Evening star., 1941-09-10

rider happens to be a star or at
least player of such caliber that
his name Is on cast sheet. Some
times, obviously, the only difference
it makes with regard to the player
is a thing that comes under the
heading of workmen's compensation.
All that Is necessary to make a
properly trained horse fall in
movie today is sharp pull on the
left rein, shift of the weight to the
right side. Then
THE horse rolls naturally and
easily onto its right side and re-
mains motionless as long as its rider
maintains hold on its chin strap"
says the author of the memo.
That is rather a far cry, as far
crying goes, from the old method
of Hollywood. Before it discovered
the true meaning of horse sense
as it applies to horses-the idea was
to trip horse by means of special
disguised hobble or throw 1t by
digging a pit in its path.
Both practices have been out
lawed. That, with the $50 daily pay
shows what the discovery of horse
sense can mean to Hollywood. And
its horses!
What with night clubs getting
ready to reopen all over the town.
it is high time this department
mentioned its estimate of Troikas
opening as the standard all others
might shoot at. With the Chandra
Kaly dancers, GYPSY Markoff, Rosita
Rios, and Sasha Lucas on the pro-
gram, Helen Hamilton has as
Sembled one of the most fetching
shows that ever filled an after
dinner or during supper moment in
the lives of local diners.
The Chandra Kaly group, half
the merit of whose dancing you
might miss in a large theater, is
the perfect answer to the excess of
ballroom dancing with which your
night club entertainment probably
has been cluttered. 1t is the dance
as it all too rarely is, thing of not
merely grace, but of drama, comedy,
romance, etc
And to watch Miss Markoff
shoulder to her own accordion ac-
compartment is to understand why
she has been so warming to the
hearts of audiences of New York's
foremost clubs.
Another charm of Troika's OPEN
ing was the enormous number of
familiar faces-the ones whose
places have been taken by visitors
and newcomers in so many corners
of the supper scene.
After the Cartons Friday night,
there will be the annual champagne
and orchid welcome to the May
flower Lounge along about October
l. And the Shoreham's Blue Room
should supplant the terrace about
the same time-the weather justify
ing, of course.
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Addenda: There will be IS voices
in that Chocolate Soldier" presen-
tation which will be so large
part of the Capitol theater's birth
day celebration which opens Septem-
Der 18. -. The group also will sing
Ballad for Americans" and "All
Points West" both major presenta-
tions of the theater in the COM
paratively recent past. q. Speaking
of the Capitol's birthday, a check
of the initial program shows that
one of its performers was Leon
Leonidoff, now in Washington help
ing to prepare the Nays birthday
celebration program on October 27.
-. He danced the part of lamppost
cleaner in a number, "On the
Bowery." about which The Stars
critic was pretty enthusiastic. E.
Producer Walter Wanger, an timer
ant fellow, is on his way to London
to check progress on The Eagle
his first production
abroad. :. The visit is part of the
Wanger plan to make the picture
as realistic as newsreel. 1t was
only because his notes-made in
the dark-were unreadable that one
pleased critic of Boys and Girls
Together" forgot to mention the
Apache dance team as one of the
finest items you ever saw. An
Apache dance in reverse Is down.
right marvellous.