Evening star., 1939-01-12
After Dark
Smart People, Smart Things, Smart Places.
By the Spectator
Trade Mark Registered o. 8 Patent once.

It has been a long, long time, 1t
has, since there has come into the
Office publicity note which avoided
superlatives and blandly stated
facts. And even this one may have
meant something else. But we
have right here in front of us a
story which has buried in the middle
of it the sentence: THE band at the
Blank room plays without note
Of music"
- So now the town has another
society chanteuse, this Mary CMrs.
Henry de Sibour, who made her
singing debut Tuesday night at the
Raleigh Hotels Pail Mall room to
the tune of Mario di Polo's nimble
rhythms. Quite a show 1t was at
the Pail Mall room Tuesday night,
what with scads and scads of the
towns sleekly clad upper clawsses
turning out to line the ringside and
stare and cheer after Nine. de
Sibour sang her songs; with Peggy
Townsend, the debutante songstress
of the Powhatan's Cafe Caprice
grabbing a seat right up close so
she would miss not a single trick:
with many other strange doings at
tendant upon such festive occa-
sion for Washington's cafe society.
The dejeuner, Chef Claude Jarrin,
was magnifique. (The verb prob
ably should be etait, but we have
forgotten our GRAMMAR
- A long manifesto from Capt.
Don Dickerman informs us that it
will be the plank we will walk if
we do not inform you that the
various businesses of readying the
Pirates Den are about completed.
Most interesting feature of the new
spot, at least so it seems at the
moment, will be the bottle-throwing
gallery. Pirates made of battleship
steel will be the targets, beer bottles
the missiles, and one on the house
the prize for knocking pipes from
the iron pirates mouths. A fine
idea, much better to have the
customers letting off steam by toss
ing beer bottles at iron pirates than
by tossing them at other customers
Within two weeks, says Capt. Don,
the Pirates Den will be open.
Next-to-the-LaSt Roundup >.
That was a fine trick the show
played on Sasha Lukas, the Russian
Troika's maestro, the night he cele-
brated his birthday. Handed him
a champagne glass for a toast as
they sang Happy Birthday" then
they sang that Drink 1t Down"
song, which means toss it of in a
gulp, and Sasha discovered his
glass had not cham
payne, but straight Scottish. Brave
man, though; he obeyed the song
Johnny Madrillon) Shaw plays
a lot of Spanish music, his band
being in spot that features the
Spanish mood and the Spanish
food. So he went to the Shoreham
the other night to listen in on the
rumba band there-and found out
he was a week late Now he
feels perfectly safe as he calls for
a tune in "paso doble" tempo, when
the band and every one else knows
he only means Boys, this is two
STEP" Lou Martel, who sings
with the Biltmore Boys at the Carl
tons Shar-Zad room, was voted
most popular coed two years at
Rice University. If you're not from
the South and can't remember, Rice
is that team that plays Baylor :.
These Biltmore Boys, incidentally,
have been approved by Kitty Car
Isle, who breezed into the Carl
ton and the Shar-Zad for a moment
. Parker, the Madrillon's head
waiter, is back on the job, having
recovered from the mangled hand
he received when he committed
warfare on some hoodlums he dis
covered outside the Madrillon :.
Add tap dancers who make you
forget you are tired of tap dancers:
Joan Norman at the Lotus.
'' This is the Last One Just
In case you've forgotten, the Russian
Troika still has that show you can't
grow tired of if you don't mind
post = habited. The
midget skit, Vanya Orlik and Lola
Lolik's dances, Vladimir Diloff's
songs, Nadia Veralle's dances, that
dance Sasha Lukas PLAYS
IN his violin are something not to
oe passed up. And there goes an
other proposition Not to be
outdone by the spots featuring
society singers, the Shoreham has
got itself a society dance team for
the Blue room. Not only society, |
out royalty, is this dance team, the