Evening star., 1941-01-31

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around town was set with the help
of truly imposing police escort.
The Presidents wife was guarded
closely everywhere she went.
She wore a purple-tinted net
over a gray silk skirt, with purple
spangled girdle, with two great pur-
pie orchids on her left shoulder,
three stranded pearls and a dia-
mond bow brooch with sapphire
pendant. A white ermine evening
wrap topped the outfit.
She encountered Carol Ann
Beery, with her father, Wallace
Beery, at the Washington.
Get some sleep later" cautioned
Mrs. Roosevelt.
Mr.. Beery and his daughter were
hits everywhere they went. At the
rainbow room of the Hamilton
an overflow crowd
fought for admission-the speCta-
tors stood on chairs and cheered
the movie "badman" and his
adopted daughter until they gave
an encore.
The little girl goes everywhere
with Mr.. Beery and is the treasure
of his heart.
The reception at the White House
today by President and Mrs. Roose-
welt, which Carol Ann shared, was
worth working all my life for" he
explained sincerely to the hotel au-
dience.
Town Is Bedlam.
The town, for a few hours, was a
bedlam as motorcycle police, their
sirens shrieking, raced stars from
one hotel to another. Traffic was
jammed on many principal streets
for several hours.
, But of all the mad places in the
city, the MayfioWer was undoubtedly
tops. This was the headquarters of
the jitterbugs, attracted by the lure
of Benny Goodmans music.
The hotels officials estimated
that $4,000 persons passed through
during the evening. The crowd on
the dance floor remained at nearly
an even 1000, which is pretty good
for a ballroom which has room for
no more than 1900 persons.
From the band stand, where Good
mans band was swinging out, the
jitterbugs were packed in a solid
mass that was 100 persons across
and rs persons deep. These citizens
were just listening. In the back of
the ballroom some few attempted tc
dance.
The Goodman ensemble was solid
and so was the crowd.
Three persons were removed for
hospital treatment before II pm
although it will remain one of the
great mysteries of all time how hos
pital attendants got the suffering
out of the crowd.
Even Goodman Was Appalled,.
Even Mr. Goodman, to whom be-
ing mobbed is all in a days work,
was a little appalled,. They were
packed in the hotel tighter than
the bubbles in champagne.
The Goodman swingsters were
hitting hot number when Mrs
Roosevelt appeared and the Utter
bugs were listening with close at
tention. Suddenly the band played
the National Anthem.
The crowd, which was dressed ir
anything from formal garb tc
sWeaters-(the working clothes Of
the jitterbug)-turned to cheer Mrs
Roosevelt.
A short time after she left the
ballroom was ordered closed to new.
comers-a precaution which wa,
scarcely necessary, since it had beer
impossible to get in the place fol
two hours before.
Wayne Morris, when he visited the
Mayf1ower, grabbed a saxophont
from one of Goodman's men anc
did a Swing out" with "I Can't Give
You Anything But Love-"
Mr.. Morris, on his trip to Balti-
more, took the wheel of the cal
from the chauffeur who had beer
assigned to him, and piloted il
through Maryland in time that reac
like an Eastern Air Lines schedule
Had Ringside Seat.
At the Hamilton, Beatrice Peiranc
of 214 Massachusetts avenue NE
an infantile paralysis victim-hac
a ringside seat for the show Hel
wheel chair was placed in a spot al
the edge of the dance floor where
she could see everything. She got
autographs from every one.
George Raft made a hit every.
where he went by picking a girl ou
of the crowd to dance with him. HI
did a snappy turn around the flool
to Sweet Georgia Brown" and ther
vowed them by dancing rhumba
looking his sleekest.
The Shoreham had two ballroom!
packed to the ceiling. Maureer
O'Hara got big hand in the blue.
room, while Constance Moore was 6
favorite in the other ballroom.
Gold Plate Breakfast.
The gold plate breakfast at the
Carlton brought the stars together
with such Washington citizens a.
have $25 to put on the line fol
breakfast.
Mrs. Edward Mclean, sporting tn
fabulous Hope Diamond, had {
party that was counted at 25 a
the breakfast. Her jewel had com
petition at the breakfast, however
Mrs. Lauritz Melchoir wore tn
crown jewels of the mother of tn
Queen of Denmark, Queen Anas
tasia.
The diamonds included q tiara
which she had rearranged to wea