Evening star. [volume], July 13, 1948, Page A-14, Image 14

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

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After Dark
To Parker a Shirt Is a Shirt,
Even One With Patch Pockets
By HARRY MacARTHUR
Man, as any man knows. Is not yet
emancipated from the archaic garb
under which he is forced to suffer
through the summer’s heat. Man
probably won’t be for another 8 or
10 generations, if there are that
many more. The campaign to get
the American male into something
comfortable is a sort of desultory
one, with no direction. Even its
Accent on the
RUMBA
DANCE MUSIC
8:30 'til closing
DINNER
from $1.50
Served 5 to 9 P.M.
Air-Conditioned
most impassioned leaders get no-J
where when they come up against
adamant convention. Let one of
them walk tieless into a night club
or restaurant that doesn't go for
that sort of thing, as most of them
don’t, and the management Just
hands him a noose for his perspir
ing neck. Let a man arrive coatless
and the management either turns
him out for looking like a bum in
the park or, if it’s that sort of place,
hands him a coat to keep him warm.
The Madrillon is one of the tie
places. It doesn’t like any hint of
decolletage in the garb of its male
customers, so a couple of ties are
kept handy for those who turn up
without them. A man came along
the other nigt, though, for whom the
Madrillon couldn’t do a thing. He
had a necktie, all right, a bow tie at
the collar of what started out to
be a shirt and then ended surpris
ingly like a jacket with a pair of
patch pockets where a man usually
stuffs his shirt in his trousers. It
posed a problem for Parker, but he
didn’t take long in solving it.
“I’m sorry,” he told the man, “but
you can't come in without a coat.”
“No?” said the man. "I can fix
j that.” He grabbed the brocaded
evening wrap of the girl with him
and donned that, cheerfully.
“You look ravishing,” said Parker,
“but the answer still is no.” The
man took off the evening wrap.
“This is ridiculous,” he stormed.
“In Havana lots of people dress Hire
this when they go out at night.”
“In Havana lots of people don’t
wear shoees,” Parker told him yrith
some disdain. “This is the Madrillon
in Washington, D. C., and no pajama
tops are allowed.”
* * * *
Among the people with reminis
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in hotels seem always to have the
rich ones. We were talking with a
veteran headwaiter the other night
when the name of a mutual friend,
a hotel manager, came into the con
versation.
"I used to work for him,” said
the headwaiter. "He was a nice
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course, but he was a nice guy. I
remember one time he ordered five
gallons of ice cream sent up to his
suite. I knew he wasn't having a
party, so I couldn’t figure what he
wanted five gallons of ice cream for,
but I took it up to him. He didn’t
wait for a spoon, but dove in with
both hands. Seems he got the
notion he was on fire inside and
wanted some ice cream. He de
cided he wanted a whole lot of
ice cream.
“Did you ever know So-and-So?”
the headwaiter went on, naming a
character out of the past. “He was
the assistant manager at a hotel
where I was a room service waiter
once. I went up to his suite one
day and found it full of guys at
telephones, with a ticker going and
racing forms scattered all around.
That man operated a bookie estab
lishment there in that suite for six
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months before they caught him
and fired him. It was all right
with me. except that the people
around there would rather put two
bucks on a horse for you than tip
you.”
* * * *
Miscellany Department: Veterans
of the After Dark circuit who find
themselves at the new Colony Res
taurant, across DeSales street from
the Mayflower, are likely to be
startled right back to their youth.
The Paul who greets them there is
the same Paul who used to greet
them at the long-deceased Club
Habana, which is longer ago than
a man likes to realize. . . . Kath
leen Quinn ends her engagement
with Cass Harrison's orchestra at
the Wardman Park's Metronome
Room tonight and tomorroy stops
DANCE TO
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and His Great Band
9 TO 12 TONIGHT
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being Kathleen Quinn. Thereafter
she’ll be Mrs. George F. O’Neill of
New York. . . . Marjorie Hendricks
would like you to know that the
cooling system is wot king again at
Normandy Farms. ... It doesn’t
pay to ask Nlni Baker, pianist with
Sammy Seymour’s Starlight Roof
orchestra, what she thinks of mod
ern music unless you want an an
swer. Somebody mentioned Katch
aturian's “Sabre Dance” the other
night and Nlni started growling.
You don’t like it? she was asked.
“It’s coarse, cheap and dull,” she
said with finality, putting Mr. K.
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