Evening star., 1937-10-21


the handsome lass at ringside
table at the Troika the other
night. who suddenly decided an inter-
mission should be filled with song?
1t was a bit startling at first to
hear q lush soprano voice burst forth
upon the cold, clear night air Gt was
not cold and clear night air, being
that rainy, humid, hot, sticky evening,
but we always wanted to write about
something bursting forth on the cold,
clear night air. and 1T was
especially startling when this voice
that turned out to be lovely was first
used to hum "Vieni Vieni' through
the nose and then the lass turned
to better things finally getting
around to La Donna Mobile" =. :.
hardly the song one would expect
young lady to sing to the boy friend
even if la donna mobile :.
But who was she? Even Mischa
Markoff, who's becoming known as
the Paul MUM of the Troika because
he's always hidden under some crepe
hair disguise for sketch in the show,
couldn't find out -.
s's And speaking of singing :. it's
been a long time (three weeks by
actual count since Ye Spectator
whistled through his long white beard
for silence, chanted the praises of the
Madrillon's Helen Forrest who
makes THAT Old Feeling" sound better
than its composer dreamed it could :.
go 1t was like old times again Satur-
day night at the Heigh Ho with
poor Leo worn to frazzle trying to
find place for everybody . wisA
even the chairs of Pete Macias' Office
being hauled out for the customers &.
Manuel Trucco was there with Fran
Mathews :. Betty and Bill JeffrieS
tripped a merry polka Johnny
Bolles turned up with Madge Carter
and Audrey Sieber joined the throng
with "Boomie" Valentine Mary
Lib and Johnny Reyburn were there,
too and Patsy Parker and Mar
garet Turner and Randy Richardson
and whole raft of other people . {.
And another night came the Laird
Dunlops :. that was the same night
Peter" McHarg turned up again and
the same night Bob Rodenberg and
Onalene Lawrence sat upon a bench
and said, We're here incognito, but
spell the name right"
sss Faces at the bar room doors E.
At the Madrillon: Audrey Sieber and
Johnny Bolles :. and way off in the
farthest corner, which wasn't far
enough to hide them, Sonny (Pall Mall
Room Kendis and Mary Lou E.
(we'd come right out and add that
her last name is Sarner, but maybe
Barnee shouldn't know about it, . Z.
At the Wardman: Ford Cramer and
party of friends in the Metronome
admiring the Paul Kahn arrangement
of whispers in the Dark" and other
things the Thomas McMorrows
in the Capitol Cocktail lounge, he
being down here doing stories for a
national magazine At the May
flower Lounge: Hjalmar Procope, for
mer foreign minister of Finland, the
chap who has often been called the
''handsomest" member of the League
- Nofioy,c Cnr,,,oi1 ho1,rioo D,1-
percy, the Partisan, who's interna-
tional president of Rotary :. Olivier
Marcel, head of the French Line
all of them much interested in Claire
Willis rendition of popular songs in
foreign languages and the young
lady at the Mayfiower in all the sable
and ermine and whatnot was Geral-
dine Novack, the first fur queen ever
presented a. the White House At
the Carlton: Representative Joseph
E. Casey and very attractive Mrs.
Casey (she used to be Constance Dud-
ley) Robert D. Lonyear, United
States Consul to Marseilles :. Lode
wick Vroom, in town selling "Tovar-
ich," dining Kathryn Hillyer, Lee Mil
Ter and a drama critic who was there
II he remembered his memory
having developed >of late sad habit
of passing up even free meals (who?
Ed :. And, of course, the biggest
news at the Carlton Is Manager Frank
Swadley's new palm tree, 8 veritable
forest in the middle of the dining
room. -"
. The Shoreham has gone COM
pletely Big Apple conscious with
. couple of youngsters from Columbia,