The Washington times., 1927-10-15
WHERE LIGHTER
MOODS ARE In
EVIDENCE
DEAR UNCLE HAROLD:


One hundred and sixty-eight
hours have passed-seven days,
one week, or the fifty-second part
of a year-(as Uncle Minor Wat
son might say in his present fit
of loquaciousness) since the open
ing of Club Lido, ''the capitals
handsomest, peppiest, greatest lit
tie ole 1S-carat night club" in
the Hamilton Hotel, Fourteenth
and X Streets Northwest.
And in that time, the suspicion
has been growing among a GER
tain set that maybe there's some
thing in this business after all
of Happiness tagging Lido enter
prises like the lamb Swallowed
Mary. 1t has been proved, in
fine, that the gaiety of Jardin
Lido, atop the Arlington Hotel
this summer, was not a happen
stance, but an atmosphere which
the gallant Lido entrepeneurs
sweat blood and dollars to help
their patrons create.
Take that opening night last
Friday, f'rinstance. Why do you
suppose it was that John B. Dam
iels, the radio voice, came down to
Master of Ceremony? What ex-
plation for the presence of Larry
Beatus, Norman Pyle, Steve
Cochran, Johnny Chevalier. Jimmy
Hughes, Bill Hardy, Maybelle
Jennings and other austere ladies'
and gentlemen of the managerial
end OF the theater. Neil Broken
shaw, the radio announcer? And
the host of stage stars, who saw
and heard and even were seen and
heard? Why. indeed. was Club
Lido graced with the elegant COM
pany of the gentlemen of the
press, from editor to critic, or
critic to editor-as you please?
Was 1t the beautiful room, the
large floor, the hot tempos of the
Lido Band, the entertainment of
Eileen Lally, Nanny Ling and
others; the foodage and service of
Horizons crew?
CLEVER INDIVIDUAL, per.
formances are adding zest to the
doings of LIE Paradis band these
days. Matt Walker. banjo player
and graduate of the New York
revue school OF jazz, and Dorm
Francis, presiding over the drums,
join their voices nightly in a
songfest. These two clever Young
musicians and singers are recent
additions to the Paradis band
and they have proven that they
know their groceries both as
musicians and showmen.
Milton Davis, director of
Paradis Band, is producing some
of the finest dance music that
has ever been heard in Never
Davis famous resort. Smartness.
exotic glitter and withal. fine
background of sterling musician.
ship are combined in the Davis
direction and the result Is seen
in dance music exactly to the
taste of the towns most knowing
people. q
There Is much going back and
forth these days between lie
Paradis and the Club Chantecler.
Situated on different floors in
the same building, this amuse-
ment ensemble seems to have
been planned precisely for those
sophisticates with wandering feet
who must have large amounts of
variety in their evenings.
SOLO CUTTINGS-UP by star
members of the Swanee Syncopa.
tors are adding to the high.pres.
sure amusement effects at Swa-
nee. Meyer Davis big dance resort
under the Earle Theater.
Al Norton and AL KokoI.
Swanee's syncopating twins, have
agreed to drop banjo and saxa-
phone from time to time and in.
dulge in little close not to saw
extreme harmony in both ballads
and comedy song numbers. This
innovation has been greeted en-
Enthusiastically by the customers
who seem to believe that a song
or two in the best vaudeville style
is an ideal innovation as amuse-
ment in the intervals between
dances.
Manager Wood, of Swanee. has
just completed full program of
special fall amusement activities
for Swanee. The exact date for
the introduction Of this program
has. not yet been set, and II Is
understood that It will depend to
large extent upon the weather.