Evening star., 1939-11-30

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away a farm in Hungary, stopped at
the table the other night. do you
know" he asked, what they call a
turkey in Turkey?" What who calls
a turkey in Turkey?" we parried,
stalling for time. do you know
what the people in Turkey call a
turkey in Turkey?" he said. NO."
we admitted with our usual COM
frankness and honesty.
They cali a turkey the American
bird in Turkey" said Frank and
stalked off to some far reach of the
Madrillon, leaving us with one more
thought to ponder in the night.
= Most fascinated lately by
the barbaree at Don Dickerman's
Pirates Den were Yukona Cameron,
who got her first name by being the
first white girl child born on the
Yukon River, or some such thing,
and Carmel White, who maintains
she is not the first white woman
born in Brooklyn, even If she is %.
Relaxing there, among other places,
after the rigors of Kiss the Boys
Good-by' the other eve, they highly
Miss White enjoying it
most when the waiter slapped cup
of coffee at her and growled, "Ya
sissy!" Later both saw the brig, Miss
Cameron let out that scream which
has shaken the rafters in many a
vaudeville theater, and Miss White
almost was hanged on account of
her escorts had tried to palm her off
as Glare Boothe. Earlier, in differ
ent and quieter mood it was Frank
Swadley, Carlton manager, and his
wife, who hosted the two in the
Shar-Zad room, which they agreed
was very fine place, what with that
Bill McCune music and everything.
= = Next rendezvous on the AFTER
dark scene (unless. somebody sneaks
one in beforehand will be the new
room up at L'Escargot, heretofore
known, and well known, as French
restaurant. Comes now (next month,
that Isl supper dancing at that same
address where once upon a time,
long, long ago, there was a popular
hangout of the eve known as Club
Habana. La Sale Versailles will
be the name of the new spot and, if
decorators, painters and carpenters
can do it, it will live up to the
name-a moonlit garden, fountains
in the distance, romance in the air.
Music will be by new orchestra,
led by Burrus Williams, we'll known
to those who 60 to night clubs and
dance, those who 60 to parties and
dance, those who listen to the radio
and dance and to veteran follow
ers of this department as the fell
low who owns the Cocker Spaniel
that used to eat its ears.
Another thing you probably
didn't know about Mischa, the head
waiter at the Russian Troika, is that
he has to be linguiSt. With men,
bers of the diplomatic set and others
from foreign shores finding the
Troika'S continental manner very
fine, there's never a week goes by
without Mischa being forced to un-
derstand some half a dozen Ian
guages in addition to his native
United States. French seems to be
the one he gets most, but he also has
to face considerable Polish, some
German and all the Balkan tongues.
Mischa meets it all with his accus-
toned equanimity, but he does burn
inwardly occasionally when some
one trying to show off French asks
for a table for "quatre" and pro-
nounces it as if it were "cat."
Pete Macias and his Lounge
Riviera crew are the latest to get
the jump on the other band lads
musically. At the Lounge Riviera
you can hear the new Cole Porter
music from "Dubarry Was a Lady"
even with Adele Van on an Ethel
Norman tune, if you can imagine
that Next Mondays broadcast
from the Wardman Parks Metro
nome room by the Kings testers
will be dedicated to George Wash
ington University The six
Marionettes Moderne, back at the
Shoreham Blue Room for a return
are registered at the
hotel. Clerk reports they never
get any mail, though -. 1t seemed
very strange the other night. Mary
La Mari, the Madrillon's songstress,
who usually looks like little girl,
appeared all done up in a sophis-
ticated hair-do. Then a photog-
rapher walked in, his presence ex-
planning all Tonight is South
American night again at the Club
Lafayette.
""* Beta Milskinya, electric new
songstress at the Russian Troika,
finished that song about the hats a
recent eve, the song wherein she
explains she has a different hat for
each boy friend and about 200 hats.
She finished the song with ring
slider relieved himself of a long,