Evening star., 1938-03-03

ginning of Lent. Given up for it, by
the Raleighs Pail Mall room. was
Eddie Daniels music. Supplanting
Daniels is Mario di Polo. MIR. di
Polo, born in Italy, Is so thoroughly
Americanized that no one could stump
him on a popular number. offers ore
of the most interesting bands that
has been in town in months. 1t has
five pieces, no brass. But who cares?
Mr. di Polo, still no relation to
Marco, is a leader who strums
guitar. 1t is worth hearing. Often.
At the Shoreham this week, Charles
Carlisle's music. on the sentimental
side. is stopping all shows. Stopped,
indeed, even that show at which
drama critics were guests OF the
hotel Nelson Bell and Betty Hynes
not only spoke. but danced. And
quite professionally. Speaking of the
Shoreham's show, La Trianita, Spanish
dancer, may move down to local
theater after completing her engage
ment with the Max Lowe program.
1t is rumored that the Earle will have
her as a headliner soon. If other en-
gagements do not interfere.
Mr.. Noel Coward (Null Cahrd
to you) was comparatively rampant at
Troika last night Durwood Bowersox
and Sasha Barnovtsky did not play
anything from the Coward play cycle
of last year. in spite of requests for
You Were There" and Play Orches-
ira, Play" but they went through
all the earlier Coward numbers. I'll
Follow My Secret Heart was the
one that made the greater number
of customers feel nostalgia. After
that .nterlude was ended, they swung
into more broodingly Slavic numbers.
which fitted better than anything else
the piquant toe dance of Nine
Strelska of the Ballet Russo, latest
addition to the Troika floor show
Among those applauding was Clinton
Anderson, who used to be president
of Rotary International. Mr.. Ander-
son, in from New Mexico, liked other
features of Helen Hamilton's floor
show. His applause gave him away.
"'' Maybe you don't know it, but the
Miss Journet who is dancing at the
Shoreham as part of the team Of
Journet and Severin Is the same
young lady who moved so handsomely
through the dance numbers of Show
Boat" which gives Irene Dunno top
honors at Keith's In spite of Snow
White" which may yet break Miss
Dunnes record.
Politics. semantics and all the other
''ics" aside, one of the gentlemen who
danced recently to Barnee's music at
the Shoreham was John Hamilton.
who was the spokesman for the
Republican party until Wisconsin
University released Glenn Frank for
the task of explaining the duty of op-
position parties.
Visitors in town. simply for the
fun OF visiting Washington. include
Sir George and Lady McLaren Brown,
seen the other day in the Carlton
lobby. Equally we'll known. maybe
better in spite Of the absence OF
title. is Gar Wood, who listened so
intently the other night to Frank
Gagan's music in the Shar-Zad room.
Mr.. Wood, who races motor boats and
whose house in Detroit has a mar
velous pipe organ. joined in the COM
munity singing which Mr.. Gagan at
tributes to the Infectious quality of
Evelyn Oakes' soprano voice.
Heigh-Ho. which still is the
name Of Pete Macias' night club in
spite Of the dwarfs' marching song
in Snow White" missed its boss TWO
nights last week. He was in New
York long enough to talk with Sonny
kendis. see couple of shows, includ-
ing I'D Rather Be Right" but not
too long to get back in time to play
host to George Marshall and Mrs.
Marshall on Tuesday night. Two
others among those present were
Claude Greneker. Shubert press rep-
resentative, and Jock Mclean, who,
earlier in the evening. was among
those seated around j. F. T. O'Con-
nor's table at the Shoreham. Some
one, a passerby. brought up the mat
ter of Mr.. O'Connor being the next
Governor Of California. The subject
was dropped there. But is very active
in California.