Evening star., 1939-04-20
After Dark
Smart People, Smart Things, Smart Places
By the Spectator
ReesteEed q: g. Patent omea

Helen Hamilton's Russian Troika
just won't stay out of that portion
of the news it Is the business Of this
department to scan. Last week she
brought Luba Malina down from
New York to show the town what a
fiery continental singer really Is.
Now she has imported a violinist
named Yasha Datsko. who is truly
a pyrotechnic whiz, to add his do
ings to Luba's songs, Nadia Veralle's
dances, the nimble sailor dance of
Lola and Vanya and those bright
skits. It turns out to be the best
show Troika has had this season
and that is something. M. Datsko,
a lad with a sort of Raymond Mas
sey manner, wins such favor from
the customers that he has difficulty
leaving the floor once he has dis
played his wares. There are more
tricks In his technique than you
thought there were to one musical
instrument and when he starts imi-
tating bird calls with a fiddle he
gets that absolute 'ush" Richard
Hayden demanded when he initiated
fish. And an absolute ush from
hungry people is an achievement.
-" Jack Espey, who does every
thing for George Marshall's WASH
ington Redskins but play left half,
walks into the Madrillon. A pair OF
news lads spot him, rush up, sur
round him and start to herd him
away. Table, sir?" they ask. We've
got just the one for you-in the
back room-very far In the back
room" Parker, the Madrillon's
headwaiter, races up, frantic. "Hey,"
he shouts, you can't do that" "Ow,"
screams Mr.. Espey, even more fran
tic, don't do that. Don't tell 'em
they can't do it; they'll show you
and where will I be?"
Unless truth Is no longer
truth and cronies are no more to
be trusted, that rumor involving
Bruce Cabot and Peggy Townsend,
the Cafe Caprice's socialite song
stress, is just rumor. It seemed
to be no end suspicious when Mr.. c.
became a steady customer at the
Roger Smith Hotels cocktailerie
and when he wired his studio he
needed more rest. Then there was
the business of Peggy's screen test,
which it was thought Mr.. C. engi-
neered. But somebody in the hotel
organization is supposed to have
arranged that test and Bruce still
likes the horse country no matter
how many rumors he denies. And
observers on the scene report that
on the surface it appears as though
the daddy Peggy's heart belongs to
is still a fellow who doesn't know
whether or not he is married to an
heiress.
Wanna see some women
move fast?" asks AL Norton at show
time at the Bamboo Gardens.
Wanna see 'em scramble?" Sure"
we answer. "Okay," he says. Tilt
the fanfare, boys" The boys 'hit"
it and AIS expression suddenly
changes. Hail." he discovers to
himself, "and now the jokes on me
if they aren't ready" But the las
sizes are ready and there's the mad
scramble Mr.. Norton promised.
None of that nonchalance that used
to be shown by that famed vaude-
vile team of Duffy and Sweeney,
favorite characters Of Gene Ford's.
Duffy and Sweeney, sojourning at
q saloon between shows, one day
got a call from a worried stage
manager. Hey" he screamed, "you
guys are on!" "Yeah?" answered
Duffy (or Sweeney, all unper-
turbed. How are we doing?"
Faces and Places At
the Mayflower Lounge: Col. Thad
H. Brown of the F. c. c. and Mrs
Brown, having tea and crumpets
with William Lipscomb, being joined
by Gov. w. P. Hobby of Texas and
his pretty young wife. Bettina
Belmont and party of friends,
lunching 80 late into the afternoon
they had to be moved to the side
lines to clear the floor for cocktail
dancing. Representative Martin
j. Kennedy Representative
Thomas c. Henning, jr. Albert
B. Dewey, down from New York
for few days. At the Shoreham
Blue room: Walter Hagen dining
with Maryland's Gov. Herbert r
O'Conor and Mrs. O'Conor
Attorney General Frank Murphy
greeting Old Friends Dorothy Stone
and Charles Collins Philippine
Commissioner JOAQUIN M. EliZalde