Oddenino's and Melvin Giddeon

Oddenino's was a hotel and restaurant located at 62 Regent Street, London. From the looks of it it was pretty fancy and upscale. I found a reference to this on page 118 in Voyage in the Dark, where it says "We met Carl and Joe at Oddenino's. Melvin Giddeon was at the piano; he was singing rather well."
Finding the images of the hotel restaurant gives me an idea of just how fancy some of these places were that Anna was getting gentlemen to take her to. It honestly gives me a slightly different opinion of her. Before looking up the images, I kind of felt sorry for her, she really seems very depressed. Admittedly I feel less sorry for her after seeing where these guys are taking her.

Melvin Giddeon was an American ragtime musician who composed music for Broadway musicals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Gideon). There is a youtube clip of him from 1933 right before he died that I will attempt to embed at the bottom. Gideon had an upbeat jazzy sound, which also gives me a slightly different impression of Anna. Hearing the music this character was listening to, creates an image all its own. This is a trendy, hip, restaurant bringing over this star from America. I am now more picturing Lorelei Lee from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes- who was truly a stereotypical gold digger of the same era only in America. I guess I am now seeing Anna as less pathetic and more of a gold digger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oK_XvCO7Ak