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This Clipping WHERE MAGAZINE HEW YORK, N. Y. W. /A XllJ.I.i.R 7 R .11)1 no If: \phd&t ts the Glenn Miller 1 n t h'?√ß Waldorf's R o o f After Dark V he // aid or f-* Istoria s lovely Starlight Room is currently presenting one of America s most beloved entertainment groups/ the fate Glenn Miller?╟╓s /orchestra, .under the direction of ^drummer Ray McKinley. rjifc is the hand to which Americans, before and during World War M, danced and listened and which represents that period in the country's show-business lify to many people who sstill remember, and who still play the familiar songs on records. - Songs like ?╟úMoonlight Sere nad e, ?╟Ñ ?╟  ?╟ The Lit- tlp Brown Jug,?╟Ñ - and ?╟úThe St. Loujs Bines March?╟Ñ are still a part of the roster of America?╟╓s favorite songs, and director A fcKinlev/reports he receives numerous requests for these /^"oldiesT and as,a matter-of fact could make up an entire performance program fromi request numbers alone. 1 he professional association between McKinley and Glenn Miller began about 25 years ago, when each admired the other?╟╓s musical talent when? they played together in the Dorsey,, Brothers' old orchestra. After 1937, when Miller formed his own orchestra, McKinley had much to do with the arrangements which marked the inimitable ?╟úMiller style,?╟Ñ to which he still adheres under the popuar late t band 1 cader?╟╓s name. In addition to the McKinley group, j which performs for dance music between shows as well as for the show \ itself, Bela Babat and his orchestra WHERE-^ \ play for dancing. Sharing the showtime podium is the Lenny Hambro Quintet, and featured vocalist Lorry Peters. Opening this week is the A laisonette at the St. Regis Hotel, where on 1 h u rsday, Septembe r 4, AI a rsha 11 Grant s trio and singer Julie Wilson .begin a four-week engagement. Grant?╟╓s group is known to people who summer i,U Southampton, where the group has played at Herb McCarthy's Bowden Square for the past two summers, and to Florida winter, residents, where it has played the past two winters at The Casablanca in Palm Beach. The Grant trio will accompany Miss Wilson?╟╓s singing, and will also alternate for daUcing with the Milt Shaw orchestra. Roberta Shenvood, a singer with inimitable personal style, bowed in last week at the famous Latin Quarter, where she shares the spotlight with comedian Corbett Monica, the seepnd-Villed star. Miss Sherwood began her career in Miami Beach, where she was ?╟údiscovered?╟Ñ by various New York columnists whose praise spelled success for the exuberant star. She has beep heard in New York at the Eden Roc club and the Copacabana, and has been a successful Decca recording and television performer. / M r. AI on ica?╟╓s humor has been de-) scribed as a combination of the humor ?√ß ofv Danny 1 homas, Jan Alurray hnd Boo H ope. H e is_ evtreme 1 \ relaxed as he works, and often punctuates his material with ad libs made on the spot, thus making each performance dif fer-*/ent from the last. , 1 he Donp Arlen i ?╟ú International H ol i day for Love?╟Ñ rtly ue still ho j d s ;at. this big nitery, /starring numerous individual acts plus several full-blown /stage production numhersv Jo Lorn- , ha rd i and his orchestnj, described by Johnny Ray recently as ?╟úone of the best in the show business,?╟Ñ play for-accompaniment and for* dancing between show?╟╓s. eli the Embers, located at 161 East 54th Street, the swdntfng group of ace jazzman Bobby Hhykett is featured starting Monday night, September 1. Sharing the podium at this popular steak-and-jazz club H;is Milton. Seely;- / ' ?╟≤ fg| s Madrid By Night," the current show?╟╓ at Angel Lopez?╟╓ Chateau Ala-drjdU has just received an addition in the person of Aliss Laureanne Lemay, a blonde 19-year-old from Quebec City who sings sophisticated French ballads. She joins Cuban dancers Lucio and Rosita, headliners of the "Madrid By Night?╟Ñ act. The orchestras of Panchi to and Ralph Font alternate for show' and dahee music at the Latin-American spot. Down in the Village, at the corner of 11th Street and Seventh Avenue South, jazz sopg stylist Chris Conner is playing to happy Village Vanguard audiences. SheNaccpmpan ied by pian- J ist Stan F ree and his trio, with another pianist, Evans Bradshaw, making his debut on the same bill. Bradshaw, a new?╟╓ recording star, also plays w ith a trip. ;/?╟≤,?√ß - ' / m , SOkXfVTRKSS ROBERT 1 SUER-i's.;: current headliner at the Eat in Quarter, nor Id - fa mo us show place RADIO, TELE 11 SION'S Bill Leonard and XIrs. Edmund F. Johnstone meet at, Sheraton-East to plan benefit Gala