who in turn, appointed Bennie Butler as his liaison officer.

Butler before the Tattler

 * 1913: Butler began his career in journalism, working with Romeo L. Dougherty (1885–1944) at the New York News.
 * 1915: Butler was sports and society editor for the Amsterdam News.
 * 1918: While serving in the U.S. Marines, Butler was attached to the Navy medical unit in Brooklyn organized William Barrett Brinsmade, MD (1865–1942), known as Naval Base Hospital No. 1 at Long Island College Hospital and in Brest, France.
 * 1919: Brief career as a comedian in vaudeville; he joined the Luke A. Scott dramatic company of New York
 * 1919: Writer for the Kansas City Call
 * 1922: Writer for the Negro Times


 * Possible address in 1930
 * Benjamin James Jones (born 1885, North Carolina)
 * 169 St. Nicholas Avenue


 * Bennie Butler, 1940
 * 420 W. 15th Street


 * Possible address in 1942 (draft reg.)
 * Theodore Moses Jones (born April 12, 1912, Waldo, Florida)
 * 132 Edgecombe Avenue #11


 * Possible address in 1942 (draft reg.)
 * Bennie James Jones (born May 11, 1885, Raleigh, NC)
 * 145 West 141st Street
 * (contact: Mrs. Annie Jones, 319 West 116th Street)


 * Possible address in 1942 (draft reg.)
 * Ernest Henry Banks's mother, Pauline Carolina (per WWII Draft Card)
 * 132 Edgecombe Avenue


 * Possible address in 1942 (draft reg.)
 * Bennie Butler
 * 402 West 148th St. (born June 23, 1886, Brooklyn)
 * Contact: Mrs. Carrie Warley (same address)


 * Jack Trotter (né William D. Trotter; 1884–1956), co-owner with Bennie I. Butler of the Inter-State Tattler from 1928 to 1932. He went on to server many years as ad manager for the Amsterdam News.

Editors
Hotel Tattler
 * Floyd G. Snelson was editor-in-chief of the Hotel Tattler. In his gossip column, he used the pseudonym "I Telonyou." Later, Snelson was theater editor for the Pittsburgh Courier. Snelson was killed in an explosion at a French rooming house. In 1938, Snelson donated his collection of first-night programs, photographs, and other theatrical data that covered ten years to the Division of Negro Literature and History of the New York Public Library. The collection included copies of the Palm Beach Tattler, The Hotel Tattler, The Apex News, and other publications edited by Snelson. Snelson had been managing editor of The Apex News, one of thirty-two weekly publications owned by The Illustrated Feature Service, which also, under the same name, published a weekly newsprint magazine inserted in sixty or more weekly publications.


 * The Apex News was a monthly magazine founded 1929 in Atlantic City by the Apex Publishing Co., Inc., sponsored by Sarah Spencer Washington (1889–1953), well-known beauty expert. Snelson was the founding managing editor. Archie Morgan was founding editor-in-chief and C. Whitlock was Secretary. Apex News initially maintained offices in New York and Philadelphia. Morgan was Washington's business manager for 29 years and reportedly played a big part in her success.


 * On August 29, 1925, Snelson was editor-in-chief of the Inter-State Tattler. Snelson had been a theatrical press agent for Billie Holiday, Una Mae Carlisle, and the Ebony Club of New York.

Inter-State Tattler
 * Timothy Thomas Fortune (1856–1928), before becoming editor of the Inter-State Tattler, had been co-owner and editor of New York Age from 1884, which it was called the New York Freeman, until 1907. He edited Booker T. Washington's newspapers and in the early 20th century and also edited Marcus Garvey's Negro World.


 * Theophilus Lewis (1891–1974), editor


 * Geraldyn Dismond (née Geraldyn M.P. Hodges; 1895–1984) was a University of Chicago graduate who later became the managing editor of The Tattler, where she wrote the gossip column "Between Puffs" as "Lady Nicotine." She was the second wife (of four) of Henry Binga Dismond, MD (1891–1956). In 1934, she was society editor of the New York Age. Under the auspices of the "Geraldyne Dismond Bureau of Specialized Publicity," she wrote syndicated society columns for the Pittsburgh Courier, the Inter-State Tattler, the New York Daily Citizen, and the Amsterdam News until 1953. She also hosted the Negro Achievement Hour radio show for WABC. In an overlapping professional role, from 1934 to 1946, she was an administrative assistant for the Bureau of Public Health Education and Information in New York City.


 * For Jet, she wrote the column, "Gerri Major's Society World." Major also was an associate editor for Ebony Magazine. She also contributed to Black World and Black Stars. With Doris E. Saunders, Major wrote Gerri Major's Black Society in 1976, an analysis of America's black upper class – published by Johnson Publishing Company.


 * Geraldyn divorced Dismond March 1934 and, in 1942, re-married Canadian baritone Gilbert Burgess Holland (born 1902), known for "Without a Song." He was the son of John Christie Holland, a pastor in Hamilton, Ontario.


 * Andrew A. Jackson, Jr., managing editor

Reporters
The Hotel Tattler
 * Henri M. Stucker (né Henry Maxwell Stucker; 1893–1975), who had been a reporter with The Hotel Tattler, went out on his own to publish The Cat's Meow. He was arrested April 12, 1924, on a charge of publishing an indecent magazine.

Interstate Tattler
 * Ulysses S. Poston (1892–1955), a political writer for the Interstate Tattler, was a 1915 graduate of Kentucky Normal School for Colored Persons.


 * Before moving to New York, Ulysses, with one of his brothers, Robert Lincoln Poston (1890–1924), founded two weekly newspapers – in 1919, the Hopkinsville Contender (Hopkinsville, Kentucky), and in 1920, The Detroit Contender.


 * While in New York, U.S. Poston founded and ran the Daily Negro Times, which failed after 26 issues. He also founded and ran The New York Contender.


 * U.S. and R.L. Poston were both associated with Marcus Garvey. R. L. Poston was General Secretary of Marcus Garvey's organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.


 * He wrote for many publications, including Current History, Atlantic Monthly, and the American Mercury.


 * Another brother, Ted Poston (1906–1974), became the first African American reporter for the New York Post.


 * Eric (Cebert) "Von" Wilkinson (né Eric Wilfred Cebert Guy Waith Von Wilkinson; born 1910 in Trinidad); on November 5, 1932, became founding editor of the "Brooklyn Page," a weekly feature of the New York Age.


 * George "Ted" Yates (né George Theodore Yates; 1905–1977) had been a well-known basketball player. Among other things, in 1927, he played pro basketball for the Commonwealth Five, one of the Black Fives that was, in 1922, the first African American pro basketball team in the world. Before 1929, Yates had been a sportswriter for the New York Age. He also had been a sports and theater writer for the Interstate Tattler from 1930 to 1932 and later, in the 1930s, covered sports and theater for the Amsterdam News. He later was editor-in-chief of the Independent Press Service (Benjamin Bart, publisher), a semi-weekly, and correspondent of the African-American Newspapers. He worked about 30 years as a journalist.


 * photo


 * Gould Maynard (1907–1967), who became a seasoned freelance New York journalist, was, on the recommendation of Wyatt Walker, appointed January 1962 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, headed by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to serve as its Director Public Relations. In 1963, Maynard went on to become an editor for Radio Liberty in Munich.
 * Hubert Henry Harrison (1883–1927), contributor
 * Alvin Moses (né Alvin Jackson Moses; 1896–1956), sports editor of the New York News; then sports editor of the Inter-State Tattler. When the Tattler folded, he became a sports correspondent for the Associated Negro Press. Moses was also a boxing instructor.


 * Clarence A. H. Abbott (né Clarence Augustine Herbert Abbott; 1909–1958), born in Basseterre, Saint Kitts), was a columnist with the Interstate Tattler. He immigrated to New York from Basseterre April 5, 1924, and became a naturalized citizen May 8, 1935.


 * In 1929, Leroy H. Sloan (né Leroy Hampton Sloan; 1908–1976), born in Greenfield, Ohio), moved to Pittsburgh in 1928 as an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He became the the Pennsylvania editor for the Interstate Tattler. He had completed a year course in public speaking under the curriculum of the North American Institute, Chicago, founded by Robert Everett Pattison Kline (1874–1959), who, in 1916, had founded the Department of Public Speaking at Columbia College Chicago.

Contributors
Inter-State Tattler
 * Ted Carroll (né Theodore Carroll; 1906–1973) was a prolific sports cartoonist who contributed to the Interstate Tattler. Having served as a 1st Lt. in the U.S. Army during World War II, he is buried at the Long Island National Cemetery, Section 2S, Site 722.


 * Carroll was a cartoonist for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and contributed to:
 * New York Evening Graphic
 * Brooklyn Daily Times
 * The Morning Telegraph
 * Brooklyn Standard Union
 * The Jersey Observer
 * The Ring
 * The New York Evening Bulletin
 * The Los Angeles Knockout
 * Pittsburgh Couzen
 * Self-Defense
 * Los Angeles Knockout
 * Pittsburgh Courier
 * Chicago Defender
 * Amsterdam News
 * Interstate Tattler
 * Brooklyn Daily Eagle
 * New York Evening Enquirer
 * Scranton Sun


 * Ellis Wilson (1899–1977)


 * Charles Theodore Valentine (1905–1965), who, on June 4, 1928, graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lincoln University where he became a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, was a humorist who wrote, while a student, articles about Lincoln and its students for the Inter-State Tattler and the Pittsburgh Courier. He was an alumnus of Chester High School.


 * Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), a co-founder of the NAACP in 1909, wrote literary criticism for the Interstate Tattler.

Not sure


 * Dan Patchit (born abt. 1891)


 * Ferdy Accooe (né Ferdinand J. Accooe; 1889–1972). His brother Will Accooe (né William John Accooe; 1875–1904) was a composer who had collaborated in 1902 will Will Marion Cook, and, when he died, was credited for having composed all the music perfomed by Williams and Walker.


 * Dan Burley (1907–1962)


 * L. Baynard Whitney (né Louis Baynard Whitney; 1898–1986), reporter


 * Edgar Rouzeau (né Edgar Theodore Rouzeau; 1905–1958), on February 16, 1942, became the first African American correspondent officially accredited to the United States Army, and, the first African American correspondent to accompany troops abroad. He worked for The Interstate Tattler, The Amsterdam News, The Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Baltimore Afro-American, and The Pittsburgh Courier. At the time of his accreditation as a war correspondent, he was manager of the New York office of The Pittsburgh Courier.


 * Maurice Dancer (né Maurice Ewert Dancer; 1898–1976) wrote for the Interstate Tattler until it folded, then became the theatrical and night-life editor for the Pittsburgh Courier. He also contributed to The Show-Down, a theatrical magazine launched in 1935 and edited by Sally Cathrell. By 1942, according to his World War II Draft Registration, was working for the Chicago Defender. His brother, Earl Harold Dancer (1895–1943) — by way of marriage in 1943 to Viola Nicholas (née Viola Hardin; 1893–1971), a widow of the drummer Ulysses D. Nicholas (1892–1935) — was the step-father of the Nicholas Brothers.
 * Frank Byrd
 * Vere Johns (1893–1966)


 * Laban Eric Johnson did some freelance writing for the Interstate Tattler


 * check against this list

Business managers
Hotel Tattler
 * Elmer B. Derby (né Elmer Benjamin Derby; 1884–1922) was the founding business manager of the Hotel Tattler, but died June 19, 1922, at Saint Luke's Hospital in Manhattan. In June 1898, at age 14, Derby graduated from the Phillips School of Beacon Hill, Boston. On December 29, 1899, he began working in the Auditing Department of the City of Boston.

Interstate Tattler
 * Cyril S. Reid (1893–1966), business manager
 * Ann Christine Douglas (maiden 1911–1938), business manager, a college-educated woman and voracious reader who had been deaf since age five.

Advertising
Interstate Tattler
 * Billy Rowe (né William Leon Rowe; 1915–1997) was and editor and advertising executive for the Interstate Tatter. He also had been editor for the Harlem News and editor-photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier. Notably, in August 1951, New York Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri appointed Rowe to a position known as Seventh Deputy Police Commissioner, the first black in that position. He served as liaison between the police and community groups, amid some criticism from black publications. Around 1951, his wife, Isabela Rowe (née Isabela Viola Smith; 1915–2004), took over his column, "Billy Rowe's Note Book," with the Pittsburgh Courier, and renamed it "Izzy Rowe's Note Book." Before, she had written for the Courier under the byline "Isadora Smith."


 * Billy Rowe also had managed publicity for Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sammy Davis, Jr., and later was a corporate marketing consultant for companies like Burlington Industries and General Foods.


 * William Ernest Pettus (1888–1946), Philadelphia representative of the Interstate Tattler. He was a son of Sammual Bailey Pettus (1858–1925), prominent citizen of Philadelphia.

Connections
Jack Trotter had a sister, Carrie Spencer (née Carrie Trotter; 1884–1969).
 * Jack Trotter's sister's daughter-in-law, Evelyn Spencer (née Evelyn M. Evans; 2013–2006), was a sister of W. Leonard Evans, Jr. (1914–2007), who founded in 1954 the National Negro Network.


 * Jack Trotter's sister's husband, Warrick Spencer, Jr., M.D. (1878–1967), was a brother of Edward Alexander Spencer, Sr. (1876–1964), who was married to Anne Spencer (1882–1975), an acclaimed poet of the Harlem Renaissance (see Anne Spencer House).

Bennie Butler had a sister, Mary Ethel Jones, who was married to Jeremiah Flynn, Jr., whose uncle, John Wilson Connors (1875–1926), was, according to Chappie Johnson, the father of modern Negro baseball, having done more for players than anyone else ever did or ever will. Connors was a restaurant owner who formed the Brooklyn Royal Giants in 1904.

Beauty contest winners
Wilfred R. Bain (né Wilfred Resta Bain; 1893–1931), City Editor for the Interstate Tattler, founded the publication's beauty contests. Winners include:


 * 1922: Ora Viola Johnson of New York, "Prettiest colored girl in the United States," chosen from 475 contestants, nationwide
 * 1922: Gladys Stewart
 * 1924: Wilhelmina F. Adams (née Oritha; 1891–1987), crowned Queen of Hotel Tattler's Ball and Beauty Pageant Freddie Moore (1900–1992) (nl), the jazz drummer, was a half-brother of Wilhelmina.

The Pittsburgh Courier reported that Bain's death was thought to be from foul play from gangsters. Bain had lost considerable money from the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

Sports

 * 1923: Howard University vs. Lincoln football game promotion

Archives
Serial information


 * Hotel Tattler (weekly)
 * Vol. 1, No. 4, Abt. May 27, 1922
 * October 1922???
 * Vol. 3, No. 32, August 10, 1924; LCCN sn94087426
 * Vol. 3, No. 52, December 28, 1924; LCCN sn88073080


 * The Inter-State Tattler
 * First issue: Vol. 1, No. 1, February 27, 1925; LCCN sn88073081
 * Final issue: Vol. 8, No. 34, August 25, 1932; LCCN sn88073081

OCLC WorldCat identifications


 * The Hotel Tattler


 * (online)
 * (microfilm)
 * (microfilm, reel)
 * (microfilm, reel)


 * The Tattler


 * (online via NewsBank)


 * The Inter-State Tattler


 * (microfilm)
 * (online via NewsBank)
 * (microfilm)

Chronicling America reference identifications at the Library of Congress


 * The Hotel Tattler


 * LCCN sn94087425
 * LCCN sn94087426 (microfilm, reel)
 * LCCN sn88073079
 * LCCN sn88073080


 * The Inter-State Tattler


 * LCCN sn94087427 (microfilm)
 * LCCN sn88073081


 * "African American Newspapers, Series 2, 1835–1956," Readex, a division of NewsBank

Millersville University


 * Inter-State Tattler, March 17, 1932, Carl Van Vechten Memorial Collection of African-American Arts and Letters, 1853–2004; Prints, 1896-1964; Inter-State Tattler, March 17, 1932.
 * Millersville University Special Collections; File – Box 4 (of 12), Folder 30; Identifier: 04_30_1932. (link)
 * Re: 5x7 photograph featuring a caricature of Fredi Washington by Sam Berman

Links
Hotel Tattler
 * , Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture – Archives and Rare Books Division (alternate source – Internet Archive), original Hotel Tattler
 * Note: The Nest Club (operating under the auspices of The Nest Club, Inc.) – at 169 West 133rd Street, 2 doors east of Seventh Avenue, Harlem – was a cabaret club, founded around 1923 by John C. Carey and Mal Frazier (né Melville Hunter Frazier; 1888–1967), co-partners.
 * Note: The Nest Club (operating under the auspices of The Nest Club, Inc.) – at 169 West 133rd Street, 2 doors east of Seventh Avenue, Harlem – was a cabaret club, founded around 1923 by John C. Carey and Mal Frazier (né Melville Hunter Frazier; 1888–1967), co-partners.


 * The club was managed by Johnnie Cobb (1923–1925) and Jeff Blood (1927). Among the jazz musicians who led bands there were
 * Sam Wooding (c1923),
 * Elmer Snowden (mid-1920s to early 1930s),
 * George Howe (1927–1928),
 * Luis Russell (1928),
 * Mattie Hite,
 * Johnny Hudgins
 * Marjorie Sipp (maiden; 1889–1944), a singer who Carl Van Vechten and Donald Angus (né Evan Donald Angus; 1899–1988) admired. Sipp made no recordings and appeared only at The Nest.
 * Lizzie Miles (1920s), and
 * Lorenzo Tio, Jr. (1933).


 * In 1932 the Rhythm Club (see below), which had functioned at 168 West 132nd Street, closed at that venue and began to operate in a room behind the Nest Club. The Nest Club itself closed in 1933.


 * In 1933, Dickie Wells (who should not be confused with the famous trombonist of the same name) took over the lease and opened the Shim Sham Club.

Interstate Tattler
 * "The Inter-State Tattler Photograph Collection," New York Public Library; ,

General

 * Reference