The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-07-22
Saturday Night
AT Logln's
b JAxoN

Have you ever been 20 Com
Imand Performance? That's enter
ltainment at it's best, put on espe.
lcially for dignitaries or royalty
The royalty Saturday night at the
ocean Patio was a goodly portion
Iof the population Of Key West, and
lie one person starts telling another
about it, further advertising by L0
guns will be very useless, because
1.-THE entertainment at the Beautiful
Ocean Patton was certainly in the
Command Performance category.
The Nino Rinaldi Trio, com.
posed of Eddie Davis, he of the
devastating baritone, and Ray Sin
doni at the Plan led off with old
Ifavorites and new. The Trio comes
here direct from the Clover Club
lin Miami after winter triumphS al
the Versatile, and earlier engage
ments in Chicago and New York.
The trio at various times is COM
posed Of Piano, drums and bass
Tor sax, or clarinet, as the arrange
ment might need. Audience parti-
lcipation adds to anticipation, when
Rancho Grande is called by Nin0.
Pianist Ray Sindoni featured sew
eral classical numbers, among
which the lovely Claire de Lune
was offered with meticulous piano
technique. clover Boy" Eddie Da.
wis offered representations of John
my (Cry) Ray (which was good,
but better than Ray,) and frankie
Lame, in which the hand move
ments were LANES, but the voice
was Eddie's, and in the opinion Of
this reporter, that was all to the
good.
Several pantimines to the music
Iof recording were convulsing, but
tops was the Hawaiian War Chant,
Spike Jones classic in which Nj
mo offered convincing proof o the
audience that anyone, BUT ANY.
ONE, could do a pantomine. Lysle
McCown was called to the plat
form, and with but a moment oil
whispered coaching offered the
best dead pan, off beat perform.
ance of this or any other season,
We suspect he has been practicing
for weeks, and the hat he wore was
out of this world. However, accord.
ling to Nino the two had never met
and the skit was entirely unre-
hearsed. An orchid to Mr.. McCown
for the performance of the even.
ling!
In keeping with Mr.. Logun's pol.
Icy of continuous performance and
dancing, q young man was intro
duced to Key West for the first
time Saturday night who Is des-
tined to become one OF our most
popular entertainers. Art Deacon,
who we, would in the future like to
refer to as "the Deacon of Basin
Street. although he insists he has
never even been there. We are re-
lferring to hot blues, Deac, not q
location and red hot and blue is
what his music is.
Art led off with Basin st. Blues
and continued on for almost an
hour with the most varied and floor
humping reortoire ever heard in
these parts. He presented a tiny,
lively little figure at the keyboard
and when he wasn't making rhy.
thin with his agile hands or feet, he
carried it out with his body and
voice. His key board frenzy Is mosi
contagious and brought down the
house on several occasions. Key
West now has it's female Josephine
Baker.
On questioning, Art tells me b.
halls from Philadelphia, and ha.
been in show business for thirteen
years. He has been playing Thu
Iborscht circuit from Central New
York through the Poconos and ha.
Ioniy this last season invaded Flo
Irida. and it has proved to be quite
ian invasion. He also told me tina,
The has memorized and arranged
l15o0 numbers, and you'd better be
Ilieve ii.
Altogether. the entertainment on
Saturday night calls for superla
Inves in all categories. and is GER
ltainly a recommended must wher
you are out doing the town. and
in search Of something truly differ
ent.
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