Evening star. [volume], May 18, 1948, Page A-12, Image 12

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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After Dajk
Nancy Walker Was Fired,
But It Was No Chili Parlor
By HARKY MacARTHUR
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Mr. Herb Sachs was standing on
his Eleventh street emporium of
the doughnut, the ice cream and the
hot dog, in full view of the pas
. sersby, eating one of his own
frankfurters with all too obvious rel
ish. We suddenly were reminded of
a story in the New York Times that
we had been meaning to ask him
about for weeks. It was a piece by
Publicist Richard Maney about
Nancv Walker, the young comedy
sensation of Broadway, in which it
was noted that she had once been
fired by the mknagement of the
Del Rio, which Mr. Maney described
as a roadside chili parlor near
Washington, D. C. -
Mr Sachs was the management oi
that Del Rio, all right. That was
before it burned out one night, send
ing him in town to set up his new
Del Rio on Fifteenth street, the
club which later became the Duet
and finally Delmonico's, before be
ing replaced by a movie theater,
the Playhouse.
"Is it true that you once fired
Nancy Walker at that roadside chili
parlor called the Del Rio?” we asked.
Mr. Sachs choked on his mustard.
"What do you mean, roadside chili
parlor?” he spluttered. “That was
a nice club and you know it. We
had good show's out there. Clean
comedians. We played the same
people who played the Capitol
u. neater.
“That’s beside the point, we
said. "Did you or did you not cast
Nancy Walker adrift on the cold
sea of unemployment?"
“I certainly did. fire her, he
said “She was terrible. The custo
mers couldn’t stand her and I
couldn’t stand her, so I paid hffr on.
“She's improved since then, Mr.
Bachs added, clinching on a Mon
day the week's prize for under
statement.
* * * *
The Statler Hotel’s Embassy
Room, which seems to have adopted
a policy of presenting floor shows
when the proper talent is available
instead of taking what it can get
bv w-ay of entertainment just to hate
a show every night, will have one
Again come Thursday. Its featured
entertainers will be Roily Rolls,
the “pianist extraordinary, and
Andre, Andree and Bonnie in their
“Dancing Mannequins” turn. Both
acts are well known to patrons o
what's left of vaudeville and to those
who frequent the dine-and-dance
rooms of the tonier hotels.
In advance of all this, tlje Em
bassy Room’s customers started
dancing to new music last night,
George Duffy having arrived to re
place Emile Petti. The Duffy
orchestra Is dedicated to the smooth,
danceable style called "society
music,” supplemented by dashes of
the Latin American and the Ha
waiian. You probably have heard
it at one time or another over one
of the radio networks.
Mr. Duffv. when he was a little
boy named George,- studied, accord
ing to a note we have .from the
Statler’s press department, “piano,
harp, guitar, accordion,* violin and
piano'.” Having come back to the
piano, apparently, he has stayed
with it, that being the instrument
from which he leads today s orches
tra. , , ,
He formed his first band when he
was a high school boy in Circleville,
Ohio, and received encouragement
and support from another well
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Favorite customer at Normandy
Farms is an unidentified man who
dines there frequently, often brings
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. . . June 11 is the opening date
set for tthe Starlight Roof of the
Roger Smith Hotel, a date when it
is expected that Washingtonians
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heat. Sammy Seymour, his top-notch
trio enlarged to a five-piece orches-;
tra for the summer, will again be
the man who makes the roof’s dance
music. . . . Mario, of Mario and
Floria, was elated to find himself
dancing with Margaret Truman at
the National Press Club the other
evening. The shoreham Blue Room’s
dancers had been brought down to
judge a dance contest (to which
Leon Henderson contributed his
samba), but Mario couldn’t bring
himself to the making of a choice.
"They all dance a nice samba,” he
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