Evening star., 1946-12-29
Record Crowds
To Greet Al in
Dc. NightSpots
Reservations Heavy
At Hotels and Clubs;
Duncinq Till 3 AM.

Thousands of Washingtonian:
will dance out the first postwar yea
Tuesday night in hotels, restaurant
and night clubs. A check last nigh
on reservations at the popular room
indicates there will be record Ney
Year eve celebration in point o
the number of merrymakers ano
the money they will spend.
Thousands more will be enter
tanned at parties in homes and
large portion of the population will
hear the end of 1916 announced
on the radio with the blowing of
whistles and the ringing of bells
as midnight arrives in the four time
zones across the American CONT
nent.
The large downtown moving pic
ture theaters and many of the
Ineighborhood movie houses will give
midnight shows. Traffic lights will
be in operation all night Tuesday
and Wednesday nights.
Bar service in the night spots
will stop at am. in observance Of
the congressional statute for the
District, but in several places the
bands will continue playing for
dancing until am.
Set Prices Announced.
Several hotels are reviving the
New Year eve supper and New Year
breakfast at set price. The Shore
ham will serve s12 dinner (tax
includedD in the Blue room where
Barnee's orchestra will play and
a floor show will go on about mid
night. The Roosevelt will serve q
dinner at $3.50 and breakfast for
S6 (all meal prices mentioned are
with tax. The Raleigh will serve
a $720 dinner. The Hamilton will
serve a Sc breakfast.
Champagne will flow at unpre-
cedented prices, not New Years eve
prices but the postwar prices that
have obtained all this season. I'M
ported champagnes will be available
at the Congo room in the Carlton
Hotel at SIC bottle and domestic
at $3.50 with Scotch, bourbon and
rye at 80 cents a highball.
The Wardman Park reported
reservations closed for its Metro
nome room. Hotel 2400 will have
dancing in both its Lounge Rievera
and it's Empire room Admission or
cover charge will be $3.50. The
hotel reported reservations prac-
tically sold out.
Usual Minimum Charges.
The Mayf1ower will operate as on
any holiday eve with $3.50 mini
mum charge for dancing to Dick
Koons' band The Statler's En-
| bassy room also will be on usual
schedule with a $3.50 cover charge.
/ The Ambassador will have bands in
the High Hat room and the dining
room, but the hotel said it is not
accepting reservations. There will
be no cover charge and no mini
mum.
Club Cairo, a night club, will
serve an eight-course dinner for
5000 plate. Two bands will play
for dancing; Jerry Wayne will sing.
Dinner at Sam Tauber's Delmonico
will be $3.50 including tip. Jackie
Heller will head the floor show and
the Eddie Pierce Band will play for
dancing.
A new night club, the Moulin
Rouge, will be opened Tuesday night
at 1870 L street NV. by Sacha
Lucas, Washington violinist. Dinner
will be $3.50 in his upstairs room,
called the Coral Club, where there
will be dancing and entertainment.
and $5 downstairs where there will
be no dancing and no tax.
| Dancing Till AM.
Paul Young's Romany Room will
serve a $3.50 dinner. Madrillon
Restaurant will operate as usual
except that dance music by Johnny
Robb's and Raymond Lazalas Or
chestra will continue until 3 am.
| Dinner at the Lotus Restaurant
and the Casino Royal will be $3.50
with floor show and dancing. Both
have Chinese cuisine.
Midnight movie shows will start
at 1880 pm. at the Earle and the
Metropolitan theaters downtown
and at Is of Warner Bros. % neigh
borhood theaterS. A final show will
begin at midnight at the Capitol,
Palace, Columbia and Keith's.