Evening star., 1950-09-28

and some sprightly dancing, but
Myrus is easily the outstanding
part of it. AS Mental Marvels go,
Myrus is a marvel, all right. There
are tricks to this trade as to
others, but Myrus is a deft man
for hiding them and his demon
stration of apparent mental
telepathy is quite a show.
There is. too, Miss Sandra Stahl,
the newest Miss Washington, who
was signed as a fall opening at
traction at the Lounge Riviera and
who proved so popular that she
was held over there. Miss Stahl
is naturally short on professional
experience, but she is a hand
some gal and displays her voice to
good effect in such things as the
Bell Song" from "Lakme." And
don't come around here asking
what are such things as the Bell
Song" Bob Simpsons orchestra.
incidentally, has proved to be a
melodic drawing card at the Hotel
24O0 rendezvous, which. of course.
comes as a surprise to no one.
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New music at two hotels and old
music returning to a third are on
the weeks calendar.
In the Wardman Parks Caribar
the new music and entertain
ment suited to the tropic mood of
the room will be supplied by Le-
cuona's Cuban Boys, group con.
sidered of sufficient stature to re-
place Daryl Harpa, whose itching
feet have taken him and his
troupe to Texas for awhile. Ac-
tually, OF course, it was an itching
station wagon, but that's beside
the point. The point is that Mr..
Harpa and company have de-.
parted and Mr.. Lecuona and COM
pany will arrive tonight. The
group. now headed by William
Hernandez Lecuona, was formed
in 1880 by Ernesto Lecuona. The
latter Lecuona is a noted pianist
and the composer of a great deal,
OF music, including "Malaguena."
Ballet Suite for Pan America"
and La Comparsa de la Lecuona"
among other items. He wanted
an orchestra which would play
his and other Latin American
music the Latin American way
and his Cuban boys have been
doing that ever since, from con-
cert stage to night club. During
the Caribar stay the Cuban troupe
will stage floor shows at $50 and
11:15 nightly. in addition to pro-
viding dance music.
The other new music Is not
necessarily new. but it hasn't been
heard in Washington for some
time. Ted Weems has been around
for awhile-in fact, he has been
around long enough to be well-set
now in a second successful band
leading career, after breaking up
his band and going into the Navy
during World War II. The place
he is turning up this week-to-
night, to be exact-is the Embassy
Room at the Statler, which has
just been run through its shake
down cruise by Xavier Cugat.
Featured with the Weems orches-
ira are Glen West, guitarist and
comedy singer. and Bonnie Ann
Shaw, who does her singing in a
more romantic vein.
Tomorrow night. in case you
have forgotten. the Shoreham
Hotel will be where all sensible
people will be, the Palladian Room
opening for a third consecutive
season. Music will be by Sande
Williams, who seems to have es-
tablished himself as the Palla-
dian Rooms official orchestra,
after couple of half hearted at
tempts were made in the direction
OF change for changes sake. The
Pallad1an Room customers seem
to have decided Mr.. Williams is
their boy and they want no sub
stitutes.
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There is a sad story we have
just have about one Of those
night club mind readers. We
wouldn't think Of giving away
his name, but a man who owns a
night club told us this fellow can
be hired for a much lower weekly
salary than you might expect. He
is an inveterate gambler and he
can't afford to lay off for a week
because he also is an inept gam
bier. He can read the minds of
people in night clubs, but not the
minds of horses or poker players.