Evening star., 1939-01-19
After Dark
Smart People, Smart Things, Smart Places
By the Spectator
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By the Spectator
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IL CQe dITdQSeT VINO makes CQe
band. It's the arranger vno gives
the boys with the saxes and the
trumpets something to play on
them. It's the arranger who gives
an orchestra the what-for to put
the old life in new blond and new
life in grandpa's feet. It's the ar
ranger who has made the Biltmore
Boys at the Carlton Hotels Shar-
Esd room such a happy addition
to the towns night life. as you know
If you have heard the Biltmore
Boys. What you may not know,
however, is that this particular a.
ranger, Jimmy Blue, writes music
in the dark. Almost blind, he has
a knack for originality and har-
mony, pair of s1persensitive ears
and keen memory. Frank Schu-
bert, the Biltmore Boys pianist,
plays new tune twice for Jimmy,
and Jimmy takes it from there,
translating it seven different ways,
one for each instrument in the Or
chestra.
sss With new Congress busy
up on Capitol Hill happy days are
here again for the niteries. Helen
Hamilton's Russian Troika, for ia
stance, has looked often like a
night session, what with all th> big
wigs crewded at the ringside to
look upon that spirited Cossack
revue. There have been, for in
stance, Senator Elmer Thomas,
Senator Bridges, and there was
Nevada's new Representative, James
G. Scrugham, with Roxy Ruckstell,
who is involved in Government buSi-
ness out West ano who calls Troika
his Eastern chuck camp. And a
happy party was that one Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph H. Hines tossed for
Daughter Marilyn. Also festive,
probably the most festive occasion
OF three weeks, was that celebration
of the Russian New Year, after
Troika closed for the evening, in
volving Mischa, the headWaiter;
Sasha Lukas and some other peo-
pie. The Mayf1ower lounge has
been one of those important look
ing places, too. Virginia's Gov
James H. Price is one of the people
you might have seen, he sitting with
Col. Marvin Mcintyre and ex-Com-
missioner George Allen, being joined
by Senator Herring and a couple
of other people. Discussing the
political game of chess or mayhap
the Presidents Birthday Ball, which
is one of Mr.. Aliens important jobs.
80 The Midnight Merry-Go-
Round. . That is, in case there
is going to be any argument about
it, Rumanian dance that Sasha
Aukas plays so dashingly at the
Russian Troika, and not a Hun
garian dance, as it was called bere.
Eah! We should keep Esrope
straight at a time like this. E.
Mary La Mari, songstress with
Johnny Shaw's orchestra at the Mad
rillon, is serious about this, it seems.
She is taking singing lessons. {.
Most exciting moment at the Met
re4,ome room is that period just
before Paul Kain swings his nimble
rhythms onto Nationwide radio
hook-up. Such fretting and fun
ing you never saw, with most of the
Inhabitants of the room spending
s1e last five minutes before the
zero hour" fussily worrying whether
the radio technician's watch is
right and whether he'll get Paul on
the air on time. -. Connie Ran
call stays on at the Shoreham's S
Blue room, singing merrily with
Sarnee's music. Louis Amen stays
there, too, playing the piano both
normally and with his toes, and
there are dances by Prince and
Princess Selandia, other dances by
Alma and Roland. Raleigh Ho-
tel Pail Mall room patrons are miss
ing something if they do not de-
1aand Mario di Polo's imitation of
Gene Austin as part of the show
Ee did it the other afternoon. for
that luncheon party that was still
there at o'clock. and it was the
sensation of the day. In fact, both
the luncheon and the imitation were
sensations. Swell listening:
Johnny (Madrillon) Shaw's arrange
ment of Dinner Music for a Pack
of Hungry Cannibals." The
Pearl Magley Girls at the Bamboo
Gardens are doing that jungle num-
Ter that was so popular when they
were here couple of years back.
And Lou Spencer, back in town to
do his swingy dances at the Bam-
hoo. does them now with g. mariner