Evening star., 1940-04-11
After Dark
Smart People, Smart Things, Smart Places
By The Spectator.
By the Spectator
Trad. Marx R.s.s..rsa omitted states r.tsn. omes.

CluO scene mas Su0QeIly OSCOul6 Oh
such 4 high caliber that it is enough
to amaze you. This probably Is
only a temporary condition, OF
course, but 1t is great to take ad-
vantage of it while 1t lasts. Out at
the Shoreham Blue Room, for in
stance, there is GARFIELD Swift
headlining the show. Once slated
to appear as the Earle "find Of the
month";" but prevented from that
by that ol' debbil laryngitis, this is
Mr.. Swift's first professional en-
gagement in the village, thus your
first opportunity to hear a young
tenor who Is destined to become one
of our best.
Downtown you will find Marion
wilkins returned to Washington,
this time dancing alone at the Club
Troika and dancing there some
bright, novel routines which have
about them q pert freshness you
don't often find. Makes that Co.'S
sack revue quite a festival Of dane
ing, with Miss wilkins, Mara Be-
leinskaya and Lola and Vanya on
hand.
Still further downtown you will
find that Manager Dick Lam of. the
Lotus has engaged for the delight of
his customers dance team known
as the Pastimes and Fanchon,
whose lively doings would be
worthy asset to any stage show,
even the kind Harry Anger and
Gene Ford continually manage SO
successfully.
Musically things are on the up
and up, too. There is this George
Duffy, who has replaced Bill Nc
Cune at the Carlton Hotels Shar-
Zad Room. Following the McCune
was no easy task, but this hand
some Irish lad turned out to be the
guy that could do it." For listen
Ing or dancing the Duffy music is
very fine Out at the Wardman
Parks Metronome Room there is
still Gray Gordon; that is, there is
still Gray Gordon tonight. Tomor-
row evening the name band" pa
rade continues, bringing us Les
Brown and his orchestra, known
also as the Duke Blue Devils
And some of the local boys are still
making good without going to the
big city-Carr and Don of the
Madrillon, for instance, and Barnee
out at the Shoreham, Sasha Lukas
and his violin at the Troika, Dick
Koons at the Mayflower, Burrus
Williams at La Sale Versailles, Pete
Macias at the Lounge Riviera.
Even the animal acts are refresh
ing, the animal acts this week in
cluding Baby Doll, the Wonder
Horse at the Shoreham, and Rags,
a wonder dog" at the Lotus. Darn
clever, these. our four-footed friends,
though their mathematical feats
are bit discouraging to one who
can't add four and seven without
getting 10 or 13 as the answer.
It Is almost enough to make .
poor, tired night club spy happier
about life.
''' Opening of the Week: The
Flagship, where Brooke Johns played
host last night to introduce to 4
capacity crowd of stay-outs his new
after dark rendezvous. So once
more there is life at what used to
be the Pirates Den-not the same
kind Of life, the pirate crew Of those
days having been replaced by what
appeared at first glance last night
to be several hundred pretty wait
resses land maybe . couple not too
Ipretty, but, then, you can't have
Jeterythins). Mr.. Johns and his
banjo or guitar or whatever II was
he used to play while wooing Ann
Pennington in Ziegfeld shows will
be on hand every night, Of course.
s'' No new tenant is going to be
changing the arrangement of the
furniture in the Sunday parlor at
the White House for four years. Joe
Louis is going to retire undefeated
in 1912. Business conditions gen.
orally are going to improve almost
amazingly before long. Ye Spec
tator has some fine Things ahead,
during the next two years especially.
These and sundry other items are
learned from Leo, the astrologer
now examining the past and the
future, ofttimes in q manner which
startles the dayughts out of the
person Immediately concerned, at
the Club Troika. That third-term
question. Leo says, has been tossed