Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1935, Page 34

After Dark Smart People, Smart Things, Smart Places. By the Spectator. Trade Mark Registered. U. S Patent Office. EIGH HO looked like & con- H clave of the League of Oc-| cupations last week . .. with | gentlemen jockeys, tennis | stars, Richmond belles, torch singers, | radio announcers and famed social- ites crowding the ringside tables . . . receiving the suavest bows of local | night life from impeccable Ramon « + . discussing the “Scandals,” whence | came Gracie Barrie to toss auld lang | syne with Pete Macias and the rest| of the boys . . . looking up dates of | the cotillions in Richmond, whence came Peggy Nolley to dance with Alexandria’s heftiest man-about-town « .. jumping over the gentleman jockey business with Jamie McCor- mick of Middleburg . . . lobbing wise cracks with Mrs. Gordon Smith (nee Peggy Keyser, noted racquetess) . . . nodding heads solemnly in agreement | with somebody's pronouncement that Mrs. Forbes Morgan is Washington's | handsomest matron | * x % % ®* *In Paris there is ren- dezvous called La Regence, where scholars, diplomats, newspaper men, raconteurs, wiz- ards explore the contents of & wondrous cellar, sit at small tables pondering the problems of | chess . . . in &| certain corner| sits a table sur- rounded by a brass inclosure, and on the table rests a chess board, the men in play- ing order . . . this was Napoleon's fa- vorite chess table when he was a young man . . . lesser chessites look upon it with awe. | Question is, who will first have his checker table made a sacred shrine at the Lafayette's new Checkerboard Room, latest cocktail lounge about the town . . . where you may sit and sip whilst jumping kings plotting cagey moves . . . or, if ¥y have | high forehead and give the head waiter a knowing grin, perhaps you'll | get chess men for the cerebration of the cocktail hour . . . Ye Spectator | would like to know who's going to open a Tit Tat Toe room . . . wWhere he can indulge in his favorite violent exercise . entertainment at the | Lafayette will be supplied by “The Two Checkers,” check and double check, no doubt. | ik | ® + + Our local Hollywood, Shoreham, will bristle with movie star impersonators again tomorrow | night . . . with Rudy Vallee as guest of honor and judge, deciding which | young lady who thinks she resembles | Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Edna | May Oliver and Elizabeth Patterson actually could get away with the im- personation by donning a pair of oversize shoes and dark glasses . , . last week’s screen tests of the village Garbos will be shown , . . The first dress-up-and-play-cinema party was witnessed by such celebrities as Maj. | Gen. Blanton Winship, Governor of | Puerto Rico . . . Mrs. Webster Dawley | «. . Mr. and Mrs. Carl Zoller (Mrs. Zoller resplendent in & blaze of | rubies). the P * * * No longer will the commer- | cial cowboys pop corks out the win- | dow at hidden Indians . ... lasso la- | dies from nearby tables . ... and in- | dulge in the other sports that every log-cabin caballero must support . . . . for the Dude Ranch has cast aside its rustic robes . ... become the Rancho Moderne or such . ... re- decorated in black and gold, with oval windows and chromium racks for the visiting firemen to park their water pistols . . . . x Xk ¢ * * The Isaac Newton, the Gal- lileo, the Benjamin Franklin, the ‘Thomas Edison of lady smokers ap- peared at the Mayflower Lounge the other afternoon . . . . calmly pulled out a pipe and dainty tobaco pouch, packed up, lit up and puffed away | contentedly . . . . cuff-chronicler Ted- dy is watching for an epidemic of briar-bearers, all on the distaff side . ... Meanwhile, noted on his guest list W, A, Harriman and A. S. Cut- | ler of New York . . .. the John (War- | renton) Buchanans with shriek- #hirted George Marshall . . . . Senator Joseph Guffey and Walter Jones; | Blaise de Sibour with the “Chip” Roberts . . Governor Earle of| Pennsylvania, Boston Banker Fred Carroll . . . . [ When Signor and Signorina En- rique Priete returned from a journey last week, Teddy quickly noted that certain friends received kisses on both cheeks, some on one cheek, others (especially Americans) got only a handshake . Teddy promptly jotted this down in his scrapbook of native and European customs . . . . Xx k% A waiter at one of the tonier taverns complained the other evening, “Times are so tough around the night clubs I can't even hook a cigaret now and then people count them before they get up to dance” dire and inaccurate pessimist was he, for every spot in the village reports peak business . .. the el La Paree's amateur contest ends Monday night, with the winner earn- ing a week's engagement with the band ... Al Norton, bass-beater at the Lotus, can speak Chinese, but he can't pick up ice cubes with chop atocks . . . at Frank McNey's Hi Hat, Gordon St. Chad and the South Sea Islanders are threatening to smash their mandolins, guitars and what- not, return to Hawaii or wherever if people don't stop asking for “Red Sails in the Sunset” and “Treasure Island” « . . There are rumors of a national musicians’ boycott on requests for | | Twenty persons these numbers . . . & Ia the recent picketing of “Ikle of Capri” as unfair to organized patience . . . Oklahoma’s Senator Thomas was a visitor at Ramon's ‘tother night . . . Seen at Trolka last week: = Two gentlemen c ;t;& who said their PR names were Wil- U ~ “liamovitch Gax- tonaki and Vic- torski Mooreoff ... "Ve are bod from de Bronski” they added . . . Alex, the Troika's chef (one - time | proprietor of New | York's “Russian | Bear”) announces he will cook a suckling pig for Christmas . . . the pig refused to make a statement Chester Snow, jr., is this haml champion tango-requester, according | to Moe Baer of the Habana . . . How- | ‘ard Seal has a table reserved for him | every might at Guy Scott’s tropical | tavern . .. NEW TERM FOR BRADEN URGED BY CIVIC LEAGUE Jefferson Group Asks Arlington Board to Rename County Manager. By s Staff Correspondent of The Star. VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS, Va, Dr-“ cember 12 —Letlers urging the reap- pointment of County Manager Roy S. | Braden were mailed today to members | of the incoming County Board by the | Jefferson Civic League Braden resigned prior to the election of November 5, effective the last day of this month. Members of the five- man board, which will have three new members, have said that appointment of & county manager will be considered immediately upon their taking office. George M. Yeatman, one of the new members, has come out Braden’s reappointment but has ad- vocated & reduction in his salary. The | Jefferson Civic League letter suggests that the present salary of $6.300 be maintained. It was formerly $7,000, but Braden took a voluntary cut of $700. openly for | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1935. Three Who Entertain After Dark Sid Cowen (left) sings in various languages with Sidney's Orchest at the Mayflower lounge; Lee Barton (right) performs acrobatic dances in the ‘floor show at La Paree, and Judy Ellington (insert) is one of the town's most popular singers and is one reason why the Lotus Restaurant is almost always filled ARLINGTON VDEMOCRATIC CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS Paul Jones Chosen Presi- dent—Group to Sponsor Dance Saturday. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va., December 12.—The Young Democratic | Club of Arlington County today an- | nounced election of the following offi- | John John Paul Jones, president: Stuart Richardson, first vice president; Leon Turnburke, second vice president; Myrtle McDonald, recording secretary; Helen Cranston, corresponding secre- tary; Mrs. Elizabeth Tallman, treas- urer; Charles Meyer, parliamentarian, | and James Buchanan, sergeant-at- arms. The club will sponsor a dance at | Lee Tavern, Saturday night. 20 HURT ON ELEVATED NEW YORK. December 12 () —| were injured, two sericusly, when a local train on the Third avenue elevated line crashed | into & supply train last night. The crash occurred at the One hun- dred and twenty-fifth street station | where the supply train had stopped. ‘The trucks on the first passenger car were derailed. | 1536 CONNECTICUT AVE Call RAMON, North 1231 BY APP Dancing from Ton P M. 1011 CONNECTICUT AVE. DINING Russian-American cuisine. Dine g9, $1.50. Saturday Luncheon, {73 DANCING o the music of Sasha Rorte norsky T p. w. to 3 @ m Rightly. REVUES Siree times mightly in the gay Russian Gypsy wmanner NO COVER 12 or Sundays. v, after 10 p, For _reservations cail National 4141, G the Mayflower Lounge # Cockiails with DANCING Bvery Ahtermoon Until Seven . .. # Supper Dancing Wet ‘Nights Ater Ten ... Saturdays Beginning at Nine . . . SIDNEY' tMAYI"LOWER LOUNGE ORCHESTRA.. & Luncheon to the seit sirains of harp and violin HOTEL MAYFLOWER TFelophone Teddy for Reservations at Plstrict 3000 — | making, sewing, | home management courses conducted | eral hundred State supervisors of home Child Training Courses Popular| ,, By the Associated Press * CHICAGO, December 12.—Dad is enrolling in home economics courses for adults. Enlightment on this trend in mascu- line interest was obtained at the Central Regional Vocational Training Conference called by the United States Office of Education. Of 134000 adults enrolled in pie child training and in 12 North Central States, Miss Flor- | ence Fallgatter of"Washington, D. C., home economics Federal agent, esti- mated 5 per cent, or 6,500, were men. “The courses drawing the largest number of men are in child training and parent education,” Miss Fall-| gatter said | To her this indicated men realized | that as parents they had responsibili- ties toward their children other than | bringing home the bacon. | ‘The suggestion that perhaps in these troubled times dad’s having to accept mother’s bringing home part of the bacon had resulted in his shouldering & share in household management | brought from Miss Fallgatter a wary: “Maybe s0.” NOW_COMPLET The NEW CONTINENTAL ROOM Available for diwner dances, meetings, banguets, etc. 500 Seating Cai Banquet accommodations Smaller Rooms for Ca Luncheons, g New Cocktail Room Adjeini HOTEL CONTINENTAL Reservations, Call NA. 1632 ty up to 350 rd Pariies, Etc. SUNDAY 10 PM. to 2 AM. Sidney Presents RUDY SCHRAMM and His Orchestra Minimum Charge, $1.00 ‘ycept SwndaY ondav) Dinners- Ln wine) Supper_ Dancing 9:30 to 1 No Cover or Minimum WARPMAN PARK HOTEL CONN. AVE. AND WOODLE¥ ROAD - | Statistics that women do 85 per cent of the family buying seem to have in- trigued masculine attention and men | are taking home management courses to get & line on how the income is spent. she said. “Men are especially interested in | home modernization. . They want facts and figures on savings involved in electrical equipment, for example.” ‘The conference was attended by sev- economics and by heads of teacher training departments in colleges and universities. Danes Like Vending Devices. One-fourth of the articles now sold at retail in Denmark are dispenggd by vending machines, Parrot Meals graciously served. in delightful environ- ment, put you in tune with the world, yet cost you no more than the commonplace. Famous . for Cocktails Luncheon, Tea and Dinner 25 Russian-Gypsy Entertainers Dancing to 3 A.M. FREE PARKING Phone “Louis,” NAtional 0232 Cockiail Lounge Open 3-7 Daily Matt Windsor at Console Complete Show Dancing \With Men, Says D. C. Specialist | \ Operate at Capacity. sections of the government- owned iron and steel plants at Pre- toria, South Africa, are now oper- ating at capacity. 1] NAPOLEON'S 2649 CONN. AVE. Phone Col. 8955 L] Washington’s Newest, Smartest French Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge ENTERTAINMENT Holiday cheer ... throughout the year. Treat your palate . . and yourself at the ol CARITON HOTEL CARLTON 16th at K St. N. W. . Pierrette CONN. AVE. AT QUE For that BEFORE DINNER PICK-UP Join the Pierrette COCKTAIL CROWD At This Suburban Joy Spot % Jean Savage Acrovatic Dancer with the Million Dollar Leg Shawi Dd!u‘ta Jimmy Staley K Crucues ie Dyer Blues Singer CARNIVAL _ NITE: EVERY TUESDAY Dancing Saturday Nights CTil 2 AM. ‘Wash-Balte. Mites. Beyond Beulevard Md. Univ. LUB TROIKA—Karavaieff still ‘ is on hand to headline the floor show with exciting Cos- sack dances and act as mas- ter of ceremonies to introduce Ethel Pastor, Troika favorite; Marusia Sava, Dena Larena and other talented peo- ple. Music is by Sash Bartaovsky and his orchestra, and the cuisine is by Alex. x5 ¥ Club Habana—Jean Carroll and Jose Shalita do smart new dance rou- tines in a distinctive manner and Bert Granoff sings (seven encores he had to do the other night) in the two nightly floor shows. Music is by Moe Baer and his orchestra, with songs sung by Russ Cullen, Phil Diamond and even by Frank Flannigan on cer- tain occasions. x ok K X Shoreham—Janette Hackett has been held over to continue to charm the cash customers with her “Chiffon Bolero” and “Manhattan Rhumba” routines, and the others who enter- tain are Carl and Leone Bonner, har- mony songsters, and the Sheldons, who do acrobatic and ball room dances. Barnee directs the Maxim Lowe Orchestra, for dinner and sup-, per dancing and in the afternoon in the lounge cafe. o Heigh-Ho Club—The popular Three Maids and a Mike have been held over until next Tuesday. Music for dancing is by Pete Macias Orchestra and the songs are by Marty Rubin and Jimmy Nichols. * % %% Sidney Orchestra, and this week Buddy Harmon is occupied with beat- ing rhythms for “Scandals” tunes, which have replaced the “Anything Goes™” score on the request list. Sid Cowen sings. LR Rainbow Room—Before long an- other huge plot of floor space will be allotted to this popular dining and dancing rendezvous, the bar having | been moved and the air-conditioning system having been not only moved but replaced by one bigger and better. Music is by Milton Davis and or- chestra, N Volga Boatman—Clara Larinova and | Alexander Bolshakoff, character danc- Anton Gorloff, dagger dancer; Supper Club Notes Anna Sablukova, prima donna; Michel Michon, baritone, and Jene Pobiedina, soprano, headline the floor show, which also features a Russian gypsy chorus of 15 voices. Michel Michaeloff leads the orchestra. * x ko Lotus—The current Earl Lindsay revue is the best in many a week, what with Al Norton introducing Es- telle Sloane, talented dancer, who spins a mean spin; Rita and Remo, in a fast bolero and a faster jazz fox trot; Lasco and Floyd, doing comedy and tap routines; Judy Ellington, wish- ing she were Mile. Alladin, and nine young ladies who are not at all hard to look at. Music is by the Capi- tolians. £ 2ok s Club Carlton — There's a mighty pleasant atmosphere, there is an ex- pert mixer of orangeades and there is music sweet and low by a Sidney ensemble. . Hi-Hat—Gordon St. Chad and the South Sea Islanders serenade from table to table with any and all re- quests. The newest member is Guil- | ford Brown, a native Hawalian, who | came to this country as a deck hand, | learning to play a uke while in the brig on the way over. He formerly played at Honolulu's $25-per-day hotel * ox ox % La Paree —Comedian Lew Pink headlines the floor show. The others | are Maria and Hall, dance team: Mo- | zelle, clever modernistic dancer; Lee Barton, acrobatic dancer, and the Step Brothers, tap artists. Emory Mayflower Lounge—Music is by the | Daugherty and his orchestra play | for dancing and Marie Fowler, Ray | Beck and Joe Murphy do the singing *x N | Ramen's—Rudy Schramm and his | orchestra play for the Sunday supper | dances, which should be on your | “must” list, if they are not already Rudy also entertains every night by clever work on the piano keyboard. *x . Mayfair—Jack Campbell and Leo Lisee continue to regale patrons of the Cafe of All Nations with a bright brand of comedy and music combined. 5. | Madrillon — The floor shows are | done in fine fashion by Gwenn Lane. tap dancer; Jean Lane, popular singer and Anne Gould, who knows a thing or three about acrobatic dancing. Mu- CHOICE MEATS d Fresh Green Vegetables Supplied by Our Local Dealers LOW PRICES REFINED ATMOSPHERE S“PECIAL BREAKFAST AND YOUR MORNING PAPER_ 15¢ McREYNOLDS CAFETERIA 709 18th St. N.W. % From Noon % For Smart intimate entertaining young Washinglon selects— e = RESERVATION FREDDY District 2580 C. F. HARPER to 7 (Sat. 4:30-6:30) (No Cover or Minimum Except Saturday After 9. Misimum 5100 Buffet Lunchec erved 12 to 2 Do All you choose to eat D¢ HAMILTON Washington’s Only Compietely ‘Air-Conditioned Hotel Running ice water in every room 14th & K Sts. N.W. Richard §. Butler, Mgr. sic is by Leon Brusiloff's orchestra, which now has a new drummer—one Jimmy Bright, who also can deliver a neat ditty when called upon. ¥ xd La Fayette Hotel—It's the Checker- board Room now and every visiter | ets a checkerboard, checkers and i menu for a souvenir. Entertainment is by the Two Checkers. * ok ok % Dude Ranch—Peggy Fay, termed | “the miniature Venus” despite the | fact that she has nice arms, head- | lines the floor show with her bolero | and rhumba routines. Also there's | Jean Savage, who does a split with |one leg wrapped around her neck. | which would be a good trick even if | she couldn’t do it. Dixie Dyer and | Jimmy Staley sing. X % K ¥ Epstein's—Nightly entertainment done by the Harrijay Kronsberg En- tertainers, who do dancing and mu- sical specialties. They appear at din- ner time, also, on Saturdays and Sun- days. ; > % %A | Log Cabin Inn—There is dancing to a five-piece orchestra every night at this pleasant spot out Georgia ave. nue (extended). Entertainment be- tween dances is supplied by a Swiss lass yclept Mitzi, who sings, plays an | accordion and yodels. | % &% # | 'Griffith Farms—The chef is a fel- low who knows his way about among the pots and pans and spices and whatnot, and there is dance music by Brick Dornin and his Varie'y Six, * * Swanee Ball Room—There is danc- ing every Wednesday. Saturday and Sunday evenings, starting at 9:30, o music by a Meyer Davis upit, led by Phil O'Brien. | Youth Hostels Gain. | Youth hostels for hikers in Scotland had the I Cay Spanish A»—ME% st 1o modern tempo—intimate entertainment MOE BAER & Club Habana Orchestrs DANCING st DINNER and SUPPER DINNERS: 6:30 o 10 p. m. $1 and $1.50 Saturdays $1 and $2 Cover atter 10 p. m.: Waek Nights 55¢ Saturdays and H $1.10 PAUL. NAtional 2220 1118 Conmacticut Avemve (Oppesite The Maytiower Reservations, lla Rl Your Next Move to the Checker Board ROOM “Cocktalls and Contentment MUSIC_AND ENTERTAINMENT Saturday Afternoon Luncheons, 55¢. Served from 1 to 3. Musie. Entrance direetly from Eve St. LaFayette Hotel 16th and Eye Sts. N.W. A New Dinner and Supper Show Featuring the | | “Harmony Vocalizing” Gus Edwards’ “finds.” late of Billy Rose's | Music Hali and the Capitol Theater, and JANETTE HACKETT Manhattan Rumbe THE BONNERS Harmony Vocalizing THE SHELDONS Dance Acrobatics EXTRA Movie Night, Fri., Dec. 13 Showing last Fri. Screen Test. More motion pictures will be made. A Celebrated Guest of Honor will be one of the Judges. DANCING 7:45 to 2 AM. MAXIM LOWE'S ORCHESTRA “Barnee” Directing Dinner Dancing, 7:15 to 10 P.M.—Special —including ~ supper _cover. 00. including supper eover. Supper Dancing, 10 PM. to 2 AM.— Supper cover, 5h Saturday, $1. Mide; night supper