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After Dark It'* Probably No More Than the Second Greatest Show on Earth By HARRY Mac ARTHUR. è The circus may be the greatest show on earth, but Hildegarde cer tainly is the second greatest. Even the frantic antics attendant to launching her upon the Statler Em bassy Room floor are livelier than many night club floor shows. Only those who actually have been wit nesses to these preparations really know what they are like. Those who have seen the frenzied pre lude to a network radio show can guess. The orchestra's intermission just prior to the Hildegarde appearance .is filled with furious activity. A piano, laden with microphones and baby spotlights is pushed to the center ot the floor. Eager young men rush out to appointed spots with microphones. Other young men rush out with wires and plug in the microphone». One assistant sta tions himself at a "mixer" box· to control the microphones, has them all tested. Another takes over the small switchboard and tests the lights, making especially certain that the piano bench is in line with the overhead spot. When all is in readiness, the ac tivity ceases, to be replaced by nerv ous expectancy. Suddenly the room is blacked out. After a decent in terval, when the proper pitch of etcited anticipation has been reached, the black hush is blasted by a crashing "orchestral fanfare that must rattle the doors on the Κ street side of the Statler. Then the orchestra swings lustily into "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup," playing it as if it were "Pomp and Circumstance." Lights come up and reveal—Hildegarde. * * * * The lass from Milwaukee prob ably is the center of more contro versy than any other entertainer on the present scene. Those who are not amused are struck with deadly boredom. They would elect Hildegarde Miss Schmaltz of what ever year it is and happily forget her. Those who are amused, on the other hand, are mightily so. They think Hildegarde is the greatest thing that has happened to human entertainment since the first min strel raised a voice. There are, in cidentally, enough of them that they may be found fighting to get into the already completely filled Embassy Room these nights. If you've seen Hildegarde, you know how you feel about her. If you haven't, you probably should. You owe it to yourself to see how much a fair talent for singing a song and playing the piano, a close fitting, low-cut evening gown and à bubbling, irrepressible gayety can do with pure corn. You may, of course, join those who sit there and look upon Hlldegarde calmly, wondering what all the excitement is about. There is also a good chance that you will elect yourself to the Hildegarde cult. If you do become a Hildegarde fol lower, there are some rules you must remember* always to follow if you do not want to be booted out of the club. First, you must remember that a funny is a funny and you are supposed to laugh at it. Refusal to laugh when Hildy tosses off some tired, elderly jape that you stopped laughing at years ago is not permit ted. It will Indicate to the knowing members of the clique that you are not hep. You will laugh then—cheerfully and warmly—when Hildegarde, in the middle of a song introduction, turns to her pianist and says, "Sal vatore, some drizzle music, please." It is the cue for a fairly loud laugh when Hildegarde skitters about the room waving her heavily perfumed kerchief in the faces of male ring siders, skipping the eager one with the bald pate and telling him with a slight pout, "You don't get any." And to remain a member in good standing in the cult youll have to be ready for a rousing laugh in a politico-filled room when Hilde garde, searching the ringside tables for a glass of champagne, finds none and says, "There must not be any Republicans here tonight." However you feel, though, you will be forced to admit that she certainly is "The Incomparable Hildegarde." Many another entertainer mould be lost alter that heroic introduction, with nothing to top it. * ♦ ♦ ♦ The new Club Cairo entertainment is one of thoee affairs th^t Is more well-balanced than spectacular. It has comedy of Phil Foster, it has dancing by Germaine, it has music by the Modernaires, and it has danc ing girls in production numbers staged by Sam Schanker himself. Mr. Foster does not look much like Gary Grant, as promised, but he is a reasonably funny man, especially in his routine about Army life and an imitation of a Brooklyn Dodger fan. Germaine is a tap dancer who Is both pretty and more talented than most. Tfce Modernaires are four men and a girl—a group of the type usually found with "name" bands—who sing popular songs of the day very nicely, if you go for their sort of thing. * * ♦ ♦ Postscript: If you've been putting off a visit to the Romany Boom, you'd better stop putting it off right now. Barring sudden change of mind, which tant likely, the Romany Room will be closed for the season after Sunday night. The Brothers Young, Paul and DaVe, known that there is one thing certain about the Washington weather—you cant trust it and the heat may be on any day now. U. N. Manual to Depict Annapolis State House ly rt>· Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, May 8.—Maryland's State House, first State capitol over which a United Nations emblem was flown, will be pictured in a manual on development of the U. N. honor flag, Brooks Harding, chair man of the Flag Committee, an nounced yesterday. The standard was raised here during the U. N. Conference in San Francisco, starting in April, 1945. ï Ml· ■■■ cr PRESENTING NIGHTLY MICHEL and Hi· Gypsy Ensemble Rendezvous for Mane Loveri Superb Outline. Continental Atmosphere Open From 4.SO Iwrr D»y Except Monday Dinner 4:30 to 10:00—No Coyer, No Tu FOR RESERVATIONS RE. 1356 1020 VERMONT AVE.. 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