I-h*IStainmentyiflt;Y0rwDV\ai11ir.aVpraieNew York Night Club Notes —Christmas in the Hotel Commodore’sCentury Hoorn will be as bright and | Cmerry as music and dancing and afine holiday dinner can make it.The charge will be two dollars a person ior Liie dinner which will be . u served from noon to 9 p, m., and | Ci with the dinner will go tne special program of Yuletide tunes by Senya Onesko's string ensemble, during the ic afternoon, and Sammy Kaye’s orchestra, supplemented by Art Barker's Trio, in the evening.....Norma Day, the songstress, began „ an engagement yesterday afternoon, I ti during the cocktail hour in theRose Room of the Hotel Aluunmii, iwHtl11has\of New York’s popular mid-after- | j~)eev1linoon oasis for theatrical and movie greats. Ethel Merman will act the honorary role of hostess tomorrowsecond 'aciday Night Buffet Suppers sponsor-American Theater Wing IciTII'for British War Relief. The “Panama Hattie star will be one of many luminaries on hand at the soireewhich will begin at 6 p. m.....Anthony Mele, who runs Theodore's w’hlch has been famous for its excellent cuisine for years, announces with pride that the rum cakes, fruit c cakes and plum puddings which are f to be served at his restaurant on East 56th Street during ChristmasCoq Rouge, smart East side spot, is offering an entirely new program of entertainment featuring Harold Nagel’s o;chest ra and the lilting melodies of Marcella Hendricks. Prank Bonacchini’s newest singer in his series of “Starlit Hours ’’ .... Herman Chittison, the colored piano star and a celebrated performer in Europe for the past ten yeans, is currently offering his own prize-w inning rendition of Vincent Youmans’ “Tea For Two”at the Ruban Bleu.....TheBrevoort will be the only supper club in town to feature open house without any advance in prices onNew Year's Eve.....GeorgeLlovd, the satirical Impressionist, has begun an engagement at Splvy’s Roof, the smart 57th Street penthouse bistro.....Leon andEddie s announce a big new holidnv show' set for a premiere next Friday. Featured performers will include Betty Allen, fresh from her success in “DuBarry Was A Lady,” Betty Jayne Cooier, dance stylist, a team of dance satirists, known as the Colstons, Dora Maughan, massive blonde singer of sophisticated lyrics. Flashe and Sunda, sepian dance duo, Jackie Gleason, glib comedian and Renee Villon Torrid, tropical dancer. .... Headliners Make j I Smart Diners- Chico Marx, with daughter at Silvermine Tavern, reveals that his orchestra is practically set and will appear with him in his next picture . . . Arturo Toscanini. with the son of the late Gabriele D’Annunzio, at the Old New York Room in Radio City Ernest Hemingway and his bride Martha Gelihom, at Barney Gallants village rendezvous with Dash-iell Hammett.....William 3.Hart, a solitary diner at Leone \s— his eighth night in a row there . . . . Elissa Landi with Dr. and Mrs. Arch Canning at Bordewick’s . . . . H G Wells narrating war tales to the David Samoffs at the Oripsholm .... Jane Cowl andco-starring as diners at the Cafe Louis XIV .... Richard Kollmar, Dennis King and William Gaxton leading men at the Fair-way Yacht Club.it