Evening star., 1937-06-17


that you sit down at q table VI
at the Powhatan Roof for 20,
4 look down at the tablecloth ant
the first thing you notice is that mod
ernization has stepped in :. stepped
tn with streamlined metal clips to keer
the cloths and the tables in close com.
munion, so you will ever have some.
thing to pay cover charge for even
II breeze of monstrous proportion.
pops up, so unwary pedestrians below
will never be shoWered with table
cloths should sudden gusts of wind
arise -. Gone are the old-fashioned
contrivances for holding cloths to
tables comes nostalgia with memories
OF last year and the year before and
years before that .. when there were
no modern metal clips, but trick
clothespins, which would go plop, now
and then, land in your midrif
clothespins with which gay young
bucks home from reform school for
the Summer would have much fun,
hanging them on one another's coats
and hereby, in some mysterious man
ner, getting themselves laughs for an
evening But modernization has
stepped In -.
Stepped in, too, have hosts of the
towns nicer people, at one time or
another in the past couple of weeks
Commissioner HaZen is one of
them. escaping District building wor-
ries up in the air midst cooling zephyrs
CA zephyr is a breeze that does not
even put strain on clip that holds
tablecloth) >. And the Russian
Ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky,
guest of President De Lima, of the
Roger Smith Hotels ... Too there were
Mike McConihe, Margo Hagner,
Tinsley Garnett and Mary Lou Marsh
at one happy ringside table and
Horace Luttrell was there, with Com
mander Thomas and some lass
whose face we couldn't catch, calling
to Pete Macias, Eve heard you broad
casting and couldn't resist the music;
Just had to come up -"
80 Down at the Madrillon Johnny
Shaw finally proves he and the lads
still know "You Were There" when
we thought he'd forgotten it. .
Only Monday night, when the place
was packed with folk driven inside by
showers, not to mention people who
would have been there anyway,
Johnny said he'd picked out a new
theme song for the Summer Rain
on the Roof" But he forgot how
to play that one, so had to trip out
with other tunes for some Of the po-
dtical notables present, including
Representatives Henry G. Tiegan and
Dewey johnson of Minnesota {.
Then discovered a novelty that gets
The swing fans in jitters of ecstasy 80.
with each Of the boys knocking off a
hot chorus, leaving the stand, finally
leaving Al Spiel all alone to make
music on his drums, something he
can do and plenty. And that
masked artist knows his business, too
.. and in 10 minutes can whip a
pencil across sheet Of paper. turn
out q portrait Of you that beats a
camera study, makes you think r.
Taylor Is not so beautiful after all.
a.. He's not only good, he's generous.
80 That always looks like happy
corner at the Wardman Parks Metro
nome Room . the corner where's
the table where are Gen. Frederick W.
Boschen, his family and friends j..
his family including attractive Mrs.
Boschen and charming daughter
Betty . friends the other eve being
Florence Gotthelf, just graduated from
Miss Kings School in New York. with
her mother, Mrs. E. Gordon Gotthelf,
visiting the Boschens. And why
doesn't somebody ask the Wardman to
open the pool at nights >. might be
fun to stroll off the air-cooled dance
door. drop down for bit of water
cooling, come back for more SAINT
meyer music. -. Only maybe the gals
would all scream about their hair.
-. But so long as they're healthy
There may not be dancing at
Maryland Club Gardens this Sunday,
but there will be entertainment. u.
Entertainment you seldom see in an
after-dark playground. a.. Gilbert and
Sullivan's H. NJ S. Pnafore," pre-
sented on the stage across the SWIM
ming pool by the Estelle Wentworth
Opera Co. ... Curtain at 8.
''' Yves Ferrel, Rick Ferrell Mel
Almada dropped into the Hi-Hat the
other eve on their way to bed dor
a lemonade, Mr.. Grif1th) }. sat a
lew moments to lend an ear to those
hnes Of the three Ms, who can make
b piano, guitar and saxophone sizzle,
even If they don't know "You Were
There" =. And a lass from one of
The gal shows, gay with delight over
the way Jimmy Summerville makes a
sax move faster than you think he
ban.
And labor problems were the
topic Of conversation at that table at
the Volga Boatman the other night,
where were Daniel Lewis, James
Dewey, others interested in the labor
business. But no troubles at the
moment on the mind Of Senator Cap
Der, dining, dancing at the roof often,
asking for only the brightest, fastest
tunes. ). No troubles at the Shore
ham, either at least none that
anybody could see .. for the terrace
has, as usual, been agog with celeb
rites Monday night there was
Gregory Grigoriev, attache Of the Rus