Evening star., 1940-06-20

better dining rooms. The hostess,
depressed as we all have been by the
headlines, was growing as she
seated a patron: THAT Hitler. He's
a maniac! And Mussolini. He even
looks like a gangster!" The patron
nodded agreement, then asked as
she sat down: do you know those
two men together there, who could
not help overhearing you?" NO.
said the hostess. We'll" she was
told, "one of them is the German
consul and the other the italian
consul" Made the young lady very
happy, incidentally.
= : It perhaps is about time some
one thanked Arthur Herbert and his
orchestra for their nightly Star
Spangled Banner" sign-off at the
Roger Smith Hotels Starlight Roof.
1t may remind you that this best of
all possible worlds is no eternal
Mardi Gras these days, but it does
your heart good to see the pride in
the faces about you.
-" 1t is the summer season. if
you've been waiting for confirmation
of the song your thermometer has
been singing. 1t most certainly is,
because the Lounge Riviera last
night inaugurated it's summer sea-
son. this mid-June opening" having
now become a definite holiday on
the after dark calendar. Entertain
ing now. in addition to that nimble
dance music of Pete Macias' crew,
is Song Stylist Harriet Derck. no
stranger to any one who is a regu-
lar c. B. S. listener. And the new
Lounge Riviera decorations even in
clude trees-real, honest-to gosh
trees, in tubs.
= =" Also arriving last night on
the after dark scene were the
Madrillon's Merry Muchachos, who
play the rumbas and other Latin
rhythms while Carr and Don and
their orchestra are in the back room
wondering whether to play ''Imagi-
nation" or Il Got Rhythm" next.
Further report on the Merry Much
achos must be deferred right now.
but Peter Borras. Madrillon's host.
says they sing in English, French
and Spanish.
And arriving last Friday
night at the Wardman Parks Metro
nome Room was Little Jack Little,
lad whose music has pleased these
ears since he was just fellow with
piano on an Ohio radio station.
long time. ago. His presence, Incl
dentally, IS making a wild-eyed
young man of Boris, Metronome
Rooms head waiter, all on account
of Boris, he says, is having a heck
OF a time trying to find places for
all the people who want to listen to
Little Jack Little's Orchestra.
Local laSsies dating the Jaw
Gees, the Junior Chamber of Com
merce lads assembled here. are hav-
ing great fun showing them the
town. First stop is the Mayfower
Lounge. the Mayflower being head
quarters for the conclave; then it's
around the corner to the Carlton.
where Helen Myers and Erwin tor
is it Irwin?) Devron have injected
new note in their piano duos-a
staccato style somewhat reminiscent
OF Bill McCune's music in the Shar-
Zad Mr.. McCune, by the way,
is sweeping all before him out
Chicago way, according to reports;
winning the natives even as he won
local natives last season AL
Norton is leaving these parts, at
least for the summer, joining Gus
Bentley's crew at Nantucket. It's
the same orchestra with which AL
and Ralph Fox, Capitol's drummer
man, played some years ago, when
Al was thin and Ralph had a comb
The RosSilianoS and the Man.
hattanettes are held over at the
Lotus. the latter repeating that
phosphorescent butterfly number
which is one of the brightest things
a group of girls ever thought up
or had thought up for them .. Sat-
urday nights swingster aboard the
S. S. Potomac will be Count Basic,
a chap who used to swing when
they called 1t jazz And AL Dona-
hue is set to arrive at Riverside
Stadium to set feet dancing the
evening OF June ~.
- That was real Venezuelan mu-
sic Barnee and his crew played in
the Shoreham Blue Room (it was
raining) the other night for the
wife of the President Of Venezuela
She couldn't have heard it any
where else in town, Barnee and the
lads having learned it especially for
the opening of the new Venezuelan
Embassy That will be Cali
fornian music Paul Kahn and his
orchestra play at Glen Echo's Span
ish Garden ballroom next Wednes-
day night. On account of Paul, a
Californian, thought it would be nice
to have California night, that he
might greet all who have seen
Florida hurricanes blow earthquakes
right off the front pages .. Busiest
people in town Saturday night were
the Roger Smith Hotels Otto, Rob-
ert and their assistants, who had to
find places for TOO persons on the
65O-capacity Starlight Roof, even
then turning away 800 more j..
The Madrillon's Parker will now
complain, no doubt, that he is the
busiest man In town any night; and
who are we to deny >. The Lounge
Riviera says Jimmy Nichols not
only sings, but can play, and play
wall anl1 kaarnss, L., r,,naosaf 11ircf