Evening star., 1937-09-23

HAKE the mothballs out of the
tails, try to remember where you
put the studs, and send that
~ stiff shirt to the laundry
for the time has come Night CLUB
first-nighters. all the towns stay-outs,
who have been Enthusiastically wander
ing from bistro to bistro the Summer
through, will find themselves in the
middle of merry whirlpool come next
week -. . Already the Wardman Parks
Metronome room has blossomed out
with new band, mad bunch of top
notch rhythm makers from the West
Coast, led by Paul Kain :. And come
Tuesday there1l be new chow mein
and tap-dance emporium, the Bamboo
Gardens, risen by new management
from the ashes of the late, not par
ticularly lamented La Paree g.. And
later in the week the kerridge trade
will find heavy going If it attempts to
keep up with everything for Thurs
day night, promptly at the stroke of
10, those massive grilled doors at 1886
Connecticut avenue will swing open
and as many of Pete Macia's friends
as can crowd in will gather round to
celebrate the opening of brand-new,
repainted, redecorated, rejuvenated,
rehabilitated Teigh-Ho Club The
same evening, there will be great furor
down toward the Avenue, when the
Raleigh Hotels Pail Mall room bursts
forth for a new season in all its sleek
and glittering elegance bringing
more name band" music to town . .. {.
the tunes of Sonny Kendis, who has
been entertaining New York's cafe
society all Summer at Sherman Bill
lingsley's Stork Club :. This will be
September 80, in case you forgot to
wind your calendar The next
night, which will be Friday and Octo-
Der /, the town gets the blues . . &.
The very latest in blues, superSeding
Eleanor blue, Wallis blue, sky blue and
all the other blues but st. Louis
Blues" which no blue can supersede
-. It's Shoreham blue. the color of
blue room, opening a week from to-
morrow q. It's blue -. get it? :. {.
When certain newspaper
wizard in town, a former guiding light
In the famed Thursday Night Literary
Club. sets his mind on something,
it gets done 30 Monday night
(Tuesday morning., at the swing
breakfast introducing Paul Kahn to
a select group Of local dance music
connoisseurs, there was Big Appling
all over the sedate Wardman Parks
Metronome room all because this
lad had decided to do bit of organiz
ing so he could determine what the
Big Apple is all about :. 1t is to be
hoped he found out what is the Big
Apple after he got couple of dozen
people talked into doing it, for the
dance they did was something you
never saw the likes of this side of
the Hopi Indian Reservation.
- Maids night out everybody eats
at the Madrillon and it's almost i'm
possible to get in without a court
order Cor maybe a reservation in
advance) :. and Sundays, which are
musicians nights off, they all turn up
at the Madrillon, to watch Johnny
Shaw work and to listen to Helen
Forrest Barnee might be there
with Mary Lou, insulting night club
reporters because he feels safe behind
his bulk Rutt Hawn and his Mrs,
the Irv Levicks, Marty Rubin and
others from Pete Macias' Height -Ho
crew are likely to turn up sooner or
later :. And Moe Baer and jolly
will dance by, Moe stopping to talk
of the swing band that plays at the
Redskins foot ball games, to deny
. that George Marshall is planning to
bring down a floor show from New
York to make night club of Griffith
Stadium, to go off pondering. some