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Newspaper
Southeast Economist
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1948
Page
8
Woodlawn's Casino Moderne hosts a gay dancing party and home-coming celebration featuring Paul Meeker on the bandstand for a one night engagement. Meeker, an old Casino Moderne favorite, has performed across Chicago and beyond with non-stop dancing all evening.
Frank Fischer announces Club Roseann’s new murals should be finished soon marking a full remodel that began at the start of the year. The reimagined space will feature a renewed floor and ceiling, new booths lighting bar music stage and a new organ. A private banquet room for twenty to sixty guests adjoins the main room and the menu highlights steaks dried chicken and other specialties.
Symphony Lounge will enlarge seating with new booths, another bar, and a new music stage to handle weekend crowds. Ken Griffin, a white console organist, joins after a Chicago theater date, while Bob Rhodes continues the organ work with pianist Mary Burge. Sam Anderson handles private parties at Old Lundquist hall. weekly public affairs fill three nights with dinners and dancing, plus midweek barn dancing and weekend smorgasbord meals.
Floyds Musical Entertainment continues headline runs at Kentucky venue with nightly shows until early morning. New dining spots include Pen Lo Restautant on Michigan Ave Roseland with chef Frank Konrath. Lorenzettis adds a new dining room. Brothers Locascio opens extended lounge dining on E 75th St with Italian home cooking and late night pizza. Floyds Place on Western Ave Beverly Hills remains busy Saturdays with Eddie Matts and Bill Noonan entertaining. Scandia Club postpones grand summer garden opening to this weekend. CASA CASTLE on Halsted St debuts as a cocktail lounge with Italian offerings and 2 AM close. Chef Anthony leads the kitchen.
Corona specializes in steaks chicken and spaghetti run by brothers Hugo and Jose Contino. Their cousin Nick Contino stars in Horace Heidt’s show with accordion music heard on air and stage at the Oriental theater. Viking Ballroom led by Jimmy Coulas hosts Friday and Sunday dances with swing and waltz sets. Club Southtown, run by Al Rutter, features the Southtown trio Norm Steve and Arnold in a return engagement.
The Fun-Aires deliver a comedy musical act featured weekly at Marek's Little Hawaii with Friday Saturday and Sunday performances. They sing and cavort while two dance bands alternate on stage. the club offers late hours into the early morning.
South Shore's Bar Harbor on 171st Street offers a spacious intimate cocktail lounge with a rotating music program. George Meyer Warren and Jerry Dumpert host nightly for a gay Southside crowd, with Bob Creed at the organ every night except Tuesday and another organist filling in.
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