Evening star., 1937-11-11

Ill the laSSieS under their
n ermines and the lads under
~ their top hats, who gambol
4 A about the midnight play
grounds, may do their cavorting with
.. while we devote our attention to
Jackie, our favorite character of the
week Jackie, 2la-year-old son of
Carlton and Miller (really Mr.. and
Mrs. Carlton or Mr.. and Mrs. Miller
or something, at Bamboo Gardens,
was brought down the other noon to
see his parents entertain :. And much
he enjoyed the floor show right up
until the time the Carlton and Miller
duo went into their comedy dance
where they knock one another all
about the floor :. Whereupon young
Jackie set up such wall as hasn't
been heard since that fellow got his
check after deciding to treat every
body at the Club Habana one night
+. thought mama and papa really
meant it and were pounding on each
other in earnest.
- The sensation of the towns mid
night merriment is Irene Bordoni, who
has brought new life to the Cocoanut
Grove =. who sings gay Irene Bordoni
songs the way no one but a vivacious
and delightful lass named Irene Bor-
doni can and whole RATS of people
have come down to cheer and to cry
for more of the same after do 1t
Again" white ties have shown up
much farther east of Connecticut
avenue hauntS than white ties ever eX-
pected to be and certain of the
embassy and legation set have been
seen among the enthusiastic ringsiders
.. and if you haven't seen Irene Bor-
doni on this latest visit to Washington,
you had best get down and get re-
acquainted.
y Somehow it seems reassuring in
these troublous times, in the face of
the I'D Rather Be Right" claim that
the rich have been taxed out of
existence, to hear the report that 95
per cent of the Heigh Ho merry
makers on given night (pick night
from l to 10) this week were dressed
-. (And before you or you make the
obvious crack. we add the other 5 per
cent we're clothed, if not dressed ;. :.
So the classes are safe for awhile f.. :.
and you still can go to Heigh Ho and
find them ;. Lately you might have
seen the Lawrence Bakers with Griffith
Warfleld Bettina Belmont and
Jamie Mccormick :. . Chester Snow
and Mrs. Isabella Guest Mar
guerite Hagner and Mike McConihe
the night they announced their en-
gagement and another night
Patsy Parker Bob Rodenberg and
raft of other people about huge
table listening to many Marty Rubin
ditty :. and if any of them wondered
why Leo kept on the move always it
was because the doctor gave him some
medicine and every time he stood any,
where or sat down he went to sleep
- Ev'rybody's "Posin'" But you
probably never saw all the couples on
dance floor join in the spirit of the
thing, stop dead in their tracks and
pose" at the proper time . unless
you've been to the Madrillon when
Johnny Shaw's crew has burst out with
AL Spieps arrangement of "Posin'"
which is what the lads in the business
call solid"
CfIyArei-r, - II.
fame. has discovered the Russian
Troika Stopped in front the
other evening to ask the doorman
If it was real Russian place -.
Absolutely positively and yes" said
the doorman Mr.. Sikorsky
walked away to think it over :.
Few minutes later he returned. tip
toed upstairs with some slight trepida-
ton, thinking still that some one might
be trying to deceive him George
was reinsurance that the Troika is
Russian so Mr.. Sikorsky sat down, Or
dered In Russian and was the happiest
man for miles around when real Rus
sian food was placed before him e.
But he won't know until now (and
probably not even now that the man
who served him merely understood
bit Of Russian, being really Greek
because the Troika needs more walters
than there are Russian walters in
town William Green liked the
Troika. too . and others have been
Newlyweds Mary and George Shea .
20 years wed Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Becker
Representative Virginia Jenckes
and guests :. Karl Crowley l.. f.. Alice
Nibley Smoot Genevieve and Elmer
Pratt E. and many another shashlik
addict =.
- Many are the duties the Hi Hats
Dick Roger has and assiduously he
carries them out The other night
q chap walked in, said Don't let me
stay here too long, I've an appointment
at 1890" And promptly at 1925
Dick appeared, lifted the lad bodily
from his chair, said "Hi Hat service,
sir" sent him on his way -.
- The Shoreham Blue Room is all
proud of itself this week for it has
a Hollywood touch, what with Joan
Bennett the lovely star of the Ma
tional's stage Door" usually on hand
for an early dinner before her nightly
chores Among others about re-
Gently have been the Attorney General
and Mrs. Homer Cummings, with Com
missioner and Mrs. George Allen
Louise Smith of Montana, j. F. T.
O'Connor of currency comptrolling
fame :. The Egyptian Legation has
been represented of late, too, with
Moustafa Youssef, son of the Egyptian
Minister and Nine Anime Youssef.
who's in the foreign service school at
Georgetown, entertaining for dinner.
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