Hotel Supper Clubs and Ballrooms

“The Incomparable” Hildegarde, as Walter Winchell had dubbed her, was perhaps the number one cabaret performer of the day. Her signature song,“Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup,” was written by Anna Sosenko, her long time manager/companion. The glamorous blonde singer, originally a small town girl from Wisconsin, was at her usual New York stand, the Plaza, with her long white gloves and candelabra.

The Drake Room in the Hotel Drake at 56th Street and Park Avenue had “food for the gods...refreshment for the worldly” in “a setting designed by Franklin Hughes to delight the eye.” It offered lunch and dinner, with pianists Les Crosley at dinner and Cy Walter during cocktails and supper.

The Wedgewood Room at the Waldorf Astoria featured pianist/singer Joan Edwards and harmonica virtuoso John Sebastian (father of the Lovin' Spoonful singer of the same name) at supper, with Leo Reisman and his orchestra at dinner, alternating at supper with Mischa Borr and his orchestra. The cover from 10:30 was $2.

Danny O'Neil was at the Maisonette at the St. Regis at Fifth Avenue and 55th St with the George Koch and Freddie Miller Orchestras.

Nat Brandwynne and his orchestra were at the Grill in the Hotel Roosevelt on Madison Avenue at 45th Street.

Dorothy Ross and her “frisque” songs were the draw at Hotel George Washington down on Lexington and 23rd.

The Don Christy Trio was playing the Rendezvous Room at the Hotel Victoria on Seventh Avenue at 51st Street.