Evening star., 1943-08-10
After Dark
News and Comment of the Night Clubs
Trade Mark Registered U. S Patent ONE.

For the past two weeks or So
since, that is, the moving picture
Lady of Burlesque" has been stu
ated on F street-Joe Moss, the
manager CT the 400. has been eX-
periencing little puffS of pride. AS
We understand it, every time Mr.
Moss looks eastward out of his front
door and espies the Il. o. b" mar
quee, he thrills to his remembrances
of three Of the ladies appearing in
the film. These three are my
girls" he is apt to muse aloud to
himself, as a wistful tear trickleS
down his cheek. You see. Joe Moss
used to operate the Hollywood,
restaurant with floor shows, which
may be familiar to Broadwayites.
During his tenure there, he intro
duced a trio of chorines into show
business: Ruby Stevens, Marion
Martin and Iris Adrian. All three
are to be found in Lady of Bur-
lesoue" One, even, has the title
role-Miss Stevens, who is variously
known these days as Barbara STAN
Wyck and Mrs. R. Taylor.
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Miss EuniCe DeniSon never was
the completely amphibious world
traveller of the type modelled by
Burton Holmes and Richard Halli-
burton. Nonetheless, and especially
in view of the fact that she has
long been affiliated with the night
club trade, Miss Denison has con-
trlved to cover an enviable amount
of the prewar planet. She is dis
inclined to discourse in a Holmsian
manner on Persia, Tunisia, Scandi-
navia, India or the Caribbean lands;
which is good, inasmuch AS the
purse-heavy would only be an
guiShed, and it is our policy to spare
every one except readers.
Miss DeniSon'S engagement as
hostess for the Lafayette Hotels
effete chowder room is no contradic-
ton of her past experience. For
all the while she was globe trotting
on steamship promenade decks, she
was serving as hostess and organizer
of talent for shipboard entertain
ment, With that sort of back
ground, you could hardly expect any
one to acquire Burton Holmes
outlook on life.
Instead, Miss Denison's reminis-
cences favor the personal, as op-
posed to the obelisk, element in her
travels. There was, for example,
disillusionment in Egypt. Having
seen that country's own edition of
Rudolph Valentino on the screen,
she ventured to meet the fellow in
person. He turned out to be
rather self infatuated chap Of a
little above 5 feet in height, who
wore quarter Of an inch thick spec
tacles, the total spectacle being
topped off by luXuriant toupee.
Reminded her somewhat of her own
Hollywood. Miss Denison also
learned that the potency of native
dish called shis-ka bob forbids par
taking of it more than five times
per day. Not even twice, for that
matter. And when she, the eager
tourist at heart, first arrived at Port
Said, expressed desire to be shown
bIlooC Qudi lclo VI IlldL IlduRIlIy
town. She understood the manifes-
tations of alarm on the faces of
her wise companions after an hour
or so Of taxing apparently aimlessly
about the town finally brought the
party up before the decorous facade
of an English country club. Miss
Denison got no closer to the heart
of Port Said.
The charming lady who greets
you at the Lafayette isn't quite
sure she wants to return to the
sailors life when shipping once
more will consist of passengers and
explosive cargoes. After all, de-
spite a condition of peacetime, on
board ship it is not as peaceful as
you might imagine, celebrants being
celebrants. And everything is SO
quietly unhectic in the Lafayette.
The well-dressed people who
must be fitted with cooling systems
to keep that fresh looking that late
in the day-started filing into the
Mayfower Lounge. BY tWos they
came, and sometimes fddrs. But
they came and that was the. i'm
Mortar thing to Norman u-bo 1ed