Evening star., 1947-08-05

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quite right for her daughter to be
working from in the afternoon
until II at night.
She was relieved, then, when
daughter came home the other day
and announced she was quitting
that job.
That's nice" said mother, but
her relief was ALI too brief.
Yes" said the girl. Il have a
new job, singing andy playing the
piano in tap room down on Four
teenth street"
The least man can do when he
is giving hotels supper club Ma
tionwide publicity by way of Senate
investigation committee is to get the
name right. Nobody knows how
many tourists will wander around
the Carlton Hotel, vainly seeking
the Jungle ROOM" just because a
man wrote that down on an expense
account. We hope auditors of other
firms doing wartime business with
the Government will see that all
expense accounts correctly read
Congo Room" before letting the
Senate lay hands on them.
X
Watching additions for the forth
coming Going Native" revue the
other night, Loew's Division Man.
ager Carter Barron was reminiscing
about early editions of the show and
people in them. Evalyn Tyner, the
brilliant pianist, was one of them.
She was discovered for the second
Going Native" back in 1884 by the
late Irene Weber Sadel, then Mr..
Barrons secretary. Carter had a
notion that Brooke Johns, the old
"Follies' man, might fit in the
Capitol's home talent stage enter
tainment so he sent Irene out to
check. Irene had a quick answer
the next day.
"You can't use him." she said
but there is a pianist out there
who is magnificent. You have to
hear her and you have to put her In
the show. She's wonderful" This
of course, was Miss Tyner, who fol-
lowed her Going Native" triumph
with trip to New York's Rainbow
Room for brief engagement that
lasted two years. Following her
New York success. Miss Tyner re-
turned here to be eminently sue
cessful before such diverse audiences
as those Of the National Symphony
the Statler's embassy room, the
Club Jalna, the Club Cairo and the
radio.
Helen Forrest was another. for
whose discovery Mr. Barron can take
some credit. following her mother
who discovered Helen's talent early
Mama brought Miss Forrest into
Carriers office one day and said
here was singer. She was not too
impressive, but Mr.. Barron was i'm
pressed enough, he remembers, that
he made Gene Ford, the Capitols S
manager and Going Native" di-
rector, listen to her.
II had to make Gene hear her
sing three or four times before he
would find spot for her" Carter
recalled. Now look where she is"
*E *
II all the musicians you know are
the ones you see YEARLY biting saxo-
phones or tapping pianos at 1:30 in
the morning. there is a chance COM
ing up for you to see whole flock
of them at play. Any one of them
will be happy to sell you ticket
for the annual musicians picnic
where the playing will be done. II
takes place this year at Seaside Park
on August IT. That's at Chesa peake
Beach, Md.
The play will include a great deaI
of athletic activity. such as horse.
shoe pitching. swimming, a tug-of-
war, and baseball game between
the musicians league winning Cap
itol Theater team and an all-stal
team.
In the evening there will be foul
hours of dancing, from 6 to II
o'clock. At 10 o'clock the boys viii
be rushed home by their wives ane
bathed in liniment so they will bt
able to lift their clarinets when the
time comes to hit the bandstanc
Monday, August ID.
When musicians select the musi.
clans they want to listen to, they
are expert shoppers. The man they
have chosen this year to play fol
their picnic dancing is Sonny Dun.
ham, who manages to keep his style
i n tune with public taste, now verg.
ing toward the sweet away from
extreme swing.
Mr.. Durham, among other things
is the man who can hold high note
longer than any other bandleader
He also can play trumpet and from.
bone with equal skill. This, accord
ing to the local musicians journal
Hi-Notes, is because he has double
embouchure," which enables him tc
change instruments with the east
of piano player changing key" .
Some piano players, that is.
X X n X
That baseball game. incidentally
by which the Capitol team took its
championship was won from the
Madrillon team by a score of "a to II
Or by one touchdown ard a con-
version, huh?
Whale meat is on sale in Belfast
Northern Ireland, at 58 cents 6
pound.