The Washington times., 1936-03-21
Floods or Not,
Night Clubs
Still Gay
BY FRANCOIS

swirling, Seething rivers that are
making horror headlines through.
out the East these days don't
bother the night-goers when the
clock strikes the hour to do the
town. Many a flood sightseeing
party has landed at the nighterieS
since Thursday.
Take q tip from the movie stars,
girls. most Of you do, anyway.
June Knight, for instance, the
lovely blond film actress, was seen
several times at the Heigh-Ho and
in the Mayflower Lounge. June
was wearing a trim sports suit q
few Of the times. Looked com.
Portable, too. She was having
herself grand time. despite the
absence of trains and rhine.
stones. :.
Great dOingS ut RamOn's. "A
new mural is being painted;
Spanish senOritaS, castanets and
things. But who's the mysteri-
Gus artist whom nobody sees at
work.. Even Ramon won't tell
-. The mural painter Is keep
ing 1t q secret until the walls
are completely covered
Then he'll tell.
Elephants, clowns, peanuts, pink
lemonade n everything. The
circus is coming to town. It's the
real goods, only this time it won't
be under a big tent at Fifth Street
and Florida Avenue. The circus
is coming to the Shoreham with
all its trimmings.
Hamid'S Circus Is the tent show
that's causing all the hulaballoo,
beginning Monday The circus
fans are all steamed up about it,
particularly the James E. Cooper
Tent" q club that includes Mel.
vim D. Hildreath, DR.. William M.
Mann, of the Zoo (where they also
have quite a few animalS), Senator
Gerald P. Nye and others.
The press agents have 1t that
Barnee will lead the boys Of
Maxim Loew'S Orchestra in a pa
rade They'll all wear circus
garb. Just try to picture the ele-
CANT Barnee in a rig like that!
Karavaeff, the Russian M. c. at
the Russian Troika, owes his new
idea to the Irish. He's now max.
ing a nightly collection for the
Russian Church here, and it all
started on st. Patrick'S Day.
Like this. .Karavaeff is a master
of the kizatsky and other forms Of
Russian hoofing, but on st. Fat
rick'S Day, when quite a group
Of the wearerS O. the green were
celebrating their patron saints
day a la Russo, the M. c. did al
Irish jig. After which q trio Of
Russi~ns did sad little story in
song and dance. And its w:S all
in the sipirt of the dance that they
passed the hat around. The con-
tributionS to the hat were Sizable
and from that night to this,
the hat goes around and the money
goes to the church.
A fan dance with muffS. quite
an innovation. is the boast this
week of the Maryland Club Gar.
dens. Lucille Wray is the pretty
little lady who does it. Lucille,
by the way, is unique among hoof-
ers. she orcheStrateS her own
music. The Gardens / so feature
Walter Doe, hose style is quiz
Fred Astaire-y..
Carl Lanham, the famous
musician, dropped into the
MadrillOn the other night for
one of his favOrites. .pOtage
parmantier. and there also
was the American attorney for
the Cuban government, who
introduced . group Of his
friends to Peter BOrras' pucherO
soup and arrOz con polio. .
quite, quite a dish The Ma
drillOn is making way Monday
for q bill of entirely American
entertainment.
The Lotus has It that the pa
irons have given such loud ap-
proval to the Dancing Deb
bies" Revue that Manager Dick
Lamb could do nothing but keep
them on. Felix Cat in Person"
is giving them quite q thrill.
and also at the Lotus remains
Theodore and Wright, the Samet
Sisters and Bill Strickland and
his Capitolians, of course.
Sixteen candles lit a big birth
day cake the other night at a
gala dinner party at the
ShOreham. 1t was for Mrs.
Blucher Ehringhaus, of the Vir-
ginia EhringhauSeS, who frankly
admits she should have had
more than 16 candles.
The Sunday Midnight Skyride
broadcast from La Paree is press
agented as quite an event for to-
morrow night It is announced
that Sports Commentator Al Cos
tello will take the mike tomorrow
to interview some yet unannounced