Evening star., 1939-11-16

Parade orchestra start busting Oh
tricky new arrangement, for they
know they have No. l ditty coming
along.
Tse lads who make the music in
~ WINS bistros are off again on an
Isld foutine. They are snarling like
proud little Pekingese pups, even so
enthusiastically as they haven't done
since And the Angels Sing" last
February. Right now at the drop of
a chord in B fiat any bandleader
in the village will leap upon his
podium, plant his two feet firmly
upon the rock foundation of his
pride and cry. Il am the guy who
saw it first, am the guy who played
I Didn't Know What Time it Was
before anybody else in Washington. :"
Just what the point of it all is, is
something this department could not
fathom, but still the maestros do feel
moody as frustrated hoot owls if
another music crew beats them to a
tune. Or beats them to claiming
Il saw it first"
The band which played Il Didn't
Know What Time 1t Was" before
anybody else in town ever heard of
a show called Too Many Girls" is
either Barnee, Of the Shoreham;
Bernath, Bert, of the Pail Mall room;
Davis, Milt, of the Rainbow room;
testers, Kings, of the Metronome
room; Koons, Dick, of the Mayhower
Lounge; Macias, Pete, of the Lounge
Riviera; McCune, Bill, of the Shar-
Zad or Van Sickler, Carr and Shook
Don, of the Madrillon. And that
list Gin alphabetical order is just
as far as this department will 60 in
any controversy about it.
- Tonight is the night gay doings
are planned up at "TWenfohun," +"
which is the address you should use
if you ever get caught abroad and
want to cable Ford Minnick, mana
ger of Hotel 2400, for a reservation,
if you can get the message past the
cenSors. And isn't it amazing what
an involved sentence cable address
will lead some people into, he re-
marked, gayly dangling a preposi-
ton. Anyhow Hotel 2400 is the
scene of gay doings tonight for sew
eral reasons, one being the dinner
dance from to 9 O'Clock in the
main dining room, with fashion
show at 7:30, music by Pete Macias'
Orchestra. It's to be the first time
anything so vulgar as popular music
by Mr.. Macias has replaced the dis
Greet melodies of a string trio in the
main room of the hostelry. 1t also,
later in the night, will be the first
time the Lounge Riviera has cele-
brated a birthday, for which festivi-
ties Senor Macias and his crew will
be playing from $50 on, at their
accustomed stand
Daughters of newspapermen
do make good dancers, if Mavis
Moore is any criterion. Scads of
people who knew her pappy. Carl
Groat. when he was looking after
United Press interests here turned
out the first of the week to see
Mavis make her dancing debut at
the Pail Mall room, found this trim
pupil of Nine Albertina Rasch an
accomplished performer in both her
"Bolero' and spirited dance to
Begin the Beguine' -. Mary
Martin making her singing debut at
the Cafe Caprice another night, was
summoned from a table of friends
Outside photographer went to
work, bulbs flashed. See gleefully
shouted lass at the table Mary had
left, I'm psychic I said it was
probably photographer and it is.
I'm psychic" Doesn't matter
who saw Il Didn't Know What Time
It Was" first, so long as Mary La
Marr sings it the way she does at
the Madrillon :. . Sasha Lukas, the
Russian Troika's talented violinist,
is still playing that intricate 'Hora"
for all the ringsiders who never have
enough of it We hope >. But he
has not yet this season broken out
with that medley pair of gloomy
citizens became so fond of last year
- fIllGId d Odl1Ct, OdllSc MdC.
abre" and "Valse Triste'' Host
of players of Farm of Three
Echoes" the Ethel Barrymore play
at the National, haYe found the Club
Lafayette gay relief from the somber
aspects of the drama Nancy Sher-
idan, Priscilla Newton. Ann Dere,
John Griggs and Wallace Rooney
were there Tuesday night.
Tops among night club enter
tainment items is that Dance Cav
alcade" done by Caperton and Co.
lumbus, now in their second week at
the Shoreham Blue Room A deft
affair, with a bright undertone of
satire Diana Barrymore chats
the one who was at the National
last week. was entertained Sunday
morn at breakfast shindig tossed
by Johnny Galliher at Normandy
Farms. :. To hear George Edward
Michael assistant manager of the