Evening star., 1945-11-13
After Dark
News and Comment of the Night Clubs.
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find out from us whether he did or
not. Mr.. Stefanescu, as he readily
admits, does not have much English
and inasmuch as we do not have
any Romanian or Russian or
Turkish or any brand of Balkanese,
it was enough to find out that Mr..
S. is the only follower of his art
eXtant in the United States.
Night club audiences are not al
ways the most polite in the world,
often being given to staring at a
plate of scrambled eggs while a
pretty girl is dancing her heart
out or indulging in idle conversation
while some one in the spotlight is
putting a better voice to much bet
ter use. So it must be considered
distinct triumph for Marjorie
Gainsworth when she stands in the
middle of the Troika'S floor and
gets pin-drop attention from the
supper show audience for such an
item as ''ViSsi d'Arte" from "Tosca. -
Troika audiences, to be sure, appre-
ciate the better things of night
club life when they get them, but
that deadly 'uSh which comes
over the place when Miss Gains
worth casts her musical spell is
something to witness.
The tall blond soprano is not
devoting herself entirely to the
classics these nights, to be sure, but
rather includes such varied items in
her program as Cant Help Singing" 4"
"Ciribiribin," Roses of Picardy,"
My Hero" and tIf I Loved You"
"All within my range" Miss Gains
worth was saying happily the other
night. What is outside of her range,
we wouldn't know, unless possibly
1t is some ancient baritone sea
chanty.
Some of the GIs are coming back
to their old jobs; others just never
gave them up when Army life in
truded on private life, intruded even
to the point Of removing them to far
distant points. There is, for in
stance, the case of Pvt. Lonny Will
fong, who was a local musician and
arranger before they put the khaki
pants on him. Even having been
removed by the necessities of global
warfare to an ATC base in Scot
land, Lonny has remained at his
old trade. Most of the arrange
ments played by Johnny Robb's
slick orchestra at the Madrillon are
his work and every SO often a
couple of new items arrive, giving
proper emphasis to Johnny's trum-
pet, Marty Emerson'S trombone and
Lou Franko's SaXophone. Hasn't
lost his bright touch, either, even
off there in that dour climate.
Celebrations of the week:
At the Duet, on Thursday night,
to mark the official opening of Herb
Sachs sleekly redecorated bistro.
This will be gala champagne din
ner. proceeds going to the purchase
of new equipment for the National
Homeopathic Hospital
At the Troika, Thursday night, to
mark the official opening of the
fourteenth season of the popular
Russian spot. In addition to Mar
jorie Gainsworth, the show will
have Talia, the expert solo dancer,
and Ellsworth and Fairchild. the ex-
pert dance duet.
At the 400, tonight, celebrating
the fourth anniversary of Joe Moss
popular restaurant-cocktail lounge.
This will be complete with birthday
cakes.
Sasha Lukas, the violinist- -orches-
ira leader ae the Sazerac Room of
the Old New orleans, involved him.
self in set of affairs not so long
ago for which he was ready to
nominate himself the worlds most
embarrassed man. Sasha was max
ing an appearance at one of the
local hospitals for servicemen when
it happened. After touring several
wards, he stepped out on a sun
porch and went through group of
solos for the men reclining there.
AS he prepared to depart, one Of
the men started the electric phono-
graph, stopping Sasha in his tracks.
Il don't know why you want me
to come around here" he finally
said. When you have beautiful
gypsy music like that, you DOM t
need me-"
There was a roar of laughter, be-
fore light dawned. The record he
was praising was a playback of the