Evening star., 1943-05-27
After Dark
News and Comment of the Night Clubs
Patent Once

The small truck was perched atop
the bushy promontory which fanks
the street called Sixteenth. All
Henderson Castle was dark and
silent except for the muff1ed noises
Of slumber within. Misty figures
emerged from the darkness of the
underground, approached the in
active vehicle. The shattering of
| glass made but faint disturbance
and the door was well oiled. Here
they are" Missed a voice in the
gloom, and, if anyone had been
around, they would very shortly
have seen the culprit band retreat
ing hurriedly down the hill with
foul unweildy bundles under their
arms. No one, plague the luck, was
around: the drama unfolded before
not a single mortal eye, had no CHI
max of wildly sounded alarums, the
chase and capture.
There has not yet been a climax
Of any description, unless it be
that of the Discovery next morn
ing Nothing even of supplemental
color has developed, save the walls
and general hysteria of that group
of young ladies who are the sub
debs" of Betty Mcclure and Mrs
Hill who constitute the musical con-
tineent in the Victory Room of Mrs
Kramer. AS color, however, it is as
authentic as it is tragic and un-
derstandable. The girls had been
criminally deprived of a saxophone.
alto a saXophone, tenor, and two
trumpets. And the atrocity oc-
CURED the night, or early morning,
before the opening of their engage |
ment across the street.
The hysteria, which Artistic Di-
rectorC rChaperone-Gene Manager
Hill at length managed to quell, |
stemmed from more than the in
ltlal circumstance of the theft it
self. For half a tortured day eff
forts of the troupe to beg, borrow
or buy requirements met with dis
NAL failure With each successive
telephone inquiry to music shops in
town, the tears and enashing of
teeth mounted. BY twilight, the
Victory Room had acquired that op-
pressive atmosphere usually assoc
clated with the torture chambers
of Torquemada. But the stout
hearted leadership and persistence
of Mrs Hill finally prevailed: emo
tons subsidized. and substitute in
StrumentS uncovered in time for
the evening performance.
Nonetheless, feeling of tension
and reStivenesS hangs heavy in the
Victory Room. The girls are play
ing on borrowed tune. Their stay in
Washington ends next Tuesday,
which leaves little time to press the
pursuit of the reprehensibles. HaV-
ing dismissed the possibility of rival
orchestras being behind the crime
Cafter all, it was four instruments
not inStrumentalistS, that were
taken), the girls are at complete
loss.
Only one chance remains, and It
is up to every conscientious patron
to do his bit by keeping on the alert.
Be inquiSitive Of any new quartet
comprised of two saXophores and
two trumpets, forwarding any we'll
grounded suspicious to Mrs Hill,
care of Betty Mcclure and her Sub
Debs. the address for whom will
probably be Central Park or Lafay-
cite Park unless the missing norns
are turned up right quick.
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Like bundle of laundry deposited
in the chute, the denOuement of the
mystery event in the Northeast
lands in the laps of patrons before
they have had chance to ponder
what might be in it, The secret
which now so suddenly becomes
public property is that the large
Northeast recreationa center
(UlineSp will inaugWate a summer