Evening star., 1937-01-28

TINE music tastes OF the town
sometimes surprise the band
lads who come here from New
- York and other sections OF the
hinterlands as for instance
Arthur Warren, who now provides
the dance melodies at the Wardman's
Metronome Room The other eve
Mr. Warren sat himself down at
table with Pauley O'Brien. New York
band publicist of no little renown.
and local news lad :. II" said Mr..
Warren, "do not know what to do.
A lady asked me to play Viennese
waltz and If these people are like some
of the people I've played to in New
York, they'll all sit and stare at me"
=. Hail." hah-ed the news lad, re-
membering the response to waltzeS
played by Pete Macias' orchestra at
the Heigh-Ho, by Sasha Bartnovsky
at the Troika, by Eddie ElkinS at the
Raleigh, by other bands about town
y. "Try it." said he, land help your
self to a surprise" :. So Mr.. Warren
swung out into 1.-THE Blue Danube"
and before he'd got three feet from
shore the dance floor was as packed
as it would have been for "It's Swing
time in Hyattsville" :. and all Mr..
Warren could do was look amazed
Evelyn Knight, tall blond song
stress with Bill Strickland's Capito-
1ians, at the Lotus, just walked into
the Office and the devastation was
practically complete =. All swathed
in something white and swaggery, she
was, and the furor was greater than
the time the wires flashed the Frpo-
Dempsey fight decision.
sss And formality and ceremony such
as you never saw hat descended upon
the local night life . descended at
least Monday upon Club Troika :.
When q scad Of Russians Of the cul-
tured classes celebrated Tatianin Dien
.. which Is the day marking the be-
ginning OF Russian culture, the ami
versary of the founding Of the first
university in Moscow when every
college graduate celebrates Monday
all those in town did their celebrating
at the Troika and since they all
are of the aristocratic class, political
immigrants. sympathizers with the
Russia of old, they did their Tatianin
Day partying in ceremonial style
and the heel-clicking reverberated tor
three days :. But of course the Troll
ka's favorite guest Of the season was
the chap who walked in Inauguration
night with his wife at his side ---and
everybody on hand was thrilled to see
him the fellow who still has more
friends than he ever could count =.
New York's Jimmy Walker And
then they tell tale up at Troika
about the fellow who came there from
Norway =. His name is Jonas Lie, and
its reported he got the assignment to
escort Leon Trotzky from Norway to
Mexico, just so he would have an ex-
,cuse to fly up to Washington and pay
Club Troika a visit -.
- And the same week the White
= Russians marked Tatianin day at the
,lTroika, the Red Goats took over Pete
<Macias' warm-hearted rendezvous :. :.
Only, Of course, they weren't red. but
pink, but red makes a much better
contrast with white and besides,
these people weren't parlor pinks .. {.
yet they weren't reds and this Is
getting nowhere fast .. The Heigh-
Hotties inhabiting this particular item
were from Warrenton, still clad in the
pink coats Of the days hunt, In party
with Count George Potocki, the Polish
Ambassador Mr.. and Mrs Forbes
Morgan were there, too :. and in the
party one distinguished looking citizen
who sat quietly at the table ap-
peared to be bored until he sud-
denly stopped Marty Rubin, on one Of