Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-03

the Helgh-HO Club. The news is
that Austine Byrne Mcdonnell, who
has just signed an arrangement to
be glamourized for the glory of Selz-
nick films, will sometime soon now
take up a career Of singing ditties
of the day for all those people who
seem to live at the Heigh-Ho. So
now, realizing of a sudden that the
telephone is a great invention and
probably is here to stay, it just
happened to occur to us to call the
Heigh-Ho and the Heigh-Ho says it
is true and the Warrenton corre-
spondent is right and Miss McDon-
nell will soon be a supper club chan
teuSe.
- = Stage Whispers In the Night:
"They may change the decora-
tons in this place every season, but
they haven't changed the air in it
since it was opened"
She's got an inferiority complex
and she tries to overcome it by talk
ing about big things-like life"
- = The aggregate Washington
morning after probably was terrific
but Halloween is now over and all
you regular inhabitants of the
quieter corners of the towns after
dark rendezvous can come out of the
bombproof. Reports from the bat
tie front indicate that it was quite
night, runners from the Troika,
the Shoreham, the Heigh-Ho, the
Madrillon, the Hi-Hat and other
outposts telling of great masses of
people waging pitched battle and
finally winning the fight against
the inhibitions that have been pill
ing up since New Year eve. One
messenger claims he was in one spot
late when a swarm of containers re-
sembling champagne bottles rolled
solemnly in the room. The corks
popped and little men dressed in
green suede suits came out of the
bottles and began shooting bows and
arrows at the customers. We do
not believe it.
In fact we are not sure
whether or not we believe what we
saw at the Carlton Hotel Shar-Zad
room, which was Sande Williams
and his lads dressed up like Snow
White and the dwarfs, doing
hilarious version of the yarn. 1t
ought to be repeated at least once
a week, for the people who missed
1t Monday night. if anybody in
town was not in that mob of citi-
zens sitting in each others laps
and hanging from Shar-Zad palm
trees.
The towns dancing stars of
the moment-Eleanore Whitney at
the Earle and Paul Haakon at the
Capitol-seem to like the spot where
the dancing is of the best. That,
OF course, is the Russian Troika,
which has III that magnificent show
with the chauve- souris flavor much
fine Cossack dancing by Lola Lolik
and Vanya Orlik and a spirited
Hungarian whatsit by Nadia Varelle.
Miss Whitney also likes to have the
future peered into for her by Prince
Vada and sits enthralled, letting her
borscht grow cold, while he tells
her what is to become of her.
Mote: The whatsit Miss Varelle
does is shardasch only we don't
know how to spell shardasch)
'' The Midnight Merge o.
Round: It's anniversary week for
the bands-at least for two of the
bands. Johnny Shaw and his crew
last Sunday marked the end of their
second year at the Madrillon, en-
parked cheerfully upon a third.
And sometime this week, Bill Strick-
land ends his fifth year at the Lotus.
brooding sadly over his drums that
he thought it would be a steady
job when he moved in You
can expect a flash any day now
from the Bamboo Gardens. which
has something up its sleeve it didn't
know we knew . Tonight should
be big evening for the Pail Mall
room and for the people who have
been invited to Col. Schiffler's first
annual hunt dinner, what with
great slab of venison to be Toasted
on and some fancy entertainment
arranged. New to the evenings
advertisement at the Pail Mall room
Is Nina Tarasova, Russian singer
who brings quite a concert reputa-
ton and repertoire of light opera
1avorltes, and, of course, there are
dances by Castaine and Barry. who
have been held over for still an
other week, and tunes by Mario di
Polo's orchestra Note to Frank
Carlton) Swadley: Dale Sher-
man Is in Chicago. Don't lose
track OF her Come Satur-
day. sometime between dinner
and supper, Heigh-Ho is going to
have itself something called the
Champagne 1nterlude. It's for in
formal rhumba demonstrations bv
the guests, with a pair of Arthur
Murray dancers picking the winners,
who get either champagne or Arthur
Murray lessons. The runners-up get
what the winners don't, either con-
sole themselves with the grape or
go learn how to dance so thev can
win the next time JOHNNY
Slaughter blossoms out with a new
swing band that really is going to
be a swing band, this Saturday at
the Wardman Park Metronome
room, and right there every night
thereafter for some time to come
Johnny (Madrillon) Shaw claims he
really is going to New York this
week end Makes you wish you
mad four ears when Sande (Shar-
Aad) Williams crew plays 1T Never
was Anywhere YOU when Mary
lMadrlllon) La Mari sings What
Do You Know About Love?"
Makes you wish you could be twice
as hungry when Oscar of the Hi
Hat takes VIM into tho ~l;.;~,-