Evening star., 1939-05-04

Eddie and his accordion got stopped
at table, asked to play "Stardust."
The citizen at the table listened en-
raptured until it was finished, much
impressing the lass with him. "Ah, y
he said then. play it again. I knew
Hoagy Carmichael before he died. y
Mr.. w. spent the rest of the evening
wondering if that implied Il Get
Along Without You Very Well" was
just turned out by ghost writer.
- Stage Whispers in the Night:
go there? I should say not. The
music isn't bad-it's deadly. I think
they want people to sit and drink;
not dance"
Most people don't think have a
brain, but I do"
"She is not drunk and besides you
always tell the truth when you're
drunk If I were"
He charged me SIS to tell me ]
was a magnificent animal but I was
nearsighted."
Maybe Dick Butler, the Ham
ilton Hotels manager. could start
a school for would-be night clut
operators. The Hamilton's Rainbow
Room ends its fourth year this sum-
mer with some sort of a record
Never in these four years since the
opening has there been a night
when red ink replaced blue on the
r. RS books.
- Dick Roger, Oscars assistant
at the Hi-Hat, has turned inventor
now, devising something he calls a
Worlds Fair salad. A stick Cor
whatever you call it, Of asparagus
is the trylon and the COB Of cottage
cheese makes the perisphere. He
threatened us with one the other
night, then came back to announce
sadly we couldn't have any. Seems
the cottage cheese was all gone and
the chef saved us by maintaining to
Dick that no one was crazy enough
to eat a salad made with asparagus
and vanilla ice cream.
Round the Town At the
Shoreham Blue Room: Representa-
tive and Mrs. Bruce Barton and
friends watch the ice show. dancer
passes their table, salutes, cries
Barton for President" At another
table for two Senators Robert F
Wagner and George L. Radcliffe &c
into a huddle over something OF
other; at the ringside a group OF
straight backed, aristocratic mem
bers of the Council of the National
Society of Colonial Danes of Amer
lea, not one who does not retain
perfect composure as Skater Evelyn
Chandler ICONS up, misses their
tables by inches At the Carlton
Shar-Zad: DR.. and Mrs. o. G. Al
bertini, Alexander Woollcott, Mrs
"Chip" Robert, Cornelius Wander
bilt, jr.; Mrs. Prev Savoy; Spots
wood White At the MayfloweI
Lounge: S. Clay Williams of Wins
ton-Salem, chairman of the board
of one of the large tobacco COM
panies, and his wife, before a Cham
ber Of Commerce banquet; Peggy
Tyner Dugdale, dancing with q
young diplomat; Mrs. Laird Dunlop
Sd, handsome in some OF those new
turbans.
Aside to a press agent: You
can do it, but don't expect US te
call any one a dashing dip" II
might mean diplomat to you but to
too many people it means guy who
can tell time by your watch and
you don't know 1t until you miss
the watch.
- The Midnight Merry-G Co.
Round The Russian Troika's
air-conditioning system makes It's
debut Saturday night, rain or shine
thereby extending the Troika's sea-
son into June, hooray. It's to op-
crate the year around, winter and
summer, being some amazing col.
lection of gadgets that ventilatet
with warm or cool air. This
Lou Franco, saxophonist with Carr
Van Sickler and Don Shocks crew
at the Madrillon, can gather ar
audience of wide-eyed, open.
mouthed admirers whenever hi
takes a notion to take off"
Judy Ellington, once songstress
with Bill Strickland's Orchestra al
the Lotus, returns to town this
month. Now with Charlie Bar.
nets gang of swingsters, due al
the Capitol May 10 Eve Lane
latest to succeed Judy at the busi-
ness of chanting the blues into the
Lotus microphone, leaves there al
the end of this week, which is not
good news. Shoreham Blue
Rooms ice show, with Evelyn
Chandler and Bruce Mapes, leaves
at the end of this week, too, to &c
to the Golden Gate Exposition .
Wednesday night is a big night al
the Wardman Parks Metronome
Room, Paul Kain's broadcasts being
something to see as well as hear
Peggy Townsend, the Cafe
Caprice's chanteuse, was in New
York the first Of the week, about
that film test business at Para.
mount >. The Raleigh's Pail NAL
Room didn't close after all, but il
now open with dance music by
Jimmy Santmeyer's Orchestra
Tune Of the week: The Carr Var
Sickler-Don Shook arrangement o1
Then the Lady's in Love-" the
Shirley Ross ditty. that's going te
be a hit.
Anchor Room-Lounge at the
Annapolis Hotel; no dancing but
entertainment by Matt Windsor and
his accordion.
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