Variety (Sep 1946)

5« Wednesday, SepleinW 25, 1946 Night Club Reviews Havana ]»fadri<l, IS. Y. Dtan Martin, Jerry Lewis, Cane- lind, Cnrmeii k Rolando, SergiQ Orta, Line (e>; $3-50 win. Maikirig a departure from the usual procedure ol integrating Latin acts with the straight American stuff, the Havana Madrid's new fall show sets' up a sharp line of de- marcation between the two varieties. Whether the idea's a good one is a tneot point. Rhuraba acts, including Canelina, Carmen & Rolando and Sergio Orta are good, but they're outdistanced by the zany comedies of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, who have the last half of the show all to themselves. Rowdy antics of the duo get such a boff reception that audience almost forgets what pi-;>cedes them. ■Lewis tee-s oflf the tun with his Kvnchronized mugging and motions til recordings of , Danny Kayes "Dinah" and Cyril Smith's 'Sow- Song." Guy's, got stint down tO :Per- fection. Martin then warms up his pleasantlv-.smooth baritone on a group of pops. Young crooner is greatly improved since appearance at this club last winter. He still bounces arOund. jounces the mike and kids the audience but his com- pletely relaxed manner builds up a nice intimacy with the crowd and he draws plenty of applause. Rowdy' action that pulls belly- laughs starts, though, when Martin and Lewis team up to carry the last 20 minutes together. Duo goes through a bunch of zany routines, apparently following a set format but improvising most of the way along the line. The hoked-up gags, impressions, terping, etc., probably wouldn't go in the more sedate Biteries but it's sock stuff here. Sergio Orta,, emceeing the Latin stint, gets the show off to: a fair start with a hot version of "Coffee Time in Havana," backed by the line. It's a good number but evi- dences poor staging since the gals have to walk clear across the stage from the stagedoor and then stand there looking nonchalant until the music starts. Orta gets his 300 pounds around okay to the fast tempos but his heavily-accented English makes him hard to take as an emcee. Canelina holdover from the last show, follows with her tongue-twist- ing Afro-Cuban singing. Backed by some hot rhythmic drumming by Catalino, she sells her stuff well ■with a powerful, throaty voice and plenty of hip-shaking. Ultra-hot terping of Carmen and Rolando gets the heaviest palm-beating for the Latin acts. Gal shows ofE as much . as possible in some sexy-cut cos- tumes and their dancing, taking in floor-wriggling, etc., is almost Tviclced. Routine is iEastfipaced and clicks .solidly. Carlos Varela and his band back up the .show well and Varela shirtte personally in a short comedy stint with Martin and Lewis. Catalino and his orch fill in on the stand to provide continuous rhumfoa dansapa- lion. Stal up to an eminently workable bid in every department. Main change is in the bar, wholly rodosianed by Mary Morison Ken- nedy, staff decorator lor the cliain. Spot now offers Hammond organ swing in a quiet way, instrument mounted on the turntable inside a circle of love seats. Oval room, now white and green, remains otherwise the same. Sablon, a Hub fave, hasn't been here since "Streets of Paris." but his discs and radio show have given him plenty of draw in recent months. Came in with special Baron arrange- ments for Eisen's string-heavy band, and went for a sock first time out. Smi "Those,Foolish Things."' "Place Pi£*alp," "Symohony." "The Girl That I Marry," 'Sur le Pont." and other tunes, some in Engilsh. others, in French, some in a little of both. Periionality gets hiin overl the lan- guage barrier though he erred in first iihow , by starting off in French. EvCTybody .knows "he can : sing French,, and he needs to establish he's as good in English from the Outacit..- '. ■ First, show's mike; was a little oft faalance! failing to focus his times ■properly and proving a little bassy. laut thereafter worked fine. The Eisen band, much bigger-leaguer; this season than before,: seconded hiiTv ex- cellently, and he went over potently with the smart set flrstrnighters on hand, Blair and Dean, neat dance team, start Ihings with nicely .contrasted set of tcrps. Elie. ♦'lull Cairo, Wash. Washington, Sept. 24. Yvelte. Nip Nelson, Helene & Howard, Robert Craig, Line iG), Bol) Simpson Orch (7); $2-$3 Tniri. 1 Fiflit Avenne, N. Y. Betty Grimes, Bill McGraw, Bob Domney, Les Parker, Hazel Web- ster; no cover or mtTiimum. This intimate hotel bar has be- come one of the most popular of the Manhattan's classier boites. Small, tastefully-decorated room with its subdued lighting draws a steady clientele coTnposed mostly of afflu- ent burghers, although the teen- agers are also in evidence. Club's no' cover, no minimum policy, plus the continuous entei'tainment, has the payees coming .steadily, . Management has left just enough room in the centre of the tables for two over-size baby grands and the talent practically sits on the ring- siders. Only acts suitable, conse- quently; are those that" can work standing still. There's no mike but the room is so intimate that p.a. system is unnecessary. Acts work under a stationary baby spot, which Is all the light needed. Ntw show lined up under the supervision of William Duryea is ■well-tailored to the room's decor. Betty Grimes, billed as a ranking tennis star and songstress, pleases with a group of pops!. Bill McGraw also gets nice returns: with a well- trained set of baritone pipes. (Both under New Acts). Bob Downey and Les Parker handle the accompani- ments in top fashion and also shine at the keyboard in their own spots. Hasie! Webster fills in with musical Interludes at the piano to round out the show. iSfal. Fanciest and most expensive night club effort in this town's history, new Club Cairo, which opened last Friday (20), looks set as the city's elite supper spot if the crowds to support such a high budget show keep coming. Yvette, personality songstress, tops the bill. A fave in this town, she had the opening night audience eating out of her hand with a smooth performance which runs the musical gamut from "To Each His Own" and "Doin' What Comes Natur'Uy" to a smart parody on the exotic names of perfumes and an opening ditty in which she warms up the house by Strolling around the ringside and kidding the customers. Pushing her hard for«:first night honors was Nip Nelson, whose clever line of imitations are solid. Hi.s repertoire proves elastic enough to keep him going as long as the folks out front keep applauding— which was very long when caught. He has a nice change of pace in which he shifts from imitations o£ jazz band instruments to such crooners as Crosby and Sinatra and then on to talking comedians like Fred Allen. Helene & Howard have a fast moving comic adagio turn which swings off into the turn's highlight —kidding the jitterbugs to a .slow tempo rendition of "Doin' What Comes Natur'Uy." Robert Craig, handsome young '20th-Fox singing juve witti a so-so voice, rounds off the specialty num- bers. Craig works almost entirely with showgirl line. They team best in a production number to "Frankie and Johnnie." The six gals are lavishly costumed throughout and are used in and out of the specialties to weave the.'show into a unit. ■ Harry Anger, staging the produc- tions, expects to change shows every two weeks, Lou;e, trio and pianist, who space nostalgic 4itUes with «n occasional Hit Pa- rader: Panama HattiCi who gives out raucously on "Hula Lou" and "Belle of Barbary Coast"; Billy Hess, vet Swiss bell-ringer, who makes with music on bells and tops off with Pat Rooney dance and Kathleen O'Hanlon who gives out pianistically and vocally on a rep which ranges from Irish ditties to medley of Icv- ing Berlin yesteryear ditties. Be- tween shows payees are invited to join in community sings which keep things informal and jolly. It's a modestly-budgeted layout in keeping with pop prices of the place and this bit of the Bowery should go reasonably well on Dream Street. .t'dbft. 47<.h St. Follies, A. V. Wat Reward's "Gay '90's Rei;7te," luith Lou Dolgoff, Lillian Ashton^ Panama Hattie, Billy Hess, Singing Fools (i), Kathleen O'Hanlon; 25c couer, no fnin,: Oval Room, JBoston (COPLEY PLAZA HOTEL) Boston, Sept. 20 Jean Sablon, Blair & Dean;. Sam~ tny Eisen's Orch (10); $2.50 Tiiin. In a strong bid to snare back a little ot its former society trade the Sheraton chain Ooipley Plaza has again refurbished its'Oval Room and Merry*go-round cocktail lounge ad- jacent, stepped up the quality of its cuisine, service and appointments, and got oflf to another nifty start with Jean Sablon as the name draw. Adds Problem ot hypoing biz for dining room of Somerset hotel, N. Y., seems to have been solved, temporarily at least, by converting spot to a ni'tery and installing Nat Renard's oldtimer unit. Room has also been tricked up to resemble a Bowery bistro of the so-called mauve decade. Ploorshow is in keeping with the decor motif. Renard, former comic of the vaude team of Renard & .West, sits this one out . and let's the hired help do the cavorting on miniature stage. He greets the customers but never once reprises, "I'll tell the King oii you!" Lou DolgofT, comedian, who was one of the mainstays at the Green- wich Village Nut Club when that bistro was hitting on all cylinders some years back, paces the show as emcee and further down does the "Judge", bit with which he has been identified for years. It's all his own stuff, never once lifting a Walter C. Kelly gag from the latter's "Vir- ginia Judge" routine. Dolgoff's fast on the ad lib and throwaways and ties show nicely together. Other , items include Lillian Ash- ton, erstwhile London Music Haller with her Vesta Victoria .song im- preshes; Singing Fools, barbershop Ole South, X. Y. Art Modes Orch (6), 4 Kiiigfits, Tlie Spotlifiihtefs (3) ; $2-$2.50 win. Latest addition to Broadway's nitery row, Ole South could easily qualify as an uptown Nick's on the basis of entertainment offered, with music both old and southern oC a sort. Subterannean spot has a few ventilation difficulties to iron out, but with proper ballyhoo might ulti- mately appeal to the wee small iiours crowd, being more accessible to theatres th&.i comparable joints In the lead off spot on billing is the Spotlighters (3) evidently brought in for terpers. With vibes, guitar, and bas.s, group concentrates on specialty dance numbers with vocal treatment for lair returns from the scattered few who were there when caught. Four Knights deuce the layout with a combo Mills Brothers-Ink Spots style and a dash of Charioteers. Sepia quartet blend nicely in "Just a Little Fond Affection" for the pops, "Darkness on the Delta" as a standard, and "Ole Dan Tucker" on the deep South side. Treatment is versatile and smooth in presentation and mike work is okay, as it should be from a group doing a CBS coast- to-coaster with Arthur Godfrey. The Art Hodes group is headline attraction and when caught Friday (20) proved pallid fare. Like it or not. Dixieland music is usually played with a gusto and sincerity not often seen in other forms, but Hodes' group was watery tailgate, with the exception of Pops Foster, ancient bassman who dates back to Kid Ory days and shows up the younger men with his drive. Per- haps the blue and yellow Franklin Hughes trademark on the interior decoration dictated band's mood, but they'd better make up their minds what kind of music is going to be played. Group does the standard numbers of the Chicago-New Or- leans circuit, from "Tin Roof Blues" to "Rampart St." Henry Goodwin on the trumpet is a good horn man, but not for stuff that was the rage of Europe in the '20s. _ Room is big enough to be a finan- cial success without being com- pletely filled all the time, especially without the expense of a big kitchen Only specialty stuff is served. Loca- tion, just under the Latin Quarter makes for stiff compejtition. Totum. Slapsy Afaxio's, L.A. Los Angeles, Sept. 19. Jerry Lester, Rose Marie, Ben Blue, Patti Moore, Ben Lessy, Danc- ing Sherwoods (3), Sid Fields, Matty Malnecfc Orch. (12); $3 min. toeefc- ends and holidays; $2 other nights. _ Rose Marie, former baby star of films, returns to Hollywood as just about the best song stylist ever to play local night spots. Despite sec- ond bilUng, she rates and grabs off star honors in ; a solid, show-wise display of versatile talent. She opens boff with rhythm workout on "I'm a Big Girl Now," changes pace for the ballad. "Remember Me." Her top stride is reached with smash Durante impression, "Dream Man, and she holds it with two encores, "Tain't Smart" and an Italian folk song, both novelties In show business most of her lite, Rose Mane has what it takes to thor- oughly please customers and works with an ease and obvious enjoyment that gets across, , Jerry Lester, star of this Sammy Lewis presentation, ftnds following Rose Mane too tough a chore. He rates a number of laughs with ma- terial but works too hard and too long in trying to sell his wares. His songs come through best but other material is rough and fOwdy. Ben Blue, Patti Moore and Ben Lessy are regulars at this Wil-shire, boulevard spot. Working both on the upper blackout stage and on dance floor, trio pleases. Blue's high spot IS a swami number in second Show Miss Moore and Lessy register sock in a California version o( "Okla- homa," clever parody written by Jerry Seelen. Aiding on blackouts, all in the general rowly style of this nitery is Professor Melonhead (Sid Fields). Ace dance rhythms and backing for acts is furnished by Matty Mal- neck and orch. Malneck, Milton De- Lugg and band also fiill spot on bill with smooth musical medley of "Never Be the Same," "Pardon My Southern Accent," "Goody, Goody," Through With Love" and"Slairwav to the Stars." This ^AU in Fun" presentation rates as best yet for this club and also stacks up as cleanest in ma- tenaL Brag. Variety Oills WEEK or SEPTEMBER 2S Knin«riil> In eonnectloo n'llli bUli bolovr ludicnt* oitiinlnit daj of tlioit nrlietlier fnU or «pltt nreek. Lotion la pan>ntb««ls Indk'nto oircnlt. 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Rita Oohman Nancv Dorn.n Don Bradlleld Th« Loveliea (10» Ceft Davidson Ore Tine Gnnlons Jessie Boaella I#arry Rosa Jieisan Caltala Anita Jakobl Phil DeRey Jaclc Paffe Oro Joa ICIsh Ore BONNIE BAKER WANTS OUT ON FREDERICK PACT Bonnie Baker, songstress, is seekr ing an out on her exclusive man- agement contract with Frederick Brois. agency, desiring to return to Charlie Yates, who previously agent- eel her. Tom Kettering, of the Coast branch o£ Fredericks, had been handling her recently and had pact- ed deal for her appearances in Ken Murray's perennial, "Blackouts," currettt at El Capitan, Los Angeles, and some vaude dates. Fredericks are reported unwilling to grant singer release and matter may go to American Guild of Variety Artists for arbitration. Fully on Assault Rap Trial of B. S. Pully, comic, has been set for General Sessions court, Oct. 1. Pully is currently out on $500 bail for assault on George Scharff, a Chauffeur. Scharft declared that Pully on Aug. 24, assaulted him without prov- ocation in the lobby ot the Belmont Plaza hotel, Ni Y.', and inflicted a broken arm and head: injuries. JACKIE HARVEY'S VAUDERS Jackie Harvey, daughter of George Harvey, of the Paramount publicity staff, opens a vaude tour of southern theatres at the Academy theatre,. Lynchburg, Va. Dancer has been signed t6 Abner J, Greshler. Georgia Gibbs With Kaye Unit Georgia Gibbs, who appeared with Danny Kaye ■when the comic jilayed the Paramount theatre, N. Y.j earlier this year> has been signed to duet with Kaye at the Chicago theatre, Chicago. Oct. 18.