Evening star., 1947-04-22
After y ark
Those Stages Magician Knew
Have Passed From the Scene
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

topher had been accustomed to per-
forming his magic at such places as
the Heigh-Ho Club, the Gingham
Club, the Madrillon and the Pail
Mall Room of the Raleigh Hotel.
Mr.. Christopher looked around in
some bewilderment. The Pail Mall
Room, where he appeared on the
opening bill several years ago, still
was going along all right. The
Madrillon, he found going full blast,
too. The Madrillon, though, has
long since abandoned the floor show
policy it once had, to concentrate
on supplying dance music and good
food.
What Of the Gingham Club?
That one has been all but forgot
ten In the dim recesses of the past,
when Mr.. Christopher mentioned it
the other day. That was a venture
of the Childs Restaurant people into
the night club business, in, as we
recall, a dimly-lit room over the
Pennsylvania avenue restaurant. 1t
probably Is remembered vividly only
by the Mayfair's Jimmy Byrd. He
was the manager there and night
Club manager never forgets the
scenes of his woes.
The Heigh-Ho? There was place
the passing of which was regretted
by many, an intimate, paneled sup
per club where every celebrity in
town used to relax The late Jean
Harlow used to escape her public
there. The late Fats Waller turned
up one night at closing time and
played the piano until dawn and no
one thought Of going home. The
rooms where the Heigh-Ho used to
be have long been given over to the
business transacted during daylight
hours. The room downstairs that
used to be the Heigh-Ho Tap Room
is now a shop devoted to the sale of
fixtures and knick-nacks for the
decoration Of private tap rooms.
Pete Macias, the pianist of Cuban
extraction who was the Heigh- Hos
Sherman Billingsley. last was heard
from In Havana, battling Illustration
as he attempted to make a waiter
understand his shaky Spanish,
2 x.4*
The new shows: Joey Adams,
Tony CanzonEri and Mark Plant,
last night at the Club Cairo. Jan
Murray, the comic who has been
something Of a New York sensation
this season, tonight at Paul Young's
Romany Room.
The Midnight Merry Round
Ray Mckinley and orchestra are
the new attraction at the Club KAY
akos, as Bill K. continues his name
band" policy. >. The Mildred Kirke
who is singing with Jack Corry's
orchestra at the Glen Echo Ball
room Is the same Mildred Kirke
who was one of the three finalists in
last years Miss Washington" con-
test. -. Kurt Hetzel, organist and
symphonic conductor, has been
added to the entertainment staff at
the Neptune Room, playing his
novachord In duet with Carl Park
er's electric organ. The Buddy
Garrison, whose trio is now at the
Concord Restaurant out on Ken
nedy street NV, is the same one
who gave freely of his time and
talent during the war to provide
free music for War Bond dances atl
the Shoreham Hotel. :. The Muses.
has entertainment now by way of
Organist Edith Davies, who plays in
the cocktail lounge from to 7 and
9:30 to 1880 nightly. She's appeared
among other places, at the Mayfair
and the Uptown Cocktail Lounge.
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It is q combination of comedy and
music that is scheduled to provide
the entertainment and dance music
this Thursday, Friday and Saturday
nights at the Washington Aviation
Country Club-the AL Trace-LeeI
Pines Orchestra. Mr.. Pines, the
backbone of the dance music unit of
the orchestra, is a protege of Jose
Iturbi, man who gets around al
piano. Mr.. Trace, as you probably
do not need to be told, is the con-
ductor of the comedy unit, the AL
Trace Silly Symphony. The Silly
Symphonists won their greatest
fame. perhaps, when they played al
silly ditty called Marry Doats" al
few months back and sent it to the
top of the, hit parade.
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