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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1936 Groin iace on MEW YE AD'S EVE A Preview of. New Year's Eve Stars f)iouncl The Tabled Night Club Newsreel By Hy Gardner' WILL OAKLAND, popular night club host, Impresario and tenor, who has been away from New York for some three years, has returned to take over the Fountain Room and Grill of the Murray Hill Hotel. He assumed command New Year's Eve. The Fountain Room Is a sumptuous place, with three statuette water fountains In the center of a spacious ballroom, and expensive oil Jiaintings adorning the walls. Canaries sing almost continually, adding a rare note of charm and restfulness.

BROADWAY OBSERVATfON WARD EDDIE DAVIS' temperature hit 10 but he's on the mend, for whUSh hooray Sonnv Schuvlcr. solosinguy with Abe Lyman's Noo Yorker band, will wed Ruth Mann, a Ben Marden Riviera beauty, around Washington's Birthday Milton Berle has just been signed by RKO to do a picture with Joe Penner entitled "New Faces." Ma Berle will NOT make a trailer permitting her to laff at Milton's gags simultaneously thruout the world Tess (Aunt Jemima) Gardell stays on at the Terrace Room for another four weeks. If the court upholds an earlier decision Tess'li be $100,000 richer and a radio network and client that much poorer Some of Sylvia Sidney's candid-camera shots of Hollywood big and little shot will grace the pages of Life The marital serenity of the Doris Duke duo is skating on thin ice Ditto the recently wedded Dave (dance direaiori Goulds At Ruby Foo's Den last night Bob Hope and Tony Canmien (and their prettier halves) decided that Fumanchu Goldman can himself plenty of sheckies next Summer by air-conditioning his y1iine.se Den with a "Coolie" system George Hall of the Taft Grill lias a new cheer for chorus Hip, Beret" Billy Leeds will convert the Grand Bahama, an 80-mile stretch of tropical paradise neighboring tax-exempt Nassau, into a Park Avenue Haven with a swank hotel, srores of yacht landings, cabanas, private palaces, etc. The rocky shores will be dotted with play-buoys. Suggested Name: Ritz Reef 500 orphan kiddies had the time of their little lives at Gallagher's Christmas Day, where they topped off a meal with overcoats, toys and shoes Fating in Gallagher's i As I rE humane society In Topeka, recently presented Mrs.

Clyde Beatty with a cocker spaniel. She liked It, but It had a bad temper, and whenever Mr. Beatty came around it snapped at him. And so she had to give it away. "It was too tough for Clyde," she said.

Which would be the week's outstanding oddity in the news if we didn't hear from Louis Zeller, master chef at The Place, in Hempstead, whose hand hp." ruled kitchens in some of America's finest hostelries, Mr. Zeller lists among the persons he has pleased General Pershing, General Joffre, Georges Clemenceau and not a few members of royalty. Asked a pertinent question, he confessed: "I prefer my wife's cooking to my Will Oakland own." with Lou Clayton and Jimmy Kelly, Sclinozolla Durante admitted the 1 girl in 'V French Citiont mpr? jL 9 ti -V'-v reason he keeps turning down juicy cafe offers is that he has no new material and is too tired to break in any Earsdropped at El Morocco: "Yell, she only tells parlor stories poolroom parlor stories." FLORIDA SPECIALS YOU will find the only leather-covered bar in town at the Hotel Bossert's cocktail lounge. It is 30 feet long and was rushed to completion for tomorrow night's business. Without a cover or minimum charge, the cocktail lounge will be popular to Heights residents starting out on an evening's revelry.

ELISEO GRENET, Cuban composer and who conducts his own orchestra at the Club Yumuri, wrote two songs last week as successors to his famous hit, "Oh, Mama Inez." He calls them "Trinitaria," a song of the Cuban farmlands, and "Yumuri, Yumuri," which is the name of the mast beautiful valley in Cuba. I. GROSSINGERS have taken over the Bar Grill formerly occupied by the Oasis The Messrs. Shore and Hatfield of the Merrick (L. Roadside Rest have spent to open a branch in Miami 52 new hotels, ranging in size from 40 to 180 rooms, and 74 new apartment houses have been constructed since last season With 84 new restaurants hanging up their shingles The Palm Island Club, readying a Lew Brown muMcalulu, won't open 'til the season hits its peak which reckons to be around the first week in February June Knight may join Harry Richman when he opens at the Royal Palm Club late the same month Meanwhile, Havana, thanks to the shrewd sports carriival.

Is giving the dear ole Southland a fun for its money Incidentally, my idea of the height ol optimism would be the Cuban Senate debating otw the question of whether a Cuban President's term should be jour or six years 1 1 1 CHARLIE LUCAS, In a philosophical mood at the Kit Kat Club the other night, took a look about him and opined: "Many a celebrity in the spotlight should, instead be put on a spot." AND from Horace (Three Men On a Horse) MacMahon at Jack White's Club 18: "Many shows that make you hold your breath do so by forcing you to hold your nose." I' I CITY SIGHTS AM) SNICKERS I IV i 1 Y7HAT promises to be the zaniest night fkmmmk club in town takes a bow tonight when A pretty at thit picture tire the Heeret Sutrrt, tinning and dancing ttart at Arte Liltlr't Itei- laurant. 118 Protpecl Place. The gentleman helom it h.ddie Mavehoff, up and coming hand-man, irhote nuntry Orchestra made itt Manhattan debut at the Hotel elhngton lat night. AT THE ST. NICHOLAS PALACE Monday night (where the files art fast and furious) the busy candidcamera news photographer working at the ringside was Dave Rubinoff who also plays a violin At Joe Helbock's Onyx Club, several knockouts later, one of the guests A Royal Time New Years Eve at the Prince Eliseo Grenet the Harlem Uproar House opens on the site which housed Will Oakland's Terrace, Coffee Dan's and the Trocadero.

Guests' dress will be informal and the entertainers, we are advised, will be very informal. Fred Fisher wrote the music for the show and skits were contributed by Ken Englund, Pitzy Kats, Bert Gordon and others. NOTES Hal LeRoy and Brooklyn's Ann Lester will be. featured In the Mirror Room of the Laurel-In-The-Pines tomorrow night. Leroy will be succeeded by Eddie Garr, Charles Carlisle and others, with Wingy Manone's music Bertolotti's in the Village celebrates its 10th anniversary this week.

Among those who favored this fun spot when they worked in the Village were Ernest Hemmingway, Eugene O'Neill and Noel Coward The Hartmans, satirists of the dance, who cavort in the Iridium Room of the St. Regis after their day's work is done in Red, Hot and Blue, seem to think of everything. Lampooning the Minsky influence In Mayfair, they have created a dance to the strains George Hotel, 14 E. 28th Man hattan, promises to be an event ambled up to the mike, sang a few choruses while Stuff Smith's Swing-sters swung, and sat down again while the applause rocked the rickety room. "He's got something, that fellow has," a gal behind us remarked: he should be working somewhere." The amateur critic was correct.

The eioiu HAS something and he IS working or $2,500 per week. His name is Cab Calloway At Larues Saturday night one of the waiters was terrified. Since the gendarmes are keeping close scrutiny of the night clubs in search of the gem thieves all the employes are on edge. "There's a guy dancing that's a big racketeer," the waiter whispered to Peter Ogliettl. "I dunno who he is, bass but I know the face, and the face is a big public enemy!" Ogliettl rushed to the dance floor ready for anything that is.

anything but what he saw. For the Public Enemy" turned out to be Just a reel one a chap named Edward G. Robinson 1 1 1 long to be remembered. Reserva' lions have been made not only for the large lounge, where 200 couples can really dance, but also for the five dining rooms. Music will be furnished by the Sweet Adeline fiif a Borg, dancer isi at Jimmr Kelly'i, A I it one of the rea- 8 A 5 jLA adverimett "Sot I 1 I hit for Debutante:" I 1 "i J'i I If iVi mi iiuiiwii Mirmifiiiiiii i iniii iiiiniiiiivnii "i rir "iwi VM4 Sercnadoers.

Harry Armstrong of "It's the Gypsy in Me," which they call "Off With the Old." For dance satirists mimicking them they have introduced "Dansatyrs," and as a burlesque of the Cuban dance they will composer of "Sweet Adeline." will lead the community singing. In ad dition to dinner, there will be sou THUMBNAIL REVIEW OF REVUES venirs for the ladies, noisemakers, hats and favors for every one. At the Pirradilly present "Rhumba-Dumba." Enoch Light, whose music pleases at the McAlpin, philosophizes: "You haven't made good unless you've made friends." PREMIERE of the Parade of 1937 revue at the Wivel Restaurant will be held New Year's Eve. The show headlines Borring nd Lazur, dance team; Eve Barrie. novelty tianccr and instrumentalist: Baron Ebbe Oyldenkrone, tenor, and Bob Lee, singing poet The Queen Mary and Valhalla, other Swedish dining and dancing spots, also will show new revues.

The Queen Mary's will be produced by Wally Wanger, cousin of the motion picture producer. Dave Schooler, former Roxy and Capitol Theaters orchestra conductor and master of ceremonies, is achieving new fame as a night club entertainer in the Georgian Room of the Hotel Piccadilly. His debut It' Christmas night brought out a ra pacity crowd. Schooler personally staged the all-femme revue, featur-ing Agnes Knox, the Six DeLovlcys, THE NEW FRENCH CASINO FOLIES terrific, gigantrlck and colossal if you don't mind my ultra-conservatism! The biggest Broadway bargain since the Indians sold Manhattan for $24 Unclud ing taxi) The Club Bali dancers bali. bali beautiful Belle Baker teaching those new femme "finds'' a trick or three about selling a song with Sophie Tucker eulogizing Belle's brilliance via a spotliglit bow at the rejuvenated Hollywood Cafe Friday night The "living" (not emotion picture) Minsky's Orientalented strip, tease torso slingers plus Phil Silvers, who has a delicious sense of comedy.

Queenie King is too lovely for burlesque though her in', spiration must have been the success of Gypsy Rose Lee who rose to fame doing the same thing you gals do every night before you go to bed only you pull your shades down I Hildergarde's singing session at the Waldorf was all too brief And perty Billie charming Lincoln Hotel Grill patrons nltely while she warbles with Dick Stabille band, is as good to look at as slie is to listen to Though their food gets top-billing, Trent Patterson, Bee, Saxon, the Three Racketeheers and Gene Jeleniek's click orchestra give the Cafe Venezia one of the best-balanced entertainment bill-o'-fares in town J-ff Blunt Plantation, planted where the Cotton Club, once grew, was an instantaneous Harlem clickeroo hotter than a Christmas Day in '36 But the greatest debut ol all takes place tomorrow at the stroke of midnight a debut entitled The Hopes, the Headaches, the Joys, the Thrills and the Follies of 79J7" Everybody welcome. Your birth certificate is your invitation. I hop'e you have a grand time. Judith Lawton. Jeanne McCully and Joan Alexander.

His band plays Killies at the MrAl pin Eight orchestras, one kilted bagpipe band and some 2,500 celebrants will usher in the New Year at the Hotel McAlpin. Enoch Light's music will be the featured attraction in the Marine Grill, top-priced entertainment room In the hotel, and Louis Betancourt's orchestra will furnish the background for the dancing in the main dining room, where the tarilf is considerably lower. There will be oilier bands in the private dining rooms. for dancing. Whoopee! Hurrah! New Year's Eve revelry returns to the Towers Hotel tomorrow night for the first time in three years.

Early reservations Indicate that the Don Pedro Room of the hotel will be taxed to capacity for the big event. A grand program of entertainment has been planned, with special events taking place every hour after midnight, when a charming Brooklyn miss will make her debut as Miss 1937, while celebrating pallbearers remove the body of Father Time. 1936. Games, entertainment, community singing, dancing, drinking and eating are Included on the gay program. JVWYARSVl A Dizzy hirl Harold Stern, orchestra maestro and major domo at his own night club, the Merry-Go-Round, at Flat-bush Ave.

Extension and Fulton has made preparations for one of the merriest New Year's Eve celebrations the borough has seen in years. Not only will there be several shows by the Fanchon and Marco production, which has entertained thousands since th Merry-Go-Round opened, but Stern's own band has planned a number of novelty numbers. There will be the usual noisemakers and hats, etc. In appreciation for the excellent reception his Brooklyn friends have accorded the Merry-Go-Round, Stern has kept New Year's Eve prices within a fair reach and dinner is Included in the reservation. Ni.ii.un.

uvuiJEiiJijEi, i auio glamorous Tamara singing star, goes into the Versailles for a limited engagement, beginning tomorrow night, She succeeds Tamara, charming star of Roberta. May the New Year bring jou.ood cheer, good health and much happiness. Boy, Like Cat, Climbs Too High So Cops, Firemen Rescue Him Quart nf rhampnone to Ivtry Table Four AUo Full Coume uppri Hal, Noip Makers. Kun (lore, Hoof Show, ltincint witb Tw OrrhtMtrai. Make Your Rescrvationi NOW! Tel.

DEftnder 3-9760 Jimet Sh.lrr, Mir. And Free Parking The Half Moon Hotel will be the scene of a gala New Year's Ev celebration. Many advance reservations having been made. In addition to Ken Casey and his music, there will be an elaborate floor show and novelty revue, hats, noisemakers and all the things that go into the making of a happy New Year's Eve. vt klXCiHlnV t'lh' Dinner.) v'lv "Tf Inrliidlni Chnmpeomf A- coikttii.

rAvomi (J Jp-XZS, N0I8E MAKERS. Denee It the muiltol utH6 Rleharil Pnnrieala cTl APOOA ave. '4hm aeralii CM. 4 M2I Church at Flatbmb. Brooklyn Parking Accommodation! the Far Rockaway Station, and Patrolman John Cullinan was sent to the scene in a radio car to investigate.

Firemen of Hook and Ladder Company 134, Far Rockaway, happened to be fighting a brush fire at Beach 28th St. and Edgemere Ave. at the time, so Patrolman Cullinan summoned two of its members. Firemen Stanley Coulsting and Arthur Fitzgerald. They carried a ladder about four blocks, then placed it against the unoccupied building and rescued the boy from the roof.

Becker was on the roof for only about 15 minutes. While there he removed his shoes, fearing that he might lose his footing and fall off the structure. Police and firemen were summoned late yesterday to rescue William Becker, 9, of 34-20 Edgemere Edgemere, after he had climbed to the roof of a three-story, unoccupied house at Beach 32d St. and Edcemere Edgemere. Young Becker and several other boys were playing in the neighborhood when Becker climbed up a ladder to the base of the house's gable, then shinnied himself up to the roof.

When he was ready to descend, he found that distance was too great for his feet to reach the topmast rung of the ladder. Pedestrians who saw the boy's plight telephoned to the police of 1 (MofoattttM Try It Sometime The first annual World's Ring a Pin championship tournament will be staged New Year's Eve in the "61" at the Bossert Hotel, newest of Heights supper clubs. A number of prominent athletes and civic leaders are listed among the preliminary winners. "Ring a Pin" Is a game of skill and brings horseshoe pitching to the table. It was Introduced at "61" Remsen St.

Preliminary winners have included Chris (Red) Cagle, the football star; George Kojac, Olympic swimmer; Graham Mc-Namee and Jules Bender, L. I. U. basketball star. The finals will be staged during the "61" New Year Eve celebration, with Bill McCune, orchestra leader, acting as Judge.

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