Evening star., 1940-02-08

That wasn't blitzkrieg that ran
into you the other evening If you
were arriving at La Sale Versailles
about 12:47 am. Just flock of
George Washington co-eds fleeing
back to dormitories ahead, they
hoped, of the l o'clock curfew. All
the little Pi Phis and their sisters
just waited until the last minute
then dashed like mad. The mass
Cinderella effect was bit over
whelming.
's' Yesterday being Ash Wednes-
day and now being Lent, Bill Nc
Cune, the Shar-Zad's popular
maestro, makes a solemn pronounce
ment. For Lent he would like to
give up all those "Confucius Say"
rhymes with which his mail is being
peppered. Bill started it all himself
a few weeks ago, announcing on the
air he would use the best submitted
each week on future broadcasts.
Now he is being inundated with some
weird (to say the leasD verse that
Is slowly driving him mad.
- Another newcomer now to the
Russian Troika show, which was ap-
plauded the other eve, incidentally,
by Jack Dempsey. She's Dara Birse,
whose contributions to the enter
tainment range from Continental
songs in lyric soprano to stepping
into that "Katinka" skit with Mara
Beleinskaya and Sasha Bolshikoff.
(And he just tossed those names off
without consulting a note, which
shows what you can do If you eat
your shashlik regularity Part of
Miss Birse's background is the
Moscow Art Theater, the same
Moscow Art Theater where Capt.
Mikhail Observation-Disclosures to you-
played Chekov before there was a
World War to occupy him.
80 Sometimes the price of popu-
larity is almost too much for its
favored ones to pay. Take the case
Of the Madrillon's Adelita Varela, for
instance. One recent eve she spent
much of the night singing song after
song for the group of seven or eight
South Americans who couldn't get
too much of those south-of- the
border ditties. At closing time she
fled, for what she thought was peace
and quiet at home. But about $3.50
toward the dawn there was clamor
outside the door of her apartment.
She arose, the better to hear and
found familiar voices raised in a
good, old fashioned South American
serenade. Couple of nights later, in
stead of being contrite at disturbing
her rest, the serenaders came back
to chide Adelita for not opening the
door. "The next time you do not
come out when we serenade you,"
one of them growled, I'VE will bring
the Marine Band and see how you
like that" What worries Adelita
now is that he might not be kidding
sss There's lad in town who has
q watch that got too near some
magnetic field few. days ago and
now does things to time that even
j. B. Priestley never thought Of.
People who know about it pay no
attention, so 1t has caused no
trouble until a couple of nights ago.
The chap and his watch were dining
at one Of our popular after dark
rendezvous. A young lass from the
show stopped to say hello, sat quietly
for a moment. then leaped up.
shouted Excuse me, but I'm late, "
and ran like a mad thing. In few
minutes she was back, glaring. You
1ow-life," she snarled. That watch!
I thought I had five minutes; now
I have to sit around for an hour in
this costume"
''' The Midnight Merry Go =
Round The Lounge Riviera's S
Pete Macias has licked those grippe
microbes and looks healthier now
than he has in months . He felt
so happy about conquering the
germs one night that he let Adele
Van off 10 minutes early so she
could pay a call at the Metronome
Room and hear Phyllis Usher. She
liked it very much, too. And all you
other people who like to listen to
Phyllis Usher will have to hurry,
for come February Is she leaves
Eddy Brandt's Orchestra and the
Metronome to return to New York
That must be romantic music
served up by Eddie Mayhoff's trio
at the Cafe Caprice of the Roger
Smith Hotel. Nine couples on the
dance floor at one moment the
other eve and eight couples dream
lily cheek-to-cheek Dick Koons,
the Mayfower Lounges orchestra
maestro, is another who doesn' t
forget a favorite tune. He whipped
right out with September Song
one afternoon for lad who hasn t
been around in weeks 49,.
80" Lady approached the Mad
rillon's Peter Borras one day, con-
fided she was entertaining royalty
at luncheon-a Princess Somebody
and the Princess must have borsch
"But can 1 get borsch in the Span
ish American Madrillon?" she
wanted to know. Madam" Mr.
Borras told her politely, II made
borsch for the Baron de Rosen when
he was the Russian Ambassador
and he never complained"
Impromptu entertainment stopped
the show at the Shoreham Blue
Room the other eve. -Four Hawaiian
lassies they were, and lovely; fresh
from Russia, which just decided 1t
didn't want any Hawaiians around
.. Something musicians admire is
Hal Atkinsons manipulating Of
claves and maracas at the same