Evening star., 1948-10-14

After Dark
Brothers Bring Brooklyn Accent
To Club Cairo, Grins to Customers
BY JERRY oLEARY, Jr.

decided to band together as a broth
er act. The eldest, Eddie I, now a
had spent three and q half years II
the China Burma India theate
with the Army Air Forces. Murray
80, was a sergeant in the 9Sth In
fantry Division, while Eddie II. 80
was q corporal in the antitanl
forces.
They maintain stoutly that thi'
GI background has nothing to d.
with the number Of colonels they
have been known to badger In th'
course of the act.
Together for two years now, tn,
Barton Bros. are veterans Of Amer
ica,s stage and club circuits. Eddie
started out In 1879 as q dancer
teamed up with Harry Ritz. Wher
Harry's two younger brothers can't
Of age, the three Rites formed theil
Renowned comedy act and Eddi,
went on alone. %
The Bartons make heavy use ol
the crumpled hat and startling yer.
sions Of Mexican and Yiddish &C.
cents. They initiate such entities
as Walter Winchell and Jimmy Du.
rante and, when things are toe
quiet, bait the customers. This
amuses everybody but the wait
resses, who are used to grade 3
humor::
Their best effort is q burlesqued
football routine, in which they prove
beyond any shadow OF doubt that
they are the worlds worst backheld
Sharing the Cairo's roomy stage
with the brother act is an agile
red -haired tap sdancer named
Phyllis Claire, q 22-year-old native
Of Boston. A professional dancer
since she was Is, Miss Claire is still
q little worried about the long year,
she circumvented Boston's Law
against entertainers under the .agt
Of 21.
To reassure her father. . Boston
executive for the Otis Elevator Co.
Miss Claire promised never to smoke
or drink. She still does neither.
High lights Of her career: Ths
months she spent entertaining sol.
diers with q USO troupe in the Eu.
ropean theater before being inva.
lided .home-her training days with
Bill Robinson-the movie offer shs
Is considering-her pioneering per.
formances on television.
This engagement in Washington
is her sixth in the Nations Capi.
tai. She herself is not engaged
Too busy.
The oldest entertainers in Wash.
inston, In point Of service at onl
spot. are the Heintze Brothers
Gustav and Oscar, the Austrian.
born pianists at the S23 Restaurant
s23 Fifteenth street NV.
Because both were members oi
DR.. Kurt schuschnigg's anti-Naz
Christian Social party in their ma.
tive Vienna. the Heint7e brother,
left Austria at the time Of anschluss
the German invasion, in 1889.
Gustav and Oscar are graduate!
Of the Royal Conservatory Of Music
in Vienna. studied under the lat.
i, Max Reinhardt and DR.. Paul Vein.
sarten and specialize In the work.
Of Brahms and Strauss.
They have been playing night,
in the S23 ever since leaving Austris
10 years ago. Currently, they ar.
accompanied by Amelia Tacka, {
Baltimore violinist.
During the early evening, tn.
Heintzes play the classical music o.
the great German and Austrian
compoeers-in conformance with th'
Tyrolean- -Bavarian motif of the res
taurant. Later, they switch to con
temporary American music with th'
accent on college songs.
When Georgetown's Hoyas ar,
playing football In Washington, 1
is impossible to get a seat in th'
823. Singing is encouraged becaus,
of the basement character Of tn,