Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Gielgud came as "Night." On a white horse Gertrude Lawrence came as "Day." Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, "Silver Rain," wore 600 yards of silver-lined bugle fringe, a headdress six feet wide illuminated with blue neon tubes. Gypsy Rose Lee wore spangles. That was the seventeenth Beaux-Arts Ball which took place at Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week...
Long before Actor Gielgud and Actress Lawrence had returned their mounts to the Ben Hur Livery Stables and the Ball was over, a small gentleman in evening clothes, Beaux-Arts' Board Chairman Ely Jacques Kahn, knew that the Beaux-Arts had made history this year. It was back on Broad way after a nostalgic period at the Waldorf-Astoria. For the first time an outsider had furnished the decorations, seven rayon companies having paid heavily for the privilege of advertising the ball as a Fete de Rayon Fantastique. And into the coffers of the Beaux-Arts Institute to educate...
...many an observer, the success of last week's Ball signalized the renascence enjoyed by the Beaux-Arts Institute since Ely Jacques Kahn became chairman of its Board of Trustees three years ago. The first architectural school in the U. S., founded in 1894 by a group of U. S. architects trained at Paris' famed Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Institute had begun to show signs of declining into old age. The idea of the founders had been to set up a central agency of architects which would license any group of five or more students...
This year the Institute is solvent, with 80 member schools, 3,000 students enrolled at $15 a head. Once more the only holdout was Harvard. So heartened by the proceeds of his successful Ball was Board Chairman Kahn that he planned to revive instruction in sculpture and the Manhattan classes abandoned two years...
Insofar as Harvard can supply an education, it can supply these things. The field is free for a new team of journalists, better drilled in fundamentals and quicker on the ball. It is time to begin thinking about the criteria determinining the use of the Nieman bequest, for this fund may give Harvard the opportunity to call the plays...