Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honored. Swiss-Born Oscar ("of the Waldorf") Tschirky, 71, famed majordomo of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for 44 years, and his wife, Sophie Bertisch Tschirky, 71; with a dinner party attended by 1,000 people in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, commemorating their 50th wedding anniversary. Toastmaster of the dinner, sponsored by 17 societies of hotel men and gourmets, was the New York Times's Editor John H. Finley. To the tune of the Wedding March, softly played by violins, Mr. & Mrs. Tschirky cut a 200-lb. wedding cake. They received felicitations from onetime President...
...celebrations at the Waldorf gave evidence that after three more years its staff and management were at least happy together. In the Empire Room for three days there was an exhibition of 300 pieces of art work and craftsmanship by Waldorf employes, and on the third night the grand ballroom swirled until 2 a. m. with 1,600 bellboys, maids, clerks, stenographers, waiters and pressagents. making merry to the strains of two slick orchestras under President Boomer's genial...
...saying that it meant a Harlem night spot crammed with well-liquored joy-seekers, with a swing band jammin' it. He further explained that the Big Apple, which he is featuring on the RKO-Boston stage with his band, originated not in the South, but right in the Savoy ballroom in New York City...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin, onetime ballroom dancer and fashionplate, now an antivivisectionist; from her third husband Major Frederic McLaughlin, millionaire coffee importer, owner of the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team; charging cruelty, and asking custody of their twelve-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son; in Chicago. Mrs. McLaughlin's first husband and dancing partner, Briton Vernon Castle, was killed in 1918 while instructing U. S. students at a Texas flying school; her second, Capt. Robert E. Treman of Ithaca, N. Y., divorced...
...wisest as well as the most lovable educators and leaders of youth that that city has ever known. In his last years as principal his former students, usually well over a thousand of them, were accustomed to banquet annually on his birthday in the big ballroom of Buffalo's Hotel Statler, and either one or both of his sons, as well as his daughter Edith would come up from New York City on these occasions to assist in doing him honor...