Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brothers Karzas. To become the U.S. ballroom king, Bill Karzas started at the bottom of nowhere with his brother Andrew (who died in 1940). Immigrants from Greece 40 years ago, the brothers worked at odd jobs until they had saved up $300, then started a restaurant. When they had accumulated $6,000 they sold out and bought a Chicago nickelodeon. On $125,000 in profits, they built Chicago's first "de luxe" movie house, the Woodlawn, in 1917. Two years later they sold the Woodlawn and two smaller theaters to the Balaban & Katz chain...
Then came the ballroom business, based on the sound idea that 1) big cities are lonely places, and 2) the lonely men & women would .get together and dance if they did not have to patronize Chicago's scabrous dance halls. So the Karzas brothers decided to build them a dream palace, the $1,500,000 Trianon, a garish replica of the palace at Versailles. It opened in 1922 with the biggest charity ball Chicago has ever known...
Karzas encourages the lonely hearts to get together, once held a "Married Couples Night" for patrons who had met at his ballroom. Boasted he proudly: "[There came 800 couples...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor & their clothes went dancing in the ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, achieved the classiest photograph of their visit so far-he in white tie & tails and a boyish grin, she in a rustly formal with a sort of dorsal...
...scene was the ballroom of the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec, the province without whose support no party can expect to win in Canada. The occasion: a dinner honoring External Affairs Minister (and Justice Minister) Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Quebec's top-ranking politician in the Dominion Parliament. While some 800 party big& littlewigs whooped it up from the floor. Prime Minister King, as a gesture to Quebec, spoke ten minutes in French before switching to English. He pleaded with Minister St. Laurent to drop his intentions to retire. (The Minister would probably agree.) Then, after some pats...