Evening star., 1950-07-13

If you are harboring a yearning
to carry the memory of the May
flower Lounge or the Statler En-
bassy Room among your eternal
souvenirs, your time is growing
short. You have only tonight, to-
morrow and Saturday night left if
you would emulate the Garbo of
Queen Christina" and commit to
cherished remembrance the feel
and look of every romanticaily
linked mural, the blank stare Of
every mirror.
When the doors are closed Sat-
urday night on the Lounge and
the Embassy Room. they will be
closed for the summer. And next
fall when the doors are opened
again for someone other than car
penters, there will be new En-
baSSy Room and a new Lounge.
In the latter case this will be
new, new Lounge. which is what
lot of beople have been suggest
ing was needed ever since the
present new" Lounge replaced
the old one that had been there
for years.
The old Lounge had charm that
the new one, for all it's obvious
high cost, never did have. The
happy report is that a certain ret
repression. decoratively speaking
that is, is in store here. While
this refurnishing is taking place
at the Mayfiower, the manage
ment, firm in its belief that dane
ing is too much exercise in Wash
ington's summer cline, will con-
fine itself to wining and dining
you in other rooms. 1t hasn't any
plans for setting up any dance
bands until the new, new Lounge
opens
The feeling is different around
the Statler. The management
here, mindful of its lush days of
the war boom and mindful, too,
that another one could happen
any minute, is taking steps to re-
tain the customers who can't get
into the Embassy Room while it
is closed for face-lifting. These
are being taken at the Veranda,
which, according to those who
were around here at the time,
was the popular center of a great
deal Of the towns night life dur
ing World War II.
Since then the Veranda has
been living the quieter life, devot-
ing itself to breakfast, luncheon
and the cocktail pause, with organ
music by Lee Potter for the latter.
Come Monday. however, things
will be different. The Veranda will
live that old quiet life up until
7:30 pm. and then it will i'm
mediately become the Statler's
dining and dancing rendezvous.
Music for all of this will be pro-
vided by Mark Monte's Continen-
tai Quintette, which has been
making music at New York's Hotel
Plaza for the past seven years.
Mr.. Monte is a guitarist and sing
er, performing the latter chore as
the occasion demands in English,
Spanish. French or Italian.
If you are thinking of getting
around to the Statler's Veranda
bright and early Monday night to
stump Mr.. Monte with your pet
musical problem, you should know
about the admiral. The admiral,
ret. stepped up in New York re-
Gently with request for Sailors
HornPipe" played in q samba
tempo. Mr.. Monte may have
looked at him grimly for an in
slant, but he and his crew whipped
out the "Hornpipe Samba" with
not moments hesitation.
The Midnight Merry Go Round:
Headliners at the Shoreham Ter
race are Johnson and Owen, a
pair of athletic young men who
perform some breathtaking and
COMIC tricks on a set of steel bars.
Good act, and you can see most
OF 1t from any corner of the Ter
race. The dancing Talbots have
been replaced on the new bill by
Ricardo and Norma, whose last
stop before the Shoreham was
Havana :. Gerald G. Gerry, who
came here to operate the Statler's
dining rooms when that hotel was