Evening star., 1937-03-04

fight of j.. made her run whenever
she heard a violin . That was until
the other eve at Club Troika &.
when Sam Saxonsky took up his
fiddle. started to play warm Gypsy
melodies The girls father stif-
fened, looked at his daughter out of
the corner of his eye to see what the
old subconscious was going to do to
her But Sam and the violin won,
the lass stayed . Stayed and dis
covered she could hear and enjoy
music lust like the rest of her family,
all music lovers :. and pop was the
happiest guy in town -.
Bet M. Saxonsky played
"Liebestraum' The way he does
that would make even that first vio-
linist of the story-the one who just
didn't like music-sit up and take
notice
s'' Saturday night al Heigh Ho
was an elegant night indeed . ,
all glittering with swank celebrities
For instance, those tall and hand
some young people from 1900 Penn
sylvania avenue -. Franklin. Jr., and
John Roosevelt. with Uncle Hall
Roosevelt Also goodly repre-
sentation of the Hill delegation .
including Senator Lodge and Senator
Hamilton Also there ex-
Secretary of War Hurley
And Just a couple of nights ago at
Heigh Ho Christine Ekengren sat of
in a corner, looked on while fetching
lass showed off a fetching tan before a
gang of less fortunate palefaces whove
been Wintering no further south than
Middleburg and while certain
well-known citizen tried to recruit an
expedition to Los Angeles leaving
by plane at $3.50 in the yawning ..
but failed because the only lad in the
room willing to go along couldn't fig
ure how he could go to Los Angeles
and get back to work at noon the next
day =. even flying with Frank Hawks
or Howard Hughes -.
- There is, as far as secret inveS-
LEGATIONS can determine, no truth to
the report that the lad who asked for
"Slummin' on Park Avenue" 81 times
in an hour and a half at Heigh Ho
that same night was lynched and hung
fluttering in the breeze from Thomas
Circle fountain He was cut IN
small pieces and tossed in Rock
Greek =.
q 4 S-in nf dri /
Ions pleasant-voiced chantreuses, can't
quite figure this business of getting a
Job Last year she took an addition
at the Club Habana 90. a week later
the place closed Then she audi
toned at Club Troika was prom
ised a job when a certain singer there
went to New York . and the certain
singer never went to New York So
Elise got the job she now has without
even going through the formality Of
an addition -.
- That lovely deb who sang a song
the other night with Arthur Warren s
Orchestra at the Wardman Park was
Angela Brown and her friends are
reported to have liked the song very
much indeed And Vermont'S Sem
ator Ernest Gibson likes the Ward
mans cocktail lounge So does
White House aid Maj Horace Smith
.. And Theon, the Wardman's maitre
d., likes gardenias . raises them in
his room q. . is reported to be in duel
with the Wardman Park publicity
genius, Frances Shipper, over who
can raise the best gardenias north Of
Seventeenth and H streets And
everybody likes the Wardman's Sat-
urday afternoon tea (cocktailO
dances -.
s++ That was fine trick played on
Evelyn Knight, the Lotus songstress
-. and she was all ready to ask for
raise until she heard about 1t
Evelyn sang her three songs the other
evening in the show, left the floor .
Al Norton, the Lotus em-cee, asked
the audience how they'd like to hear
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