Evening star., 1939-08-10


- Sitting here in the office of
Wednesday night, slowly dribbling
away, the most important item of
news seems to be the whereabouts
of breeze, if any. Well, Tuesday
night, which was so muggy the as
phalt almost melted before the boys
could set up their machinery to
burn it there was a breeze on the
roof garden at the Roger Smith
Hotel. A fine, refreshing breeze, it
was, too, waiting Stephen LIE Sieur's
music about with the utmost care.
So now you know one place to es-
cape whatever this is, heat or
humidity.
Glamour girls have been all
over the place here of late, which
of course is not hard to take. There
was Susan Hayward, for instance,
recently in town for just day and
a night. But while not selling her
new picture she did have time to
dine in the Carlton dining room
with Carlton Manager Frank SWad-
ley. And later she had time to shake
her auburn tresses at Pete Macias
from a vantage point at the Lounge
Riviera, where she saw Washington
night life with Loew Publicist Ray
Bel land Butch" who is Mrs. Bell
Betty Cradle has been about,
too, one of the places she's been
about being the Shoreham Terrace
-. And the terrace also played host
to Dorothy Arnold, who is a starlet
for Universal, she being in town for
visit because she is Joe Di Maggio's
flancee. The terrace didn't see much
of these two. though, for, says the
Shoreham, the pair, when they
weren't at the ball games, were very
busy having their pictures taken" "
Well, that's what the Shoreham
says.
- Wonder if anybody cares if
we call MY Love for You" the best
of the new hit ballads. Any one
who argues has but to hear the way
Carr Van Sickler and Don Shook
and the boys play it at the Madril-
Ion That lass who entertained
impromptu at the Neptune Room
the other dinner hour, singing
Wishing" and Little Sir Echo"
with the Four Girls of Note, was
Jacqueline Gamse and she's just
:. Chet de Chastain, Wardman
Park maestro, has a new bicycle he
is ever so proud of. It's three
geared and it climbs hills in second.
He got the habit in Bermuda
cycling, that is, not climbing hills
in second Another thing over
which we occasionally brood SOL
emnly for several hours at time
is that bas-relief mural Cor what
ever it is called in the Madrillon's
Mayan room. 1t ought to have
dialogue. The Indian figures almost
talk, but not quite. so We just sit
and wonder and wonder what the
two who look like they are about
to slug one another are saying. We
also wish some one would find out,
and translate from the Mayan, just
what the foreman of the job is
shouting at them.
Jimmy Nichols, grooming sax
player with Pete Macias' crew at
the Lounge Riviera, wants his name
in the paper. All right, here it is
Jimmy Nlchols-so with that and
nickel he now can get cup of cof-
fee The bicycling Mr.. de Chas-
tain, mentioned back there bit, is
mighty proud of the Penguins' new
arrangement of In an Eighteenth
Century Drawing Room" and he
and the boys are featuring it to-
night at the Metronome Room
Tiny" Meeker, Stephen LIE Sieur
(both of the Roger Smith roof gar
dem and Bill Strickland GotuS
have banded together to form the
towns newest music corporation :.
Susan Hayward's favorite tune, if
that's one of the things you like to
know about movie starlets, is This
Is No Dream -. Oscar, the Hi-Hat's
Oscar, is of vacationing, in the
mountains where it is cool. He'll
no doubt hurry back, though, be-
cause Dick Roger is boss of the Hi
Hat while Oscars away and any
thing might happen if that went on
too long :. . Buddy Shaner, the
Lotus singer, Is pretty sure he has
false friends or something. For 1t
was friend of Buddy's who heard
him sing white Sails" the other
night, then demanded no partiality
to any brand of sails be shown, de-
manded that the Shaner sing Red
Sails in the Sunset" And something
like that is a strain on a singers
memory =. We don't know whether
it's momentous news or not, but the
town is down to it's last G-string.
It's on Jerry Rhodes bass fiddle at
the Lounge Riviera and when he
got it there wasn't another to be.
had in washington.
And our adviser on matters
political says the New Deal is not
half so irritated by the Hatch bill
as by the bills that didn't hatch.