Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-21
After Dark
Smart People, Smart Things, Smart Places
By the Spectator.
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This is probably as good a place
IS any to complete the report on
that waiter who was so unhappy
because it would have been illegal
to dose an obnoxious customer with
q Mickey Finn After lamenting
one night that the only revenge he
had been able to perpetrate had
been a sickeningly sweet champagne
cocktail, the waiter came around
. few nights later looking like the
happiest man in the world. Il went
out IS minutes later than that guy"
he said, land he was still sitting
on the steps. He wasn't even able
to hail q cab"
80 Come one week from tonight,
which will be December % and thus
close enough to December Is to be
called a Christmas present to the
towns night life, the newest of the
village bistros will open. This will
be La Sale Versailles, L'Escargot
Restaurants supper dance rendez-
vous, where once a pair of shiny
doors opened upon popular after
dark resort known as Club Habana.
Several will be the notable things
about La Sale Versailles, but what
we feel you would like to know first
is that there will be singer there
who will chant Hold Tight" in
French. In French Hold Tight"
comes out "Tiens-y," unless we are
being misled again. This lad, whose
name is Jean Cathon, sings a lot
of other American songs in French.
so he is responsible for the report
that that line about roll out the
barrel" in the Beer Barrel Polka"
comes out, in French, bring out
the brandy"
80 The Russians. who celebrate
everything with the fullest en-
thusiasm due 1t, are looking now
toward Christmas. Christmas is 60
ing to be a mighty gay time at the
Russian Troika, Mrs. Helen Hamil-
ton reports. Micha has refused to
play Santa Claus, but Sasha Lukas
has promised to play all the carols
you want to bear and the gypsy
chorus in the show may even toss
in an old Cossack Christmas carol
or two before the night is over.
-" Eddy Brandt, the lad who
leads the Rhythm Boys Orchestra
at the Wardman Park Metronome
Room, has quite agreed that this is
a crossroads of the land, this Wash
ington. The Metronome Room like
almost any other place, has cards
scattered about the room for re-
quests of the band. One stack of
request cards lists visitors from Bal
timore. New York. Paris, Tex; st.
Paul, Harrisburg, Pa; Charlotte, N.
c.; Pittsburgh. Atlanta, Richmond,
Buffalo, Chicago, Bethlehem, Pa;
Detroit and Boston. The card from
Bethlehem requested "Scatterbrain,"
"Last Night" Swamp Fire" The
Little Man Who Wasn't There"
moon Glow" MY Blue Heaven"
and Moon Love-" if that gives you
any information as to the character
of Bethlehem, Pa. One of the cards
from New York was signed Grover
Whalen, jr. And one of those from
Baltimore asked a remembrance of
the birthday of Marjorie Hurleigh,
who must be the wife of the Bob
Hurleigh, who went from here to
become a radio news commentator
up there. he being the only guy who
ever spelled 1t Hurleigh instead of
Hurley.
80 The Midnight Merry-Go-
Round II ever you want to make
Bill McCune, the Carlton Shar-
lads bandmaster, wax serious just
mention laundry. Then Bill will 60
into a mild tantrum over the up
keep of white ties and stiff shirts
for looking pretty for Shar-Zad
customers =. Happiest party of the
week was that annual Christmas
affair Of Loew theater managers
and the film critics, which Carter
Barron hosted at the Shoreham
blue room. Such pleasant affair
was it, in fact, that this department
was polite to Barnee and vice versa,
which is very strange William,
the Lounge Riviera's headwaiter, is
leaving there for better things. Leo
Bonini, who has taken good care of
you and you at the Heigh-Ho and
the Russian Troika, is the lad you'll
have to shout for at Lounge Riviera
after Saturday Carr Van Sickler
and Don Shook would like to borrow
some of this space to tell the lads in
the Madrillon band that Carr and
Don think the lads In the Madrillon
band are fine.
49, Shoot Me While I'm Happy
Department.:
While Adele Van of the Lounge
Riviera is singing anything.
While Sasha Lukas is playing that
violin at the Russian Troika.
While Phyllis Usher of the Met
ronome room Is singing Indian
Summer"
While Phyllis Usher is anywhere
around, in fact.