Evening star., 1944-12-12
After Dark
News and Comment of the Night Clubs.
Registered q. s. Patent

town ought to look into, especially
the dancing. We've been told by a
fair acquaintance that there's moth
ing she knows which gives quite the
boost to lady's morale as dancing
before dinner.
From the male point of view
there's something to be said in its
favor and we don't mean just
hands across the table" at pm.
Prosaically speaking the reference
is to floor space. If you've forgotten
what its like to have a whole floor
to yourself or even to share the
boards with one or two other couples
take the spectators advice and look
into this gentle afternoon art.
The Washington when's, where's
and how's are few and simple
Whether you make it on the down.
beat, the dancing in most places
continues from 5 until approx
mately 7. There's the Carlton
with overhead stars which twinkle
promptly at $50 pm, and. of course,
the Mayflower lounge, where couples
have been teaing and dancing for
wears. In fact when Vernon and
Irene Castle introduced it here dur
ing World War T the Mayf1ower was
one of the first places to roll up its
rugs.
Sunday afternoon you could try
the Victory Room with just about
the largest dance floor in town
Since last week the latest spot to
add atmosphere to the afternoon Is
Cafe Parisienne. There's is novel
idea. From 4:30 to $50, Thursdays
and Saturdays you're invited to step
into the garden of Versailles and
attend a "Rumba Matinee" tof all
places to do a rumba) and il you
need to catch up on your steps.
there are two Arthur Murray
dancers handy who do anything
from the gavotte to the Indy hop.
1t will be a short detour for Wash
ington music lovers, December II
or thereabouts. Michele has already
sent his purple shirt to the cleaners;
plans to give hasty pressing to that
yellow sash. and any day now will
pack his fiddle to board Glover
Park bus for 1921 Vermont avenue.
But we are going to miss the
Plymouth
There was something about that
| famboyant combination of orange
and blue that one became attached
to after while. And that wonder
full circular bin, upholstered in red
! leather that they called a booth.
| 1t always reminded the spectator
of one of those freak rides at Glen
Echo. Only at the Plymouth they
never went SO far as to rope you in.
Probably the whole trouble was
too many people heard about the
| Plymouth and too many music lovers
heard about Michele and now he's
forced to move the whole works into
the former Club Jalna. With two
floors to be filled, you'll have to
look for Michele upstairs and down
AS yet he has not decided which he
likes best. He may even fiddle up
and down. X
| Epidemics are bad. but at least
there's little variety now and
then. A few months back it was
magicians. 1t got so we were seeing
rabbits and magic rings in our sleep
Now its ballet slippers, and the
Trade Winds is primarily respon-
sible.
The interpreters of the art are
always lovely young ladies, which of
course, make it a lot easier. First
there was Jane Arden, as sweet and
unaSsuming ballerina as we have
had the pleasure to meet Com
pletely ignorant of the mysteries of
publicity, or so it appeared, the
dancer felt there was nothing the
public should know about her except
what they CLEANED through her art.
Well, what do you know!
Now from Wanda Ward who took
over where Miss Arden left off, there
was little more to be learned about
the sheltered life of ballet dancer
BY this time the Spectator was get
ting curious
Did you know that a ballerina
wears out two pairs of toe shoes a
month, or "a pairs a year? No, we
didn't. But it sounded like sound
mathematics. Also we discovered