Evening star., 1939-05-11

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it's in a park At the Hi-Hat
an old roue, who should know better,
tries hard to be cute for couple
of the gals at the next table; while
not far away half dozen couples
from some visiting high school, nice,
clean-cut youngsters, drink lemon
ade.
- Filched at the Madrillon:
Heading our list of night club
wishes,
Is hearing the band swing Free
Itty Fishes
Mary has put the boys much
wiser,
Who the heck is this guy Kay
Kyser?
Congrats on a swell arrangement,
Josephine Doakes (and who is
this gal Dorothy Parker?)."
Mary" of course, is the Madril-
Ions Mary Lamar. and "the boys"
are Carr Van Sickler and Don
Shocks music making crew. Miss
'Doakes' is the girl who will as
sassinate us when she catches us.
- Times Are Improving Note:
Late at the Roger Smith Hotels
Cafe Caprice, Eddie Whitesel de-
cided it's time for some accordion
music before closing. What shall
play?" he asks. Anything" he is
told, but Deep Purple" An ex-
preston of amazement jolts his face.
Hey" he says, I'VE haven't played
that all night But watch some one
ask for it now" But nobody did.
Things are improving everywhere.
- The potted palm of the week
goes most definitely to that couple
seen nightly at the Lounge Riviera.
Pete Macias' music there is lifting,
tuneful and as hstenable as there
is. And Hotel 2400's Lounge Riviera
is completely pleasant room. We
can remember times when we have
gone in there to stay five minutes,
then have remained to see chairs
stacked on tables. But the weeks
potted palm still goes to the lad
and lassie who hold the towns night
club endurance record. Every night
they're on hand at the Lounge
Riviera when the music starts and
when it finishes. Every night for
five weeks they have been there and
now they are starting the sixth.
Already Manager Fordyce Minnick
has rewarded them for their loyalty
with a lavish dinner party.
The Midnight Merry-Go-
Round Sasha Lukas is back at
work on the Troika bandstand and
in the Troika shows, flddling while
the ringsiders spurn their borscht.
And now. those certain citizens can
have their favorite trilogy again
"Anitra's Dance" "Danse Macabre"
and "Valse Triste"-a cheerful trio
:. Marion Wilkins, dancing again
at the Shoreham Blue Room. wear
ing huge orchid sent by Repre-
sentative Sam Rayburn, a fellow
Texan who claimed Miss Wilkins
could not dance in Washington
without his being on hand the open
ing night Summer notes:
Lounge Riviera stays open all sum-
mer with air. conditioning and Pete
Macias' music; Leo, formerly Heigh-
Hos headWaiter, may manage Mary
land Club Gardens this summer;
Stephen LeSieur will be back on
hand when the Powhatan roof
opens, which will be when the new
smooth-glide dance floor is installed
Best thing Angie Rodante, the
Hi-Hat's songstress, does is her
version of Undecided" West
Virginia Hills" is not forgotten;
Lew Behrman still does it at the
Hamilton's Rainbow Room Pete
Macias has gone Hollywood; rides
a station wagon now instead OF
something long and sleek If
that Josephine Doakes'" initials
were Helen Vogt 1t wouldn't sur
prise us Don Dickerman wishes
those stories about the Pirates Den
would stop. Says, of course, there's
a cover charge but it is not robbery
and that no gal gets locked in the
brig unless her escort desires 1t.
-" Stage Whispers in the Night:
Look at that act. They're so
funny they're nauseating."
"She's the kind of a girl you look
at twice-the second time to see
if it's real"
1T looks like something far too
intimate to be hat"
Anchor Room - Lounge at the
Annapolis Hotel; no dancing but
entertainment by Matt Windsor and
his accordion.
Bamboo Garden-Floor shows at
1, 7:30 and II, featuring AL Norton,
dancing to the Norton music; mini
mum charge.
Brown Derby-A mad spot, out on
Connecticut avenue, where anything
is likely to happen. No dancing, for
there's no room for it, but there is
entertainment by Pianist George
Berg and AL Simmons.
Cafe Caprice-The cocktail lounge
at the Roger Smith Hotel, with en-
tertainment by Peggy Townsend,
dance music nightly by Tiny"
Maaker'S Orchestra