Evening star., 1948-02-05
After Dark
A Prophet of Pleasant Things
Can Have the Rostrum Amy Day
BY HARRY MacARTHUR.
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

| WV BY
The prophets Of doom can 80 leap
in lake. We will even chop hole
in the ice for them. You people who
tell us the Russians already have
rocket guns trained on our every
facility from New York Harbor to
the Y-bridge In GAINESVILLE, Ohio, a
pox on you! Away with you who
tell us we have q scant Ave years
ere Gabriel trumpets! Begone you
who announce that flying saucers
are advance scouting parties sent
by the warlike Martians! Rumble
not your direful prophesyings in our
frightened ears! Silent, singers OF
sorrow! We have cheerful prophet.
The cheerful prophet is Phyllis
Sage, the slim, attractive young
woman who looks into a pleasant
future from an F street vantage
point named the 400. Miss Sage
generally sticks to reporting to you
on your character while glimpsing
your palm, usually refraining, she
says, from long-range predictions
about life at large. Lately, however,
she reports, she has "had the occa-
sion at the 400 to read the palms
of several very important gentlemen
In the service Of our Government"
What she has seen has led Miss
Sage to come forth with a set OF
notes on what you may expect OF
the future, to wit:
/. There will be no war be-
tween Russia and the United
States in my lifetime.
2. There will be a concerted
effort to bring about the success
of the United Nations assembly.
3. The housing shortage in
Washington will be relieved IN
about five years.
4. There will be an extremely
prosperous era, but the big
spending will be done more SEN
sibly than during the war.
5. The new look" will be the
"old look" by spring.
6. Television Is here to stay,
but never will replace the old
standby means bf entertainment.
7. Ninety per cent of marriages
eliminating this leap year will
be successful, happy unions.
8. More children will be born
this year than any other year in
the history of our country.
8. The atomic age, with its
great fears and responsibility,
will also result In many new
conveniences designed to assist
our pursuit Of happiness.
10. I predict new era for the
people of the United States. An
era complete, bringing happiness
and satisfaction to the many.
We are entering the greatest
period in our history.
II. Last, but not least, I pre-
oict the Republican candidate
and the next President Of the
United States will be Senator
Arthur H. Vandenberg Of
Michigan.
50 stop worrying, see.
A note from Dorothy Shay advises
that she has some new songs In the
repertoire she is bringing to the
Statler Hotels Embassy Room come
February %. Her admirers will bs
reassred, though, by her report
that "'Feudin' and 'Fud' are still IN
there pitchin'" Il
~ ~ VI IL
z Julian Altman, the violinist lea der
of the dance orchestra at the
Raleigh Hotels Pail Mall Room, Is
man who might be able to write
his memoirs at the age OF 81. At
any rate, he should have picked UP
enough material for set OF memoirs
in the extensive musical career he
has packed into the years since his
debut in 1926. That event took place
here in Washington, in a joint re-
cital with his piano-playing sister,
and his age was II at the time; you
can figure out by adding it up for
yourself.
A man with q hankering for the
classical. Mr.. Altman turned to
symphony work after growing UP a
little more, studying with a num-
Der of violin experts and gradual
ing from Julliard. In New York he
played with the Brooklyn Symphony
the Westchester Symphony, the N. Y.
National Orchestral Association and
the Chautauqua Symphony. For five
wars 1Q3a-1944) he was first violin
Iist with Washington's own National
Symphony (Which, by the way
could use your support right now
Julian also has made music for up
wards Of a dozen New York hotels
and night clubs, even more radio
shows. and sizable number OF mo-
ton pictures and Broadway stage
productions. He once toured IN
vaudeville, too, before whatever hap
pened to vaudeville happened to It,
A man as busy as he seems to
have been could hardly find time
for a hobby, but Mr.. Altman's is
short wave radio, according TO re-
port. He probably does have time
to indulge it, now that he is vir-
tually loafing, with only two Jobs
He plays luncheon music at the
statier in addition to his nightly
dance sessions at the Raleigh Pail
Mall Room.
The Showbill: Jay Jason Is con-
t;,,,;,,o IN orove himself worthy OF