Evening star., 1937-07-08

IT'S going to be fun at the Ward
man Parks MetrOnome room
next Thursday and the Thursday
4 after that, and whole lot Of
following Thursdays for the
Wardmans bright and handsome pub
licity department has suddenly real
tied that lot of boys and girls in
the Government have talent for
things other than writing memos to
other people, or riding bicycles around
tn Speedway . j.. talent for such
things as singing and dancing and
whatnot. :. So, come next Thursday
night, nine lads and lassies, three
apiece, representing three Government
departments, will go before board
Of judges some time between 8 and
10 o'clock =. a board of judges con-
sisting of Peter Garter, Bob McCor-
mick and fellow named Carmody,
who will select the winnah, who gets
q weeks engagement at the Metro
nome Room. Then, when the
Government has been MIXED dry Of
Its best talent in these weekly con-
tests, will come the grand finale, the
weekly winners showing off their tai
ents before committee (Which, it Is
hoped, will include Gene Ford and
two blond picketS from Chorus Equi-
ty), to select some lucky boy or girl
who'll get free trip to New York. i.
-" Yes, and we saw three girls
the other night who can enter the
lists if they work in the Government.
At three separate tables at the
Lotus a gal arose and burst into hula
dancing when Don Alvarado did his
imitation of an Hawaiian guitar in
the floor show.
"'+ Seems to have been Writers Week
at the Shoreham Terrace . what
with Helen Worden, ace New York
society writer, stopping off at the ter
race after the Roosevelt-Du Pont we'd
ding; Columnist Westbrook Pegler;
Journalist Jesse Jones (besides being
In the Government he's a Texas pub
Usher, C. K. Young, who owns pair
of Shanghai's leading newspapers
Chats in China): Arch Ward, sports
editor of the Chicago Tribune, here
for the all-star game also Arch
Mcdonald, who fills the air with wild
cries about base ball games; with
Arthur De Titta, who fills the news
reels with news. and Tony Muto, who
fills lot of space, also looks after
the Hays Office activities here.
80 Around Town on the Merry Co.
Round That Didn't Break Down
Yet Senator La Toilette appears
at the Powhatan Roof, to cool off and
get away from the problem of who
did what at Chicago and Patti
Parker appears at the same place and
brings with her a new hair dress
which is bit of all right Bob
Rodenberg turns up at the PoWhatan,
too, his first night back in town. 4.
At the Carlton John L. Lewis comes
into the dining room, its down about
two feet from Banker Mariner Eccles
-. . and somebody started to make a
crack about the lion and the lamb eat
ing at the same oasis but couldn't de-
Ide whether capital or labor was the
Aloll VI WIG Vail vail r,
pianist at the Madrillon, caught a
fish the other day so big it was food
enough for everybody in Johnny
Shaw's band . and those guys can
eat, too . Rudy Ferris. one of the
Hi-Hat's Three Ms, looks like Nick
Lucas, even is what We used to call
the spittin' image" back in the hills
before they caught us and put shoes
on us sings like Senor Lucas, too.
and plays guitar Couple Of
base ball stars here for the fracas YES
terday celebrated the night before at
the Madrillon, but you'll never find
out who they were in this corner =.
they're bigger than we are Sid
ney Of the Orchestras and Mrs. Seide-
mann OTIS all right, that's his wife)