Evening star., 1940-01-04

again NEW 1cdT lllSIlI, MISS Ndyc
has visited the Russian Troika,
feasted fayly upon sundry Russian
dishes. And not yet has she seen
the floor show. 1t may be, of
course, that this is a pretty sad
case we are reporting Maybe Miss
Raye hasn't any knack of timing at
all. Maybe she is just dying to see
the Russian Troika floor show and
can't sandwich it in between her
own performances at the Earle.
Calling the Troika just now
on mysterious and nefarious busi-
ness with Mischa, the headwaiter-
we're plotting sabotage in the string
section to overthrow the Communist
regime, if you want to know-a
voice came over the phone while we
waited. Which one of you girls" +"
said the voice family in the dis
tance, lis going to give me a little
kiss or little hugo" Mischa arrived
before we heard the answer.
Touring the town Cor part of
it, :. Pete Macias and his crew at
the Lounge Riviera whip into ut
Never Was Anywhere You" and
september Song" for a lad who
still likes to hear them. "Ha,' says
the listener suddenly. 1T took me
year but I finally caught up to
that 'Knickerbocker Holiday mu-
sic. A broken ankle last summer
and an abscessed tooth last month"
He huns, from September Song"
I've lost one tooth and l walk a
niue lame The Macias or
chestra, happily, drifts into another
dltty In its medley At the Metro
nome Room Eddy Brandt is told. I'VE
all came out to hear Phyllis Usher
sing, so promptly he makes her
sing and sing and sing, with not a
thought for her tonsils. They are
tuneful tonsils. though, SO it is
all right. Later Phyllis is asked
why don't you come down for
lunch some time and you pay for t."
Then she wins the departmental
award for the quotation of the
week by saying, Sure. It's always
the woman who pays, with the
tongue or with the sword, or is that
how man always kills that which
he loves the most?" At the Mad
rlllon and it becomes closing time
right in our teeth. Carr Van Sick
Ter SITS down and gent at the next
table wheels to announce geniallv
1 do not like jazz band piano plav-
erS. You are not as bad as some
out l do not like jazz band piano
players. 1 don't know anything
about music, but " Poor bef,1d.
died chap is startled out of his wits
when five people finish for him
chanting You know what YOU don't
IKE. At the Washington So
clety for Modern Music, musicians
hangout, note on what a week end
the New Year week end was. Two
o'clock and the place is dark and
deserted . At Henderson's Grill
and Carr Van S. is unhappy, verv
unhappy. Has new tune he and
Don Shook and the lads are playing
at the Madrillon-"It Must Have
Been Something I Dreamed"-and
wants us to hear the recording of
it, finds it has been taken off the
monograph there. Makes Carr so
bitter about music and recordings
he slaughters the memory of Tos-
celli by buying a nickel's worth of
that swing recording of Toscelli's
"Serenade."
That new La Sale Versailles.
which opened a week ago Cat LES
cargot), should turn out to be one
of the towns popular rendezvous.
Has an atmosphere that's different
and altogether pleasant; the music
by Burrus Williams orchestra is
sleek and danceable: songs by Jean
Cathcn are fine listening; every
thing, in fact, is styled to make you
happy -. Word having spread some
how that those film starlets Louella
Parsons brought to town like the
Cartons Shar-Zad room, the upper
clawses" have demonstrated an
curiosity. They turn out in
1roves to see what young cinema
player looks like. And one night a
lot of them no doubt found that
June Preisser looks like that cute
zid down the street who could al
ways climb trees faster than you
could, June and some of her cohorts
meeting at Shar-Zad her sister,
Cherry, and Cherry's husband, David
Hopkins Mara Beleinskaya
(which would be lot easier to spell
f we could use its English transla-
ion which is just plain White) is the
,nly girl this department ever saw
who looks exactly like an artists
conception of a ballerina.
She's back now to do her charming
title ballet numbers at the Rus
sian Troika Latest batch of re-
quest cards filched from Eddy
Brandt's Metronome Room band
stand includes one from a girl who
signs herself Hortense. Instead Of
reading IT would like to have Eddy
Brandt and his orchestra play"
aortense has edited it so it just reads
I would like to have Eddy Brandt"